Your club's 'worst signings XI'?

geeky

Listening to the 5 live football daily, they were talking about how Newcastle were reversing the trend of god-awful signings and made an interesting comment - that fans would have an interesting time picking out their XI of the club's worst acquisitions.

It kind of suggested a little parlor game - can you make up a team of your club's worst signings? Thinking from the start of the PL era as it'd be unworkable otherwise. Here's my shout for Chelsea F.C.


Bosnich
Panucci Boulahrouz Bogarde Del Horno
De Lucas Veron Sidwell Ambrosetti
Mutu Sutton

My bench is Sheva (just pipped by the cokehead), Glen Johnson, SWP (purely because of the price tag/hype), Scott Parker (more the club's fault than his own) and Neil Sullivan (because, Bosnich aside, we've actually had decent luck with keepers)

Roy Hodgson

geeky

rarnes1 wrote: »

Roy Hodgson

oh yeah sorry! Manager - Scolari. Waste of space.

rednik

Taibi
Djemba Djemba
Kleberson
Evans
Carrick
Bebe
Veron
Gibson
Birtles
Darren Ferguson
Liam Miller

mike65

There are far too many to cram in so this is purely a token effort

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Itandje
Josemi-Paletta-Pellegrino-Konchesky
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Keane-Dundee-Voronin

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Carrick and Veron?

Get to fúck.

bullvine

Taibi
Liam Miller Blanc Prunier Richardson
Obertan Djembax2 Kleberson Cruyff
Berbatov Bellion

Had to jig it a little.. Players out of position and Prunier was only a loan!

Blazer

In no particular order - Newcastle United
Xisco
Gillespie
Ian Rush
John Barnes
Andreas Andersson
Paul Dalglish
Stephane Guivarch
Darren Huckerby
Marcelino
Alessandro Pistone
Paul Robinson
Jon Dahl Tomasson
George Georgiadis
Shítus Shambles
Alain Boumsong
Albert Luque

VW 1

rednik wrote: »

Taibi
Djemba Djemba
Kleberson
Evans
Carrick
Bebe
Veron
Gibson
Birtles
Darren Ferguson
Liam Miller

bullvine wrote: »

Taibi
Liam Miller Blanc Prunier Richardson
Obertan Djembax2 Kleberson Cruyff
Berbatov Bellion

Had to jig it a little.. Players out of position and Prunier was only a loan!

Evans, Carrick, Veron, Blanc, Berbatov?

I'll have some of what you lads are smoking please

EDIT: and as products of our youth system Gibson and Evans dont count as signings.

bullvine

VW 1 wrote: »

Evans, Carrick, Veron, Blanc?

I'll have some of what you lads are smoking please

Blanc was terrible, absolutely terrible, he was so washed up when he went to Old Trafford, he was a great player in his day but not by 2001. Remember...

B-olton
L-iverpool
A-rsenal
N-ewscastle
C-helsea

all before Xmas 2001

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Larry White wasn't "terrible"

bullvine

Des wrote: »

Larry White wasn't "terrible"

I think he was fairly awful when he arrived, all though in fairness he played well in most the european games that season. Just in the league he was so exposed, lets not forget the Spurs match coming from 3 nil down.

maximoose

2 biggies stand out for me for Leeds:

Roque Junior - massive hype around him when he arrived, own goal and sent off on his debut IIRC and didn't feature much.

Seth Johnson - £7m at the time was a LOT, and he just got injured and was rubbish really

Berbatov? Wasn't he top scorer last season?

And we're called dilusional

kennyb3

Sc@recrow wrote: »

In no particular order - Newcastle United
Xisco
Gillespie
Ian Rush
John Barnes
Andreas Andersson
Paul Dalglish
Stephane Guivarch
Darren Huckerby
Marcelino
Alessandro Pistone
Paul Robinson
Jon Dahl Tomasson
George Georgiadis
Shítus Shambles
Alain Boumsong
Albert Luque

Hugo viana? Carl cort? Dont think pistone was too bad really

edit: silvio maric was another donkey

D'Agger

mike65 wrote: »

There are far too many to cram in so this is purely a token effort

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Itandje
Josemi-Paletta-Pellegrino-Konchesky
---Cheyrou---Poulson----Diao

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Keane-Dundee-Voronin

The only change I'd make to this is Jan Kromkamp for Josemi

Apart from that - Nail.Head.

mike65

A bit of me would love to see that side play someone like Arsenal or Barca just for the chaos of it all.

bullvine

rarnes1 wrote: »

Berbatov? Wasn't he top scorer last season?

