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...yeah..okOriginally Posted by goats
All clubs make shocking signings like this. Ours was Sone Aluko. We spent £7 million and gave him a four year contract on big wages. He has been useless. He has been out on loan for that past year and we will doubtless send him out on loan again so it’s not just Cardiff.
I'd lay off Velikonja or you will have Loramski after you!! Anyway, who exactly did sign him? Not sure that it was Malky. More like a Vincent signing.
Anybody think there's a chance that something happened behind the scenes? An argument or something?
Maybe Cardiff should offer a few million for this guy.
Yes please.
I checked out Madine’s stats and can’t believe he didn’t ever score for Cardiff. Even Aluko managed to score for us.
It may have been amicable. Negotiated a pay off to get rid of him without having to pay the full length of his remaining contract.
I know I saw a list of the jacks blowing about 80 million somewhere recently, baston for 18 million was it? Ayew 20 million, Clucas 16, there was a few others too
Don’t joke
I'm looking forward to buying a "I saw Gary Madine score" badge ..... oh wait....
Yeah I think someone watch him play football and realised he isn’t a championship footballer in a million years.
It's not hindsight but I also said the same at the time. One of my best friends is a Bolton season ticket holder and he said at the time that he couldn't believe we had paid £6mio for Madine - a more realistic fee would have been £1mio, maybe £2mio as he was on a scoring streak at the time but we all knew this was just one of those strange hot spells any useless striker can go through for a short period, he had been pretty useless for a number of seasons before then
Huge fees. However they did get £45 million for Sigurdsson.
My abiding memory of Gary Madine when his name arises in future discussions of worst ever City players will be his last appearance for us at CCS (was it Preston) when he came on as sub and as the ball reached him on the by line he put in a beautiful chipped cross supposedly into the penalty area which actually finished 12 rows back in the Canton - It was a feat of shittyness that had not been seen since Josh Low was seen on the wing
Thanks for the memories Gary - there will always be a place for you in top 10 dreadful signings in years to come
Don’t you be disrespecting Josh Low!
Nail on the head.
Malky got us promoted but I'd hazard a guess anybody on here could have done it. It was like Football Manager with a bucket load of cash.
We struck lucky with Warnock in amongst the dross picked by the board here.
Tan is the money man surrounded by yes men. We have been successful despite our board and not because of it.
It is sadly still continuing now. Then again with a board in place that are unwilling or, more likely, unable to see their shortcomings it isn't going to change any time soon.
Our success is dependant on the manager putting together a strong squad with a heap of cash (Malky) or a shrewd manager who builds a hard to beat team while also frittering away a shed load (Warnock).
Absolutely clueless as a club at board level.
He was actually decent when we played Forest, chased and held the ball up well until he missed an open goal by passing it to Hoilett
What message does this send out just before the derby too?
A lot of our shithouses might think a shit show against the Jacks and they might be looking at a nice pay off too.
Meanwhile the Jacks are boosting their squad with Premier League squad player loans.
He started the first four games after Harris arrived and now he's out the door less than two months later.
Could we not have at least waited until the end of January to make a decision on this?
It seems hard to believe but we could end the transfer window even worse up top than we started if Bogle jumps ship/is paid off and our notoriously hard working recruitment team once again fail to get transfers across the line.
We'll probably give Peter Crouch a 4 year deal out of retirement on the last day based on his name.
So much negativity
Think a few people need to take a few days off
Maybe just maybe there is a reason to write off 6m.
I remember Ronnie Moore shirts back in the day saying Ronnie actually scored for us
Sometimes it doesnt work out .
Every club has the same problem .
Probably every forum rants about the failures.
When you have seen it all and then seen it all again , you realise , sometimes the footballer doesn't suit the club, system they play ,
whatever the reason. It just doesn't work out .
In business , which football is , you have to speculate to accumulate.
Look at Eoin Doyle , who would have believed it .......
"I saw Ronnie Moore score"
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