Top Ten Toffee Stinkers

[Brendan Janus]

Stefan Rehn, in one game came he came off the bench, then got subbed

 

[degsy]

After a post in another thread groaning about players who stunk out the joint, here's my list of garbage I've endured in my experience. It's tricky - what criteria to use? Return on money paid out? Shear uselessness? Laziness? I'm going with ones that make me wince.

Nyarko - lack of backbone.

Koldrupp - could he head a ball? He seemed ok before and after us. What went wrong here? At least he didn't linger long.

Klaasen - not for this league or the team we had. Spent a lot of money on a player ill suited to us.

Sandro - I still understand why we went for him at that price, but we're lumbered with him on stupid wages. Fell off a cliff after signing for us.

Senderos - played and looked like an escapee from the mental asylum. Awful.

Angell - I recall him losing his contact lenses in a game rendering him as blind as a bat. No drop off in performance was noted.

Schneiderlin - a few decent games then a run of games that make the blood boil.

Niasse - He ain't good enough. I at least understand his position of running his contract down and making the most out of his payday. My ire is mostly at the poor recruitment we've made over the last five years or so that he represents.

Ginola - a final wringing of the career before ending that career at the top level. Along with Gazza or Mark Hughes signifies a period when we were bereft of ideas and options and a nadir in this club's history.

Bolassie - no great shakes before injury, and now sent out on loan under 3 (?) managers. Another player we were rinsed for on fee and wages. Another hindrance to being able to improve the team.

Spoilt for choice - 10 people could pick ten different selections
Not one would be the same
Not one could find a case for not being classed as gash

 

[Loadsofchemistry]

Wouldn't even be in the top 200 for me. He was just a fairly average player, who cost very little and did a decent job at a lean time. He's another one like Carl Tiler who just has a boring name and so everyone says was horrendous when actually they were both fine (for where we were as a club). There's 10 we've got in the squad now who'd be ahead of the likes of Gemmill for me.

Near enough word for word what i was going to say, even the Tiler reference. Never inderstand how either could get lumbered in lists like these.

 

[Khalekan]

All those mentioned so far.

Here’s another ten I haven’t seen mentioned yet, apologies if any if the buggers have been.



Alexandersson

Neil MacDonald

Ian Wilson

Blackpool Mickey Walsh

Stephen Hughes

Ashley Williams

James Beattie

Joe Harper

Kevin Langley

Michael Keane

 

[BlueStevie35]

Paul Gerrard - bad signs were there when he let a pretty soft goal in on his debut against Southampton when Nev decided not to play the second half with us 5-0 up. Never forgave him for letting THAT McAllister free kick in in the derby either

 

[mahermi1]

Stuart Barlow, nicknamed Barn door.
Steve Simonsen, then record fee for a goalkeeper, Peter Johnson fiddle.

Tony Thomas again from Tranmere, came in one of Johnson's hampers.
Paul Gerrard, crap goalkeeper, but with the added bonus of also managing to injure our players in games.
David Ginola, Blomquist and Gascoigne all great players until Bill grabbed them pre cemetery.

 

[BernieH]

Alexandersson, Pistone, Pembridge, Tiler some right duffers in the 90's early 00's

 

[sageyefc]

He looked quite good for the 1 half he was actually fit tbf.

Didn’t we concede about 3 goals in that half, he was an absolute cart horse

 

[Saint Domingo]

Siggurdson is easily the worst player in our prem history.

 

[Paul Rideout]

How has Gazza (to me he’s synonymous with Ginola) and Li Weifang been omitted thus far??

 

[TippEverton]

Stephen Hughes.

Something possessed me into thinking we'd signed a gem from Arsenal.

Low and behold, we hadn't.

 

[royalblue66]

All those mentioned so far.

Here’s another ten I haven’t seen mentioned yet, apologies if any if the buggers have been.



Alexandersson

Neil MacDonald

Ian Wilson

Blackpool Mickey Walsh

Stephen Hughes

Ashley Williams

James Beattie

Joe Harper

Kevin Langley

Michael Keane

Keep me awake at night ,stuff of nightmares.

 

[mrb85]

Mo Johnson

 

[Gaffa]

Siggurdson is easily the worst player in our prem history.

You haven’t seen many matches then. This is one of the worst shouts ever

 

[Gaffa]

Stuart Barlow, nicknamed Barn door.

It was Jigsaw