And we're called dilusional

For the money he cost, the return hes given and practically no re-sale value, he got my vote for Fergies worst big money signing.

Le King

Andy Goram x11

Rubbish keeper here and an even worse person.

rednik

Veron was one of the worst signings United have ever made. £28 million ten years ago. Getting £15 million for him off Chelsea was a great bit of business considering a year later he was back on LOAN in Italy.

He was a great footballer, just not in England.

Kess73

mike65 wrote: »

There are far too many to cram in so this is purely a token effort

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Itandje
Josemi-Paletta-Pellegrino-Konchesky
---Cheyrou---Poulson----Diao

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Keane-Dundee-Voronin

The likes of Carter, Stewart, Dicks, Hooper etc should walk into your team before some of the names you put up.

ilovelamp2000

All fairly recent and a mixture of in because they were **** and in because they were awful transfer deals.

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Chris Kirkland

Glen Johnson ---Mauricio Pellegrino ---Phil Babb --- Andrea Dossena

Antonio Nunez ---- Alberto Aquilani -- Salif Diao ---- Stewart Downing

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Robbie Keane --- Andy Carroll

Bench:
Charles Itandje
Djibril Cisse
Bruno Cheyrou
Paul Konchesky
Christian Poulsen
Gabriel Paletta

M5

Sports Direct FC NUFC hall of shame

Lionel Perez £2,000,000

Alessandro Pistone £4,500,000
Elena Marcelino £5,800,000
Alain Goma £4,700,000
Didier Domi £4,000,000
Jean Alain Boumsong £8,000,000

Silvio Maric £3,650,000
Cristian Bassedas £4,130,000
Hugo Miguel Viana £8,500,000

Michael Owen £17,000,000
Albert Luque £9,500,000

71 million pounds of rubbish

tok9

ilovelamp2000 wrote: »

All fairly recent and a mixture of in because they were **** and in because they were awful transfer deals.

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Chris Kirkland

Glen Johnson ---Mauricio Pellegrino ---Phil Babb --- Andrea Dossena

Antonio Nunez ---- Alberto Aquilani -- Salif Diao ---- Stewart Downing

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Robbie Keane --- Andy Carroll

Bench:
Charles Itandje
Djibril Cisse
Bruno Cheyrou
Paul Konchesky
Christian Poulsen
Gabriel Paletta

Downing has only been around for a few months and Carroll the same really.

Very harsh I think!

Also I know the Aquilani transfer didn't work out but he still did more in the games he was given then others who we signed. He'd be excellent in our team now!

Leiva

Any of the Spice Boys bar Fowler, McManaman & Carra

D'Agger

ilovelamp2000 wrote: »

All fairly recent and a mixture of in because they were **** and in because they were awful transfer deals.

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Chris Kirkland

Glen Johnson ---Mauricio Pellegrino ---Phil Babb --- Andrea Dossena

Antonio Nunez ---- Alberto Aquilani -- Salif Diao ---- Stewart Downing

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Robbie Keane --- Andy Carroll

Bench:
Charles Itandje
Djibril Cisse
Bruno Cheyrou
Paul Konchesky
Christian Poulsen
Gabriel Paletta

Carroll and Downing up there already?

After some of the shíte we've purchased??

Pathetic

Fowler87

PaulieC wrote: »

Carroll and Downing up there already?

After some of the shíte we've purchased??

