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Sunderland don't want him, not even for free - sorry Benji

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It's quite tough to decide on the "pick" of the bunch

But I'd say that Benjani was Sven's most wasteful use of financial resources

Terrible terrible signing

ant london wrote:It's quite tough to decide on the "pick" of the bunch

But I'd say that Benjani was Sven's most wasteful use of financial resources

Terrible terrible signing

True but he did have good shoulder control :-)

ant london wrote:It's quite tough to decide on the "pick" of the bunch

But I'd say that Benjani was Sven's most wasteful use of financial resources

Terrible terrible signing

Sven didnt shower himself in glory with many of his signings. IMHO.

lets all have a disco wrote:

ant london wrote:It's quite tough to decide on the "pick" of the bunch

But I'd say that Benjani was Sven's most wasteful use of financial resources

Terrible terrible signing

Sven didnt shower himself in glory with many of his signings. IMHO.

Who else was genuinely bad though? I hated the idea of Benjani signing from the off as many people will remember but I don't think Sven made that many really poor signings all things considered. Bianchi was a decent player but couldn't adjust to life in England. Who else?

To be fair he will always be a legend...scoring the winner on the Munich Aniversary allows him to be as shit as he likes for the remainder of his career if he wants...crack open the champers Floella...have some caviar on us...you're worth it...

Thanks for that winner in the derby Benji - what a day that was!

Another signing that didn't do Sven any favours - to go with Garrido, Castillo, Bianchi, Giovanni.... All very mediocre, but in fairness to Sven they were bought in haste.

I thought he'd do a job for us til the end of the season because of the form he was in for Pompey, but it just didn't happen. The system and form the whole team were in post xmas didn't help either.

Farewell oh smiley one!

Nery Fucking Castillo....what a bag of wank

Goes in the Albert Riera, Kiki Musampa loan shit box

Daniel Van Buyten and Arnie Arason are the only loanees I remember fondly

Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:

lets all have a disco wrote:

ant london wrote:It's quite tough to decide on the "pick" of the bunch

But I'd say that Benjani was Sven's most wasteful use of financial resources

Terrible terrible signing

Sven didnt shower himself in glory with many of his signings. IMHO.

Who else was genuinely bad though? I hated the idea of Benjani signing from the off as many people will remember but I don't think Sven made that many really poor signings all things considered. Bianchi was a decent player but couldn't adjust to life in England. Who else?

Bianchi is shit. He had one lucky season in Italy. He found his level in Serie B last season.
Bojinov was unlucky.
Garrido was a decent signing, especially cos he was so cheap.
Caicedo wasn't bad but not great either. Never worth the price tag anyway, never trusted that transfer.
Corluka was a good signing.
Elano great at first but sadly turned into a shit twat.
Geovanni was free I think so can't criticise that really.
Gelson looked promising but ultimately was a bit pooh.
Petrov good signing.
Benjani shit.
Castillo shit.

Overall, Sven's record isn't bad but not great either. Think it would've gone pear-shaped had he stayed longer though. That is in hindsight, cos at the time didn't want him to leave.

I think we can count Jo as another black mark against Svenny boy

Wooders wrote:I think we can count Jo as another black mark against Svenny boy

Except Sven wasn't here when we signed Jo...

when is his contract up. if its not this year we are gonna struggle to give him away!

Mike J wrote:when is his contract up. if its not this year we are gonna struggle to give him away!

As the article at the top says......the summer

ant london wrote:

Mike J wrote:when is his contract up. if its not this year we are gonna struggle to give him away!

As the article at the top says......the summer

should of read it really.

Mike J wrote:

ant london wrote:

Mike J wrote:when is his contract up. if its not this year we are gonna struggle to give him away!

As the article at the top says......the summer

should of read it really.

Should've stayed in school :-)

He was scoring for Pompey, though. Sven thought he was signing a Premiership Goalscorer.

All I can remember Benjani for is scoring a certain Goal at a certain Ground. It's amazing what you choose to block out due to one good deed...

"Benjani! Whoa-oh-oh
Benjani! Whoa-oh-oh
He comes from Zimbabwe
He scores on Derby Day
Benjani! Whoa-oh-oh
Benjani! Who oh-oh"

Sell him to Harry he loves City players

As a result of his hating us, Steve Bruce was desperate to get something against us 6 or 7 games back (when his team was close to safety), so made repeated second half subs. He started off with Bent in a 4-5-1 and slowly dismantled his midfield defensiveness, bringing on Kenwyne Jones, Zenden and then Benjani.

Jones terrified us, but didn't seem bothered.
Zenden's lost his legs, so was of minimal impact.
People in the crowd sarcastically cheered Benjani onto the pitch, safe in the belief that the three points were in the bag.

He is so awful, he'd struggle to beat Mido into our first eleven.

Oh yeah and its all Ant London's fault that we signed Midough as well.

That's unfourtunate. I had a straight swap deal for Bent in mind...

IanBishopsHaircut wrote:To be fair he will always be a legend...scoring the winner on the Munich Aniversary allows him to be as shit as he likes for the remainder of his career if he wants...crack open the champers Floella...have some caviar on us...you're worth it...

I won't go as far as to say legend but the sentiment sums my feelings up on the fella. Bobbins 95% of the other times mind ... no disrespect Benj if you are reading this!