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Top 10 worst transfers

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Some of those i disagree with - Joe Cole wasn't a bad buy but he came into a shite team at a bad time but was in my mind an ambitious transfer to an extent. Also not so sure that Borini was a bad buy either as he was brimming with potential.

This list needs Benteke, Robbie Keane & Aquilani in it for sure.
 
Brizzle said:
Some of those i disagree with - Joe Cole wasn't a bad buy but he came into a shite team at a bad time but was in my mind an ambitious transfer to an extent. Also not so sure that Borini was a bad buy either as he was brimming with potential.

This list needs Benteke, Robbie Keane & Aquilani in it for sure.
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Joe Cole was a horrible buy, and the only reason we bought him was because he wasn't a buy at all, and because people might be tricked to think it had some ambition behind it. What a horrible time that was.
 
Do you go based on price tag or just plain shit?

  1. Andy Carroll
  2. Christian Poulsen
  3. Paul Konchesky
  4. Fabio Borini
  5. Loris Karius
  6. Rickie Lambert
  7. Simon Mignolet
  8. Stewart Downing
  9. Adam Bogdan
  10. Alberto Moreno
 
Farkmaster said:
Joe Cole was a horrible buy, and the only reason we bought him was because he wasn't a buy at all, and because people might be tricked to think it had some ambition behind it. What a horrible time that was.
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In a world of Koncheskys, Adams, Poulsons, Voronins, Jovanovics etc it was a different level - but he is a player that excels with other great players around him and therefore was doomed to fail in our shite team of that time.
 
Rickie Lambert

Jesus Christ , that list evokes memories of dark , dark times at the club
 
Benteke is surely high on there. Everyone knew it didn't make sense and was not long after we got shut of Carroll and those days either
 
Diouf was well before 2010 though

& with Benteke we got near enough all our money back plus he did score that spectacular overhead against Utd
 
Rickie Lambert cost next to nothing and barely played so doesn't really count.

I know he's pre-2010 but Robbie Keane was one of the worst in recent times. Might have won the title that year.
 
Borini was far worst than Benteke....far worst.

Did well to get our money back most what we paid for both players tbh.
 
No mentions for Balotelli?

As for Borini, he's possibly the least talented player I've ever seen play for us.
 
Markovic!

How could we forget that worthless piece of garbage.

brought for 20m, hyped up as serbian messi....let go on free
 
OK, 2010 onwards

Can't argue with anyone on that list, but Balotelli should be higher (lower?) because I hated that cunt even before he played for us.
And yeah, Andy Carroll was a disaster. And fucking Markovic.

Aquilani would have been well up there, but he was 2009 I think.
 
I don't think Aquilani was that bad, actually thought he looked good before his injuries.
 
Halmeister said:
No mentions for Balotelli?

As for Borini, he's possibly the least talented player I've ever seen play for us.
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This

He wasn't quick, couldn't dribble, was very average at shooting / passing, couldn't head the ball, didn't seem to have a strikers instinct, wasn't the greatest crosser of a ball, didn't seem to have great vision. He ran about a bit, I suppose.
 
Andy Carroll - I remember a few months before thinking he was a £10m player in a bit of form absolutely shocked when we signed him.

The right answer is probably Balotelli, known to be shit on and off the field yet we still signed him.
 
Benteke, we didn't lose much money on. Lazar, Carroll, Downing, Aquilani, Balotelli, and Moreno we lost something like £100m there
 
Brizzle said:
Some of those i disagree with - Joe Cole wasn't a bad buy but he came into a shite team at a bad time but was in my mind an ambitious transfer to an extent. Also not so sure that Borini was a bad buy either as he was brimming with potential.

This list needs Benteke, Robbie Keane & Aquilani in it for sure.
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Robbie Keane was shafted by Rafa.
 
Markeh said:
Andy Carroll - I remember a few months before thinking he was a £10m player in a bit of form absolutely shocked when we signed him.

