9 Terrible Swansea City Signings That Utterly Failed

3. Pawel Abbott

Swansea have always been hit and miss with their strikers and the next three players are examples of just that. Pawel Abbott joined Swansea from Huddersfield in the January transfer window of 2007 under the reign of Kenny Jackett. He joined for £150,000 - a fee at that time was still fairly head turning based on our status and financial health. Swansea soon attempted to cut their losses and shipped off the Polish striker to Darlington for £100,000 just 6 months later with Roberto Martinez in charge. Abbott had demonstrated his talent against Swansea just a month earlier, helping Huddersfield achieve a last gasp 3-2 win plus his goalscoring record under the Terriers demonstrated ratio of around 1 in 2.5 games. Decent. Dependable. It all sounded so promising. His actual performances for Swansea were dire. With Eighteen appearances made in his six months at the club, Kenny Jackett and Roberto Martinez both tried and tried to integrate the former Huddersfield man into the squad but with just one goal scored in those eighteen games his record of 1 in 2.5 looked to be finally over along with his Swansea career.