We've Signed who!? Unfathomable Villa Signings

[marcelinosmith]

I'll start... Franz Carr. Fat and not very good. A mystery.

[Exeter 77]

John Fashanu
Wayne Routledge
Frank MacAvennie

[stevo_st]

Djemba Djema

[Exeter 77]

Mathieu Berson

[garyshawsknee]

John Fashanu,i remember i was only 16 at the time,but was so crushed that we'd bought him that I actually wrote to the club and said how we'd be made a laughing stock. Unfortunately it wasn't far from the truth.

[VillaAlways]

Salifou

[E I Adio]

Leslie Jones

[Exeter 77]

At the time Warren Aspinall. I'd stopped thinking that by May 1988 though.

[The Left Side]

Ivo Stas
Alex Sperr
David Ginola (for £3m)

[Lobsterboy]

Didier Agathe
Chris Sutton
Robert Pires ;0)

[The Left Side]

Erik Bakke
Oyvind Leonhardsen
Colin Calderwood

[russon]

Steve Foster

[Martyn Smith]

I'd forgotten all about Mathieu Berson...and I don't recall Alex Sperr on any level.

Anyone remember Peter Withe...what on earth was he signed for? What did he ever do?...

[Dave_M]

I've already forgot a few of these!

Carr at least scored a fairly important goal.

[The Left Side]

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.