The right answer is probably Balotelli, known to be shit on and off the field yet we still signed him.
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Signed on the back of half of a season in the Premier league, and at a laughably inflated fee. But given the Torres debacle, we needed to make a quick statement of intent, which was a horrible error.

And the desperation to make him a success arguably led to other dismal signings - the players to "swing in the crosses" and deliver accurate set-pieces onto his head - namely Downing and Adam.

It seemed a retrograde step from a footballing POV - the "big old-fashioned target man" - but I was never that bothered about how fashionable a player was, just how effective he could be, and there's been a few big grock up front footballers who have done OK.

But dear me. He just never seemed to care enough, and while his frame was always going to be vulnerable, I'm very sure he didn't help himself with his poor training, diet and off-field antics, so he was (and is) never fit.

And he never had the touch, technique, brains or drive to be a spearhead like, I dunno, Drogba, Costa, or even a Giroud, and the quality big lads like Drogba, Lewandowski or Dzeko also had/ have superb ability with their feet, even if they do rely on good service from wide, like most of them,

Carroll just lumbered around and hoped for a massive gap to emerge for a left-footed whallop, or the ball to be hung up in the box, where he could be very dangerous with his head. But that's all he ever used it for, the fucking thick cunt.

For £35m, that was laughable.
 
manwithnoname said:
Signed on the back of half of a season in the Premier league, and at a laughably inflated fee. But given the Torres debacle, we needed to make a quick statement of intent, which was a horrible error.

And the desperation to make him a success arguably led to other dismal signings - the players to "swing in the crosses" and deliver accurate set-pieces onto his head - namely Downing and Adam.

It seemed a retrograde step from a footballing POV - the "big old-fashioned target man" - but I was never that bothered about how fashionable a player was, just how effective he could be, and there's been a few big grock up front footballers who have done OK.

But dear me. He just never seemed to care enough, and while his frame was always going to be vulnerable, I'm very sure he didn't help himself with his poor training, diet and off-field antics, so he was (and is) never fit.

And he never had the touch, technique, brains or drive to be a spearhead like, I dunno, Drogba, Costa, or even a Giroud, and the quality big lads like Drogba, Lewandowski or Dzeko also had/ have superb ability with their feet, even if they do rely on good service from wide, like most of them,

Carroll just lumbered around and hoped for a massive gap to emerge for a left-footed whallop, or the ball to be hung up in the box, where he could be very dangerous with his head. But that's all he ever used it for, the fucking thick cunt.

For £35m, that was laughable.
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I do remember towards the beginning the fans made that expectant / encouraging roar when the ball was lumped up to him. There was also the brief moment we actually thought he could be decent when he scored a header against city that actually came off his elbow.

It was one of the first things Rodgers did wasnt it, immediately booting him without even giving him a chance? Great decision and decent fee.

Trying to flog Henderson too sort of takes the shine off that for Rodgers though.
 
Markeh said:
I do remember towards the beginning the fans made that expectant / encouraging roar when the ball was lumped up to him. There was also the brief moment we actually thought he could be decent when he scored a header against city that actually came off his elbow.

It was one of the first things Rodgers did wasnt it, immediately booting him without even giving him a chance? Great decision and decent fee.

Trying to flog Henderson too sort of takes the shine off that for Rodgers though.
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As do a few of his signings: Borini, Benteke, Aspas, Allen, Markovic, Sakho, Toure, Mignolet, bogdan, Alberto....

Mind you, all managers have their disastrous transfers, Rodgers just had a few too many.
 
Brizzle said:
In a world of Koncheskys, Adams, Poulsons, Voronins, Jovanovics etc it was a different level - but he is a player that excels with other great players around him and therefore was doomed to fail in our shite team of that time.
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He was a past-it player who had been flattered by having the luxury of quality all around him where he had previously played. That transfer was when I realized it was getting really bad.
 
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