Biggest Boro player letdown?

Peter Davenport.
But the Gold Medal for celebrity uselessness is awarded to Christian Karembeu. I once saw him *play* at Selhurst Park in a mid-week Carling cup game against Wimbledon. The most disgraceful performance I've ever seen by a player in a Boro shirt. Barely broke into a run, couldn't complete the simplest of passes, the epitome of the mercenary. And all the way through, Robbo leaned against the dug out and didn't say a word. Relegation was only a matter of time
 
Spikelangelo said:
Peter Davenport.
But the Gold Medal for celebrity uselessness is awarded to Christian Karembeu. I once saw him *play* at Selhurst Park in a mid-week Carling cup game against Wimbledon. The most disgraceful performance I've ever seen by a player in a Boro shirt. Barely broke into a run, couldn't complete the simplest of passes, the epitome of the mercenary. And all the way through, Robbo leaned against the dug out and didn't say a word. Relegation was only a matter of time
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A matter of time as in 7 years later?
 
parmoboy said:
I know Karanka did like to rotate the strikers but considering the money we'd spent on him I thought at the time surely he has to be starting every game. I got the impression he was another 'gift' from the Chairman and Karanka resented it.

I also couldn't understand why we sold him in January. It was so short-sighted of the club when you consider at that point we felt there was a strong possibility we would be going down. We could have had Bamford, Rhodes and Stuani as our striking options the following season, meaning we wouldn't have had to spend £31m on Britt, Braithwaite and Fletcher. That money could have been used to strengthen other areas.
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Also we got rid of him just after we signed the fella he had a great partnership with at Blackburn!
 
Otto42 said:
Also we got rid of him just after we signed the fella he had a great partnership with at Blackburn!
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This is why I find it so mystifying as we never once started them together either. As you say we had his foil here the player we knew he scored goals with and yet never once tried it.

odd just odd
 
Otto42 said:
Also we got rid of him just after we signed the fella he had a great partnership with at Blackburn!
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Yeah, we could have gone 4-4-2 with Rhodes and Gestede up front. I remember at the time when we signed Bamford and Gestede. They were underwhelming signings but I also remember thinking at least the club has a long-term plan, so that if we do go down we'll have players who had proven themselves at that level. Instead, we decided to spend the majority of our transfer budget on strikers, meaning Bamford barely got a look in under Monk and of course Rhodes was gone before the season had even started.
 
Nosmo-King said:
Davenport and Boersma. I remember Jimmy Armfield thought we had pulled off a great coup getting Davenport- suggesting he could be the key player towards us actually winning something. Oh well....
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Jimmy Armfield was a big fan of the Boro at that time I remember him waxing lyrical on national radio about the number of fans we had taken to Goodison on a bad Tuesday night in winter for one of the cup matches.
 
I must admit I thought Davenport was an amazing signing at the time and thought he might well be the missing piece! Oh well!!
 
Spikelangelo said:
Peter Davenport.
But the Gold Medal for celebrity uselessness is awarded to Christian Karembeu. I once saw him *play* at Selhurst Park in a mid-week Carling cup game against Wimbledon. The most disgraceful performance I've ever seen by a player in a Boro shirt. Barely broke into a run, couldn't complete the simplest of passes, the epitome of the mercenary. And all the way through, Robbo leaned against the dug out and didn't say a word. Relegation was only a matter of time
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I must say in Karembeu’s defence that he was responsible for my one and only ejection from a football stadium when he nearly broke the net at Bradford with ten minutes to go. Our end was sold out and I ended up in the main stand and instinctively jumped up when we scored. I was asked to leave for my own safety.It was a great goal and a crucial win at the time.
 
asredastheycome said:
Phil Boersma, George Kinnell, John Gannon, Mido, Alves, Carlos Marinelli, Ricardinho(World Cup winning midfield player scored 84 career goals in 485 matches but wasn't good enough to get on pitch for us:cry:), Kike(the other one), Johnny Vincent

Edit: John Maloney, Kevin Beatty, Nobby Stiles.
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I really liked John Mahoney!
 
Another vote for Peter Davenport. He was billed as Boro's first ever "marquee" signing but never looked anything other than average (and not particularly interested either).

The other real let down for me was Andy Payton. Came with a reputation of being a really exciting goal machine but never looked anything of the sort.
 
HolgateCorner said:
I must say in Karembeu’s defence that he was responsible for my one and only ejection from a football stadium when he nearly broke the net at Bradford with ten minutes to go. Our end was sold out and I ended up in the main stand and instinctively jumped up when we scored. I was asked to leave for my own safety.It was a great goal and a crucial win at the time.
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Came closest to getting me kicked out as well when he put us 1 up at Man U.
I was in the home end with a friend who had STs there.
 
George Best not signing after playing in a testimonial match? Just not knowing what might have happened (good or bad) was a letdown.
 
HolgateCorner said:
I must say in Karembeu’s defence that he was responsible for my one and only ejection from a football stadium when he nearly broke the net at Bradford with ten minutes to go. Our end was sold out and I ended up in the main stand and instinctively jumped up when we scored. I was asked to leave for my own safety.It was a great goal and a crucial win at the time.
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1 each that game, we didn’t win.
 
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