2. Ali Dia (unattached to Southampton)
Southampton manager Graeme Souness was convinced to sign Ali Dia after a phone call from a man who said he was George Weah, and that Dia was his cousin.
He wasn’t George Weah. Ali Dia isn’t George Weah’s cousin anyway.
At no point in the conversation did it appear to occur to Graeme Souness that maybe consanguinity to a good player wasn’t the best grounds to sign someone.
A substituted substitute appearance was the humiliating moment that Souness realised his mistake, and Dia’s first and last game for the club.
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