Stevo985 Posted December 19, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted December 19, 2018 1 hour ago, bannedfromHandV said: I'm not sure about that one Stevo, I think the vast majority of people took Salifou for what he was - a strange, cult signing. They did, but there were plenty of people calling for him to be in the team at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 48 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: They did, but there were plenty of people calling for him to be in the team at the time. Perhaps until they/we had seen him play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 19, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted December 19, 2018 30 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said: Perhaps until they/we had seen him play Quite. That's kind of my point. If a player is on the bench for ages and isn't getting gametime, there's PROBABLY a reason why. The longer that player stays there the more and more fans seems to want him in. Eventually they play and they end up being shit. Which is why they weren't in the team for so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 5 hours ago, Xela said: Genuinely one of the strangest signings ever. He must have had some massive dirt of the manager and owners! We signed a Spanish defender under Sherwood, and a Portuguese goalkeeper this summer, who I find equally inexplicable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 19 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: We signed a Spanish defender under Sherwood, and a Portuguese goalkeeper this summer, who I find equally inexplicable. Dont forget Tiago Ilori 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 19, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted December 19, 2018 34 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: We signed a Spanish defender under Sherwood, and a Portuguese goalkeeper this summer, who I find equally inexplicable. I think clubs must just be offered players last minute sometimes and managers/clubs just take a punt on them. Maybe they have some room in the wage budget, do a quick bit of research and say yeah let's go for it. Only thing that makes sense regarding players like Salifou, Bowery, Ilori etc I can't really believe that a scouting team would have scouted Jordan Bowery for weeks/months and decided we needed to sign him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuck Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 12 hours ago, Zatman said: Incredibly he has played at a World Cup Did well too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted December 20, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted December 20, 2018 12 hours ago, Stevo985 said: I think clubs must just be offered players last minute sometimes and managers/clubs just take a punt on them. Maybe they have some room in the wage budget, do a quick bit of research and say yeah let's go for it. Only thing that makes sense regarding players like Salifou, Bowery, Ilori etc I can't really believe that a scouting team would have scouted Jordan Bowery for weeks/months and decided we needed to sign him. I think I read Bowery's dad is a coach and is/was friends with Lambert's back room team. Whole think stank to high heaven tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 13 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: We signed a Spanish defender under Sherwood, and a Portuguese goalkeeper this summer, who I find equally inexplicable. Oh wow, I completely forgot about that Spanish defender. Perfect for this thread. What even was his name again? I remember him having a wicked attacking players name...I wanna say Crespo or Angel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 2 hours ago, Keyblade said: Oh wow, I completely forgot about that Spanish defender. Perfect for this thread. What even was his name again? I remember him having a wicked attacking players name...I wanna say Crespo or Angel Yeah, Crespo. Maybe Jose Luis Crespo? I think it had three parts anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan-scott Posted December 20, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted December 20, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Keyblade said: Oh wow, I completely forgot about that Spanish defender. Perfect for this thread. What even was his name again? I remember him having a wicked attacking players name...I wanna say Crespo or Angel 6 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Yeah, Crespo. Maybe Jose Luis Crespo? I think it had three parts anyway. Wasn’t it Jose Angel Crespo? Edit - Yes it was. Now plays for PAOK! Wiki says he played 1 game for us in 15/16. Edited December 20, 2018 by villan-scott 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 1 hour ago, villan-scott said: Wasn’t it Jose Angel Crespo? Edit - Yes it was. Now plays for PAOK! Wiki says he played 1 game for us in 15/16. That's the chap. Wasn't there something mad about him, like he'd been relegated four consecutive seasons in a row from La Liga or something? 17 hours ago, Zatman said: Dont forget Tiago Ilori One thing I will say, is that while Ilori was very very obviously nowhere near ready to be a starter at a Premier League team (and is currently a starter for a team desperately trying not to be relegated to League One), he was quite a highly-rated youngster at Liverpool, so it maybe wasn't completely *inexplicable* that we would be interested. He clearly wasn't ready to start in the PL though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Alexis Sanchez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 12 hours ago, theboyangel said: Alexis Sanchez Sanchez, Pogba and Lukaku must cost Man Utd about £1m per week. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 8 hours ago, Xela said: Sanchez, Pogba and Lukaku must cost Man Utd about £1m per week. They've cost Man Utd £24m* this week in getting Jose sacked too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Ibrahim Afellay released by Stoke. Thought he had long gone by now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 (edited) Aruna Dindane. Bonaventure Kalou. Steve Gohouri. Abdoulaye Meite. One of them is the elected mayor of Vavoua, a city of 130,00 people. Which one? Spoiler It's Bonaventure Kalou. Spoiler If you're wondering about the others (I know I was!), Dindane is in charge of the Ivorian Footballers Association, Steve Gohouri sadly passed away (in seemingly mysterious circumstances?) in Germany in 2015, and Meite was last seen not playing professional football for a team in Andorra in 2017). Edited February 4, 2019 by HanoiVillan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Facundo Sava. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Portsmouth last few seasons in top flight had some blink and you miss players like Dindane John Utaka 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 51 minutes ago, Zatman said: Portsmouth last few seasons in top flight had some blink and you miss players like Dindane John Utaka Piquionne or however you spelt it. THen managed to wrangle 40k a week out of West Ham These lads had the best agents in world football. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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