The Excitement Of A Great Signing

[warksclaret]

When did you get a genuine WOW from a signing in the current regime. For me

UNDER SD-Gray, Chris Wood,Danny Drinkwater (at the time),to some degree Jay Rod, Hendrick & Brady (as they were doing well for club and country) and Heaton. But in this regime we also had names like Pieters, Vydra, Crouch,Hart,Waters,Reid,

UNDER EDDY-a fair bit of dross ie Hines, Porter, Treacy, but some real WOW ones-Austin, Ings, Trippier,Mee, Stanislas

UNDER LAWS-not a lot, maybe Lee Grant who was a great servant

UNDER COYLE-Eagles, Fletcher,Nugent, Steve Thompson , Patterson (all great signings)

UNDER COTTS-Akinbiye , Harley,Elliott,Clarke Carlisle,Steve ?? our centre half and captain, Alexander,Phil Bardsley

UNDER STAN-some of the best-Robbie Black,Ian Wright, Ian Moore,Glenn Little, Steve Davies (second time), Mitchell Thomas, the Beast,Paul Cook, and many more

Something struck me-the poorer we were, the higher the quality of the signing at the time. Remember when Cotts could not even fill the bench and the squad was so small injured players went into the oxygen tanks

Happy times

[Bordeauxclaret]

Andre Gray I think in the current regime.
Didn’t expect Us to spend that much on a player, better than what we had, lifted the whole club.

Then obviously Barton followed not long after which was huge but Gray was unexpected. Not much talk prior to it.

[AlargeClaret]

Ian Wright
Gazza
Joey

With Joey being the only one who made a serious impact

[warksclaret]

..and these two were superb for us and enabled us to finish as champions. Whilst not captain Joey was immense on the pitch and was always encouraging and lifting players. We sadly lack a talking leader today-I thought someone from our team was going to pass round the AFTER EIGHTS after Villa's second goal

[claretblue]

thought Eagles from Utd was a real show of intent from both player + club!

think Defour + Barton for Sean was a similar feeling!

something similar to these 3 this month would be great!

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[Vegas Claret]

sadly the last time was Ian Wright

[SalisburyClaret]

Most excitement around a signing - got to be Waddle

[warksclaret]

I forgot DeFour-did not know much about him at the time, then my friends who follow European football told me what a legend he was in Belgium.He soon proved them right

[andyh]

Back in the day resigning Dobbo and Taffy. Also John Bond's Kevin Reeves, Tommy Hutchinson and Steve Daly.

[TVC15]

Was excited about the Charlie Austin signing.
Bloke who I worked with was a Barnsley season ticket holder and Tripps had been on loan there and think end up captaining them. He was gutted when we signed him and said we were getting a brilliant player....he was right.

When I heard the Ian Wright signing I was completely shocked and very excited - it was pre everything being plastered on the internet days. I was in the car and going through rawtenstall on my way back from work in Manchester when Radio Lancs broke the news on the 6pm news..I stopped the car to listen !

Excited when we signed Andy Payton as I’d hoped he would sign for us for years.

When we signed Robbie Blake and Ian Moore I was excited about both - they were big signings back in the day and both forwards too which is what we all want to see. One ended up a club legend....the other.....errrr !

More recently it’s hard to get too excited with the amount of money there is in the game - transfers and spending tens of millions is par for the course. It felt a lot more exciting back in the day...when we were struggling in the leagues it always felt good to sign a player who we had all seen play well for other teams. Ted McMinn, David Eyres and even the winger Mooney who tortured us for Preston. When they signed I genuinely could not wait to see them in a burnley shirt.

