Premier League's WORST Signing EVERY Season (1992-2022)
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- From Newcastle United's club record deal to sign Michael Owen from Real Madrid in 2005 to Manchester United going all out to sign Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal in January 2018, HITC Sevens takes a look at some of the worst transfers in the Premier League every season since the league's creation.
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Peter Crouch is going to be utterly devastated to find out he is in fact NOT the World's Lankiest Man.
Dan Burn has a shout too
@@JohnHolywell Dan Burn is just big. He's nowhere near as lanky as Crouch or Ormondroyd.
@@KindredBrujah i think i may be one of few people to have met both and ian is just a bit lankier his nickname suits him too
I thought Crouch immediately when I heard world lankiest man!!
@@ablair37 I played on a U-13 team with Ormonroyd. As a teen, he looked even lankier because he hadn't filled out at all.
“This could well age badly”
It did. Royal found some form while Lukaku… well…
I’m not sure if it’s just a face saving excuse but the word around Arsenal regarding Park was his signing was all about Asian merchandising and opening doors with the continent. Following his signing we had a few preseason friendlies out there in Korea and China (I believe). Apparently his transfer fee was recouped. I can believe it with how tight Arsenal we’re back then!!
Graham Souness. Offered on a plate both Eric Cantona and Roy Keene while managing Liverpool. Gets some pretty rubbish players instead.
Surprised Ali Dia did not get a mention.
Or Newcastle's Asprilla even if that was a Jan signing. Derailed what could have been a title-winning season
Agree with all except Pepe. Obviously not been worth the money but has delivered on plenty of occasions for Arsenal and unlike Ndombele, actually still has something to offer (as seen the other night). I also feel he's had no fewer ups and downs than Maguire, who frankly has been awful
Always felt bad for Aquilani, he was obviously a very talented player but just didn't work out for him with us. He got MotM at least a couple of times in his first season I think.
Being injured every other week didn't really help
A lot of work and research here, well done 👏🏾👏🏾
I'm sorry but how you don't put Harry Maguire above pepe is shocking. Pepe at least shows now and then how genuinely good he is, Maguire literally looks bang average on his best days, and his worst are honestly some of the most abysmal defensive performances seen in the premier league Era from a top half team. I mean ffs, I love Thiago silva as a milan fan but he is close to being old enough for AARP, and he still looks 4x the defender Maguire does💀😂
The Pepe one is the only one I'd disagree on. He's been decent when played and had some purple-patches. 25g/a in 80 games for us isn't amazing, but he's been instrumental in cup games with 23 g/a in 32 games (FA, EFL and Europa), so his stats aren't nearly as bad. That price-tag was down to shady business dealings, not his true value. Worst transfer is still between Ndomble and Maguire.
Didn't El Hadj Diouf agree to join Liverpool before the 2002 WC. I remember watching a programme before the 2002 WC where he was the focus and Liverpool had already agreed a deal
lol this was one day before kepper's brillian carabao cup final performance off the bench. i wonder if he would've gotten it that year if it was later...
As a sunderland fan I can confirm jack rodwell is no longer welcome in sunderland
Both pogba and Sanchez was honestly really bad for us…
1997 - worst signing was Pierre van Hooijdonk by a country mile.
Think that might be Don Hutchison at 2:00?
My favorite.... "spoiler alert.... **cricketss** .... he wasnt" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
2013-14 should be iago aspas for Liverpool soldado at least scored some goals for spurs and look at how good aspas has been since he's left Liverpool
Chris Sutton to Chelsea should be in here, or at least have a dishonourable mention
Agree with most of this (obviously I like to laugh at Liverpool and their decisions), but there is a connunndurummnunn surrounding Donnie VDB. Asking Man Utd fans, they seem to like him and believe he was not given a chance. We would love him at the baggies
Should have been "LFC's Worst Signing" considering how many times they feature in the video.
