General Signed & Never Played.........

[Essexyellows]

There must be a few players who have signed the professional forms and never set foot on the turf.

Easy start - Bruce Grobbelaar. (oddly missing from Rageonline)

He left us the next day to sign for Sheffield Wednesday and never played for them either.

 

[tonyw]

I'll jump in with the obvious - Ivo Pękalski

 

[Emilio]

Ivo Pekalski. Sweden International who signed for us in League One in 2017, only to injury himself in one of his first training sessions. Left the following summer without ever playing.

 

[Emilio]

I'll jump in with the obvious - Ivo Pękalski

FFS Just beat me to it!

 

[Londox]

Kashif Siddiqui

 

[EastStandKieran]

Teddy Mfuni

 

[tonyw]

Fiacre Kelleher

 

[Essexyellows]

Emmanuel Agboola...............................

 

[Berliner]

Shwan Jalal signed on emergency loan and never played. Fairly sure the list will include a lot of keepers.
Sam Allardyce the Younger as well, he was most recently in the US college system I believe.

 

[Kiddy yellow]

Has Jacob Knightbridge made a appearance

 

[Stranger]

Has Jacob Knightbridge made a appearance

Nope. There was that other goalie from about three seasons ago: Mackenzie Chapman

 

[Stranger]

In fact, it seems to happen a lot with goalkeepers. Anyone remember Tony Malessa? He was on loan from Bristol City (I think) as cover and was on the bench for the first game at the Kassam

 

[Vancouver Yellow]

Max Woltman! (Edit- played in EFL trophy apparently)

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Tsun Dai.

 

[West Oxon U’s]

Scott Marshall

 

[Emilio]

Suspect we should exclude academy graduates who never made the first team, else this will become a very long list.

 

[Londox]

Sam Allardyce

 

[carefreeoufc]

Did that young Spanish lad ever place for us? Think he was training to be a doctor. Possibly signed under the Clotet regime.

 

[Londox]

Did that young Spanish lad ever place for us? Think he was training to be a doctor. Possibly signed under the Clotet regime.

I think Xemi scored a goal for us

 

[Northernyellow]

Nigel Winterburn. Signed on a two year contract by Jim Smith in 1983. Jim decided after a few training sessions that he wasn't good enough. When his mate Harry Bassett (manager of Wimbledon) phoned him up and asked if he knew any left backs, Jim persuaded Bassett to take over Winterburn's contract. Winterburn went on to play over 650 games in the top flight, including 450+ games for Arsenal. And played for England. So, not Jim's best decision.

 

[Kamal]

According to Wikipedia

"Xemi studies medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His older brother and sister are both doctors."

I also didn't realise he only made 9 appearances for us and left 6 months into his 3 year deal.

 

[Northernyellow]

According to Wikipedia

"Xemi studies medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His older brother and sister are both doctors."

I also didn't realise he only made 9 appearances for us and left 6 months into his 3 year deal.

I saw him play in the 0-7 against Wigan. Massively out of his depth, and was subbed at HT. Absolutely no idea why Clotet signed him as a pro.

 

[werthersoriginal]

I saw him play in the 0-7 against Wigan. Massively out of his depth, and was subbed at HT. Absolutely no idea why Clotet signed him as a pro.

He scored a great goal early into his debut against Cheltenham in the cup. But then it went downhill

 

[greatunclekip]

I saw him play in the 0-7 against Wigan. Massively out of his depth, and was subbed at HT. Absolutely no idea why Clotet signed him as a pro.

Because he was f*****g hugely incompetent?

 

[carefreeoufc]

According to Wikipedia

"Xemi studies medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His older brother and sister are both doctors."

I also didn't realise he only made 9 appearances for us and left 6 months into his 3 year deal.

I didn’t realise he made that many!

 

[Northernyellow]

Because he was f*****g hugely incompetent?

And probably to keep Tiendalli company.

 

[smiler106]

Was there a player that we signed from Sheffield Wednesday one summer (when we were in the old first division), but who never played due to injury? It's possible though that I have imagined this.

 

[West Oxon U’s]

Alex Cisak

 

[West Oxon U’s]

Yoav Sade

 

[West Oxon U’s]

Kevin Gibbens