We've Signed who!? Unfathomable Villa Signings

[Meanwood Villa]

I don't think Balaban can be counted as unfathomable at the time we signed him. I recall I wasn't the only one excited by our capture of this young Croatian goal machine. The rest of his Villa career was pretty unfathomable.

I think Sir Graham second time around has something of a monopoly on genuinely unfathomable ones- Kinsella, Leonhardsen, De La Cruz spring to mind.

[villasjf]

Sasa Curcic. Nigel Callaghan and Ormandroyd and Baloban oh and Ireland

[5ft811st2 Durham]

I think the following fit the bill.  They were all signings for very little money (most of them by Ron Saunders) , but only Ward and Young played for the first team. Ward twice  and Young thrice. Young was a joint signing  with Graham a forward who went on to have quite a useful lower league career.

David Cunningham
Tommy Graham
Joe Ward
Willie Young
Kevin Ready
Lee Turnbull
Dean Spink

 

[Holte L2]

Gustavo Bartlet

[Irish villain]

I came on to post Bartlet but two people got there first.

I'll add three quite obscure ones, de Bilde, Boulding and Fabio Ferrarasi.

[Deano's Mullet]

Curcic was a good idea at the time, a decent player at Bolton and Savo's best mate. To be fair in his appearances up to Xmas 96 he looked pretty good.......

[curiousorange]

I came on to post Bartlet but two people got there first.

I'll add three quite obscure ones, de Bilde, Boulding and Fabio Ferrarasi.

I remember being quite impressed when we signed de Bilde. Not only was he a 'name' striker but he was also a bit mental wasn't he?

[UsualSuspect]

Hadji
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Salifou
Ivo Staas

[Irish villain]

I came on to post Bartlet but two people got there first.

I'll add three quite obscure ones, de Bilde, Boulding and Fabio Ferrarasi.

I remember being quite impressed when we signed de Bilde. Not only was he a 'name' striker but he was also a bit mental wasn't he?

De Bilde was good mid 90s for sure and partnered Luc Nillis for Belgium. But by the time we signed him he hadn't really been heard of in a while and he didn't make much of an impact as far as I ca remember.

[JD]

Mine would certainly be John Fashanu. What was the point of that!!

[Pete3206]

Steve Foster
Warren Aspinall
John Fashanu
Peter Schmeichel
David Ginola
Robert Pires

[adrenachrome]

Oscar Arce.

[bertlambshank]

Can I throw in Tobias Lars Mikaelsson

[WikiVilla]

Robert (?) Kiraly

Tommy Craig

Wayne Penrice

Didier Agathe

[Holtenderinthesky]

Najwan Ghrayib and Dariusz Kubicki.