Pathetic

Carroll shouldnt be in there, however Downing is turning into a Robbie Keane type buy unfortunately:(

Fowler87

mike65 wrote: »

There are far too many to cram in so this is purely a token effort

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Itandje
Josemi-Paletta-Pellegrino-Konchesky
---Cheyrou---Poulson----Diao

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Keane-Dundee-Voronin

Id nearly omit Cheyrou for the cracking winner against Chelsea a few year ago. However he did admit he was the next Zidane:pac:

D'Agger

Fowler87 wrote: »

Carroll shouldnt be in there, however Downing is turning into a Robbie Keane type buy unfortunately:(

Give a long hard look over some of the players we've signed in the last 10-15 years, Downing isn't half as bad as Mark Gonzalez, Nunez or Cheyrou

Ridiculous call imo

bullvine

PaulieC wrote: »

Give a long hard look over some of the players we've signed in the last 10-15 years, Downing isn't half as bad as Mark Gonzalez, Nunez or Cheyrou

Ridiculous call imo

Sean Dundee takes some beating in fairness!

Fowler87

PaulieC wrote: »

Give a long hard look over some of the players we've signed in the last 10-15 years, Downing isn't half as bad as Mark Gonzalez, Nunez or Cheyrou

Ridiculous call imo

Not saying hes as bad as them but value for money and considering his age, theres definitely similarities between himself and Keane (even though they play in different positions)

Pierce_1991

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D'Agger

Fowler87 wrote: »

Not saying hes as bad as them but value for money and considering his age, theres definitely similarities between himself and Keane (even though they play in different positions)

We've yet to see his value though - while he has played quite a few games at this stage and I've been critical of his last 3 performances or so, it's still a bit too early to judge him as being worthy of being included in a team like this.

Kess73

bullvine wrote: »

Sean Dundee takes some beating in fairness!

The guy only had three sub appearances for Liverpool, so fair play to anyone who can judge his playing time at Liverpool. If anything he was a bit of a fall guy thanks to the stupid idea of having a joint manager system. Plus he was hardly going to push Michael Owen from the team at that time.

Paparazzo

bullvine wrote: »

Taibi
Liam Miller Blanc Prunier Richardson
Obertan Djembax2 Kleberson Cruyff
Berbatov Bellion

Had to jig it a little.. Players out of position and Prunier was only a loan!

Prunier was woeful. He has to be captain.

keano_afc

Arsenal:

Richard Wright

Oleg Luzhny Pal Lyderson Igor Stepanovs Pascal Cygan

Eddie McGoldrick Jimmy Carter Stafan Malz Glenn Helder

Kaba Diawara Clive Allen

noodler

Think people forget Keane scored 7 goals in the 4 months he was at Liverpool.

Granted the fact he was sold for a loss so soon after being bought means the signing was a failure.

Aqualani is number one for me though. Absolute waste - at least we didn't pay Keane's wages when he went back to Spurs and forego a transfer fee.


EDIT: And while we are at it, people are saying don't judge Carroll after 10 months? Why not? He cost double what Keane cost, has scored less goals in the more time and will have a worse resale value if he was sold right now.

I like Johnson. I think we needed him, maybe not for 18m but we needed another wide option for home games where we can't break down weaker opposition.

Kess73

keano_afc wrote: »

Arsenal:

Richard Wright

Oleg Luzhny Pal Lyderson Igor Stepanovs Pascal Cygan

Eddie McGoldrick Jimmy Carter Stafan Malz Glenn Helder

Kaba Diawara Clive Allen

How he managed to be signed by Liverpool and then Arsenal I will never know.:D

He only played in something like 10 games for Liverpool when cup games are included, but he poxxed a 3 or 4 year stay at Arsenal. Will never forget the first time I saw him play for Liverpool. The ball was passed to him, and he looked at it like it was the first time he saw a ball. Then when he tried to kick it most of us reckoned it was the first time he saw a ball and that the Jimmy Carter at Millwall must have been a different guy.:D

D'Agger

noodler wrote: »

Think people forget Keane scored 7 goals in the 4 months he was at Liverpool.

Granted the fact he was sold for a loss so soon after being bought means the signing was a failure.

Aqualani is number one for me though. Absolute waste - at least we didn't pay Keane's wages when he went back to Spurs and forego a transfer fee.