I don’t know how you missed Ali Dia for 96/97 literally the worst and most ridiculous transfer made in premier league history after pretending to be the cousin of George Weah to get signed for Southampton by Graeme Souness
Most ridiculous, definitely. But Ali Dia's impact on So'ton on the pitch that season was extremely minimal, its not like he came on, scored an OG and lost them a game
It could almost be a documentary in itself tbf. It's such a fascinatingly weird story
he almost scored tbf
@@muhdpeep as did David James when he played outfield on final day of season way back when
Both of those scoring would be an insane story
money
You could easily make a list of top 7 worst signings by Souness.
Yeah was expecting Dia to get mentioned as he was pretty horrific.
Mark Hughes signings is nearly as bad !
Souness the father of destruction for Liverpool
His signings of British has-beens when he was at Benfica was laughable...
... and all of them are not even close to pogba who is by far the biggest flop in football history
"Michael Owen is a strange human being" is one of my favourite quotes from any video on RUclips 😂😂
A documentary on Guy Roux would be great seeing as he served for one club 36 years- 7 years longer than any other professional manager
And given how he made Auxerre a constant fixture of Ligue 1 for years and years, even taking the small club far in Europe
I've never even heard of him. Shame that
Doc would be cool
Edit: The more I read about the guy, the more I want that doc. Please make this happen
And 4 promotions wasnt it ?
@@gui18bif even won ligue 1
Good point..He worked miracles at Auxerre
'Graham Souness has an almost unique record for signing awful players.'
Ali Dia. I need not say anymore! 😁
His record at Newcastle was pretty poor too. Same summer of 2005 when Owen moved to SJP also saw the £10million signing of Spanish winger Albert Luque, who looked like he didn't want to be there, while in January 2005, we also paid £8million for defender Jean-Alain Boumsong, who had been available on a free in summer 2004 and is one of the most error prone defenders I think the Premier League has seen
@@chlcrk it does make you wonder, if Souness was a manager in social media times would he have 'gotten away' with so many awful signings and questionable decisions? Crazy.
Owen was a good signing in that first season but the injuries and attitude ruined him. Can't say anything good about any of those other Souness signings at Newcastle
@@simonn2045 he must be one of the very few former players that's disliked almost everywhere he goes. Strange chap. Talented but strange.
You forgot he replaced jenas with amdy Faye
Glad to see you appreciating Joelinton's newer form. Agree that £40M is still a bit steep, but the man's young, so if he keeps performing as he is right now, he'll pay that fee off eventually.
Yep. Plus Bayern, RB Leipzig (loan) and Nice, the new riches of Ligue 1 are trying to lure him out of St. James Park.
Not worth £40 mill still but not a complete flop for sure.
He's probably been one of, if not the best box to box midfielders in the prem this season. Sure he's not an out and out striker but if people watch any game he's played this season, he always looks great.
Not sure on contract situation but if another prem club wanted him they'd get their money back
One year later... 40mil seems like a fair price for him!
The worst PL performance I've seen was Bakayoko for Chelsea against Watford. Two yellow cards after 33 mins due to not being able to control the ball. Every second touch was an attempted tackle. Seven fouls.
Easily one of the worst performances in the PL I have ever seen for me too. He looked seriously out of his league in that game. He's never recovered his chelsea career since
He was likely high on something. Trust me, I’ve been high on opioids and I couldn’t play football, at all. He probably was high on opioids as well. Lol
As a Derby fan £3million for Claude Davis (Clod) in 2007 sends shivers down my spine. A club record fee at the time for our worst ever player (which is saying a lot), who couldn't even foul successfully, yet alone defend
Hahaha, my fellow Jamaican made it
He was actually very decent for PNE, don't know what happened
was waiting on someone to mention claude hahaha
Great video but you don't have to talk shit like you can play better than any of these guys 🤣🤣
@@2023lm it’s called fair criticism
The 50 strikers west ham have had since GSB took over and the lack of goals scored by them (21 of them scored nothing 😂)
We're not very good at signing strikers are we?
Worst bit is that's true.
“Emerson Royal has looked royally hopeless” 😂😂😂
Great video, brings back so many memories of some awful signings. One issue though is Taibi. He was awful, no question, but he wasn’t brought in to replace Schmichael. He was brought in as a backup as we had injuries and Mark Bosnich, who was actually brought in to replace the Great Dane and was arguably a worst signing given the role he was supposed to play, was doing so badly.
