Guest gggg Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Can anyone think of a striker who cost more and never scored a goal? 37 games and counting... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 How many games did he go without before coming here? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Not one who got paid 60k a week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gggg Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Not one who got paid 60k a week. Yeah, Bosco Balaban never scored a goal for Villa but wikipedia says he only cost 5.8m and was on 20k a week, and he only played 8 games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Shevchenko was worst value for money despite scoring 9 or so goals. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Shevchenko was worst value for money despite scoring 9 or so goals. Still a better ratio than Smithie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KeithKettleborough Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 We paid a canny bit for John Robertson who couldn't stop scoring for Hearts but I think in about 15 games got none for us if failing memory is correct. We sold him back to Hearts and he started scoring again. Cant remember the fee but maybe would be reasonably large these days with inflation etc, though still no where near Smith I bet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
josimar Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 We paid a canny bit for John Robertson who couldn't stop scoring for Hearts but I think in about 15 games got none for us if failing memory is correct. We sold him back to Hearts and he started scoring again. Cant remember the fee but maybe would be reasonably large these days with inflation etc, though still no where near Smith I bet. Yeah, he was rubbish. We paid £750,000 for him after we sold Gazza to Spurs. He was supposed to be our goal machine. We spunked the rest of the money on Andy Thorn and Dave Beasant, deeming it not necessary to replace Gazza because we had Ian Bogie. We got relegated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I wonder what the most managerial reigns a striker has gone through without scoring a single goal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 How many games did he go without before coming here? 9 games since he'd scored before coming here. and before that one, 24 games. he's scored twice in 3 years (a period of something like 95 games). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thenorthumbrian Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Can anyone think of a striker who cost more and never scored a goal? 37 games and counting... To be fair he can't score and he's shite' in midfield as well. Is there another player who has been such a waste of money becasue he can be equally crap in two positions ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlito Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Even Luque scored Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dover Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Carl cort must be , surely? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elbel1 Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Carl cort must be , surely? I am sure when Mr Cort first arrived he had a decent goals/games ratio Then came the injuries, an insane wife (alledegly) and of course the infamous Tesco incident All downhill after that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Carl cort must be , surely? Did I dream that he actually scored 7 in 7 for us at one point? Edit: not from his start with us, but just a run of sorts.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I'm sure Smith will show us all why Keegan wanted to keep him.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Carl Cort was our joint top scorer in one season, 7 i think. He also didn't earn as much as Smith but i'd still say Shev was worse value for money despite scoring a few. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thenorthumbrian Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I'm sure Smith will show us all why Keegan wanted to keep him.... Because our wonderful new system couldn't bring in players to replace him.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikri Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Carl cort must be , surely? Did I dream that he actually scored 7 in 7 for us at one point? Edit: not from his start with us, but just a run of sorts.... 7 goals from 22 games I believe. Stats-wise he wasn't a bad player, except he only managed to play about 3 consecutive games in his time here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I'm sure Smith will show us all why Keegan wanted to keep him.... Because our wonderful new system couldn't bring in players to replace him.... Aye, it must be their fault that Keegan wanted to keep Smith instead of signing Xisco. mackems.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I read the other day (it may have been an Alan Oliver lie) that Keegan wanted to sell Alan Smith but NUFC (Wise and friends) bumped the money we wanted for him up to £2.8m and Everton pulled out of the deal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I read the other day (it may have been an Alan Oliver lie) that Keegan wanted to sell Alan Smith but NUFC (Wise and friends) bumped the money we wanted for him up to £2.8m and Everton pulled out of the deal. nah, can't be, smith was always first name on the teamsheet under keegan, and it's not like he'd been keeping him out the team to protect a sellable asset recently. i mean come on, it's not like keegan had been seen scouting two strikers earlier in the window. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thenorthumbrian Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I read the other day (it may have been an Alan Oliver lie) that Keegan wanted to sell Alan Smith but NUFC (Wise and friends) bumped the money we wanted for him up to £2.8m and Everton pulled out of the deal. I'm sure Smith will show us all why Keegan wanted to keep him.... Because our wonderful new system couldn't bring in players to replace him.... Aye, it must be their fault that Keegan wanted to keep Smith instead of signing Xisco. mackems.gif It was irrelevant who keegan wanted to keep or sell, he was only the manager after all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
afar Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 We paid a canny bit for John Robertson who couldn't stop scoring for Hearts but I think in about 15 games got none for us if failing memory is correct. We sold him back to Hearts and he started scoring again. Cant remember the fee but maybe would be reasonably large these days with inflation etc, though still no where near Smith I bet. Yeah, he was rubbish. We paid £750,000 for him after we sold Gazza to Spurs. He was supposed to be our goal machine. We spunked the rest of the money on Andy Thorn and Dave Beasant, deeming it not necessary to replace Gazza because we had Ian Bogie. We got relegated. He wasn't rubbish, just wasn't given time to settle in, crowd got on his back to quickly and we got all our money back from Hearts when we sold him back. The fact that the manager who bought them at the time was an absolute clown too didn't help matters. Beasant, Hendry and Robertson could have been very good players for the club, and went on to prove it at other clubs. Just awfully managed and the crowd weren't prepared to give them a chance. Loosing 4-0 in the first game at Everton didn't help matters. The whole club was a circus back then from the board through to the management. Jim Smith wanted to make his mark and brought in a bunch of has beens to try to save us from relegation while scarificing the players who could have been our future. We also got more or less our money back on both Hendry and Beasant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I read the other day (it may have been an Alan Oliver lie) that Keegan wanted to sell Alan Smith but NUFC (Wise and friends) bumped the money we wanted for him up to £2.8m and Everton pulled out of the deal. nah, can't be, smith was always first name on the teamsheet under keegan, and it's not like he'd been keeping him out the team to protect a sellable asset recently. i mean come on, it's not like keegan had been seen scouting two strikers earlier in the window. That fits in well with the 'Keegan can do no wrong' agenda, it must be true! mackems.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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