FourFourTwo - Best and Worst Foreigner

[parky]

Gylfi has to be the best player I have ever seen in a Reading shirt. As for worst, it has to be Mass Sarr.

TOTMFP

[RoyalBlue]

Mass Sarr. Desparate times called for desparate measures and the expectation was enormous

This. Was gutted to miss his first goal.. long time coming. I'd also perhaps have to say Tony Rougier..

Perhaps I'm confused or imagining it but didn't Rougier turn out to be an absolute hero in a monsoon v Oxford?

Likewise, did he not score an important goal at Tranmere, which helped us along the way to promotion at Brentford a couple of games later?

[parky]

Mass Sarr. Desparate times called for desparate measures and the expectation was enormous

This. Was gutted to miss his first goal.. long time coming. I'd also perhaps have to say Tony Rougier..

Perhaps I'm confused or imagining it but didn't Rougier turn out to be an absolute hero in a monsoon v Oxford?

Likewise, did he not score an important goal at Tranmere, which helped us along the way to promotion at Brentford a couple of games later?

Rougier did play a blinder against oxford at home. However, without his arse we would have won the playoff final against walsall then lost all the ITV Digital money and would currently be trying to tread water in League 1 rather than gunning for the Premiership.

[mr_number]

Did Mass Sarr not score a pretty tidy goal against Lincoln after we'd gone one down to a peno in the first minute? Or maybe he just ran with the ball for a bit from the left and the excitement I felt then was the peak of his career in my eyes...

[peterroyal76]

Best: Marcus
Worst: Fae

[From Despair To Where?]

Did Mass Sarr not score a pretty tidy goal against Lincoln after we'd gone one down to a peno in the first minute? Or maybe he just ran with the ball for a bit from the left and the excitement I felt then was the peak of his career in my eyes...

Yeah, his first goal for the club, a run down the left wing and cracking finish from the corner of the penalty box to score the winner. IIRC Neil Clement equalised for us about 20 seconds into the second half with a 35yd scuffer that the keeper let through his legs Massimo Tiaibi style. Just a shame the majority of the crowd were still in the concourse finishing their beers at the time and missed it

Sarr's other goal was a 3yd belter late on in a 2-1 home defeat to Chesterfield. Oh, how the times have changed.

I see some people have mentioned Tony Rougier. I was watching a few old videos and dvd's the other week and the most striking thing was how week in, week out, he was involved in just about everything good we did. I know it's only highlight's but it did make me think that he was a much much better player than we collectively ever gave him credit for.

[Handsome Man]

Best foreigner - Jimmy Kebe. He is so great.

Matejovsky by a country mile for worst foreigner. He set up loads of opposition goals, made inch-perfect passes to nobody and was the dictionary definition of lightweight in every performance. Also, tackling wasn't a particularly strong part of his game.

[Fluff]

Best: Darius

Worst: Borislav Mikhailov

[Ian Herring]

Best foreigner - Jimmy Kebe. He is so great.

Matejovsky by a country mile for worst foreigner. He set up loads of opposition goals, made inch-perfect passes to nobody and was the dictionary definition of lightweight in every performance. Also, tackling wasn't a particularly strong part of his game.

Plus he was a dead ringer for Ian Huntley.

[CentiaRoyal]

Technically the best foreigner has to be Gylfi as he did, and still does, just ooze class. But, my favourite foreigner has to be, and probably always will be Archie. Worst foreigner in my opinion was Peter van der Kwaak.

[sandman]

Matejovsky by a country mile for worst foreigner. He set up loads of opposition goals, made inch-perfect passes to nobody and was the dictionary definition of lightweight in every performance. Also, tackling wasn't a particularly strong part of his game.

He was just on a different wavelength to the other players.

[seahawk10]

Peter Mate? Or do they actually have to appear to count?

[Wimb]

Best: Darius

Worst: Borislav Mikhailov

Bobby wasn't that bad, he was just injured all the time.

[Platypuss]

Best: Darius

Worst: Borislav Mikhailov

Bobby wasn't that bad, he was just "injured" all the time.

[The Real Sandhurst Royal]

Worst - If Scotland is included Mark Reilly who was one of Tommy Burns signings.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Peter Mate? Or do they actually have to appear to count?

We'll win the league, at St Andrews
and we'll do it for Peter Mate...

[pea]

Peter Mate? Or do they actually have to appear to count?

Mate was good!

In his one game

Versus darlington

Where we conceded three goals (did Joachim score a hattrick?)

But I'm pretty sure Mate scored a header and then a penalty too

[Terminal Boardom]

Michael Meaker. No way he was English, therefore, foreign!

What about Gylfi as our best foreigner? I am surprised this hasn't been mentioned.

[bripps]

Shaka the best for me.
Has to be Fae just for the woefull amount of dosh we wasted.

Shaka would get my vote as the best foreigner too. It felt like the goal we defended was bricked up from 1993 to 1995.

As for the worst; Elroy Kromheer/Peter Van Der Kwaak/Mass Sarr. I can't separate them. All very, very bad for different reasons. Fae was an expensive mistake during the Prem era but the three players above were out of their depth in what is now called League 1!

[Croydon Royal]

Peter Mate? Or do they actually have to appear to count?

Mate was good!

But I'm pretty sure Mate scored a header and then a penalty too

'Header' might be stretching it - I'm sure he put it in with his arm! Very cool penalty though.

FWIW I think it's hard to disagree with FourFourTwo's choices (and it's nice to see that they've put some thought it into it and not gone for people from the last year or two), but on the grounds that he played every minute of our two most successful seasons - and was player of the year in one of them - then I think I'll plump for Ivar as our best ever foreigner.