Players you were happy we signed but turned out to be pants, and vice versa.

[Rob17896]

Van Der Meyde was such a let down. Was only kid and remember being on holiday when he signed, I was so ecstatic because even I knew he was a big name and highly rated. Too bad the only reason we got him was because no top club would touch him because of his well-known lifestyle problems.

Very talented player as well...sad that was.

 

[Rakti]

Vinny Samways, liked him at Spurs, was excited when we got him, but what a let down.

His goal won us our last Trophy.

 

[Archie Knox]

I think most people taught that getting Delph from City was very good business at 8 million, but he's not been great to say the least. At the moment I think we'd struggle to get half that money back if we were to sell him.

We wouldn't even be able to give him away and he'll be here with his bad attitude for another two seasons unfortunately.

 

[firefighterblue]

Kevin Richardson. Saw him as a youth player and thought he wasn't much. Surprised when he got to the first team. Never a regular when we had the great team of the 80s but when called upon he always put a shift in and played in different positions. Often overlooked player who contributed to that successful team. Also played in that Arsenal team that won the league at Anfield in 1989. Now coach at the barcodes

 

[Johnny Barton]

Kevin Richardson. Saw him as a youth player and thought he wasn't much. Surprised when he got to the first team. Never a regular when we had the great team of the 80s but when called upon he always put a shift in and played in different positions. Often overlooked player who contributed to that successful team. Also played in that Arsenal team that won the league at Anfield in 1989. Now coach at the barcodes

Kevin Richardson was also in the Aston Villa team that nearly won the first ever Premier league, think he would have been the first to win it with three different clubs

 

[Lloydystark]

Klaassen
Van der Meyde
Materazzi
Beattie
Ginola
Blomqvist
Collins

 

[kenada_blue]

Heitinga had a good first season buy after that he was a major let down. Hards as nails Johnny disappeared

He did an interview the other month. Another player that got injured but played on through it until he couldn't.

 

[kenada_blue]

Risking mild controversy, but Andy Johnson. Started well (and he's fondly remembered for a certain derby), but just frustrated me. Ran into a lot of blind alleys...

Think that was more Moyes telling him to do that as he tended to do that with every striker we had to allow Cahill to break the lines.

 

[mawders]

James Beattie was so excited when we signed him never worked out even tho he tried hard ended up a flop

I remember him playing for England while we were in the midst of signing him and he was so slow... Like he was running in treacle. I thought oh-no...

 

[efcste97]

90% of the signings under Koeman/Walsh

 

[mawders]

Joe Parkinson. Would have played for england had he been allowed to recover from injury.

 

[Bluelenny1984]

Gareth barry, wasnt overwhelmed when he signed then watched him play and thought wow this lad has intelligence! One of them players who had no place but understood the game and his role so well it didnt matter! Proper footballer.

 

[phil_t98]

I still maintain that we always meant to sign Defour instead of Fellaini, were knocked back and decided "well, fine, we'll take the other one". Defour was the one we were rumoured with for a couple weeks before Fellaini just seemingly came out of nowhere.

I used to cut Artetas hair and he always maintained that there was something crazy that happened when we signed Fellani, he never expanded on it but he said u wouldn't believe it all

 

[Caolam]

Davy Klassen, a Dutch master with European experience and a winner. He had the lot, he just couldn't play Premier League football.

 

[PhilM]

Kevin Campbell...when we signed him I thought man that’s desperate as I didn’t really rate him.

Got that spectacularly wrong

He got Everton as well - has a real love for the club. He pretty much single handedly saved us from relegation and should always be held highly because of that.