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The Most Pointless Loan Signings Ever......

Clem_Snide
Clem_Snide Posts: 11,805
edited March 2009 in General Charlton
Loan signings seem to be a constant topic of discussion in here. There have been some real "hummers" in the last couple of years, but who over your time supporting the addicks who would you rate as the most pointless.....not the worst player but a signing who just didn't make sense.

Off the top of my head I can think of the following from a few years back:

Chris Wilder - Lennie Lawrence seemed to sign him on loan twice a season for a couple of years. Can't recall ever seeing him play!

Rueben Agboola - Signed for 1 game to cover an injury to John Humphrey

Jim McDonough - Irish goalkeeper, seemed to be on loan and on the bench forever.
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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,749
    Wasn't Chris Wilder a Charlton fan?
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Rueben Agboola - Signed for 1 game to cover an injury to John Humphrey

    ......

    From memory he played twice - as you say when JH was injured, then he went back to the Mackems. So as he was signed as a temporary cover and he played in what way was his signing "pointless"?
  • BBClaus
    BBClaus Posts: 831
    Izale Macleod?
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,948
    edited March 2009
    Deon Burton. We needed a striker, we didn't get one.
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    Keith Gillespie.
    Whats all that about ?
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,148
    Mike Small and El Khalej

    All the other recent ones pale into insignifance against those two
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    [cite]Posted By: BBClaus[/cite]Izale Macleod?

    We own McLeod having paid well over £1m for him...

    If you are a Millwall fan he's a pointless loan signing.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,948
    [cite]Posted By: miserableold-ish git[/cite]Keith Gillespie.
    Whats all that about ?

    just joined League 2 Bradford on loan. Found his level imo.
  • BBClaus
    BBClaus Posts: 831
    [cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: BBClaus[/cite]Izale Macleod?

    We own McLeod having paid well over £1m for him...

    If you are a Millwall fan he's a pointless loan signing.

    i mean from a millwall view. being stuck paying the wages of someone you are refusing to play but can't send back puts the deon burton suggestion into perspective.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,118
    Omar Pouso, think he was on loan?

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  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,724
    Steve Barbe and Goncalo Brandao.

    Loaned to us to play in our reserves for a season.

    I remember seeing on the 98/99 squad we had David Tuttle on loan (from Palace?), never played for us in the end, not sure he even made the bench.

    Omar Pouso, never going to adapt to English football.

    More recently Scott Sinclair - not that he's a bad player, but we already had Thomas, Ambrose, Sam, Cook and Varney to play on the wing.

    Cook was another one, needed to get fit and we had plenty of wingers and midfielders.

    I'd argue Halford as well, would we have done any worse last season if Moutaouakil got a run in the team instead of Halford? It would have done him good.

    El Khalej was a free transfer, that's for another thread.
  • Medders
    Medders Posts: 5,572
    Karim Bagheri... end of argument
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,724
    We actually signed and paid a transfer fee for him. £400k according to wiki.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,948
    Martyn Waghorn, poor lad.
  • The Equaliser
    The Equaliser Posts: 762
    Ian Ferguson - signed by Lennie from Hearts , only played 1 game I think.

    Jon Hendry - absolute rubbish , only scored 1 goal.....;-)
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,948
    [cite]Posted By: The Equaliser[/cite]Ian Ferguson - signed by Lennie from Hearts , only played 1 game I think.

    Jon Hendry - absolute rubbish , only scored 1 goal.....;-)

    bloody good goal if I remember correctly though
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,479
    [cite]Posted By: LargeAddick[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: The Equaliser[/cite]Ian Ferguson - signed by Lennie from Hearts , only played 1 game I think.

    Jon Hendry - absolute rubbish , only scored 1 goal.....;-)

    bloody good goal if I remember correctly though

    Great goal, great result.

    Ah, playing them in the league, when will that ever happen again?
  • JVL
    JVL Posts: 286
    Neil Heaney.

    What did he ever achieve with us..?
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,117
    [cite]Posted By: JVL[/cite]Neil Heaney.

    What did he ever achieve with us..?
    Blimey! He was a key member of the team when we went up!

    Anyone who played in that Play-Off final will be a hero in my book.

    (he did play in it didnt he?)
  • charlton_carl
    charlton_carl Posts: 926
    Yeah Heany started, Robbo was on the bench

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  • sygonrima
    sygonrima Posts: 236
    [cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: JVL[/cite]Neil Heaney.

    What did he ever achieve with us..?
    Blimey! He was a key member of the team when we went up!

    Anyone who played in that Play-Off final will be a hero in my book.

    (he did play in it didnt he?)

    Wooosh!

    OK WSS how about

    George Costa.
    What did he ever do for us. :)
  • Ledge
    Ledge Posts: 7,179
    lol@wss - heaney started -
  • nigel
    nigel Posts: 2,454
    I second Large's nomination of Waghorn.

    And his sympathetic comment of ''poor lad'' !

    The loan signing of a striker who had never scored a goal at senior level was the final evidence (as if any was needed) that Pardew had lost the plot.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,117
    Not really a whoosh I don't think!!

    In all honesty though - he was nothing spectacular but just did a job when needed.
  • JVL
    JVL Posts: 286
    All those who think that was a whoosh say 'Aye'... :-)
  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,699
    Has to be Antii Niemi for me.
  • kodfish
    kodfish Posts: 631
    Cook
    Sinclair
    Mike Small
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,420
    [cite]Posted By: LargeAddick[/cite]Deon Burton. We needed a striker, we didn't get one.

    Not a loan signing.
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    Jon Hendry is a footballing genius :o)


    Mike Small was the worst signing but most pointless I felt was Keith Gillespie as it would've killed any confidence Harold Lloyd Sam had left.

    Les Reed, most pointless manager?
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,948
    [cite]Posted By: shirty5[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: LargeAddick[/cite]Deon Burton. We needed a striker, we didn't get one.

    Not a loan signing.

    was, initially.

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