Cameron Burgess

[Darran]

The other Spanish helmet with the curly bonce that our fans were creaming themselves over was far worse than Rocky. Cannot remember his name.

Pozuelo ?​

 

[Yjb_09]

Canas

 

[Itchysphincter]

Pozuelo ?​

Jose Canas, ferking rubbish.

 

[Swanjaxs]

This Cameron Burgess is a handsome bastard mind

 

[Molbys_pie]

Outstanding signing

 

[bakajack]

The other Spanish helmet with the curly bonce that our fans were creaming themselves over was far worse than Rocky. Cannot remember his name.

Roberto Martinez?

 

[J_B]

We don’t have to sign players permanently to waste money on them. Renato Sanches anyone?

 

[Londonlisa2001]

To play devil's advocate about a couple:

Resigning Ayew was not a terrible signing, resigning him with no relegation clauses to deal with his Premier League level wages was the problem

Roque Mesa on paper looked like an ideal signing for an understudy and successor to Leon. If I remember correctly he was near the top of relevant metrics in La Liga outside of the top three (Barca, Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao) for a defensive midfielder. Unfortunately he couldn't adapt to the pace and extra physicality of the Premier League, but that can happen and he won't be the first to have shone elsewhere and failed in English football.

Clucas and Baston are indefensible indeed though
How we got money at all from Villa for Baston was daylight robbery rather than paying them to take him off us

Resigning him for more than £20m was…

Agree re relegation clause.

To be completely honest, the way we signed him (and Gomis was the same) first time round was just ruinous to us as a club. The huge signing bonuses caused us no end of trouble.

And Ayew’s salary second time was unforgiveable.

 

[bytholwyn]

Clucas.

Baston,

Ayew (second time).

Roque Mesa.

All absolute abominations of signings.

Different league to not signing Joey.

Those were all poor signings, although none would have relegated us by themselves. Had we signed prime Allen he would have kept us up. Huge difference.

 

[bakajack]

Those were all poor signings, although none would have relegated us by themselves. Had we signed prime Allen he would have kept us up. Huge difference.

Trying to lowball Liverpool for 6m when they wanted to sell him for 12m was daft
Canas and Mesa had both flopped, Leon had retired and we desperately needed a controlling midfielder

 

[Itchysphincter]

Trying to lowball Liverpool for 6m when they wanted to sell him for 12m was daft
Canas and Mesa had both flopped, Leon had retired and we desperately needed a controlling midfielder

Mesa showed signs of quality but just couldn’t click, everything he did seemed to go wrong, but it was almost good. Canas was miles off it.

 

[Baron Goblet]

Not bad at all. Twin Towers at the back. Recent games in the Prem and the Green and Gold.

 

[Ringwood]

Didn't Ayew second time round get us single handed into the playoffs

 

[Dr. Winston]

Didn't Ayew second time round get us single handed into the playoffs

Arguably twice.

 

[bakajack]

Ayew was quite clearly a player too good for the Championship.

Much might be made of his wage and the lack of foresight to have a relegation clause to cut down his salary but he dragged his teammates through results and was the main reason we reached the playoffs on both occasions under Cooper and he never gave less than 100% which is more than can be said for many players who find themselves playing in a division lower than they deserve to be in

I still think if we had Ayew under Potter that we would have walked into the playoffs. Ayew on one side, James on the other, Celina through the middle and McBurnie up top would have pissed most of the division. The main thing Potter's team lacked was a winner who knew how to win and get his teammates's heads back in the game if they are gone.