Gynnsthetonic
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The money we use to spend (8 Viewers)
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oscillatewildly
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Arguably his signing pushed them both into top form.
Terry Gibson's perm
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A player who was going to be the best centre half in Europe but never played a game for us in four years, I think we signed him very young
SlowerThanPlatt
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Freddie Eastwood £1.2m in recent years. Who was it who signed him? Coleman?
mechaishida
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Yep, was about as tall as my 3 year old daughter and barely got a kick. His brother played at Bolton and fared slightly better, if I remember correctly.
skybluesam66
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there were also the hondurans - one of them was martinez - cant even remember the name of the other
mechaishida
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Jairo Martinez and Ivan Guerrero. Martinez was 'highly-rated' till he came here.
Guerrero, if I remember, had good technique but looked lost a lot.
mechaishida
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Also, Martinez got 3 goals in 5 starts apparently, under Nilsson. Then he was used sporadically, then shown the door with his mate Ivan.
Speedies_Chips
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I remember us splashing the cash on Larry Lloyd 240,000 from Liverpool and David Jones from Everton for 250,000.
Both big money at the time, but neither really came off.
Both big money at the time, but neither really came off.
Dimi_Konstantflapalot
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Yeah Coleman. Remember him saying at the time he was close to signing him at Fulham but didn't think he was ready. Retired aged 30 last year, quite some fall from grace
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Nick
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Has he retired? He was making more money from horses than football I think.
Dimi_Konstantflapalot
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www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/blues/129...wood_backs_Shrimpers_for_automatic_promotion/
You're right. Seemed like he lost interest towards the end of his career, the end of his Cov career certainly. Sounds like he sacked it off after he got released end of 13/14 season, though wasn't widely reported.
You're right. Seemed like he lost interest towards the end of his career, the end of his Cov career certainly. Sounds like he sacked it off after he got released end of 13/14 season, though wasn't widely reported.
mechaishida
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Eastwood Building and Roofing?
For some reason, I just instantly thought of O'Reilly the pikey builder from Fawlty Towers.
stevefloyd
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I've got a dick sponge
Joy Division
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750k on Ysrael Zuniga who looked lost most of the time he played for us. Had a decent record at club level though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ysrael_Zúñiga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ysrael_Zúñiga
CJ_covblaze
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Played 6 times. Was dreadful but we some how managed to sell him back to where we bought him from for 800k.
"The third best keeper in Serie A"
Sadly no longer with us.
"Only joined us so his kids could learn English for free"
henry the wasp
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Poor old zuniga. Allegedly was supplied with a false European passport and had his signing on fee taken from him, by world cup winning argie, Renee Houseman. Houseman was our South American scout at the time. Walter Zevallos was also supposed to sign but the home office started taking an interest in Houseman. By then zevallos could not obtain a Spanish passport he/we had been promised.
oldskyblue58
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Think TM MV etc are proving what can be done with good financial control.
When you look at the deals that were done and the financial effect over the decades you appreciate even more what the current manager is doing.
Had we not over paid fees and salaries on a whole lot of dross then we would probably never have got to the financial calamities the club has endured or the owners we have (had)
....... but then again we probably wouldn't have had TM here at the end of it either:thinking about:
When you look at the deals that were done and the financial effect over the decades you appreciate even more what the current manager is doing.
Had we not over paid fees and salaries on a whole lot of dross then we would probably never have got to the financial calamities the club has endured or the owners we have (had)
....... but then again we probably wouldn't have had TM here at the end of it either:thinking about:
James Smith
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I heard from someone on the train home after a match that he was happy here but his wife wasn't and wanted to go home. Not sure if there's any truth in that but it's what I was told.
mechaishida
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To be honest, I saw Wallemme play a few games for us, the one against West Ham is clearest in my mind; he had John Hartson battering him black and blue and he kept getting up for more, and he kept (an albeit ageing) Ian Wright quiet.
He was a decent centre-half, he just didn't adapt well. Or rather, his wife didn't.
vow
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The only plus from that deal is we got our money back when we sold him to Stoke. Unbelievable, i know.
