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Biggest transfer fails?

  • 10-03-2012 5:47pm
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭


    What is the worst big money transfer ever in your opinion? Is it Andy Caroll?:D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    darkman2 wrote: »
    What is the worst big money transfer ever in your opinion? Is it Andy Caroll?:D

    Torres cost more. Don't see how it could be anyone else.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Liverpool 2011


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,269 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    Tore Andre Flo is up there too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭Professional Griefer


    Here we go again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,441 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Liverpool 2011

    This pretty much hits the nail on the head actually :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,386 ✭✭✭✭DDC1990


    Konchesky... how Liverpool payed ANYTHING for him is just rediculous!

    I'd pay €35m for Carroll anyday before paying a cent for PFK.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Trevor Francis.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭bullvine


    Lentini


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    brolin
    balaban
    veron
    torres
    carroll


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭staker


    Juan Veron
    Sergei Rebrov
    Robinho
    Craig Gordon

    Can't think of any Gooner big money flops.:pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,734 ✭✭✭Fowler87


    staker wrote: »
    Juan Veron
    Sergei Rebrov
    Robinho.
    Craig Gordon

    Can't think of any Gooner big money flops.:pac:
    Jeffers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,280 ✭✭✭Glico Man


    staker wrote: »
    Juan Veron
    Sergei Rebrov
    Robinho
    Craig Gordon

    Can't think of any Gooner big money flops.:pac:

    Reyes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    Jest all you want. Look back to the past all you want, but the answer is Torres, no doubt about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,245 ✭✭✭Esse85


    Torres

    End of discussion, mods lock it up.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭the realpigiron


    Gary Birtles.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭the realpigiron


    Where To wrote: »
    Trevor Francis.

    Trevor Francis made lots of big money moves but most were successful.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,332 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    Torres


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,693 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    eZe^ will kill me...

    Ibrahimovic at Barcelona, there's no way it can be wrapped up as a good deal..Eto'o + 50m...and let go cheap


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭The Davestator


    Don't think you can call Torres the worst ever as he could get 20 a season for the next 4 seasons! From a Chelsea point of view, I reckon Sutton, Kezman, Veron or del horno.

    Whoever said Flo - blasphemy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,970 ✭✭✭mufcboy1999


    micheal owen, madrid to newcastle (never played, always injured)

    djemba djemba so good they named him twice

    kleberson

    david bellion

    andy carroll ( going to go down as the biggest flop in history)

    torres (even though i still think he will come good, at least he has talent unlike carroll)

    chamak

    crespo to chelsea

    mutu

    veron both united and especially chelsea


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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,336 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Seth Johnson - Derby to Leeds for £7m and a stupid salary (over £30k a week when his agent was only looking for about £15k). When he wasn't injured he somehow managed to play about 50 games and was generally useless. In the end Leeds couldn't even play him because they couldn't afford the extra payment based on appearances that would have been due to Derby and he was let go on a free.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    Denilson to Real Betis.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,683 ✭✭✭plasmaguy


    Two pages, and no-one has mentioned Arshavin? Lol.

    Arshavin would be near the top of any list.

    Wenger has had some great signings in his time but has made some awful signings as well, particularly in defence.

    Some of his best signings he got on the cheap, some of his worst he paid fortunes for.

    I think Alex Ferguson has made very few poor signings down through the years, maybe a handful, as opposed to the dozens of successes such as the likes of Sherringham, Solskar, Cantona, Keane, Cole, Yorke, Tevez, Vidic and so on.

    Possibly the biggest flop is Berbatov.

    Another good manager in the transfer market is David Moyes who gets great players on the cheap and makes them play above themselves. Great manager imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    plasmaguy wrote: »
    Two pages, and no-one has mentioned Arshavin? Lol.

    Arshavin would be near the top of any list.

    Wenger has had some great signings in his time but has made some awful signings as well, particularly in defence.

    Some of his best signings he got on the cheap, some of his worst he paid fortunes for.

    I think Alex Ferguson has made very few poor signings down through the years, maybe a handful, as opposed to the dozens of successes such as the likes of Sherringham, Solskar, Cantona, Keane, Cole, Yorke, Tevez, Vidic and so on.

    Possibly the biggest flop is Berbatov.

    Another good manager in the transfer market is David Moyes who gets great players on the cheap and makes them play above themselves. Great manager imo.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭James__10


    plasmaguy wrote: »
    Two pages, and no-one has mentioned Arshavin? Lol.

    Arshavin would be near the top of any list.

    Wenger has had some great signings in his time but has made some awful signings as well, particularly in defence.

    Some of his best signings he got on the cheap, some of his worst he paid fortunes for.

    I think Alex Ferguson has made very few poor signings down through the years, maybe a handful, as opposed to the dozens of successes such as the likes of Sherringham, Solskar, Cantona, Keane, Cole, Yorke, Tevez, Vidic and so on.

    Possibly the biggest flop is Berbatov.

    Another good manager in the transfer market is David Moyes who gets great players on the cheap and makes them play above themselves. Great manager imo.

    :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,683 ✭✭✭plasmaguy


    James__10 wrote: »
    :confused:

    Well like I said it was hard to find one, almost all Ferguson's recent transfers have been good, and the young players will come good when it counts as well.

    Maybe unfair to pick on Berbatov, but I don't think he ever fulfilled his potential at united, he was even dropped from the squad for the Champions League final from what I remember. A player who was paid almost 30 million for, should be in the starting line up every week.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,683 ✭✭✭plasmaguy


    Oranage2 wrote: »
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    Yeh, it's like two years since he done anything of note to be honest. Massive flop.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭ASOT


    Bebe


  • Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭kojack


    Kevin Davies when he went from Southampton to Blackburn £7.5 million + James Beattie. Davies only scored once


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭Bodhidharma


    In terms of expectation I'd say Torres. Right now it looks like he's passing time until his career ends.

    Shevchenko and Veron were pretty bad too.


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