Elon Bust
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The list of these is endless isn't it? Especially in the era between Prem relegation and Sven, where we had just a conveyor belt of shit in and out of the squad.
I think the ones that I'd say frustrate me most are the ones that you expect to be good - either because they had the potential, were a big name, or because they showed in rare glimpses - but failed to ever deliver consistently on that.
Demarai Gray is definitely up there as one of those
Keith Gillespie
Gareth Williams
Mark de Vries
Elvis
Gallagher
Ayoze Perez
Countless other wingers in there too...
I still see Paul Gallagher and Ayoze Perez as very similar and equally frustrating for the same reasons - both have good technical ability, but seem to have no natural position on a football pitch - not a winger, not an attacking mid, not a striker... Only Gally at least had a good hit on him to bring some moments of joy
This might be wrong but I thought when Gallagher was signed he'd simply been a striker at Blackburn, then Pearson converted him into a winger to accommodate him into the starting line-up.