Best and Worst Transfers

jonno · 27-02-2003 11:32am #1

Well what do ye think were the most influential and most useless transfers in the last few years?

I reckon the Anelka transfer to Man. City was a greta buy for them. Then there's Fowler. I think the two could do great job there.

As for the worst, well most of GH's buys at Liverpool apart from Dudek, Kirkland and Diouf have not been very successfull so they'd have to go in there as bad ones. Then Karel Poborsky's move to Utd turned out to be a disaster as well.

hussey · 27-02-2003 11:53am

from a man utd point of view:
Best
Dennis Irwin .. next to nothing
Cantona .. at the tim I think 1.3mil??
Keane : 3.3mill
Schmeical

worst :
Karl P
david May
Jourdi Cryff

Waylander · 27-02-2003 11:53am

Arsene wenger buying a substitute winger ( Henry ) and turning him inot one of the best strikers in the world was a pretty good signing. Wenger has made quite a few inspirational signings in the last few years, as Fergie did in the early 90's with Schmeicel Keane and Cantona. As for the worst signings, it is not a player signing but I think Sunderland sacking Peter Reid to hire Howard Wilkinson was one of the daftest things I have seen in football, and I am not basing that on hindsight I said it at the time.

KdjaCL · 27-02-2003 12:46pm

Best
Moravcik celtic
Defoe west ham
Lampard Chelsea

worst
liverpool

kdjac

Space Coyote · 27-02-2003 1:30pm

most influential transfers:

Cantona to Utd
Keane to Utd
Schmeichel to Utd
Henry to Arsenal
Ljundberg to Arsenal
Pires to Arsenal
Hyypia to Liverpool

Worst:

Nearly all of Houlliers buys

ciano · 27-02-2003 1:53pm

Originally posted by Space_Coyote

Worst:

Nearly all of Houlliers buys

lol .... thats what I was gonna say!

Xterminator · 27-02-2003 2:13pm

The best buy ever.
Shearer from Southampton 3.3 million.

(He scored bags of goals, won Blackburn the league, the only player in English football to have scored 30 or more goals in three consecutive seasons.)
Blackburn then sold him on for 15 million. Not a bad investment.

The worst buy ever
Rafael Felipe Scheidt (Signed by Celtic manager John Barnes from Gremio for £4.8m )
Say no more!

X

hussey · 27-02-2003 2:23pm

worst :
Hammers signed some dutch guy .. Marco Boogers
tried to break gary nevilles leg on his debut
and lived in a caravan at the training ground!!

Pompey Magnus · 27-02-2003 2:32pm

aston villa getting Luc Nilis, plays 4 games, breaks his leg and retires.

Lennoxschips · 27-02-2003 2:48pm

Celtic
Henrik Larsson - 700 thousand pounds
Didier Agathe - 50 thousand pounds
Lubo Moravcik - free?

PSV
Romario
Ronaldo
Van Nistelrooy

Xterminator · 27-02-2003 2:50pm

Originally posted by spandauballet
aston villa getting Luc Nilis, plays 4 games, breaks his leg and retires.

You can hardly class that as a bad buy!
Perhaps unlucky would be a better description?

X

ciano · 27-02-2003 3:17pm

Originally posted by Lennoxschips

Didier Agathe - 50 thousand pounds

50 thousand pounds for him?? I wouldnt have taken him for free! Celtic were robbed!

Pompey Magnus · 27-02-2003 3:33pm

massimo taibi at man utd,
thomas brolin at leeds :£4.5 million in '95, 4 goals in 2 seasons, andre kanchelskis to rangers.
Ian Wright to Celtic- what was Barnes thinking?

thegills · 27-02-2003 3:45pm

Best
Anelka - bought for 500k and sold for 23M - never to be topped again.
Overmars and Petit - bought for about 5M - sold for 32M
Litmanin - Free to Liverpool
Henchoz and Hyypia - 5.5M

Worst
Rio - 30M
Paul Stewart - 7M years ago.
Peter Crouch - 7M Aston Villa
Carl Cort - Newcastle - 7M

cournioni · 27-02-2003 4:07pm

Originally posted by thegills
Worst
Rio - 30M

WTF? Rio? I can't see why he wasn't worth the money. This has been one of our best defensive seasons for a while. So he has done something right with the help of Sheasy and Wes.

