No Way - Did he really play for City?

[Grandad Rosler]

Stefan Savic.... Bloody hell do you remember him, oh wait.....

[Alioune DVToure]

Think it was Neil Heaney and Scott Hiley.

We got Heaney from Southampton, and sold Hiley to them (he came from Birmingham or Portsmouth, I think).

Birmingham. We got him on loan the year we went down ('96).

[Longball]

Clough,trevor francis,mcillroy,steve daley,

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

Ladies & gentlemen, I give you; multi title, triple European cup, FA cup winning England international striker David Johnson.

Rag legend 'not so fucking super' Sammy Mcilroy.

The world class defensive talents of Darren 'you must be fucking joking' Wassell.

Trevor 'why the fuck did we sign him?' Christie & to finish, 2 of the weirdest signings ever even by City standards; Bobby 'crikey' Shinton & Robert 'where the fuck's he gone' Hopkins. Wtf was that all about?

Bastard Ted. I'd just dug the name 'Johnson' up from the darkest recesses of my mind and you beat me to it.
Karim Kherkar aka "Kenny Carr"
How about twin slap headed strike partner (I use the term loosely) of said Trevor Christie, Gordon Davies.

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

Anybody remember the 1152 commentator who had stupid nicknames for our players? Kinkladze, The Georgian Maestro, Peter Beagrie, The Artful Dodger, Paul Walsh, The Little Genius.

Brian Clark. He also seemed to say "Outside that City penalty area" far too often. He was also on some of the early 90's season review video's doing interviews with the likes of Mel Machin and Peter Swales.

He also used to say "City will need to be diligent here" far too often. Which we then weren't.
Also he used to miss large chunks of action so he'd be talking about us attacking, then "Goal" and just as you'd think "Brilliant, back in it now" He'd carry on to say "Two down with just half an hour played, City will need to be diligent here"

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

Paul Sugrue 1981 6 app then went to Cardiff (He ran like he was treading water)
Jim Melrose 1984 34 app 8 goals including a corker at the North stand end, I think against Charlton
The Futcher Twins

Notts County. Volley from the centre circle. Best goal I ever saw at Maine Rd.

[Fidel Castro]

Djamel Abdoun
Tyrone Loran
Mikkel Bisschof

[paul_oresteia]

I remember getting all excited when we signed........ George Weah.

I remember having a chat with my mate at school and salivating at the prospect of the new season with Weah and Wanchope as our strike force.

Anyone remember that striker, human pogo stick, (and Stuart Pearce's secret weapon!!!) David James?

[paul_oresteia]

Here's one of his better moments, only to be embarrassed by Sun Jihai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud9ev2dp5xw

[Dronny]

Jason Von Blerk, Aussie fullback
Kaz Deyna, Polish World Cup captain, a real song and dance when he rocked up at Maine Rd
Who was the keeper, Icelandic I think, who played heroically in the 3-4 FA Cup win against Spuds...Isaacson or summat? OMG just remembered Eike Immel as well :-(

[Im_Spartacus]

Jason Von Blerk, Aussie fullback
Kaz Deyna, Polish World Cup captain, a real song and dance when he rocked up at Maine Rd
Who was the keeper, Icelandic I think, who played heroically in the 3-4 FA Cup win against Spuds...Isaacson or summat? OMG just remembered Eike Immel as well :-(

Arnie Arason

[DunneyMonster]

Joe Fagan
Don Revie
Oh and Matt Busby

[Dronny]

Jason Von Blerk, Aussie fullback
Kaz Deyna, Polish World Cup captain, a real song and dance when he rocked up at Maine Rd
Who was the keeper, Icelandic I think, who played heroically in the 3-4 FA Cup win against Spuds...Isaacson or summat? OMG just remembered Eike Immel as well :-(

Arnie Arason

I thank you, brilliant double save where he flung himself from one side of the goal to the other

[steve isle of man]

Ivan Golac
Bobby Mimms
Barry Siddall
Garry Fleming
Justin Fashanu
Dalian Atkinson
Lee Mills
Egil Ostenstad
Christian Negouai
Laurent Charvet

[Dazzacity]

Kiki Musampa

Albert Reirra

Kakhabar Tskhandadze

Aphax Groenendyk (sp)

Bradly Wright-Phillips

[Dazzacity]

Ladies & gentlemen, I give you; multi title, triple European cup, FA cup winning England international striker David Johnson.

Rag legend 'not so fucking super' Sammy Mcilroy.

The world class defensive talents of Darren 'you must be fucking joking' Wassell.

Trevor 'why the fuck did we sign him?' Christie & to finish, 2 of the weirdest signings ever even by City standards; Bobby 'crikey' Shinton & Robert 'where the fuck's he gone' Hopkins. Wtf was that all about?

Bastard Ted. I'd just dug the name 'Johnson' up from the darkest recesses of my mind and you beat me to it.
Karim Kherkar aka "Kenny Carr"
How about twin slap headed strike partner (I use the term loosely) of said Trevor Christie, Gordon Davies.

I remember Kherkar playing for the reserves or maybe a single first team run out. He scored a couple of screamers and was then never really seen again !

[Tokyo Blue]

Am I imagining this or did Trevor Cherry sign from Leeds and then move on, never actually playing for us? Or was that Ivan Golac?

[steve isle of man]

What about players who were bought for significant sums and then hardly given a game and then released? What were the real stories on these lads, assuming (giving our managers a little credit) it wasn't simply "he seemed good on TV but in reality was crap":-

Bobby Shinton
Michael Robinson
Matias Vuoso
Drago Stepanovic
Trevor Christie

[Dazzacity]

What about players who were bought for significant sums and then hardly given a game and then released? What were the real stories on these lads, assuming (giving our managers a little credit) it wasn't simply "he seemed good on TV but in reality was crap":-

Bobby Shinton
Michael Robinson
Matias Vuoso
Drago Stepanovic
Trevor Christie

Vuoso was a really strange one. Didnt he cost about 3.5 -4.5 million?? And never played! really weird.

[steve isle of man]

There were a couple of similar incidents I recall:

Asa Hartford being bought by Clough for Notts F and sold without playing a game.
Clive Allen doing the same at Arsenal.

It just seems weird - like when Bond bought Martin O'Neill as a cheap replacement for Steve McKenzie and then shipped him out after half a season, or Big Mal doing the same with Robinson. One would have thought they would have had the courage of their convictions to give a player time (having made the decision that they had the quality on the basis of years of seeing them or scouting) rather than leaping to the sudden conclusion they were useless.
Robinson for instance, proved to be a decent Prem striker, just as Bradbury proved at other clubs he was a competent Div 2 (old) striker, but rather than supporting them we just chucked money away for change for the sake of change.