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He was a consequence of awful management in general.
Coventry City Transfer Disappointments (2 Viewers)
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Skyblue_CP
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More recently was Vincelot aswell, was our last shining light of that dreadful window and then we let him go aswell.
Liquid Gold
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I've got a curveball one. Having Nacho Novo being announced and then it not happening and Kevin Kyle turning up instead.
Houchens Head
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I know he was only on loan from Liverpool at the time, but another player I wish we could have kept was Steve Warnock. He was outstanding for us for the time he was here. Even getting voted the "Fans Player of the Season" for 2003/2004. Always been a fan of his ever since.
RegTheDonk
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Not the biggest disappointment, but selling Kirkland to Liverpool after being relegated. Richardson said something about the talented kids being the heart of the team, then a few days later sold our players player of the year. Made financial sense I guess but felt a real kick in the gut at our ambitions to bounce straight back.
Pricey1984
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Huckerby was my childhood hero, so was gutted when he went.....though keane signing a few days later softened that blow. But then keane leaving a year later was awful too. I remember hearing the inter rumours and thinking they were ridiculous, given the strikers they already had. That one was unexpected and who knows if we'd have gone down had he stayed
Greggs
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SSSHHHHH not a bad word can be said about Dublin on here......
kg82
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Must be my memory playing tricks on me. I thought we got Mifsud instead of Novo?
SlowerThanPlatt
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Yes reminds me of getting Cody McDonald instead of Le Fondre
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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What about Jarni, only for him to leave days later?
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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What was worse is that we sent him on loan before the transfer window opened so they could have him earlier
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Those were desperate times.
thekidfromstrettoncamp
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Dennis Mortimer for me.Wrote to the chairman at the time (Iain Jamieson) only time I have ever done such a thing.His reply was watch this space great things are planned (never happened).The team we had then really looked as though It was set for years to come with all the young players .Terry Bly and George Hudson I thought how could he let Bly go but the Hud's first game sealed it for me.Then that night when he knocked over Tony Knapp ran round and scored brilliant
I’d just bought the brand new shirt with Keane’s name on it, two days later he’d gone to InterRobbie Keane will always be my biggest transfer upset. Hated it when he left.
Danceswithhorses
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Wasn't he the 'makeweight' in the Ian Butterworth transfer ?
Moff
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Yep, Butterworth was 250k, Pearce was 200k…..madness!
Skyblueweeman
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Jarni. Devo'ed when he left. The way he sat in the stands with those sunglasses...just gutted when he left.
In all seriousness...all of the above from about 1988. Plus Chris Kirkland.
In all seriousness...all of the above from about 1988. Plus Chris Kirkland.
The Philosopher
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Onandi Lowe.
Came with stats that were incredible. Could play defence or up front.
Played. Scored. Went on international duty, awol and then arrested in Northampton on a drugs charge.
Got sacked.
Here’s the madness:
Innocent until proven guilty, right?
He could have played whilst on bail. Ched Evans did, had his best season on bail because he had everything play for.
Don’t get me started on Lee Hughes.
Imagine a fired up Onandi Lowe? Name one championship defence at the time who would want to take on a 6’5” “yardie” on a drugs charge with a point to prove?
Good management might have worked: Arm round him, in the team, tell him to do some community work to look good in front of the judge….
We fired him. He didn’t get found guilty.
Them be the facts.
Came with stats that were incredible. Could play defence or up front.
Played. Scored. Went on international duty, awol and then arrested in Northampton on a drugs charge.
Got sacked.
Here’s the madness:
Innocent until proven guilty, right?
He could have played whilst on bail. Ched Evans did, had his best season on bail because he had everything play for.
Don’t get me started on Lee Hughes.
Imagine a fired up Onandi Lowe? Name one championship defence at the time who would want to take on a 6’5” “yardie” on a drugs charge with a point to prove?
Good management might have worked: Arm round him, in the team, tell him to do some community work to look good in front of the judge….
We fired him. He didn’t get found guilty.
Them be the facts.
Grendel
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He was already 30 had only scored at league 2 level and was shite
The Philosopher
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He was 29, and we got him out of League 1 (where he had a goal ratio of better than 1 in 2) and a regular full international.
Other than that…..
SlowerThanPlatt
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Grendel
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He played one season for rushden at that level - he was a desperate signing in a desperate time - the full international thing is nonsense - Che Bunce played 90 times for New Zealand.
Also he was on bail for months and it’s fair to say his reason for using a false identity to avoid the paparazzi showing up at the airport was….creative - he was well over 29 by the time charges were dropped due to lack of evidence
It’s a bizarre person to pick - he was a symptom of our decline at that point
Grendel
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he used fake ID entering the country as he thought a swarm of paparazzi would identity him as a mega star
Wyken Sky Blue
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Theo Walcott not joining us on loan hurt big time...
SlowerThanPlatt
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GMK special
The Philosopher
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F’kin hell man, who put 10p in you?
I was unironically gutted when the Jarni thing didn't work out. He probably would have been an upgrade on Froggatt.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Jarni just sitting in the stands with those shades convinced young me we had a real superstar
Terry_dactyl
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I remember being gutted that we sold Babb, and furious that we bought Dublin* with some of the money we had for him! I was then furious when we sold Dublin…rightly so.
*It wasn’t that I didn’t rate Dublin, id seen him destroy us (Andy Pearce) when he played for Cambridge Utd. It was more that I really rated Babb and thought we’d go down without him at the back. I think it’s fair to say it was a good bit of business.