Who was our worst loan signing this season?

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• Apr 6, 2015

• #1

It's been a vintage year for bad loan signings.

Who was the worst? (Worst doesn't have to mean least skilful, but one that just added the least to the squad or just didn't seem to be required)

 

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portslade seagull

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portslade

• Apr 6, 2015

• #2

Too many to choose from but plump for Obika

 

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crookie

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• Apr 6, 2015

• #3

From the games I've seen, has to be Best

 

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Hampster Gull

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• Apr 6, 2015

• #4

The title says it all

 

DJ NOBO

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• Apr 6, 2015

• #5

Gary Gardner put up a strong case, but Leon is a clear winner. What more could he do to justify the title?

 

Lurchy

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• Apr 6, 2015

• #6

portslade seagull said:

Too many to choose from but plump for Obika

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Obika wasn't on loan with us this season.

 

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jamie the seagull

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• Apr 6, 2015

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based on the number of goals that come from our left hand side why is Joe Bennett not on the list.

 

GT49er

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• Apr 6, 2015

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Who WAS our worst loan signing of the season? Steady on, there may be more to come!

 

SimplyBrighton

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• Apr 6, 2015

• #9

Al habsi?

 

dazzer6666

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• Apr 6, 2015

• #10

Best was one of our better players today when he came on......which isn't saying much.

 

brightonmark1234

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• Apr 7, 2015

• #11

leon best by far

 

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turienzo's lovechild

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Still don't quite get the point of the al-habsi or ledesma signings but I strongly disliked Gardner

 

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mothy

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• Apr 7, 2015

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Lurchy said:

I was meant to quote a comment about joe bennet..

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Too true. He offers naff all going forward & is a liability in defence - but he hardly gets much flak

That's 2 in 2 games where the goal has come from his flank

 

Saladpack Seagull

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• Apr 7, 2015

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SimplyBrighton said:

Al habsi?

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Yes, if we're talking about people we didn't need; if not, Best is the Worst.

 

blue'n'white

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• Apr 7, 2015

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Well since we signed Ali Al-Habsi for a month and he played one game then went off to play for Oman all the while when we had a perfectly serviceable keeper (Walton) and back up (Ankergren) in our squad he gets my vote. Possibly not as the worst but definitely the most pointless signing

 

Quinney

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• Apr 7, 2015

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Too be fair you could make a case for most of them - at least EB won us a penalty at Fulham, and he looked quite useful in the 1st half of his return game, so I would take him out of the firing line.

 

mikeyjh

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Llanymawddwy

• Apr 7, 2015

• #17

Will be quite funny to see Leon Best bag the award for 2 clubs in one season. As previously mentioned, he was crap for us, certainly didn't engender the bad will he gets here, but that's probably because he was rarely seen.....

 

sully

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• Apr 7, 2015

• #18

What an incredibly difficult choice!

Al-Habsi was just pointless, so probably can't be judged worst.

Elliott Bennett at least seemed to be trying to help whilst clearly not having a clue what Hyypia wanted him to do.

Gary Gardner may have been the same, but it's difficult to remember him even appearing to try. He certainly seems to have more idea at Forest.

I've managed to miss most of the "appearances" that Best has made, or just haven't noticed him on the pitch.

This leaves me as Ledesma as looking totally awful and out of his depth whenever the ball came his way on the two occasions he actually made it onto the pitch.

So I make it a tie and I can't really choose between Gardner, Ledesma and Best.

 

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Munkfish

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• Apr 7, 2015

• #19

Pretty shite pole, considering not all of our loan signings are even on that list.

However you covered the main one, Leon Best, I really wanted him to do well, but he has done nothing to show he has what it takes.

 

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• Apr 7, 2015

• #20

The al Habsi signing was genuinely baffling at the time, utterly utterly pointless (although there were STILL some people on here at the time arguing that it "made sense").

I honestly don't even think I've seen Ledesma, has he played a home game ? If he has then I've not noticed, which tells its own story I suppose. Won a pen at Reading, but we went on to lose anyway, so zero contribution from him.

Gardner was part of the Axis of Feeble with JFC which helped drag us to the arse-end of the table, but he did at least pop up with a couple of goals, so I guess he made a contribution of sorts. Although massively outweighed by his overwhelming crapness for almost his entire spell.

Elliott Bennett was dreadfully disappointing, but he was at least trying.

Best though. Has to be Best, he just about edges it over Ledesma for me, having contributed the square route of FACK-all at any point in a game for us, ever. Nothing, absolutely nothing, not even nuisance value. We might as well have been playing with 10. Another "professional" happy to go through the motions of pretending to be a footballer and picking up x-grand a week for it. Another complete and utter waste of skin on our payroll.

Jesus. What a season.