Countries/clubs that your Club should avoid.

[tracteurgarcon]

Countries/clubs that your Club should avoid.

Arsenal should probably avoid buying our players, Paul Mariner, Chris Kiwomya and Richard Wright all flopped horribly for the Gunners.

[beak]

Countries/clubs that your Club should avoid.

Sundeporino wrote: Sunderland: Argentina.

No time to mention the Ricky Alvarez affair?

[CY_Boaby]

Countries/clubs that your Club should avoid.

St Mirren should stay clear of German players. We’ve not had that many, but they’ve certainly left their mark.

Our first was Thomas Stickroth, a George Michael lookalike, who we got in on loan towards the end of the 1989-90 season. Made his debut as a 2nd-half sub against Rangers at Love St, and scared the shite out of Terry Butcher & Co. The chant from us Saints fans that day was "Sign Him!!"

So based on a few impressive late-season appearances, we paid a club record 400k to Bayer Uerdingen. It wasn’t value for money. Those 20 mins against Rangers were as good as it got, apart from the odd flash of class, notably against Celtic when he whipped in a great cross for Guni Torfason to head home as we humped them 3-0 at Parkhead.

Pre-internet days, so I remember being rather bamboozled when I read an article in the Evening Times which claimed he'd been "blacklisted" back in Germany. As with most stories not concerning the old firm, no explanation or further clarification was ever given. That was it.

The following year, as the club hurtled towards mounting debt and relegation, he buggered off back to Germany for next to nothing, where I presume his "blacklisting" was no longer valid, however I don’t recall seeing any article in the Evening Times to clarify.

Fast forward 7 years, and we're top of the 1st Division and heading back to the SPL. Like Stickroth, we sign another German on loan towards the end of the season; this one going by the name of Jens Paeslack. He makes his debut in a massive top of the table clash with Falkirk, coming on as a sub after our striker, Mark Yardley, went off injured after only a few minutes. On comes Paeslack, where he and his Falkirk marker proceed to batter the hell out of one another the entire game, and he more than helps us win it 1-0. As debut’s go, it was rather impressive.

As we’re still completely skint from the hedonistic Stickroth days, we can only afford to sign him on loan for our (one) season in the top flight. But like Stickroth, he too turns out to be just a shadow of the player that was so impressive in the late-season run-in. Bar one decent performance against Dundee in the League Cup, he leaves in January having contributed bugger all. Turns out he didn’t leave due to being crap; reports soon emerged that he was a tea-leaf who was caught red-handed stealing from his team-mates. Apparently Graham Fenton is still trying to recover his Rolex watch.

[treibeis]

Countries/clubs that your Club should avoid.

Thomas Stickroth's dad used to cut Elvis Presley's hair. And he was a porn star as well, going under the name of Bruno Hakan.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Countries/clubs that your Club should avoid.

Now that's the sort of post I was hoping for. Something above and beyond, the tiny subset of argentinians (Who are undoubtedly a fine people) who sign for man utd are either physically deficient cowards who are afraid of their shite (veron) afraid of work (di Maria) or afraid of kicking the ball (romero,) or that the rest were psychotic rage machines who thought that everything you said to them was a direct insult to their balls, and that could not be tolerated.

We need to know about the jens paeslack, and the michael stickroths of this world

[GCostanza]

Countries/clubs that your Club should avoid.

We don't really need to know about Man U either.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Countries/clubs that your Club should avoid.

extraneous "don't" in that last sentence that completely changed the meaning of the whole post, from a "thank you for making by laugh like a drain CY Boaby," to a "fuck you CY Boaby. Did you just insult my Mother's balls?"

[treibeis]

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The Awesome Berbaslug!!! wrote: We need to know about the jens paeslack, and the michael stickroths of this world

Jens Paeslack was in the news just last week. Something to do with the hotel fire in Dubai.

I saw a couple of games featuring the local team he managed, which included a 40-year-old Stefan Schnoor playing on the left wing. Yuri Savichev was also on the touchline. Thomas Stickroth may have been in attendance, but I doubt it.

[AMMS]

Countries/clubs that your Club should avoid.

CY_Boaby wrote: St Mirren should stay clear of German players. We’ve not had that many, but they’ve certainly left their mark.

Our first was Thomas Stickroth, a George Michael lookalike, who we got in on loan towards the end of the 1989-90 season. Made his debut as a 2nd-half sub against Rangers at Love St, and scared the shite out of Terry Butcher & Co. The chant from us Saints fans that day was "Sign Him!!"

So based on a few impressive late-season appearances, we paid a club record 400k to Bayer Uerdingen. It wasn’t value for money. Those 20 mins against Rangers were as good as it got, apart from the odd flash of class, notably against Celtic when he whipped in a great cross for Guni Torfason to head home as we humped them 3-0 at Parkhead.

Pre-internet days, so I remember being rather bamboozled when I read an article in the Evening Times which claimed he'd been "blacklisted" back in Germany. As with most stories not concerning the old firm, no explanation or further clarification was ever given. That was it.

The following year, as the club hurtled towards mounting debt and relegation, he buggered off back to Germany for next to nothing, where I presume his "blacklisting" was no longer valid, however I don’t recall seeing any article in the Evening Times to clarify.

Fast forward 7 years, and we're top of the 1st Division and heading back to the SPL. Like Stickroth, we sign another German on loan towards the end of the season; this one going by the name of Jens Paeslack. He makes his debut in a massive top of the table clash with Falkirk, coming on as a sub after our striker, Mark Yardley, went off injured after only a few minutes. On comes Paeslack, where he and his Falkirk marker proceed to batter the hell out of one another the entire game, and he more than helps us win it 1-0. As debut’s go, it was rather impressive.

As we’re still completely skint from the hedonistic Stickroth days, we can only afford to sign him on loan for our (one) season in the top flight. But like Stickroth, he too turns out to be just a shadow of the player that was so impressive in the late-season run-in. Bar one decent performance against Dundee in the League Cup, he leaves in January having contributed bugger all. Turns out he didn’t leave due to being crap; reports soon emerged that he was a tea-leaf who was caught red-handed stealing from his team-mates. Apparently Graham Fenton is still trying to recover his Rolex watch.

You should bought the Paisley Daily Express instead of a Glasgow paper Boaby.
I remember there being a tabloid story about Stickroth being involved in a stabbing in a nightclub in Germany and that was why he left. I think he was on the sharp end of the knife and someone else was holding the handle.

I imagine having been stabbed once already it didn't take him very long to decide Paisley wasn't the town for him...