The legend of Reid's signing of Núñez has gone down in Wearside folklore. He was either bought by mistake after the manager who bought him watched a couple of grainy video tapes or signed off the back of a scouting trip to Honduras which went badly wrong. Until now Núñez has always insisted Sunderland did get the right man. But in an interview with Honduran newspaper Diez published yesterday, the striker now aged 44 has confessed Reid did indeed sign him by mistake. It has always been widely believed that Sunderland were really expecting to sign Colombia striker Adolfo Valencia from Greek side PAOK where Núñez was on loan at the time. Núñez now claims Reid had been looking for Valencia but somehow had seen a tape of his Honduran teammate Eduardo Bennett and got everyone completely mixed up: I asked the Sunderland coach, 'and why did you bring me here? You saw a video of Eduardo Benneth but that was not me. And they were looking for the Eduardo "The Train" Valencia. How did they compare him with me if he was a tall black [man]? I had him as a teammate, but I do not know what I was doing there.
My most disappointing transfer at the point of signing was Moussa Sissoko. Really pissed off that we spent £30m. He's actually done alright. Nowhere near that amount and some fans absolutely hate him, but he's become a handy squad player. We've had tons of useless transfers down the years, though. Grzegorz Rasiak and Gilberto spring to mind, but the worst has to be Andy Booth. Just randomly loaned in a **** player, who was then sent back and sold to Huddersfield, who went on to get relegated from the 2nd tier. Stayed there forever and went on to be something of a club legend, just to make the bizarre thing complete.
Same here mate, we’ve had some laughable bad larkers. Brett Angel - the ultimate lamppost No. 9, couldn’t trap a bag of cement Kenny Sansom - who was 34 and living on a park bench by the time he got to us Vinnie Samways - the new Gazza...only he wasn’t, he ran like a tart in a tight skirt, absolute chod Stuart ‘barndoor’ Barlow - was working in a butchers before we spotted his ‘talent’, ran like a bloke being chased with a meat cleaver, but unfortunately his shooting was like a bloke who had hooves
Good god, forgot about that piss stain, sadly he has played for us also. Add him to the long **** list.
He seemed smaller. You half expected snow white to wander across the pitch and escort him off by the ear.
I'd forgotten about Brett Angell. We signed him from you, he played about 10 games and then got loaned out to a few teams before being sold. Awful player who didn't improve when he dropped down a division.
what about this ****er in todays news. chalk another one up for the sunderland **** list. Footballer Darron Gibson has been told he faces a prison term after admitting drink-driving for the second time in less than three years. The former Republic of Ireland international, who played for Sunderland at the time, was slurring and smelled of alcohol when he was found to be three times over the legal limit as he drove to the club's training ground in the city on 17 March - St Patrick's Day. Gibson, 30, who also played for Manchester United and Everton, clipped a taxi's wing mirror in West Boldon and, instead of stopping, drove on and crashed into parked cars in Dovedale Road, Fulwell. His grey Mercedes 4x4 came to rest on the pavement and the road was strewn with debris. David Randall, chairman of the bench at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court, told Gibson he was likely to be jailed because the offence was aggravated by the length of time over which it occurred, the fact that he did not stop after hitting the taxi and the damage caused to the parked vehicles. please log in to view this image Image:Gibson will be sentenced on 25 May The taxi driver had followed Gibson, thinking he would stop to swap details, but the footballer carried on for several miles before the final series of collisions forced him to stop. In 2015, Gibson, was involved in a serious collision when his car hit three cyclists repairing a wheel on the pavement in Sunderland. Rebecca Laverick, prosecuting, confirmed Gibson was found to have 105 microgrammes of alcohol per 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mcg. She said: "The defendant was spoken to at the roadside, police officers established he was under the influence. "He said he had had two drinks the night before. That didn't coincide with the manner he was presenting in, his speech was slurred and he smelled of alcohol."