[warksclaret]

Andy-thats a long time ago to have experienced excitement. But I can relate to those two legends. I always hoped Brian O'Neil would return one day but he didn't

[warksclaret]

I think as fans, the lift we got from some of these players was absolutely immense. Its good to hear these different recollections

[ClaretTony]

When did you get a genuine WOW from a signing in the current regime. For me

UNDER SD-Gray, Chris Wood,Danny Drinkwater (at the time),to some degree Jay Rod, Hendrick & Brady (as they were doing well for club and country) and Heaton. But in this regime we also had names like Pieters, Vydra, Crouch,Hart,Waters,Reid,

UNDER EDDY-a fair bit of dross ie Hines, Porter, Treacy, but some real WOW ones-Austin, Ings, Trippier,Mee, Stanislas

UNDER LAWS-not a lot, maybe Lee Grant who was a great servant

UNDER COYLE-Eagles, Fletcher,Nugent, Steve Thompson , Patterson (all great signings)

UNDER COTTS-Akinbiye , Harley,Elliott,Clarke Carlisle,Steve ?? our centre half and captain, Alexander,Phil Bardsley

UNDER STAN-some of the best-Robbie Black,Ian Wright, Ian Moore,Glenn Little, Steve Davies (second time), Mitchell Thomas, the Beast,Paul Cook, and many more

Something struck me-the poorer we were, the higher the quality of the signing at the time. Remember when Cotts could not even fill the bench and the squad was so small injured players went into the oxygen tanks

Happy times

I'm really pleased you saw Brian Jensen, Ian Moore and Steve Davis (second time round) as the happy times and that Eagles, Nugent and Paterson were all great signings. As for Laws, I think Marney should be first on the list. I'm not sure I follow this though, as what you men by WOW - signings such as Trippier and Mee were hardy WOW signings at the time, it took a long time for them to become good players with us.

[Local cricketer]

Cant remember the feeling

[warksclaret]

Fully agree re Marney and forgot him (its difficult to remember them all). I had heard great things about Trippier on Talk Sport and from a Barnsley friend-they said he was an immense crosser of the ball. I had watched Ben Mee a few times at Leicester. He was immense against us. Think Leicester won 4-0 and nothing got past him. He had Jay (who was in his prime then) in his pocket

[AlargeClaret]

I forgot DeFour-did not know much about him at the time, then my friends who follow European football told me what a legend he was in Belgium.He soon proved them right

Defour was indeed a high class international though he was having P1ss thrown on him from the stands before we bought him . Still a genuine buzz we’d starting to take a chance on class though

[TheFamilyCat]

Only two mangers out with Super Glen and I doubt anyone said "wow" when he was signed.

[boatshed bill]

I remember being really excited when we appointed Chris Waddle as manager

[cockneyclaret]

I remember getting in Nogan, Barnes and Payton at different times.
The excitement of filling the phone box with a months pocket money just to listen to teamtalk

[Helmshore Claret]

Colin Waldron was a proper 'big money signing'. He was very young and had gone to Chelsea( from Bury) but never settled and we paid a 'massive' £30,000 for him,everyone was flabbergasted. A great player and definitely my younger sister's favourite .

[ksrclaret]

Robbie Brady was the last time I was genuinely over the moon that we’d managed to pull the signing off. Look how that ones turned out.

I was also overjoyed, in a different sort of way, when we resigned Jack Cork two seasons ago. I still maintain he’s a great player when played in the correct system, with two others around him. No coincidence he was being talked about for an England call up in the first half of 2017/18. Looking at him now, you wouldn’t know it was the same player.

[Claretpants]

I'm really pleased you saw Brian Jensen, Ian Moore and Steve Davis (second time round) as the happy times and that Eagles, Nugent and Paterson were all great signings. As for Laws, I think Marney should be first on the list. I'm not sure I follow this though, as what you men by WOW - signings such as Trippier and Mee were hardy WOW signings at the time, it took a long time for them to become good players with us.

Was thinking the same thing! Cahill under Cotts wasn’t a WOW signing but watching him thought he would make a top player

[warksclaret]

Cotts had his critics re his style of play, but wow he had an eye for a player. He could "sell the club" to a player. Remember he flew to America to interrupt Wayne Thomas's holiday and he signed for us (we did well on the re-sell of this player). He spotted Cahill in Villa's reserves, and he bought Gray from Sunderland, who scored his share of goals, then we made a handsome profit on him too

[claretblue]

No coincidence he was being talked about for an England call up in the first half of 2017/18

he won his one + only cap while playing for us!

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[Blackrod]

Upon signing probably Ian Wright. From seeing them on the pitch and quickly probably Paul Cook, Tom Cowan and John McGreal who were a massive improvement in quality.