Also 4 games is hardly enough to judge him on tbf.
@@r4h4al if he only got 4 games it sounds like he was judged and found wanting...
@@alxdnld Wrongfully…that was my point. Hell look at Ronaldo was awful for 2 or 3 seasons before he got good so how can you judge a player on 4 games?
Bahaha “Schmichael”????
I still remember Taibi to this day, for all the wrong reasons, despite the fact he only played 4 games and I'm not even a Man U fan. That tells me all I need to know about the success of Taibi's transfer.
Hargreaves played 36 games in 07/08 and helped United win the double for United for the first time in a decade. Shouldn't be anywhere near this list.
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What, based on one season. Owen blew it when he came to Britain.
Hate United but yeah, that was a very odd comment
I agree. Only thing I can say that was bad about the signing is he was known to have the injury problems. Tragic really. Quality player.
He was a quality player, injury prone unfortunately
Emerson over lukaku I get he’s not the best but lukaku cost 100m barely plays and has expressed his wish to leave multiple times. Oho and he’s was projected to be one of the top goal scorers and he’s barely scored a goal let alone his 7 touches which 2 were offside and one was from the kickoff so technically he had 4 touches. I duno maybe I’m trippin
Hes scored 9 goals tho in all competitions, hardly "barely scored a goal"
@@faze_garbage6673 hold on a minute 9 goals for lukaku the guy that cost them 100 million. Have a look at the top goal scorers this season you could pick up a good 3 players who are on that list with a combined quadruple his stats in all competitions let ALONE in the prem. come on man Chelsea are 3rd and he’s the star striker and he’s not on the top 25 goal scorers are you kidding me 😂
@@alonemike dont think you can read, never said he was worth 100m all i said was that hes scored 9 when you said he "barely scored"
@@faze_garbage6673 yeah that’s nothing across all competitions. He’s a top top class striker there’s no excuse
The fact LFC turned down Anelka for Diouf speaks volume of how bad the signing was 😂
Add RONALDO 2021 to this list.
Calling Owen Hargreaves one of worst signings in the 07-08 season seems a bit harsh. He did do amazingly that season. Helping Utd winning both PL and CL. Even if he was plagued by injury later.
To be fair I wasn’t the biggest football fan or United fan but 07-08 but I watched most of their champions league games and I remember always seeing him and in the qualifiers for the euros with England but then he just disappeared
IMO Hargreaves is one of the most underrated English centre mids of his generation and not many seem to look past the injuries.
Yeah, that was a solid season from Owen. His last good season of his career. Those injuries ruined the career for him and had already begun before he signed for United. It is only because it was known he was injury prone it could be considered bad. Excellent player though. I remember him with Bayern with Effinberg as a nice double pivot.
His Man City transfer was worse by far
True.
Bone of contention here... We signed diouf prior to the 2002 World Cup... I actually bunked off school to go watch him rip it up in that game vs France... I remember coming away from the game thinking we'd unearthed a gem... I was terribly wrong
We actually ditched anelka for him aswell which makes the signing ten times worse
I remember playing the Pro Evo of that time & was an absolute world beater on that for Liverpool..which couldn't have been further from the truth.
Still better than 'Senegalese knee-jerk signing number 2' Salif Diao.
He had a good season at Bolton once.
@@johneastwood3039 True I remember that, looked a good player that season.
Alfie Can you do a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now.
The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore.
How they were very close to moving to ireland
How they went up the English football leagues.
It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel
Up the Franchise
The stadium is actually pretty great, haven't been in but I live nearby and whenever I pass by it looks really nice
Not with his awful voice!
@@BroskiRIP suspected homosexual
@@yessanknow302 I don't mind if he's gay, that's not the issue. Just that he speaks annoyingly.
Joelinton actually seems to be looking more and like a 40 million quid player with every week that goes by, he's a beast in midfield and is partly responsible for Newcastle's change in fortunes. Your Michael Owen comment is however spot on :)
Bayern and Nice are trying to lure him out of St. James Park. Interesting eh? Nice are the new riches of Ligue 1.