DapperGent · 27-02-2003 4:11pm

Worst:
Thomas Brolin and Lee Sharpe to Leeds - ****ing diasters
Bosko Balaban to Aston Villa
Nicola Silenzi and Pierre Van Hooijdonk to Notts Forest
Denilson to Real Betis : £23m!!!!
Howard Wilkinson to Sunderland.
Cruyff to Utd.
Kevin Davies to Blackburn

Best:
Cantona to Utd.
Henry to the Arse
Bryan Roy to Forest
Keane to Utd
Robbie Keane to Coventry - kept them up sold for 7m profit.

ciano · 27-02-2003 4:30pm

Gianluigi Lentini from AC Milan to Torino in 1992 for $21.5 million has to be one of the worst ever. It was a world record tranfer fee at the time. He only made 63 appearances in four seasons for Milan before moving on to Atalanta and then back to Torino.

KdjaCL · 27-02-2003 4:35pm

Denilson has repaid that cash and Lentini was injured in a car crash which cost him nearly 3 years of his career hence the low sell on fee i seen him last year (i think) playing for Torino and he looked very good.
Also lentini was bought at the height of the "3 player rule" and the Dutch forwards at Milan were getting on a bit so at the time it was seen as a good investment as he was an italian.

kdjac

woosaysdan · 27-02-2003 4:40pm

massimo taibi at man utd, what a waste of money also selling sheringham! he still has a few seasons in him and they wouldnt renew his contract

ciano · 27-02-2003 4:45pm

Originally posted by KdjaC

Also lentini was bought at the height of the "3 player rule" and the Dutch forwards at Milan were getting on a bit so at the time it was seen as a good investment as he was an italian.

kdjac

That still doesnt really excuse him from being a bad transfer. He still only made 63 apps in 4 years, which is hardly a good return for $21 million

Bateman · 27-02-2003 5:01pm

As regards the worst, take your pick of Houllier's. I think Jonatnan Woodgate might be the final piece of the Newcastle jigsaw to turn them into a solid top 3 proposition. But life after Shearer?

thegills · 27-02-2003 5:07pm

Mendieta - 30+M to some Italian team.

Rio is bad business as those sort of transfers will rarely bee seen again and Leeds made 12M in 12 months. Surely Fergie could have got him for 25M. I don't think he's much use either, Keano showed him up the other night.

ciano · 27-02-2003 5:10pm

Originally posted by thegills
Mendieta - 30+M to some Italian team.

Rio is bad business as those sort of transfers will rarely bee seen again and Leeds made 12M in 12 months. Surely Fergie could have got him for 25M. I don't think he's much use either, Keano showed him up the other night.

O'Shea will also become a better player than him imo.

Bateman · 27-02-2003 5:19pm

O Shea will probably become a better player, but he'll learn a lot from Rio. And I don't think Keane has showed anyone up at CB. not yet anyway.

Space Coyote · 27-02-2003 5:27pm

originally posted by thegills
Mendieta - 30+M to some Italian team

Mendieta signed for Lazio from Valencia in 2001 which didnt work out too well for him. When he was with Valencia he was easily one of the best midfielders in Europe. He's on loan at Barca and is having a mare of a time there.

jonno · 28-02-2003 9:49am

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
WTF? Rio? I can't see why he wasn't worth the money. This has been one of our best defensive seasons for a while. So he has done something right with the help of Sheasy and Wes.

Then again Rio hasn't played alot during the period that Utd went well. Personally I think 30 million is too much for any player and TBH Rio hasn't been very consistant this season. He's been injured alot and when Keano played with im the other night he looked good because Keane took care of everything;)

I agree with Mendiata moving was a bad idea, especailly for him. He was very impressive at Valencia.

nasty_crash · 28-02-2003 11:16am

Keane covered for rio the other night!! thats why rio looked ok!! jesus imagine if keane was still playin for ireland!! we'd have no defence prob!! Keane and O' Shea in defence! keane could play cb for years!!

Worst signings -
West Ham - Thomas Repka
Man Utd - Blomquist
Liverpool - Biscan(useless), Domiede, Xavier
Newcastle - G'variche(spellin - that french chap!! crap)