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Past Cpfc signings that didn't live up to the hype
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GladAllOver27  03 Jun 17 10.41pm |
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We signed some players from other clubs and they were great for other clubs before signing for Palace. They simply didn't live up to the hype. One that spring to mind for me was Nicky Carle was superb at Bristol city. Poty at bcfc and we purchased him for about 1m and was an absolute flop. Maybe another one was the signing of Edgar davids. There was a lot of media surrounding the deal and Davids was absolutely terrible at Palace. What your hyped up signings that failed to deliver for the eagles ?
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 curlyeagle crowborough 03 Jun 17 11.04pm |
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Valerein Ismael French centre half I believe we paid around 2.5 milion for and Gareth Taylor. I think we paid Bristol Rovers about 1Million.
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| Brentmiester_General Front line in the battle against t... 03 Jun 17 11.16pm |
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Originally posted by curlyeagle
Valerein Ismael French centre half I believe we paid around 2.5 milion for and Gareth Taylor. I think we paid Bristol Rovers about 1Million. Taylor was dog plop. We signed him on the same day as Dougie from Barnet and Taylor came with the much bigger reputation. Luckily Dougie turned out to be great and it took away some of the disappointment of how crap Taylor was.
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| zoose London 03 Jun 17 11.21pm |
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Originally posted by Brentmiester_General
Taylor was dog plop. We signed him on the same day as Dougie from Barnet and Taylor came with the much bigger reputation. Luckily Dougie turned out to be great and it took away some of the disappointment of how crap Taylor was. Not quite, Freedman was signed 8th September, Taylor on the 27th September (both 1995). Taylor was utter s***e though. HIs first goal for Palace was away at some ground where the fog was so thick the cameras couldn't even make out the ball going in. A metaphor for his Palace career, I suppose. I remember him coming off the bench for Sheffield Utd in the '97 playoff final at Wembley and thinking that he'd score the winner. Fortunately he was just as useless in that game as he was for us.
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chateauferret  03 Jun 17 11.37pm |
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Akinbyi springs immediately to mind. Kept talking about how good he was but couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo and was s***e as well. Annoyed the f*** out of me every time he opened his gub.
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| Brentmiester_General Front line in the battle against t... 03 Jun 17 11.43pm |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
Akinbyi springs immediately to mind. Kept talking about how good he was but couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo and was s***e as well. Annoyed the f*** out of me every time he opened his gub. I think it was the other way, he came to us known as the striker who couldn't score a goal and clueless Trev paid something like £2.5 mill for him, when we already had a lethal partnership up front at the time anyway. TF really was f***ing useless.
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| Reknaw 04 Jun 17 12.42am |
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Scott Sinclair for me. Couldn't believe it at the time we signed him, never really done much for us. Adebayor another that was disappointing.
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pstrutt  Busselton, WA 04 Jun 17 1.32am |
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Initially; Cabaye Murray - first season Brolin and Akinbiyi were awful. So too Davids and Adebayor.
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kenbarr  Jackson Heights, Queens, New York ... 04 Jun 17 7.15am |
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Marco Gabbiadini. Bought in October 1991 for 1.8 mil, sold in January 1992 for 1.2 million. Was supposed to replace Ian Wright. Never had a chance.
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| Dan89 Se25 04 Jun 17 7.38am |
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Tom ince whilst he was on loan at Palace. Great debut and little else. Remember thinking what a signing. When he got him on deadline day. There's wasn't loads of hype about Marco reich but I remember he had a great game before extending his short term deal, before offering little else. Edited by Dan89 (04 Jun 2017 7.38am)
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| CPFC/SCCC Sutton 04 Jun 17 7.41am |
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Paul Ifill - Wasn't crazy money but I expected better.
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| Clevander Brisbane 04 Jun 17 8.35am |
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From my memory would have to be Kuqi- I think we paid £2.5 for him at the time but did not do a lot - that was huge money back then
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