Maybe £18 mill. Not £40 mill.
@@TUTENSKENGS Im sorry for the lack of good English managers. Bit Im half French half Brazilian and both are missing good GM. Galtier and Diniz are the ones steping up! Poor Arsenal, because Tite will be a disaster for you. Arteta isnt the one but… Tite?
@@rockwild737 18? I wouldnt sell.
Think Nico Pepe is a bit harsh for the 19/20 season, he’s had patches of very good form at Arsenal - particularly last season. And whilst he’s flopped for the money, Ndombele has turned out to be a much worse signing that season
It's cause how much they paid for him, he's been a massive flop
@@petesmart1983 Ndombele cost like £60m odd and his output is much worse than the £12m difference for the 2 players
I disagree he’s arguably one of the worst signings of all time, (not even his fault since he isn’t trusted by his manager when he’s a decent player)
There was incredibly dodgy stuff going on with the deal which is why Arsenal signed him for double his market value. I would argue that's not the player's fault and his goal just 2 days ago shows how much talent he has and that he can still have a great impact at Arsenal.
Pepe is a baller, technically very gifted and arguable the best finisher at the club. Give him a run of games and he will prove the price tag
1. Harry Maguire being a better signing than Nicolas Pepe is a ridiculous claim. "He did well enough for England" is not an argument from the MUFC perspective.
2. No honorable mention for Torres to Chelsea? He scored 1 in 18 compared to Carroll's 1 in 12 that season, despite costing far more. Not to mention he was ruined by injuries *before* the transfer, which is more indicative of a terrible decision than a player like Carroll suffering most of his injuries *after* the transfer.
Good point.
Carroll scored 2 against Man City in 1 match in his first season
Maguire was absolutely a better signing than Pepe, especially in that first season. That's an objective fact. Pepe was terrible and Maguire had some of the best defensive stats in the league.
@@treykastens7911 Pepe was a dud that first season, but he's improved steadily and contributed moderately - he's a vastly overpaid but still decent squad player. Maguire, on the other hand, has been an absolute shitshow with no redeeming qualities, a laughing stock continent-wide, all the while wearing the captain's armband. MUFC would've been better off if he were still locked up in a Greek jail.
@@treykastens7911 and since then? Maguire is like a slug that can't play football. There are literally some league 1 defenders that play better than him. They're not better than him, because we all know what he CAN do, but he doesn't do it.
Kepa came on in the final, saved ZERO and contributed to the only miss of the shootout.
But to be fair, Kelleher didn't make any saves either, & you can't really croticis Kepa for not being a great penalty Taker. He'd do well doing spot kicks in rugby mind.
@@stevelowe2647 yeah but I surely expected him to save at least 1 penalty, he was labeled penalty "specialist" like Tim Krul :)) then he turned up like De Gea lol
@@justhuy7960 mate, I'm a Liverpool fan, I don't give a shit about Kepa. I'm just pointing out facts. Everyone has off days. Fuck Krul, I've seen Kepa look like Reina or Grovelaar in shootouts. Bad day
Selling Kevin Davies to Blackburn for £7.5 Million then getting him back in a swap for Egil Ostenstad was one of the best bits of transfer business Southampton have done
Østen! The GOAT! Who put 4 against ManU. And I actually know Egil
@@mistertindfoting5222 Three actually.
@@BroskiRIP 2 actually, 1 was given as a gary neville og. Would have been the 1st player to score a hat trick against man u in premier league era. Unfortunately that honour went to David Bentley 😕
I Love how HITC Sevens is so Polite and calm
and HITC Sport Irish guy is Full on Bollocks xD
At least the Irish fella can talk, doesn't say j's like they're 'zh' and can say 'sh' or 'ch' without sending like his mouth's full.
Apart from refering to gold and Sullivan as the dildo brothers😂
He's from Hull what expect?😂
Jack Rodwell..... remember him? First time I've heard his name since he left Everton.
