Europes most unwanted

[PaulSaint]

How many of these do you think we will sign

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/gallery/2011/jun/13/europe-unwanted-football-transfer-window

[Big_Bald_Si]

Great start to a thread!

 

Player's i'd take:

 

Bebe (purely for the Ali Dia analogy)

Almunia (good replacement for Tommy Forecast)

Bridgey (obviously:P)

Halford (just to spite P*mpey)

[Crab Lungs]

Any of them apart from Bridge and Jenas. Overpaid sh1te.

[Hopkins]

Just had a quick skip through and I'd have 21 of them. At least.

 

Halford and Smith wouldn't get in our team. I've not liked Robbie Keane for ages so on a personal level I'd say no to him, ability wise he'd obviously walk straight into our team though.

 

Maccarone and Butt are debateable. If Maccarone could adapt he'd be alright and if Butt was younger he'd obviously be class.

 

Diouf ability wise wouldn't get in our team but I find him so hilarious I'd happily pay to watch him troll the Championship.

 

The rest would be no brainers.

[Mowgli]

There is a reason they are 'unwanted'. Bentley might be worth a risk but the others are overpaid prima donas.

[HK_Phoey]

More importantly how many will poopey sign on 25k+ per week

 

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[Saint2Hotty]

Would happily take any of those minus El Hadj Douff

[TopGun]

There is a reason they are 'unwanted'. Bentley might be worth a risk but the others are overpaid prima donas.

 

Exactly right.

 

All mercenaries with an attitude we don't need. Look the other way Nigel!

[Flyer]

Well my team have been linked with 4 of them unfortunately.

Jenas, Cole, Keane and Carew and out of those, Id only want Carew.

[Lighthouse]

Bentley would be worth a shot, if only his wages weren't prohibitive. Think he's a victim of Bagpuss and his "want that one!" shopping campaign. Every transfer window another Modric, Kranjcar, Pienaar, Van Der Vaart or Palacios turns up.

[September Saint]

If they have a poor attitude in the PL they are certainly not going to be motivated to play for us.

As well as costly, their high wages would be divisiven within the club.

 

Thanks but No Thanks

[Doctoroncall]

There is a reason they are 'unwanted'. Bentley might be worth a risk but the others are overpaid prima donas.

 

If only he could get his head (atitude, application and confidence) sorted out but he has some

(if true)

[Flyer]

Why not Jenas or Cole? They'd improve you. Under the right manager all of them could offer a hell of a lot.

 

Cole is a good player but on near 100k a week and ive never rated Jenas and I bet hes on huge wages too.

 

Same goes for Keane, 80k wages for little return.

[Rory]

The Bebe description is bizarre:

 

"His name is destined to join that of Ali Dia in the list of bizarre signings. Bought from Vitória de Guimarães in Portugal despite having never appeared for them, only Sir Alex Ferguson knows why he paid £7m for him. Has played seven times and scored twice. He’s not dreadful, just likely to languish in the reserves for a long, long time."

 

So, a player who's only 20 years old, never played for his previous club, let alone the Premier League, but still manages to play seven times under arguably one of the greatest managers in the world and score twice. That doesn't sound like a bad return by my standards.

[Jez]

Johnny Evans is on that list. Would no one want him? Really?

[The9]

Can't say I'd be keen on signing Hans-Jorg Butt solely due to his age, and Obertan looked crud against Saints when forced to play 5 yards out of position, plus Halford has been gash for his entire career, but the rest of them have at least got an on-pitch upside that we would benefit from, albeit expensive wages or rubbish attitudes in some cases.

 

Somehow I don't see Adkins signing El Hadji Diouf though.

 

John Carew would be an absolutely stupendous signing, saw him for Stoke against Brighton last season and he was utterly awesome, different class. Johnny Evans and Joe Cole would be too.

[Andy_Porter]

Every single one of those would walk into our team. Even the worst few players (Konchesky, Poulsen, Obertan, Halford etc) would be fantastic.

 

The likes of Bentley, Jo, Evans etc would never drop down to a team just promoted to the Championship, they will walk into a mid table Premiership side.

[Dibden Purlieu Saint]

Would take all of them apart from Diouf. They are some decent players there.

[CWD]

Would take all of them apart from Diouf. They are some decent players there.

 

This.

[Professor]

Quite a few Arsenal players in there and some evidence that the Gooners are overstaffed when you see Bendtner wearing number 52! If AOC is even slightly tempted by Arsenal's illegal approaches through the media, maybe a squad number in the 60's might give him food for thought!

[red&white56]

The Bebe description is bizarre:

 

"His name is destined to join that of Ali Dia in the list of bizarre signings. Bought from Vitória de Guimarães in Portugal despite having never appeared for them, only Sir Alex Ferguson knows why he paid £7m for him. Has played seven times and scored twice. He’s not dreadful, just likely to languish in the reserves for a long, long time."

 

So, a player who's only 20 years old, never played for his previous club, let alone the Premier League, but still manages to play seven times under arguably one of the greatest managers in the world and score twice. That doesn't sound like a bad return by my standards.

 

I had the same thought - wrth a risk if his salary's not too high!

[Andy_Porter]

Quite a few Arsenal players in there and some evidence that the Gooners are overstaffed when you see Bendtner wearing number 52! If AOC is even slightly tempted by Arsenal's illegal approaches through the media, maybe a squad number in the 60's might give him food for thought!

 

Bentdner chose 52.

[Andy_Porter]

I had the same thought - wrth a risk if his salary's not too high!

 

I doubt they will be selling him this summer, it's not like Fergie to admit defeat after one season.

 

Bebe was signed after impressing in some tramps football world cup, all seems like a bit of a Redknapp style brown paper envelope deal...

[The9]

Bentdner chose 52.

 

Indeed, he wore number 26 for them until 2 years ago, and then inexplicably announced that 52 was "lucky" for him with no further details.

 

 

Arsenal's squad size is more accurately evidenced by Szecezny's number 53, as he wasn't a first choice player at the start of the season.