Under Mike Ashley, Newcastle have been part of some of the most memorable transfer sagas and false stories the Premier League has ever seen, turning the club from the money-spending power-house who signed Shearer into the "fools" who sold Carroll, Ba and Cabaye. But over the course of the Premier League - and even before that watershed moment in 1992 - the club have also made some strange decisions that led to uninspiring players making precisely no impact on the pitch, and even less on the fans. Sometimes the players simply didn't get the chances they should have, and others were simply not good enough, or not developed enough to make a mark in the first team. Occasionally, there were some players whose abject performances were so miserable that fans have simply chosen to forget they ever happened...