Also, the biggest shock of this video is that Kieran Dyer was ever on £83,000 a week
What about Adam Johnson? Only remembered for a v sordid court case. Citeh have bought and ruined quite a few young Eng players.
Dyer was very good before his body started failing. He had phenomenal pace and stamina and decent technical ability. Once he lost the pace and stamina he didn't have much of an arsenal left.
This video must have taken you ages to put together
Excellent video (and yes Souness was shyte as a manager and one of the main reasons for Lpool's demise back in the day)
If I could give you two likes for the entire video, I would.
From a Lpool fan
It's always amusing when Souness talks as a pundit....No self-awareness at all !
Pepe helped us do something no Spurs player had done in 14 years, win a trophy, including assisting in the quarters, semis, and the final
Have fun on watching on thursdays! Keep living in the past and by past I’m not including the previous 6 seasons you have finished behind us. Happy to hear Arteta got a new contract!!
@@totspurs3255 Bros mad,like why are you flexing your position in a league you havent won in over 60 years. Not trying to hate on your club but it just seems weird to flex
@@totspurs3255 comment aged like milk
@@totspurs3255 North London is red.
@@mehallica666so that means North London are full of cold chests
I watched just to see if Winston Bogarde would make the list. Satisfied.
No dishonorable mention for Werner? 😮 He’s on 271k a week. He’s shocking 😅
The fact that Liverpool had so many players in "worst signings " until recently, now they will have 5-6 players in "best ever "signings like salah vvd and Allison shows the turnaround they have made. No way pepe was worse than Ndombele
No one expected Salah to as good as he's been. But Alison and V Dijk were bought for world record sums and were expected to be very good players.
Why do Liverpool supporters always get so carried away?
Or simply the fact that this vod is made by an Utd fan.
seeing this video as a Liverpool fan, I'm massively grateful for where we stand right now
I think you need sounes back to take over ,Klop is terrible 👍
The Emerson royal one did age badly , as a spurs fan he’s been okay recently and his defensive ability is what keeps him a place in our squad , that could also be down to djed spence maybe not being totally ready to play in contes system and our purchase of destiny udogie for next season means Emerson will probably find it hard to start for us beyond this season
Every club souness has bought utter dog shit
Liverpool
Southampton
My team (Faye/Boumsong/babayaro/Moore/Johnson etc..)
Benfica he almost bankrupted them with guff like Scott minto, Geoff Thomas & Saunders
Julian Dicks was ahead of his time in regards to being an attacking full back(and he could actually defend)
I wonder how far he could of gone without injuries or his disciplinary record.
By the time of his 2nd stint at West Ham his knee was so bad he couldn't train or warm up properly. He would sit in a hot bath till kick off and then come straight out to play.
Owen Hargreaves was pretty instrumental in Man Utd winning the European Cup that season. By default that makes him a good signing, regardless of what happened afterwards.
Jack Grealish has to be the worst signing this season on price alone, still don't understand why City paid so much on a over hyped player?
I didn't understand that, they could of bought Kane and not bothered with him strangest transfer in history......
Can you do a video on Luton Town their progression through the football pyramid has been astonishing imo love watching them get better each season my favourite lower league side to watch
This list is missing Davy Klaasen. A truly terrible signing for Everton, even worse than the likes of Samuel Eto’o, Oumar Niasse & Cenk Tosun.
I would agree with all of them, except Eto’o, who cost us nothing and was decent when he played.
Rumours abound that Davy Klaasen and Donny van de Beek are clones.
Pepe won an FA Cup with Arsenal?? Harry Maguire has been consistently lacking for Manchester United and Tanguy Ndombele contributed nothing over his entire time with Tottenham and has now left?? Never normally disagree with you but I can't see Pepe as a worse signing than either Maguire or Ndombele lol
Take it back about Joelinton! 40m is a good deal, turns out he's a phenomenal centre mid and has become a talisman in the Howe era. He was played out of position by the hapless Steve Bruce, who hasn't won a game since last May. Sad.
Unless he continues turning his form around a dishonorable mention is still valid as the Howe era is less than four months old
The bit about Michael Owen not being particularly liked is hilarious and true👍
I mean let’s be real here 2019-2020 should’ve been Harry Maguire. 80 million for someone who can’t even do the basics of defending.