EDIT: And while we are at it, people are saying don't judge Carroll after 10 months? Why not? He cost double what Keane cost, has scored less goals in the more time and will have a worse resale value if he was sold right now.

I like Johnson. I think we needed him, maybe not for 18m but we needed another wide option for home games where we can't break down weaker opposition.

I said don't judge Downing which I'll stand by

I don't think Carroll should be on the team of worst signings however - 10 calendar months - how many games has he played, he had an injury when he signed and he's only been given a run of games in the last few so putting him on the list of worst signings is fairly premature imo

SlipperyPeople

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Panucci---Bogarde---Emerson Thome---Del Horno

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Ambrosetti----De Lucas

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smertin

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Kezman----Sutton

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djfitzerjnr

Seeing as every single Rafa Benitiz transfer was sh1te :rolleyes:

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Reina

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Arbeloa-Agger-Srktel-Aurelio

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Mascherano-Alonso

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Kuyt

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Aquilani---Benayoun

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Torres

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Blazer

kennyb3 wrote: »

Hugo viana? Carl cort? Dont think pistone was too bad really

edit: silvio maric was another donkey

Forgot Hugo actually although in fairness he was never given a chance and forced to play in midfield etc instead of left.

Considered Cort but I remember one season where he only played like 10 games before going out injured and in those 10 games he had scored 8 goals and was joint top goal scorer at the club at the time...which was ****in ridiculous considering how long he was out injured and it was a few months later.
So he was a good signing but proved to be massively injury prone.
Really pity really as he had the makings of a top goalscorer.

noodler

PaulieC wrote: »

I said don't judge Downing which I'll stand by

I don't think Carroll should be on the team of worst signings however - 10 calendar months - how many games has he played, he had an injury when he signed and he's only been given a run of games in the last few so putting him on the list of worst signings is fairly premature imo

Agreed.

People have no problem doing it with Keane.

I hope Carroll comes through obviously.

We paid too much for Downing but I don't really have many fears about him being a success for us because he has done it reasonably consistently in recent years.

Kess73

djfitzerjnr wrote: »

Seeing as every single Rafa Benitiz transfer was sh1te :rolleyes:

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Reina

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Arbeloa-Agger-Srktel-Aurelio

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Mascherano-Alonso

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Kuyt

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Aquilani---Benayoun

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Torres

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Swap Bellamy (first time round) for Yossi, and that is a bloody strong Rafa bought first XI save for Skrtel.

djfitzerjnr

Kess73 wrote: »

Swap Bellamy (first time round) for Yossi, and that is a bloody strong Rafa bought first XI save for Skrtel.

True.

Don't forget, no homegrown players included in that either.

greendom

PaulieC wrote: »

I said don't judge Downing which I'll stand by

I don't think Carroll should be on the team of worst signings however - 10 calendar months - how many games has he played, he had an injury when he signed and he's only been given a run of games in the last few so putting him on the list of worst signings is fairly premature imo

Signing him when injured - perhaps the warning signs should have been heeded ?

D'Agger

greendom wrote: »

Signing him when injured - perhaps the warning signs should have been heeded ?

Nah fúck warning signs

greendom

PaulieC wrote: »

Nah fúck warning signs

Sure - if you've got £35 million to burn - Looking at the current Newcastle squad and what they've done with the money, I'd say they've got the better end of the deal.

D'Agger

greendom wrote: »

Sure - if you've got £35 million to burn

At the time we had £50million to blow so yeah you're right

Looking at the current Newcastle squad and what they've done with the money, I'd say they've got the better end of the deal.

I'm not a Newcastle fan so I'm really not bothered where they put the money or who they spent it on tbh.

Do you think Carroll should be on the worst signings team for Liverpool? Seeing as that was the original issue

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Alan Moore.

"Moore, Moore, Moore, nobody likes you, nobody likes you"

greendom

PaulieC wrote: »

At the time we had £50million to blow so yeah you're right



I'm not a Newcastle fan so I'm really not bothered where they put the money or who they spent it on tbh.

Do you think Carroll should be on the worst signings team for Liverpool? Seeing as that was the original issue

No I think it's too early to judge.