Who were are the worst player purchases in CCFC histroy?
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Who were are the worst player purchases in CCFC histroy?
Andreas Cornelius
The OP title should be 2ND worstQuote:
Originally Posted by TISS
Robbie Fowler.
Luigi glombard (spelling)
Weve signed some absolute garbage. But youve got to take into account the finance.
Yeah it should be who is 2nd worse.
The worst is Cornelius.
Godfrey Ingram.
the worst was not cornelius
rickie lambert was horseshit.
And Andrea Ferretti. All I remember about him is he always wore a nice suit with trainers whilst wandering around the touchline before games.
Robin Friday. Mostly useless or absent then walked out on us after less than a year. What a waste of money.
Hard to pin point one as the worst. Some mentioned above were not buys but free transfers. But players we actually paid for i have to say david hughes (yhink that eas his name) 500k from Shrewsbury and i cannot ever remember him playing. Gavin gordon another wsste of money. Not sure if we paid for ALF but if we did then add him to the list.
Spedger
Cornelius looked like he couldn't play football. Lambert actually scored and therefore did something. Cornelius' best moment was diving 10 ft from the ball when it was crossed in. Whether or not Cornelius is any good or not is up for debate but he was awful for us and cost £10m.Quote:
Originally Posted by LordKenwyne
Hughes did play a few games but was injuredQuote:
Originally Posted by Sloop_Jon_Bee
By a country mile, arrived early for a game once and saw him in the warm up kick in, I thought he was messing around he was that bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
Seconded !Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Mort
Going back a bit. Keith Robson in the late 70's from West Ham. Didn't he belt someone in the club car park after a game?
Micky Burns. Arrived with a great reputation and a big fee for the time, played half a dozen games and buggered off back to the north east.
Alan " fatty " Foggon.
It was claimed he was fast enough to catch a pigeon but all
he caught in Cardiff was a tray of cream cakes.
Kurt Nogan , trained on curry and chips and played just as you would expect on that diet.
Forgot about Alf.
2nd behind Cornelius.
This could be a very long thread......Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue in the Face
Gavin Kenyatta Gordon (for the price we paid and how rubbish he was)
There was story going around, not sure if it's true, that Hammam offered £500,000 for him, but it was only supposed to be £50,000! They made a mistake on the fax!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sloop_Jon_Bee
Similar thing happened with Fortune-West. I think we offered £50,000 and the Rotherham chairman broke out the champagne and rang his fellow directors while he kept Hammam waiting. Ever the impatient , Hammam could wait no longer and rang back and offers d£100k! I'm told that this one is true.
£450,00 wasted when we were in the third tier, based on him playing well against us. He did score 5 in a LDV Cup game but that was about all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
Kenny Miller was a big money miss. £900,000 Malky paid for him, he did Ok, but missed a good chance at Wembley in the league Cup Final. I heard he went to Rangers free at the end of the season? Surely not.
NO. We had to pay them £8 million to take him off our hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by cardiff55
Gordon wasn't great but he was far from useless, was decent in drawing a lot of fouls.
Hughes was a very good centre half but just got unlucky with injury.
Lambert did ok he was didn't have the legs everything else he did was pretty good.
Cornelius cost a lot of money for what we have spent on other players.
Prior was pretty poor the majority of the time but did put a good display in the play offs to get himself a decent bonus.
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Originally Posted by cardiff55
LFW, didn't want to come here, the fees were agreed, but LFW wanted more & more money.
It was LFW, that delayed it, not Rotherham.
A Robbie Fowler shirt with his name on, worst buy by far
Did he used to forget who he was then ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Watcliff