I'm not a Arsenal fan but Ndombele is worse than Pepe in my opinion. Pepe has done more for Arsenal than Ndombele did for Spurs
In defence of Brolin: he was never a midfield player, he was a forward. He WAS played out of position.
Yeah, He played midfield in the world cup because Svensson wanted his three best offensive players Andersson, Dahlin and Brolin on the pitch. He did it well but that was not were he wanted to be in the long haul. Acording to Brolin Leeds was not a good enviroment for him. He was apparently labeled a diva when at his first training he took a water bottle to the pitch. The informal club rule was only drinking during designated breaks.
I always feel kinda bad for Andy Caroll. Regarded as one of the worst signings in PL history, but Liverpool sold Torres on deadline day meaning they were without a striker. Plus due to Torres' massive 50m fee, much like the Neymar deal, other clubs asking prices were inflated as they knew Liverpool had more cash to spend. He was a complete panic buy, and the style of football Liverpool played would never compliment Caroll's game. Liverpool have never really played to service a big man in the Premier League so it was definitely strange to sign a player who is just that
Thought Vincent Janssen and Claudio Bravo deserved at least an honorable mention
Borja Baston signing halfway through the 19'20 season for aston villa would of been a good call the man played 10 mins and bugged off
This is the problem taking in so called foreign talent based on a few moments of brilliance. Most often fail to live up to the hype.
Balotelli was an absolutely garbage signing for Liverpool. What makes things infinitely worse is that he was brought in to replace Luis Suarez, one of the most gifted and lethal strikers in the history of Liverpool FC.
27:05 ah yes, the legendary post 2013 career of dani osvaldo
2020-21
Not even a (dis)honourable mention to Rhian Brewster?
He was (and still is) Sheffield United's record signing. Sure, he prev had a good season as a loanee at Swansea (from Liverpool), but gambling on a club record fee for a player with no top tier experience elsewhere, it was definitely a red flag. It was the epitome of how a club could make from having a wise transfer policy to a horrendous over just two years.
Brewster failed to score in 27 Prem matches, being around half of them as a starter. And even with Sheffield United already relegated, Blades had to wait until mid November 2021 to see Brewster scoring a league goal for the first time as a Sheffield United player.
That is... Really soul-crushing, for both Brewster and Blades' fans.
Day 223: Indonesia XI If All Eligible Players Had Declared For Them
Keep dreaming bocah
@@hi-rr2vm You're as diligent as he is: I think this must be day 223 of you writing that in response 😂
@@wolfmauler if u go back and see the older ones, theres actually another dude commenting the same thing as me before i did this 😂 but he stopped sometime along the line so I just carried on what he started...
Harry Maguire is by far the worst singing in the 19-20 season for pretty obvious reasons. He's simply too bad for a club like Manchester United.
Big shoutout the the legend Bogarde. Living everyone's dream of getting paid without having to work.
you can kinda see his point, they signed him and immediately wanted to sell him ahah
Please please please stop this voice thing you do!!! Your content is great! Your videos are great! But please stop this weird voice thing where every word you end on is so "down" in tone. It's up up up, down. Then up up up.... Down. In tone. God damnit it's so off-putting 😭
He should get a female Australian co - host to redress the balance . It would sound pretty bizarre . 🙄
Graham Souness is unique. Appalling footballer, appalling manager and an appalling pundit. What a man.
I can’t understand what he’s saying, is he speaking English?
Appalling footballer, u having a laugh 😃
Missed DiMaria for ManU. Worse signing than Pogba for sure.
He played okay. Just didn't fit into the premier league
@@JayloT93 he certainly didn’t play well.
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Pepe beats out Maguire? Harry Maguire? Really? The man responsible for most of UTD's woes, the man who got arrested and then charged with bribery? I know Pepe's hardly been ripping up trees but worse than Maguire?
