We've Signed who!? Unfathomable Villa Signings

[UsualSuspect]

Dean Spink
Andy Comyn
Steve Sims
David Hunt
Robert Pires

Spink in particular. GT flogs Alan McInally for a million and hopes to replace him with Dean Spink from Shrewsbury.

forgot to include Malcom Allen.

Dean Spink was actually signed from halesowen town for I think 35k

Never got within 3 miles of the first team and I think was sold to Shrewbury for 50k

[DerHammer]

Bosko Balaban
Sasa Curcic
Marlon Harewood

[Villa in Denmark]

The 3 we signed after Ron's commentary trip to the World cup in 1994.

We hoped for some World cup talent, we got

John Fashanu, Phil King and Nil Lamptey.

King was passable, but the other two were shit.

I remember reading a pretty harrowing article about Nil Lampteys life in the Independent a few years ago, it's still online

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/tortured-genius-burnt-and-beaten-ghana-golden-boy-is-lucky-to-be-alive-777432.html

[Oscar Arce]

Dean Spink
Andy Comyn
Steve Sims
David Hunt
Robert Pires

Spink in particular. GT flogs Alan McInally for a million and hopes to replace him with Dean Spink from Shrewsbury.

forgot to include Malcom Allen.

Dean Spink was actually signed from halesowen town for I think 35k

Never got within 3 miles of the first team and I think was sold to Shrewbury for 50k

He also played for Moor Green I think.....
He's now physio at Solihull Moors, the club that married Moor Green and Solihull Borough together.

[Gareth]

Remember commenting at the start of one summer, the only two players we've been linked with that I never want to see in a Villa shirt are Harewood and Zat - felt relieved a few days later when Zat signed a new deal at Fulham - 6 weeks later we had them both :-(

The equaliser vs Arsenal partially compensates but still....

[LeeB]

Dean Spink
Andy Comyn
Steve Sims
David Hunt
Robert Pires

Spink in particular. GT flogs Alan McInally for a million and hopes to replace him with Dean Spink from Shrewsbury.

forgot to include Malcom Allen.

Dean Spink was actually signed from halesowen town for I think 35k

Never got within 3 miles of the first team and I think was sold to Shrewbury for 50k

Saw him score a hat-trick , I think, in a pre-season friendly at Paget Rangers.

[Captain Trips]

Alex Sperr was signed in the 1988/89 season and was an early version of Martin Laursen but we couldn't get a work permit, so I guess you could lump Henrik Larson (Danish midfielder not the Celtic scoring machine) in there too.

I cant even find a playing record of Alex Sperr on Google. He must have been bad!!! Anybody know what he went on to play for?

[BC54 VFC]

Dean Spink
Andy Comyn
Steve Sims
David Hunt
Robert Pires

Spink in particular. GT flogs Alan McInally for a million and hopes to replace him with Dean Spink from Shrewsbury.

forgot to include Malcom Allen.

Dean Spink was actually signed from halesowen town for I think 35k

Never got within 3 miles of the first team and I think was sold to Shrewbury for 50k

He also played for Moor Green I think.....
He's now physio at Solihull Moors, the club that married Moor Green and Solihull Borough together.

...and his ex-wife Helen owns a children's nursery, Tiddlywinks, on the north side of Shrewsbury.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Giles de Bilde on loan - why.

Peter Schmeichel - was a bit of a surprise.

Shaun Teale - what a good signing that turned out to be though.

Michael Boulding

[Holtenderinthesky]

Alex McLeish

Alan Hutton

Jermaine f*****g Jenas

[Broughty-Villian]

didier six

[Broughty-Villian]

We didn't sign him, but I really thought Ivor Linton was going to be some player...

[Fergal]

Heskey

[SoccerHQ]

Signing Giles De Bilde from Sheff Weds who were in Division one at the time was pretty odd I thought.

I don't think he actually scored for us?

[SoccerHQ]

Yeah have to say MON at the last minute picking up Salifou from the Swiss 2nd division just from remembering him briefly at the 2006 world cup was very strange I thought.

Nearly as wierd as him staying with us for 4 years despite only playing 1 prem games in that time!