I’m totally stealing this idea from @Castiel because his little comment got me thinking and reminiscing about all of the god awful and truly strange circumstances to befall our club since the ‘banter era’ began and is still in full flow.
GK - I chose Woj, he’s not any worse than any other keeper we’ve had in 15 years but he was there through the most shit.
Defense - Jenkinson isn’t terrible but just hilarious he’s been at the club for so long living his dream. Mustafi was in with a shout because the fee we paid but I think the other two Included were much worse players. And of course the infamous Santos.
Midfield - Chambo only because he would do some of the dumbest shit on the wing lulul, but he’s better in the middle of the park always was. Denilson is what he is. Kaelstrom wasn’t horrible but just hilarious that he was brought in to help our injury crisis and had a broken back was it?? Gervinho against Bradford, nuff said.
Forwards - Again Chamakh not terrible but he was our RVP replacement wasn’t he?? And Sanogo typifies the banter era, especially coming through against Dortmund in the CL and scoring the winner if Iirc.
He does make a lot of mistakes. He’ll turn in some 10/10 performances and then some incredibly bonehead plays…like heading the ball off his own face into our goal. Plus he’s already our club captain.
I was a big fan of Chamakh naturally haha. I think he actually started off really well but once RVP got into the team he basically barely ever played again and then just became a bit of a laughing stock lol.
But he was much better than people gave him credit for and he was a free transfer in fairness.
I think Chamakh did have about 7 league goals by November in his first season with us from memory, I remember him giving us a 2-0 lead in a NLD I’d rather forget.
Far too few Frimpongs for my liking. Guy had a clothing line and was in terrible music videos despite barely any real game time, he was injury prone to fuck and he’s spent his entire career since at clubs nobody has heard of. He’s the first name on my banter teamsheet.