Poynton ram Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 Nothing worse than the club announcing a great signing only to see them flop in a white shirt. Even worse when they leave and become world beaters. There have been a few: Derek Hales Danny Graham Lee Bradbury Francois Grenet Butterfield? Stern John Bragstad John Harkes? Danny Mills that thug from Wimbledon whose name escapes me Blackman? Debatable if he was any good although he did have a short purple patch at Reading suspect there are many more although only really Graham went on to do anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 Both Albentosa and Bueno had decent spells in Spain after leaving. But since the Mel Morris era, how many players have we signed who went on to do better elsewhere? Vydra. Ince at a push for a year with Huddersfield? That just goes to show how dire our recruitment has been. We’ve probably signed 50+ players under Mel Morris’s tenure and made a profit on only a few while just one has established himself as a squad player for a now relegated Burnley. All the while we just got relegated to League One despite Mel Morris taking over a squad which finished 3rd. Oh and he spent about £100m in fees and wages on those 50+ signings. Absolutely incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taribo Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 I always thought Lee Carsley was a donkey, had a great career at Everton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich84 Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 23 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said: Both Albentosa and Bueno had decent spells in Spain after leaving. But since the Mel Morris era, how many players have we signed who went on to do better elsewhere? Vydra. Ince at a push for a year with Huddersfield? That just goes to show how dire our recruitment has been. We’ve probably signed 50+ players under Mel Morris’s tenure and made a profit on only a few while just one has established himself as a squad player for a now relegated Burnley. All the while we just got relegated to League One despite Mel Morris taking over a squad which finished 3rd. Oh and he spent about £100m in fees and wages on those 50+ signings. Absolutely incredible. You lose some credibility with the comment about being relegated...... that wasn't due to player quality but 21 point deduction after a 2yr restriction on recruitment! Agree with the rest though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteroseram Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 Not exactly world beaters, but off the top of my head Lingard, Bamford and Michael Keane went on to achieve a lot more than you'd have thought to see them with us Feels like cheating to pick player who'd been brilliant but were old when they reached us, ala Rooney, arguably Bent etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hintonsboots Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 (edited) We bought quite a few that weren’t played in their best position. Always wondered how Ollie Watkins would have done with us, probably played him in goal . Edited May 28, 2022 by hintonsboots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May Contain Nuts Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 (edited) Peter Whittingham, Tom Carroll, Barry Bannan Robert Earnshaw (Before and after Derby) Junior Tamas Priskin, perhaps Jon Stead? Laurent Robert Ravanelli! Claude Davis was excellent for Preston Edited May 28, 2022 by Coconut's Beard LeedsCityRam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MackworthRamIsGod Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 2 stand outs for me are Prijovic and Omar Mascarell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaffyRam Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 Andi Weimann. He wasn’t a flop for us, but he’s been much better for Bristol City. Maybe it helps playing him in the right position! Premier ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ram59 Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Taribo said: I always thought Lee Carsley was a donkey, had a great career at Everton You were one of the many who underrated Carsley then, I think that over the last few years we could have done with a 'Lee Carsley' or a 'Darryl Powell'. Two key players who did the grafting, allowing flair players more time to do their stuff. Taribo, sage, Steve How Hard? and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuffLuff Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 Benny Feilhaber had a decent career after he left. Weimann? Most players have a good spell in their career and will will also go to clubs where it doesn’t really work out. Under Mel’s reign, the problem has been that we predominantly play 4-2-3-1 or 4-1-4-1 but we’d sign ‘non descript’ attacker and then try and play them out of position. Or a RB like Cyrus Christie who can attack but can’t defend and they are your only defensive player on a wing. So it’s not that they are bad footballers per se, but weren’t suited to what was needed and it buggered up their careers being at Derby. whiteroseram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimmu Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 (edited) Omar Mascarell has done brilliantly. It was also fun to see Prijovic playing in the champions league Edited May 28, 2022 by Dimmu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeedsCityRam Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 In terms of players looking good before joining Derby, Claude Davis is the one who comes to mind. Remember watching him for Preston when they knocked us out the 2004/05 playoffs. Big lad, physically imposing, mobile & good in the air...particularly good when we battered them in second leg at PP. He got himself a move to then Premier League Sheff Utd a season later. Was genuinely delighted when we bought him, thinking he'd be an upgrade on Darren Moore & act as the stopper alongside Leacock. Suffice to say he was an absolute disaster but his confidence looked totally shot & can't imagine Jewell's 'man management' made it any better. After Derby, he reunited with Warnock to keep Palace up so demonstrating he wasnt as useless as we all thought. May Contain Nuts 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 Nathan tyson seemed quite useful for forest until nigel got his hands on him.... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 3 hours ago, Rich84 said: You lose some credibility with the comment about being relegated...... that wasn't due to player quality but 21 point deduction after a 2yr restriction on recruitment! Agree with the rest though I think you misunderstood. Our relegation was down to recruitment. All of our current problems is down to dire recruitment. We were handed points deductions because we couldn’t deal with the financial implications of our dire recruitment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerbyRam! Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 Mike te Wierik Captain at his previous club, doing great. Comes to us, isn't liked or given time to settle. Quickly leaves us for his old club and again back to Captain. He must have done something right. whiteroseram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 4 hours ago, whiteroseram said: Not exactly world beaters, but off the top of my head Lingard, Bamford and Michael Keane went on to achieve a lot more than you'd have thought to see them with us Feels like cheating to pick player who'd been brilliant but were old when they reached us, ala Rooney, arguably Bent etc Lingard actually made our good team much worse imho Dordogne-Ram, whiteroseram and GB SPORTS 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addingham Ram Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 That Dwayne Holmes chap seems to have done OK since leaving for Huddersfield, and I for one will be hoping he has a storming game today ?. Crewton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimeram Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 Barry Powell Don Masson Both crap in a Rams shirt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shipley Ram Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 1 hour ago, oldtimeram said: Barry Powell Don Masson Both crap in a Rams shirt I remeber going to a testimonal as a kid in the late 70's and remember the players coming out to the pitch one by one and Don Masson getting booed instead of cheered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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