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RE: Jonas Olsson leaves Albion: farewell message to fans - drewks - 23-03-2017
(23-03-2017, 20:16)Ska Wrote:(23-03-2017, 19:24)aries22 Wrote: He was one of Tony Mowbray's best buys at £0.7m!
Brunt for 3m: 306+ games, 42 goals
Morrison for 1.5m: 277+ games, 33 goals
Olsson for 800k: 237 games, 15 goals
Mulumbu for 175k: 191 games, 15 goals
I'd actually defy anyone to find four better bargain signings made by a single manager this century (with Ashworth's input, of course). Shame it never worked out for Pedro Pele and Sherjill MacDonald, but you can't win 'em all
I'd certainly add Graham Dorrans (£100k?) to that impressive list - although he didn't reach quite the heights that he promised early on
RE: Jonas Olsson leaves Albion: farewell message to fans - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 23-03-2017
Yeah, that's fair. Dorrans was 100k, 154 games, 21 goals. It was those five players who gave us promotion in 2010, basically. For survival the following year you have to add Odemwingie and Scharner to the mix (take them away and we'd have dropped like a stone in a very tough dogfight that season), but these guys stayed in or around the very core of the team from 2009-2014. It'll definitely be looked back on as their era at Albion.
RE: Jonas Olsson leaves Albion: farewell message to fans - BaggieMan - 23-03-2017
Jonas Olsson, you're a good 'un, a great pro and fully deserve the praise being given.
Farewell with our blessing, our memories and our best wishes wishes for the future.
RE: Jonas Olsson leaves Albion: farewell message to fans - Stairs - 24-03-2017
Great thread. Great bloke
RE: Jonas Olsson leaves Albion: farewell message to fans - betterthanbaird - 24-03-2017
Great player and it's a shame to see him go but it's probably the right time for everyone. Terrific for someone to stay at one club for the 9 best years of his career, I don't know if anyone could find out, but he must be one of the higher appearance makers for us of the foreign players. We'll miss him.
RE: Jonas Olsson leaves Albion: farewell message to fans - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 24-03-2017
(24-03-2017, 12:35)betterthanbaird Wrote: I don't know if anyone could find out, but he must be one of the higher appearance makers for us of the foreign players.
Excluding players from the UK and Republic of Ireland, the top 40 seems to be as follows:
Richard Sneekes - 251 games
Jonas Olsson - 237 games
Youssouf Mulumbu - 191 games
Zoltan Gera - 165 games
Claudio Yacob - 136+ games
Robert Koren - 130 games
Larus Sigurdsson - 127 games
Martin Albrechtsen - 118 games
Jason Van Blerk - 109 games
Gabriel Tamas - 88 games
Peter Odemwingie - 87 games
Roman Bednar - 85 games
Romeo Zondervan - 84 games
Thomas Gaardsoe - 81 games
Marc-Antoine Fortune - 80 games
Stephane Sessegnon - 79 games
Shaun Murphy - 71 games
Igor Balis - 69 games
Gianni Zuiverloon - 65 games
Martin Jol - 63 games
Jordao - 63 games
Salomon Rondon - 63+ games
Paul Scharner - 62 games
Fabian De Freitas - 61 games
Diomansy Kamara - 60 games
Nwankwo Kanu - 58 games
Gonzalo Jara - 56 games
Victor Anichebe - 55 games
Marek Cech - 54 games
Andy McDermott - 52 games
Carl Hoefkens - 52 games
Filipe Teixeira - 49 games
Abdoulaye Meite - 48 games
Enzo Maresca - 47 games
Brian Jensen - 46 games
Bernt Haas - 46 games
Paul Peschisolido - 45 games
Somen Tchoyi - 41 games
Mario Bortolazzi - 35 games
Romelu Lukaku - 35 games
RE: Jonas Olsson leaves Albion: farewell message to fans - BaggieSteve - 24-03-2017
(24-03-2017, 14:17)Ska Wrote:(24-03-2017, 12:35)betterthanbaird Wrote: I don't know if anyone could find out, but he must be one of the higher appearance makers for us of the foreign players.
Excluding players from the UK and Republic of Ireland, the top 40 seems to be as follows:
Richard Sneekes - 251 games
Jonas Olsson - 237 games
Youssouf Mulumbu - 191 games
Zoltan Gera - 165 games
Claudio Yacob - 136+ games
Robert Koren - 130 games
Larus Sigurdsson - 127 games
Martin Albrechtsen - 118 games
Jason Van Blerk - 109 games
Gabriel Tamas - 88 games
Peter Odemwingie - 87 games
Roman Bednar - 85 games
Romeo Zondervan - 84 games
Thomas Gaardsoe - 81 games
Marc-Antoine Fortune - 80 games
Stephane Sessegnon - 79 games
Shaun Murphy - 71 games
Igor Balis - 69 games
Gianni Zuiverloon - 65 games
Martin Jol - 63 games
Jordao - 63 games
Salomon Rondon - 63+ games
Paul Scharner - 62 games
Fabian De Freitas - 61 games
Diomansy Kamara - 60 games
Nwankwo Kanu - 58 games
Gonzalo Jara - 56 games
Victor Anichebe - 55 games
Marek Cech - 54 games
Andy McDermott - 52 games
Carl Hoefkens - 52 games
Filipe Teixeira - 49 games
Abdoulaye Meite - 48 games
Enzo Maresca - 47 games
Brian Jensen - 46 games
Bernt Haas - 46 games
Paul Peschisolido - 45 games
Somen Tchoyi - 41 games
Mario Bortolazzi - 35 games
Romelu Lukaku - 35 games
Some great names there......... and some less so
RE: Jonas Olsson leaves Albion: farewell message to fans - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 24-03-2017
Be grateful I stopped before we got down to Sekou Berthe, Georges Santos and Stanislav Varga
RE: Jonas Olsson leaves Albion: farewell message to fans - Beefy 1965 - 25-03-2017
What was the name of that keeper we signed on the back of a great World cup
Saved loads of Penalty's in shoot outs,joined us then the ball became a bar of soap and he became a laughing stock
RE: Jonas Olsson leaves Albion: farewell message to fans - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 25-03-2017
Pascal Zuberbuhler.