Most Disappointing Wolves signing?

[Highlandwolf2]

This is a slightly different selection than Worst Wolves Signing, which may include players signed for a nominal fee and not suprisingly were not very good. Disappointing might well include players who were good elsewhere but hopeless here, or were always injured.

For example

Dick Le Flem (ask your dad)
Mike O'Grady (ditto)
Joe Gallagher
Neil Masters (aka Sicknote)
Robert Taylor (Mr Blobby)

Others nominations?

 

[Air Wolf 90]

For me, Tony Daley. He should have torn the division apart but instead tore his hamstring, knee ligaments...

 

[Southdownswolf]

Rafael Villazan - I was so exited at us signing a south American, but ultimately he just wasn't a fit for English football

 

[JadeWolf]

Sigurdarson. Not saying he was terrible but he came here with such a big reputation and he just didn’t really get going.

 

[NickJohnG]

Kevin Ashley.

Rubbish.

 

[Nige100]

For me always remember Paul Blades was a world beater on loan and then we signed him he was ****ing ****. Thought we had an absolute bargain in him.

 

[Bankswolf The Third]

Roger Johnson

 

[Highlandwolf2]

Kevin Ashley.

Rubbish.

Forgot about him (or tried to). Quite good at the Blues but shocking here. Think we gave him a free transfer and his career plumeted thereafter.

 

[Highlandwolf2]

Roger Johnson

An even worse human being than a player?

 

[Highlandwolf2]

For me, Tony Daley. He should have torn the division apart but instead tore his hamstring, knee ligaments...

Misunderstood the instructions from Graham Taylor "go on Tony, tear 'em a new one".

Remember his debut after several weeks injured, when he came on as a substitute. Ran about a bit and then pulled up with a bad muscle strain. The sound of 20,000 groans in unison will always remain with me...

 

[Werewolf of Wombourne]

Adam Le Fondre, thought he was going to be great for us in the Championship up front with Afobe

 

[WestChiltingtonwolf]

Tomas Frankowski and Freddie Eastwood joint.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Patrick Cutrone.

 

[Ginger Chimp]

Geoff Thomas.

 

[OscillatingWildly]

Paul Birch. I'd seen him mark Lothar Matthäus out of a game. The reality of watching him week on week was quite different.

 

[Oldgold Wolfcub]

Geoff Thomas.

Because of his injury but surely not his performance before that. We had several serious injuries at that time which if had not happened we could have had a pretty reasonable team at that time.

 

[Oldgold Wolfcub]

We brought in this guy named Derek Dougan who did nothing for us in his short stay.

Okay those that did well at other clubs Steve Claridge has to be sitting high on that throne. I would also say Jason Shackell who did well at other clubs. Tommy Rowe was one who disappointed me as I had seen him on TV a few times and looked good and influentiial for his previous team. Paul Jones (the keeper not midfielder) in his second stint

 

[Nige100]

Geoff Thomas.

Was the player I thought would have taken us up that season until that animal nailed him at Sunderland he was head and shoulders above owt we had in that midfield before.

 

[Deleted member 5910]

Johnson and O'Hara are the standout ones. But I remember my disappointment in the likes of Fernando Gomez, Sami al Jaber, Ketsbaia and Frankowski too.

 

[WickedWolfie]

Geoff Thomas.

Not his fault though... Blame a certain dirty red and white striped ****...

 

[WickedWolfie]

Because of his injury but surely not his performance before that. We had several serious injuries at that time which if had not happened we could have had a pretty reasonable team at that time.

We ended up playing Turner's reserves and still getting decent results...

 

[WickedWolfie]

We brought in this guy named Derek Dougan who did nothing for us in his short stay.

Okay those that did well at other clubs Steve Claridge has to be sitting high on that throne. I would also say Jason Shackell who did well at other clubs. Tommy Rowe was one who disappointed me as I had seen him on TV a few times and looked good and influentiial for his previous team. Paul Jones (the keeper not midfielder) in his second stint

Add Dougie Freeman to that list

 

[whitnash wolf ex.dewsbury]

thomas was v.good until maimed by a thug.dave thomas was poor

 

[BarryM]

Even though it's the most recent Patrick Cutrone for me by a mile!

Signing a young well known Italian striker from AC Milan for £16m thinking this is where we are now ... Attracting some of Europe's finest young players ... And it just didn't work out

 

[Snorbans Wolf]

Steve Corica. Rave reviews at Leicester before joining us. Was pretty much a complete waste of space at Wolves.

 

[Ewok vs Wolf]

Tongo boss the midfield Doumbia.. Awful.

 

[Shergar]

Even though it's the most recent Patrick Cutrone for me by a mile!

Signing a young well known Italian striker from AC Milan for £16m thinking this is where we are now ... Attracting some of Europe's finest young players ... And it just didn't work out

Cutrone for sure.
None of the others mentioned were not instantly embraced by the fans or given cult status with his own terrace song without having earned it, you could feel the vast majority of the fans wanting the lad to do well.
No patience, no understanding, no cojones for Wolves/Fosun/Nuno project. He is dead to me.

 

[Jonzy54]

There have been plenty but I was always disappointed in Paul Bradshaw.He was highly rated and we paid good money for him but I never thought he pushed on as much as he should have

 

[OLDGOLD]

Frimpong......

 

[Hot Fuss]

 

[Jamwolf]

Geoff Thomas, Tony Daley and George Ndah.
The first two were absolute trophy signings, but I think that Ndah would have proven the best of the lot. He had pace to burn when we signed him and at times was unplayable even after he returned from his first injury. The second one ended his career.

 

[CodsallWolf]

Silas is right up there.

 

[SheldonWolf]

Temuri Ketsbaia - what happened to him after that free kick against Sheff Wednesday?

Oleg Luzhny - generally rubbish.

Frimpong - could have been brilliant, but just kept the treatment table in business.

Leigh Griffiths - the fact this guy is still scoring on Scotland is a disgrace to the standard in the SPL.

 

[TheWolf'sHunting]

Razak boukri? I see that’s not how you spell it but who knows.
stale told us he was gonna be better than Sako

 

[Very Proud (AKA Still Proud)]

Dave Thomas that electrifying winger at QPR and Everton that was going to be our new Waggy.

Joe Gallagher - **** off back to Brum.

Robert Taylor - didn’t expect anything from him and he didn’t let me down. The club did by signing him in the first place. Cheapo Moxey signing.

Roger Johnson - treated us with so much contempt. **** off back to Brum.

 

[JadeWolf]

Temuri Ketsbaia - what happened to him after that free kick against Sheff Wednesday?

Oleg Luzhny - generally rubbish.

Frimpong - could have been brilliant, but just kept the treatment table in business.

Leigh Griffiths - the fact this guy is still scoring on Scotland is a disgrace to the standard in the SPL.

I dunno about Griffiths, he was a bit of a knobhead but his goal record when he did play for us was decent.

 

[WolfInSheep'sClothing]

Temuri Ketsbaia.

 

[pacamac]

surprised quite a few mentioned on here who actually played quite a lot for us (ie weren't that bad)

Sami Al Jabir springs to mind, Steve Claridge an obvious one

 

[pacamac]

People have short memories re Johnson too, yes he had that training ground **** up but he then won the fans back around during the championship season at one point. All was forgotten till we were relegated (something the whole team should shoulder not just him) then everyone started brining up the being ****ed thing again.

I've got respect for Johnson remember that day at Brighton despite knowing he was one of the main pantomime villians he has the balls to come over to the away end at the end...unlike many others.

 

[Deak77]

Steve Claridge. Always did well against us and scored plenty for all the other teams he played for,but was a useless bag of nails for us.