paulwantsapint Posted 18 July, 2010 Posted 18 July, 2010 How many players have saints signed over the years that have either arrived injured or been injured as soon as they have become a saint? Who has gone on to be a success & who failed? Frazer Richardson Greame Murty Lee Holmes Tin Delgado Perry Groves
chrisobee Posted 18 July, 2010 Posted 18 July, 2010 Kevin Keegan - a success thereafter Ronnie Ekelund - 5 goals in 17 games for us but career stalled after that
ericofarabia Posted 18 July, 2010 Posted 18 July, 2010 The biggest regret was Ronnie Ekelund. The understanding he and MLT developed in a short period of time promised great things but was not to be. At least we got value for money from Pahars before he become a permanent crock, which is more than can be said of Tin man I think both Charlie George and Perry Groves had T shirts printed in their honour ... "I've seen CG/PG play for Saints" ... not many were sold as it was a pretty exclusive membership !!! Other less illustrious crocks were Mark Draper, Darren Powell, John Beresford, David Hirst, Jelle Van Damme and Barry Venison, but that little lot along with Tim Man cost us a fair wedge of money in transfer fees with very little in the way of returns.
ericofarabia Posted 18 July, 2010 Posted 18 July, 2010 Didn't we sign a Danish (?) goalkeeper from Liverpool (?) who got crocked trying to put up an ironing board or something rather bizarre like that .... or have too many Old Speckled Hens and too much sun started to take it's toll on me
REDARMY79 Posted 18 July, 2010 Posted 18 July, 2010 (edited) John Beresford ( injured on debut??) Mark Draper Think Michael Stensgaard is the keeper you are on about Ericofarabia, he signed a 3 and a half year deal but never played. Officially he was injured alot but within the club it was known he had a massive fall out with Dave Jones over not playing for the reserves. Incidentally he left after a year. Edited 18 July, 2010 by REDARMY79
Littlelat17 Posted 18 July, 2010 Posted 18 July, 2010 Didn't we sign a Danish (?) goalkeeper from Liverpool (?) who got crocked trying to put up an ironing board or something rather bizarre like that .... or have too many Old Speckled Hens and too much sun started to take it's toll on me Michael Stensgaard??
chrisobee Posted 18 July, 2010 Posted 18 July, 2010 The biggest regret was Ronnie Ekelund. The understanding he and MLT developed in a short period of time promised great things but was not to be. At least we got value for money from Pahars before he become a permanent crock, which is more than can be said of Tin man I think both Charlie George and Perry Groves had T shirts printed in their honour ... "I've seen CG/PG play for Saints" ... not many were sold as it was a pretty exclusive membership !!! Other less illustrious crocks were Mark Draper, Darren Powell, John Beresford, David Hirst, Jelle Van Damme and Barry Venison, but that little lot along with Tim Man cost us a fair wedge of money in transfer fees with very little in the way of returns. He did Ok I thought in his 1st season, 9 goals in 28 games I think but thereafter only played a few games. Previously Man Utd were after him !
chrisobee Posted 18 July, 2010 Posted 18 July, 2010 (edited) Michael Stensgaard?? Must be him, played precisely no games for us !! He did play for Liverpool but joined us from Copenhagen and then when he was fit promptly fell out with Dave Jones at being understudy to Paul Jones, he then became our 3rd choice keeper ! Edited 18 July, 2010 by chrisobee
ericofarabia Posted 18 July, 2010 Posted 18 July, 2010 John Beresford ( injured on debut??) Mark Draper Think Michael Stensgaard is the keeper you are on about Ericofarabia, he signed a 3 and a half year deal but never played. Officially he was injured alot but within the club it was known he had a massive fall out with Dave Jones over not playing for the reserves. Incidentally he left after a year. Must be him, played precisely no games for us !! He did play for Liverpool but joined us from Copenhagen and then when he was fit promptly fell out with Dave Jones at being understudy to Paul Jones, he then became our 3rd choice keeper ! That's the boy ...... and thank god for my sanity .... there it is on Wiki, ironing board injury, although it happened before he arrived in Southampton :- Stensgaard got his national breakthrough with Hvidovre IF, and was touted the successor of former Hvidovre and Danish international goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel.[1] He made his Denmark national under-21 football team debut in October 1993.[2] In May 1994, he was bought by English team Liverpool FC for a transfer fee of £400,000.[3] He arrived at Liverpool to succeed Bruce Grobbelaar as understudy to David James, and was issued the number 13 shirt during his time at the club.[4] He became known for a bizarre injury which ended his chances of breaking into the Liverpool first team, as he dislocated his shoulder when setting up an ironing board soon after joining the club.[5] The injury evolved into a recurring shoulder ailment requiring surgery,[6] and he never played a first team game for the club. His lack of success in Liverpool later earned him a selection in the Liverpool Echo's Merseyside Lost 11, a selection of players which the newspaper considered the biggest fiascos in the history of Liverpool and local rivals Everton.[7]
doughnutman Posted 18 July, 2010 Posted 18 July, 2010 (edited) The footballing giants that are Anthony Pulis and Romain Gasmi signed for us whilst injured Edited 18 July, 2010 by doughnutman Remembered we signed Gasmi in similar circumstances
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