Best and worst foreigner to play for the golden boys.

Who would be your choices for the above and why? Not the most/least popular foreigners, but the best and worst.

 

For me the best is between HH and Alan Nielsen with Johnno as outsider. The worst to me is probably the Aussie fella Hoofroyd hired - Adam Whatshisname, as Sietes didn't play for us.

 

Alan Nielsen was an amazing player!as for the worst.... maybe Johanne Gudmonsen...

 

Best: HH
Worst: Johan Cavalli.

 

Best , John Barnes , Worst , how can you look past players of the ilk of Patrick Blondeau or Pierre Issa...?

 

Was John Barnes foreign? At what point did he become a nationalised englishman?

 

Johnno

Issa edges out Meola/ Vega

 

Best - Johnno, with Nielsen as runner-up
Worst player - Meola
Worst player who had a reasonable run of games - Issa
Worst value for money - Vega

 

take it you never heard him speak? , or even sing , for that matter

 

Best - Allan Nielsen, HH, Fillipo Galli
Worst - Most of Vialli's signings, Tony Meola

 

Best: Sir Luther Blissett
Worst:Kerry Dixon

 

Though Neilson is up there I have to say Galli. Even though he was in his late 30's the man was class. The only triple European Cup winner that will ever play for us that is certain. I am not counting Barnes or Luther as they went on to be selected as English.

The worst, yep people have said it, Tony Meolo, produced the single worst goalkeeping display I have ever witnessed. AS well as those Vialli signing like Vega, Blondeau and Issa who were all shocking I remember we had a central midfielder from M'boro, an Aussie international fellow who was possibly the slowest and most negative footballer I have seen at the Vic. Can;t remember the name but he got a shed load of caps and was Croatian decent I think.

 

i really dont remember this Meolo fella.....

 

Would that be Paul Okon?

 

Paul Okon Matimbers........good on CM rubbish in real life (CM 97 anyway ,last time i played it)

 

Paul Okon, that's the one and not very Croatian either! It was like playing a 45 year old in the middle of the park he was that slow and immobile. Leyton, I remember him being quality on that as well!

 

Best action against an opposition player. - Alhassan Bangura , does he count as foreign? I'm not sure after all the messing about? He was certainly of foreign descent, mind you we all are to a certain extent.

 

Best: John McClellend (can we count Scots?)
Worst: ??

 

Paul Okon actually held down a place in leeds team after leaving us and didn't look too bad!

 

Meola only played once for us conceding 4 goals in a full members cup game, never to be seen again although played a few games for Brighton later

 

Worst - Patrick Blondeau by a mile

Best Kenny Jacket or John McClelland

 

Best:-Jan Lohman, Super Al, Mighty Mo, Nordin Wooter, Phiilipo Galli, Pat Jennings.

Worst:- Bunion Ben, Alon Hazan, David Connolly, Patrick Blondeau, Xavier Gravelaine

 

Best-Marlon King
Worst-Chris Iwelumo (Joke!) I would say, Alexandrs Cauna

 

Really? Blondeau was a bit crap and Hazan a bit insignificant, but Connolly and Gravelaine were both very gifted players.

 

Best = Alan Nielson

Worst = Charlie Miller

 

The reason I asked is that a fella from 442 magazine e-mailed me earlier asking me to write a few lines about the best and worst foreigners so thought I owuld put it out to get the opinion of everyone. The best looks like a tie between super Al and H at the moment. I was surprised Galli didn't get a few more mentions but his tenure was largely tainted by the manager at the time.

Meola and Issa are looking favourites for the worst at the moment. I have told him I will get something back to him in the early part of next week so I will see how this thread goes over the course of the weekend.

 

I didn't think Issa was that bad, *waits to be pelted with rotten tomatoes, I think Jan Lohman hasn't got enough praise either.

 

It depends on your definition of "worst". I wasn't taking about how gifted they were. Gravelaine was a mercenary and Connolly was just a ****.

 

Ah, ok. As per the first post, I'm asking about ability only - not how popular/unpopular they were.

 

Best - Super Al or HH. Galli was pure class and a great professional. You could tell he just loved to play the game. But it's between Al and HH both for their ability and commitment to the cause.

Worst - Issa. He was just plain crap.

 

Sietes best signing, never played but he has his own song.

Worst, too many so difficult to single them out.

 

Must be quite young and not remember many like me. I thought Alexandrs Cauna was a really decent player and would've loved to have him back.

My best are: Super Al, Nordin Wooter, HH
Worst: Not including Sietes because I never actually saw him play. I can't remember many bad foreign players in my lifetime. I'm going to go with Mart Poom.

I checked to see where Steve Kabba/Ellington were from because I could've sworn one of them was eligable to play for Jamaica. I found this under Steve Kabba on Wikipedia and it made me chuckle:

"is an English professional footballer who can run 100m in 9.34 seconds and is the current world record holder."

 

True. I didn't think of him until after my post.

Do Scotch/Welsh/Oirish really count as foreign?