Optimistic Nut Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Sure he was arrested a few years later for firing a gun at a wedding in Argentina. Was like a poor man’s Asprilla. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Sure he was arrested a few years later for firing a gun at a wedding in Argentina. Was like a poor man’s Asprilla. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Looks like someone tried to pass him off as Claudio Caniggia in a charity game as well. https://au.sports.yahoo.com/argentina-field-caniggia-lookalike-in-brazil-masters-game-25603252.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjohnson Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Georgiadis, Maric and Domi. Geoegiadis was terrible, Maric was too, but he just never really settled and should have been much better. Domi was good for us, just didn't like the city and took the first chance to get back to Paris. Odd that he rocked up in Leeds a few years later Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjohnson Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Distin...now there's one that we really let slip through fingers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjohnson Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Cordone started like a train, a bit later had one of the best assists I’ve seen from a Newcastle player (Goma away at Boro), lost his place in the team, then took part in a few of Bobby’s random triple substitutions. Don’t think he played much second half of the season? Tomasson too...looked really special in pre season, then totally lost his nerve after missing an easy chance in the first league game. Yes circumstances were against him but seeing how good he got later always made me a bit sad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 I was absolutely Desperate for Maric to be the best player in the world. Same with Viana I guess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Maric 10 is another one that should sound like a top player rocking up at Inter, but he was pap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Whatever happened to Clarence Acuna and Des Hamilton? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Maybe we should have a thread rating each managers signings? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Acuna left because of family problems didn't he? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Maybe we should have a thread rating each managers signings? Good idea. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Acuna left because of family problems didn't he? Mother got ill I believe, he wasn't used enough though at the end of his time here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 It was a funny season, 00/01. First season with the increased capacity and too many of the signings didn't work out. Bassedas, Cordone, Gavilan, Cort - none of them much cop for one reason or another. Remember Mick Wadsworth getting a lot of flack as the perception was he was recommending the South American players. Shearer was mostly injured too. Tbh Robson was lucky (and therefore we were lucky) that Bellamy and Robert ended up being such transformative signings as it might have all gone south if not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 It was a funny season, 00/01. First season with the increased capacity and too many of the signings didn't work out. Bassedas, Cordone, Gavilan, Cort - none of them much cop for one reason or another. Remember Mick Wadsworth getting a lot of flack as the perception was he was recommending the South American players. Shearer was mostly injured too. Tbh Robson was lucky (and therefore we were lucky) that Bellamy and Robert ended up being such transformative signings as it might have all gone south if not. Yeah we were much better in 99/00 than 00/01. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjohnson Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Whatever happened to Clarence Acuna and Des Hamilton? Des Hamilton....now there was a massive let down. England U-21 international, pretty good reputation, comes here and made Fumaca look good. Clarence Acuna was a total mystery though. I think of him a bit like Sibierski....no one that arsed with him signing, no fan-fare or hype, slight disappointment that a better player wasn't signed.....Pretty decent when he did play, just never really seemed to be able to fix a starting place. Would walk into the current side though. Plus he got busted while driving dressed as a pirate so that's instant cult hero stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 SBR knew what he wanted, just because his first choices (Zenden and Jeffers) didn't come here and flopped at other places, doesn't mean that they would have flopped here. Anyone remember Paul Dalglish? He scored one goal, I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Whatever happened to Clarence Acuna and Des Hamilton? Des Hamilton....now there was a massive let down. England U-21 international, pretty good reputation, comes here and made Fumaca look good. Clarence Acuna was a total mystery though. I think of him a bit like Sibierski....no one that arsed with him signing, no fan-fare or hype, slight disappointment that a better player wasn't signed.....Pretty decent when he did play, just never really seemed to be able to fix a starting place. Would walk into the current side though. Plus he got busted while driving dressed as a pirate so that's instant cult hero stuff. Loads of clubs wanted Acuna. I thought he was off to Man United before we signed him? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 I always preferred Acuna over Speed tbh. Nowt against Speed I just thought Acuna brought more balance especially when we’d play Dyer through the centre and then later signed Jenas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjohnson Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 I always preferred Acuna over Speed tbh. Nowt against Speed I just thought Acuna brought more balance especially when we’d play Dyer through the centre and then later signed Jenas. Did think the was better than Speed at the time, just a totally unheralded and underwhelming signing at the time. Was just like he showed up one day and was told to play...think he said same in an interview a few days ago Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Arrested for speeding or drink driving dressed as Captain Hook after the squad Christmas party too. Imagine the police officers reaction when he wound the window down and saw this ugly little bloke with a Latin American accent dressed as him. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2602571.stm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Speed was hopeless when he first joined In 1998. He was brilliant in the 09/00 season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Did Kenny not start him left-midfield? He seemed to get better at the end of the 98/99 season when him and Hamann partnered each other. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 I recall Speed being really poor when we first signed him. Speaking of Everton signings; I also remember being furious we'd wasted money on Duncan Ferguson at the time, too. Loved him in the end. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Did Kenny not start him left-midfield? He seemed to get better at the end of the 98/99 season when him and Hamann partnered each other. Definitely spent some time out wide aye. Remember thinking he was pretty poor, his short game passing in particular was dreadful at first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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