No he wasn't; never even near. He was never Juventus' number 1 striker and had never been a big team player, or super prolific, in Italy. He was, however, someone who'd been in the Juve team which had won the European Cup only a couple of years before and playing regularly for Juventus so there was definitely expectation & disappointment when we realised that they'd had stitched us up with an injured dud...soon followed by their own disappointment when they realised that we had stitched them up in paying for said injured dud!

Aruna Dindane - remember we signed him , a couple of years before getting him he impressed on loan at Pompey. Could wait for him to play at the time. Failed to make a single appearance.

Andy Johnson Magic, He wears a Magic Hat
When he Sees the match ball, he says he having that
He scores one with left foot, he scores one with his right
And When his playing Brighton, He scores all f***ING Night!

Don't forget that because of the signing of these two players, I believe the most watched football match in history (including television) is estimated to be a Crystal Palace League Cup defeat to Bury shortly after we had signed these two, because a huge number of Chinese people tuned in to see their first players to star for an English Premier League team.

Someone will tell me all of that trivia is wrong! I am usually wrong!

That is such a Palace thing

David Amsalem!

There are alot of players being mentioned on here who were awful, but some of them were never hyped up anyway (and I disagree about the Chinese players, I thought they were very decent).

As mentioned previously, I think the one player who arrived with such expectation (given the amount of money we had to pay and chasing it required) was Gareth Taylor.

I don't think Marco Gabbiadini deserves the tag. I once saw an interview with Steve Coppell who said that Gabbiadini never got a fair chance because shortly after his arrival, John Salako sustained his major injury. Had he played with Gabbiadini, then he may have more successful.