Marlon Harewood - Made in China

[damon loves JT]

Interesting article on Marlon here:

http://t.co/xXpKc7Id

His goal today at Beijing Baxy was his fourth in eight games – a strike rate not too familiar to fans of his former clubs, one suspects. He has had a hand in a lot of the goals scored by R&F in recent weeks too, and his strength has caused opposing defences a number of problems

[supertom]

Good luck to him. Never bad mouthed the club and just got on with it. He was actually surprisingly good for us in his first season and probably warranted more game time than was forthcoming to him. His last season in fairness, there were times we could have done with him as we needed a shake up, but yeah, he'll always be known as one of O Neills clangers. Not good enough, but I'll always remember the goals against Liverpool and Reading.

[The Left Side]

He didn't get much of a run with us, but he did pop up with a few goals when needed, fair play to him.

[darren woolley]

I'm glad to see him doing well.

[eamonn]

Good to see him being proactive and adventurous in finding a club to take him on.

[Risso]

He was shit.  Really, really shit.

[KevinGage]

Could trap a ball further than some players can kick it.

Took x amount of millions out of the club over three years for very little return.

But good luck to him.

[Legion]

He was shit.  Really, really shit.

He was. I'll never forget Mark's reaction to him signing for us.

[Woofles The Wonder Dog]

He was shit.  Really, really shit.

Quite right. No dewy-eyed revisionism. He was a shockingly bad buy in the first place, but if he was going to work at all (big if) he had to start regularly as he was a confidence player - but he didn't because he was shit.

[brian green]

He was rubbish but I really liked him.   He was the only player I have ever seen celebrate winning a corner.   Good luck to him.

[BC54 VFC]

Saw his debut in the away friendly in Toronto in July 2007 and couldn't believe how bad his first touch was. I was actually surprised as my abiding memory of him at that point was sitting in the local pub in September 2005 watching him play a blinder for West Ham against us, and scoring a hat-trick by the 49th minute; at that point I left the pub having being wound up the whole game by a West Ham fan - I'd have hit him if I'd stayed any longer!

I'll never forget his celebration after scoring his first goal for us (with his backside) in August 2007 away to Wrexham in the Cup, particularly as we were already 4-0 up when he scored; at least it showed he cared.

[Greg N'Ash]

Good luck to him i guess. To be fair if someone told me i was a premiership footballer and offered to pay me 30k a week i'd have signed the contract in blood. Totally out of his depth but in the grand scale of MON transfer mistakes he barely registers

[frank]

Glad he's fitted in over there. A bull in a China shop?

[not3bad]

He was shit.  Really, really shit.

Quite right. No dewy-eyed revisionism. He was a shockingly bad buy in the first place, but if he was going to work at all (big if) he had to start regularly as he was a confidence player - but he didn't because he was shit.

His signing was the first indication that the era of Lerner and O'Neil would not be everything we hoped it would be.  Having said that he seems a decent bloke so good luck to him.

[Brend'Watkins]

We thought we were getting Defoe and we ended up with him.  We paid far too much for far too little but at least he gave it his all in any game he played for us. 

He's not the worst of MON's purchases is as much praise as I can give him.