We've Signed who!? Unfathomable Villa Signings

[tauntonvilla]

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

He was worth the 150k we paid, simply for scoring the winner in the FA cup against Forest 

[Salsa Party Animal]

Steve Sidwell

[The Left Side]

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

He was worth the 150k we paid, simply for scoring the winner in the FA cup against Forest 

Great night that was, they deserved a draw at least but we squeaked a goal and what a finish it was.

[Hammer]

I think people are confusing 'unfathomable' with 'turned out to be shit'.

I'd suggest Marlon Harewood, who although he turned out to be shit, never looked like he could justify his fee from the start.

[The Man With A Stick]

I'm glad someone else remembers Alex Sperr.  I remember getting all excited about him at school, thinking he must be good because he's foreign.

Fashanu romps home with first prize for me.  Was about 16, on holiday with my folks, and my Dad went down the shop to get yesterdays paper.  I was sat on the side of the pool with a rabble of fat geordies on the sunbeds behind me when he came back, saying "you won't believe who we've signed".  These geordies must have already known as I could hear them laughing.  My Dad turns the paper around to reveal the photo of BFR with that lanky, all-elbows, string of piss, talentless, Gladiators twat.  I just wanted to curl up and die.

[tauntonvilla]

Oyvind Leonhardsen
Fash the Bash
Tony Cascarino


Although i remember booting my garden bin when we signed David James

[garyshawsknee]

Leonhardsen,Kinsella,Calderwood,Ronny Johnson,far too many to mention really. I've said it before but Fashanu was the worst.

[Big Dick Edwards]

Steve Sims
Mark Lillis

[joe_c]

Najwan Ghrayib
Mark Kinsella
Adrian Heath

[Nelly]

Vaclav Drobny
Bosko Balaban

Does Salifou still have some grace period?

[Brazilian Villain]

Gary Penrice

I was at Uni sitting in the living room with my 4 Liverpool supporting housemates who all spontaneously burst out laughing when it was announced on Sky.

[mal]

Erik Bakke
Oyvind Leonhardsen
Colin Calderwood

Calderwood was brilliant for us

[Grande Pablo]

Fabio Ferrarresi
Didier Agathe

[Clark W Griswold]

I think people are confusing 'unfathomable' with 'turned out to be shit'.

I'd suggest Marlon Harewood, who although he turned out to be shit, never looked like he could justify his fee from the start.

I was thinking the same. Him and Zat Knight were pretty unfathomable considering the hype at the end of the season before.

[Dave]

I think people are confusing 'unfathomable' with 'turned out to be shit'.

I'd suggest Marlon Harewood, who although he turned out to be shit, never looked like he could justify his fee from the start.

I was thinking the same. Him and Zat Knight were pretty unfathomable considering the hype at the end of the season before.

I was also thinking the same. How was Berson unfathomable? We needed a midfielder and got one with very decent pedigree for a decent fee. It's not his fault that the manager never played him in spite of some very decent performances.

I can't see how Ronny Johnsen or Colin Calderwood are a part of this thread considering they both cost next to nothing and did very decent jobs for us.

As for Zat Knight, I can't see why he is here either. Did a good job and made us a profit in transfer fees.

My suggestion would be Luke Young. Not because he is a bad player or was a bad signing, but because the manager could have signed him for a third of the price 12 months previously when he would have gone literally anywhere. Which was demonstrated by him signing for Middlesbrough.

Where he did nothing that he hadn't been doing for five years previously, but that was apparently enough to warrant paying a huge amount more than was needed a bit earlier.