Even for free, this lot were far too costly. The goalkeeper started as he went on by getting lost and being late on his first day at Manchester United…
GK: Mark Bosnich (Man Utd)
Replacing Peter Schmeichel, one of the goalkeeping GOATs, was always going to be a tall order but Bosnich didn’t help himself. After joining from Aston Villa on a free, he was late on his first day, which was a sign of things to come from a player described by Sir Alex Ferguson as “a terrible professional”. And Martin Edwards seemed to realise in the pic above that United had signed a dud. When he wasn’t injured, he was getting stuck into Chinese takeaways. When he did play, his kicking was awful, and this was before goalkeepers were expected to play out from the back. Having come through the ranks at Old Trafford, it’s not as though Bosnich didn’t know what to expect. By the end of the season, Raimond van der Gouw had been installed as temporary No.1 before Fergie signed Fabian Barthez.
RB: Jose Bosingwa (QPR)
“I would like to thank Tony Fernandes, my team-mates and all the staff at QPR and, in particular, the fans that supported the team last season through extremely difficult times.”
It’s not clear if Bosingwa was being sarcastic in his farewell statement to QPR after an agreement was reached to terminate his contract. Because during the year he spent at Loftus Road which ended in relegation – something he appeared to find amusing – he managed to p*ss off the manager, his team-mates and the fans he thanked. Never more so than when the £65,000-a-week defender refused to sit on the bench for a December derby against Fulham. QPR tried to get rid after that episode, but Bosingwa refused to walk for anything less than the £8million due to him for the remainder of his contract. Which is fair enough.
CB: Winston Bogarde (Chelsea)
The former Ajax, AC Milan and Barcelona defender is another who refused to go until Chelsea had paid what they were contractually obliged, which from 2000 amounted to £40,000 a week for four years. For that massive outlay, the Blues got 11 appearances out of Bogarde, who has become the poster boy for sitting out a contract. But the former Holland centre-back also ensured that he kept his end of the bargain, reporting dutifully for training every day for four years, the majority of which Chelsea staff spent wondering: ‘Why the f*** is he still here?’
CB: Sol Campbell (Notts County)
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