Biggest Impact...

memphisto · 16 Jun 2003 at 17:45

made by one player signed by a club at the start or during a season ?

This topic is all about those players who were signed for a club then went on during that season and further on that made a massive impact to that club.

Examples of this are say

Juninho for Middlesbrough during his first spell
Ronaldo at Barcelona when Bobby Robson signed him
RvN for Man Utd

So who do you think was the best ever signing for a club the player that made the most impact and the player that set that team on fire on the route to glory ?

memphisto · 16 Jun 2003 at 17:54

ok due to the repeated editing i assume my original post makes about as much sense as Chelsea's seeding in the CL.

Here goes again.

THe biggest impact by any player in any club during there time there, it doesnt have to be yer own team BTW

memphisto · 16 Jun 2003 at 17:57

Originally posted by CliffyG
LOL i give up .

I dunno why :confused:

having re read my intial post it makes perfect sense

memphisto · 16 Jun 2003 at 18:22

remember this can be any signing from all over the world during any period of time for any club.

To me the best signing ever Was Maradona at Napoli as he almost singlehandedly dragged a average Italian side to Serie A championships and European Success.

memphisto · 16 Jun 2003 at 19:21

Originally posted by Gilly
OK then.

Pele

who for though ? and to be fair Pele did nothing at club level of note. which is one of the reasons Maradona is the greatest player ever.

memphisto · 16 Jun 2003 at 19:26

Originally posted by Jazz
nothing apart from scoring 1200 goals Also his goals for brazil helped them win 3 World cups, also the one world cup he got injured in they didnt win and got knocked out early iirc, so it showed how important he was to them

maradona was the greatest but pele was also great.

Brazil aint a club team is it last time I chacked ?

I never said Pele wasnt great either did I ?

playing for a second rate team in brazil doesn't compare to slogging it out in the hardest league in the world and getting kicked the crap out of in the process imho.

anyway back on topic please. Also did pele actually change clubs at all during his career in brazil ? I know he went to play in Major League but didnt he play for the same brazilian club team all his career ?

memphisto · 16 Jun 2003 at 19:56

gilly i did point out in my post that pele went at the end of his career to play major league i.e in america

but the point of the thread was the biggest impact for a club that a player made who was bought, not who was homegrown talent.

but fair enough on the grounds you have stated Pele did make a huge impact however i disagree with him being the one that brought proper football to america, why you ask simply because of the players he was playing with at cosmos who at the time who had the likes of Franz Beckenbaur playing for them as well.

I was intending for mainly transfers to be brought up simply to remind us all of the achievements of certain players at clubs in the past and the impact that the correct or inspired single transfer can have to change the fortunes of any team.