parsonjohn1985
Winger
i guess that depends how you define flop really. the injuries werent his fault but i don't see how that matters, and whether they were inflicted upon him or what, it was still a shitton of cash that would have been much better spent on a quality striker or winger rather than a keeper who barely played.
did we get 9m worth of player over teh years? abslutely not.
as above, 9m worth of striker or winger would have had us staying in teh league anarl.
And taibi wouldn't have. Therefore Gordon was definitely not even a similar flop to him. Also you don't know that as £9m that year would have got you Ryan Babel, Elano, Alan Smith or Kiran Dyer and I'd argue none of those would have kept us up the way Gordon did
Fulop had played about two games for us at that point after spending a while as Spurs third choice. I don't think Fulop ever proved he was good enough for the Premier League either, the more we saw of him, the worse he got. Had a reasonable end to the season when Sbragia took over and that was about it - there were absolutely no complaints by the time we sold him, as there were a few games in the lead up to it under Bruce where he didn't look capable.
Gordon is vastly underrated by some by the same token, because they couldn't quite grasp that despite a £9m price tag, you're not going to get perfection.
Don't cherry pick. I did say I think Gordon is a better goalkeeper.
Although I personally think Fulop did prove himself and would have kept us up. However we don't need to know as Keane made sure by signing a better goalkeeper