We’ve had ‘best’, ‘worst’, ‘average’ - which player disappointed you the most?

[The Hammer 11 1,051]

Cummings, thought playing for a rangers would be the making of him and he’d turn into a Ferguson or novo like figure we love him and every one else hated him. Instead he just want up for it 

[MisterC 8,353]

Just now, Sparkle said:

I never thought he was as bad as it was made out in the media up here. 

I met him in Asda once, he noticed me recognising him and asked me where he could find some kind of posh ham.  i sent him to M&S 

My cousin used to teach one of his kids

[mitre_mouldmaster 11,972]

Karl Svenson.

Champ Manager had him down as a wonder kid. Their scouts must have been as blind as the man himself.

[bluenoz 15,961]

Defo Rossiter for me. I thought the boy would be a superstar.

Also, Lewis Macleod looked to have a bright future.

[Marky. 5,352]

Boyd second time - prefer not to think about any of that year tbh.

Dorrans - thought he’d be POTY 😢.

I expected big things from Sionko too.

[tannerall 25,773]

Alves obviously, don't think he appreciated why he was here,and never settled to a big commitment, thought he was bigger than the club, and just wanted to stay fit for a couple of years and make the Portugal squads, yet played great for Parma soon after leaving us. 

 

My own biggest disappointment was Kevin Thomson. Was the better half of the partnership with Scott Brown, we got Thomson, they got Brown and I was happy. Was okay, solid enough, but never really showed the potential I thought he had. 

 

[Sparkle 34,733]

8 minutes ago, tannerall said:

Kevin Thomson.

Injuries was it not?  Cracking player excellent commentator and coach now

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16 minutes ago, tannerall said:

Alves obviously, don't think he appreciated why he was here,and never settled to a big commitment, thought he was bigger than the club, and just wanted to stay fit for a couple of years and make the Portugal squads, yet played great for Parma soon after leaving us. 

 

My own biggest disappointment was Kevin Thomson. Was the better half of the partnership with Scott Brown, we got Thomson, they got Brown and I was happy. Was okay, solid enough, but never really showed the potential I thought he had. 

 

Because of injuries, and Scott brown is a wank.

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4 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

Injuries was it not?  Cracking player excellent commentator and coach now

[ger4life_1872 18,067]

Lee Martin from man u 

[TopCat 4,260]

Recently? Barton and Alves....... both very very poor.

[MARK92GERS 497]

Alejandro Bedoya & Juan Ortiz 

[hammer93 9,669]

57 minutes ago, wewillfollowrangers said:

Shame for Rozental, Prodan was away captaining Romania while doing fuck all for us iirc, minty's fault.

Don't believe that is right m8....my recollection was that we ripped up his contract as we couldn't get him fit.....he went back to a team in Bucharest and within 3-4month he was playing/captaining Romania.....I certainly don't remember him back playing with Romania whilst still on our book....memory could be playing tricks mind ye😅😅

[Fred H Crawford 1,096]

Oleg Kuznetsov . Looked every inch a world class player in the pre-season game he played against us before he signed and also his debut against st.mirren . After his recovery from injury , he just seemed happy to see out the remainder of his contract without contributing too much (goal in the 4:2 game apart )

Boli was seen as the marquee signing that summer , but never really showed the sort of form we had expected , probably not helped when Walter thought it would be a good idea to play him as a wing back in the AEK match . Several others have struggled to live up to reputations gained elsewhere , or found the Blue shirt too heavy .

Kris Boyd in his second spell certainly deserves to be mentioned in this thread .

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Laudrup and Boli was a double signing press conference I think?

 

[kelvd1873 2,908]

1 hour ago, Pure_Quality said:

That's who I immediately thought of too, great shout.

Closer to home, Andy Webster looked tremendous at Hearts and did nothing for us due to injuries. Another from Hearts was Allan Johnston who looked quite decent and did very little for us.

 

And paul Ritchie 

[kelvd1873 2,908]

49 minutes ago, left winger said:

I was going to, but checked, and 29 goals in 53 games wasn't that bad.

Correct. Flo was up against Larsson for top scorer so was on a hiding to nothing imo with his price tag thrown in too

[Johnsey 398]

Michael Ball - Quality player in there and I remember thinking it was a huge signing at the time getting such a highly rated young English full back albeit for big money. Injuries ruined him really though. Do I remember it right as well that he had a clause where we'd have to pay Everton £1m if he played so many games so we just stopped playing him?

Letizi - Over 100 games for PSG and a French international goalkeeper but I just remember him being absolutely woeful.

Dan Eggen - Was very good in the 98 World Cup for Norway. Did he come on as a sub once for us?

 

[Amokachi 906]

James Beattie opened my eyes in the sense that guys with a decent rep in England come to our league and are miles off it, it was fkn grim watching him in a Rangers shirt.  
We were paying him silly money as well.  

[Amokachi 906]

2 minutes ago, Johnsey said:

Michael Ball - Quality player in there and I remember thinking it was a huge signing at the time getting such a highly rated young English full back albeit for big money. Injuries ruined him really though. Do I remember it right as well that he had a clause where we'd have to pay Everton £1m if he played so many games so we just stopped playing him?

Letizi - Over 100 games for PSG and a French international goalkeeper but I just remember him being absolutely woeful.

Dan Eggen - Was very good in the 98 World Cup for Norway. Did he come on as a sub once for us?

 

Two belters in Eggen & Letizi.  

[We Will Follow Rangers 9,682]

16 minutes ago, hammer93 said:

Don't believe that is right m8....my recollection was that we ripped up his contract as we couldn't get him fit.....he went back to a team in Bucharest and within 3-4month he was playing/captaining Romania.....I certainly don't remember him back playing with Romania whilst still on our book....memory could be playing tricks mind ye😅😅

Could be wrong mate but as I remember it we signed him without a medical and he'd just had a serious injury, minty was gonna sue and ensured he never played for us to reinforce his case, he was with us for 2 seasons before going on loan, I'm pretty sure he played for Romania during that time.

[Sparkle 34,733]

Who was that young England U21 midfielder, massive rep but just disappeared? 

[LegendofCoop 10,725]

1 hour ago, The Godfather said:

Rothen? 

That's the one....Rank Rothen!!

[Fred H Crawford 1,096]

1 minute ago, wewillfollowrangers said:

Could be wrong mate but as I remember it we signed him without a medical and he'd just had a serious injury, minty was gonna sue and ensured he never played for us to reinforce his case, he was with us for 2 seasons before going on loan, I'm pretty sure he played for Romania during that time.

Did we not get rid of the guy who was in charge of the medical (Stewart Hillis , I think ) ? Pretty sure it was Advocaat who insisted that the deal was put through , probably for a Euro deadline .

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Jardel obvs