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Offline Toronto Villa

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #915 on: January 05, 2022, 04:50:28 PM »
Pound for pound, it's still got to be Balaban.

That was serious money at the time, and he didn't even look like a footballer.

And your Eastern European reference suddenly allows to advocates Alex Tonev as an alternate to Jordan Bowery as our worst ever signing.

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #916 on: January 05, 2022, 04:50:33 PM »
Eh Hamadi was pretty poor too - another one that ran about 5 yards behind any opposition player with the ball.

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #917 on: January 05, 2022, 04:50:42 PM »
2/5 on   villa

20/1 arsenal


oddchecker
Who is?


coutinho

Ok, can I get 5/2 on him not coming? Otherwise the odds are assymetric.

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #918 on: January 05, 2022, 04:51:09 PM »
Cunting Sky indeed, lol.

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #919 on: January 05, 2022, 04:53:01 PM »
Pound for pound, it's still got to be Balaban.

That was serious money at the time, and he didn't even look like a footballer.

And your Eastern European reference suddenly allows to advocates Alex Tonev as an alternate to Jordan Bowery as our worst ever signing.

Again, it's relative to outlay. Tonev was relatively cheap, and clearly for a reason. A hopeful punt if you like, much like his shots.

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #920 on: January 05, 2022, 04:53:09 PM »
Worse player I ever saw was David Hunt , might have been a signing from notts county , obviously cost a packet of pork scratching.

Offline WassallVillain

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #921 on: January 05, 2022, 04:53:19 PM »
Agreed re Balaban. I actually saw the other players laughing during the half time subs kick about at his inabilities
« Last Edit: January 05, 2022, 06:57:57 PM by WassallVillain »

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #922 on: January 05, 2022, 04:53:28 PM »
and is not, Simon Dawkins, truly the worst ‘player’ ever to don a villa shirt.

I'll raise you a Carlos Sanchez.

I'll raise you a Tommy Craig....

*Shudder* Truly dreadful.

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #923 on: January 05, 2022, 04:54:38 PM »
Worse player I ever saw was David Hunt , might have been a signing from notts county , obviously cost a packet of pork scratching.

I believe he was signed the same day as we signed Andy Blair. He was a bit it a non entity but didn’t play much from what I recall. And when he did want it in Div 2?

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #924 on: January 05, 2022, 04:54:48 PM »
Worse player I ever saw was David Hunt , might have been a signing from notts county , obviously cost a packet of pork scratching.

That's a good shout.

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #925 on: January 05, 2022, 04:55:51 PM »
Pound for pound, it's still got to be Balaban.

That was serious money at the time, and he didn't even look like a footballer.

And your Eastern European reference suddenly allows to advocates Alex Tonev as an alternate to Jordan Bowery as our worst ever signing.

Again, it's relative to outlay. Tonev was relatively cheap, and clearly for a reason. A hopeful punt if you like, much like his shots.

But he was utter, utter shit. And even if we had given his former team a bag of balls and bibs we’d have paid too much.

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #926 on: January 05, 2022, 04:56:32 PM »

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #927 on: January 05, 2022, 04:58:50 PM »
and is not, Simon Dawkins, truly the worst ‘player’ ever to don a villa shirt.

I'll raise you a Carlos Sanchez.

I'll raise you a Tommy Craig....

I'm too young for Tommy Craig, but I will not accept that we had a worse player than Carlos Sanchez (and I include Ally Sissokho in that).

Djemba Djemba?

Hardly played. Sanchez was given the rope to hang himself, and fucking hell, he made daisy chains out of it before he did so. I've never seen a worse performance by a professional footballer than his in a 5-0 defeat at Arsenal.

We had 3 years in the championship and still the worse players come from those premier league years 2012-16

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #928 on: January 05, 2022, 04:58:57 PM »
Bowery was our worst player ever in my opinion. That bad I actually felt sorry for him.

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Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #929 on: January 05, 2022, 04:59:25 PM »
Pound for pound, it's still got to be Balaban.

That was serious money at the time, and he didn't even look like a footballer.

And your Eastern European reference suddenly allows to advocates Alex Tonev as an alternate to Jordan Bowery as our worst ever signing.

Again, it's relative to outlay. Tonev was relatively cheap, and clearly for a reason. A hopeful punt if you like, much like his shots.

But he was utter, utter shit

No doubt. But Balaban was the same as signing Bailey now and him turning out like Tonev.

 


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