Berahino is at Sheffield Wednesday now and I was actually quite surprised when we went for him seen as though we are in league 1 now (I think he came from zlute wargrem or some Swiss team ) but he’s been preeetttyy bad it’s safe to say. In fairness his last game has been good so I really do pray he finds a nice bit of form for the rest of the season but I guess we’ll have to wait and see
Zulte Waregem is from Belgium
@@maciejbala477 oh thank you I was thinking of both but went with Switzerland
As a Saints fan, I cannot believe you've not even mentioned Ali Dia or Guido Carrillo!
35 mil for Andy Carroll. He put Everton out of the FA cup semi-final. Worth every penny 😁
Joelinton is incredible central midfielder…. One of the best in the league.
Maguire is embarrassingly bad
bought as a striker though. Thats why. £40m on a non scoring striker is a failure
Before watching this I expect 40 minutes straight of Danny Drinkwater jokes
Liverpool got some big goals out of Andy Carroll, particularly in the FA Cup and League Cup. Not great in the league though, but certainly better than he's been for any other team since.
He wasn't bad tbf. Just overpriced and I always thought considering his young age they didn't give him enough time at the club. Unlike Jordan Henderson by comparison, who had a rough start at the club but has gone to become a club legend.
as a Chelsea fan I think you could put our entire 17-18 window on here.... like in summary, or each individual player could have made the cut.
Bakayoko and Drinkwater for 72m is astoundingly poor business.
i can't believe thst Robert Fleck didn't make the list also
How Souness managed to convince the world he was a football manager is beyond me. Made some horrible signings no matter where he went
Being scouse and white helped, especially baqck in the 90s
@@lolumo the 11 trophies as manager might have helped too…
@@alekaidon1364 though nothing in last 20 years and only 3 trophies in last 30 years. Most were with Rangers
Have you ever heard the story of his time in Turkey? He walked onto the Fernabache pitch and planted a Galatasaray flag🤦 Taxi for Souness.....
I enjoyed this. Thank you! It's very laconic.
Did I miss it, but I couldn't find Torres to Chelsea, great business for Liverpool but awful for Chelsea
He was brilliant for us. Those last few injuries he had, took it's toll on his body. I think we lucked out by selling him to Chelsea because I believe he was damaged goods.
The Dildo Brothers line had me in tears. Was that a thing? God I hope that was a thing.
Yes it’s completely true, they made their money in the porn industry!
Not brothers though
Everton could have featured on this list so much more we are on another level of bad when it comes to transfers that helped no one. Shoutout’s to Andy Van Der Meyde, Jean-Philippe Gbamin, Davy Klaassen and Moise Kean.
Absolutely can't forget Iwobi. 12 goal contributions in over 80 appearances isn't the worst out there, but absolutely not worth £34 mil.
Sigurdsson
I don't agree with the Winston Bogarde statements as it completely negates the role of Chelsea. If you sign a player and then shortly after that tell him to move on and that player is not able to find a job equal to or with better pay, and the club is not willing to facilitate a loan move, he is in his right to want to serve out his contract.
Bogarde never refused to play, stayed fit with the reserves and was ready to prove his worth. He did everything the law and club asked of him while being humiliated by the club, press and 'fans'.
Bogarde was not a great communicator, and his pride often got the better of him, which journalists easily used against him. That is how some stupid things he said got on record. Some newspapers at that time were brutally xenophobic and determined to make all foreign players look like 'diving, greedy, modern-day footballers'. Winston Bogarde, Champion League winner in 1995, was an ideal target.
I can think of a few more failed Liverpool signings (Lambert, Benteke, Karius) but I guess other clubs need a go too. BTW thanks for mentioning that many of the bad signings are actually decent players, Benteke is a case in point - just not a good fit.
Jovanovic, the "best football player in the world"
The video lost all credibility when it put Ben Gibson ahead of Kepa Arrizabalaga and calling Maguire a "good centre back"..
It’d be interesting to do this for other leagues. Spain seems to spring to mind first. Maybe do the last 20-25 years.
C'mon, Pepe was bad signing but not worse than Maguire. He is still 26yo and he still can improve. Also Arsenal easly can sell him tomorrow for £30+m, while Maguire value is £5m.
Pepe over Ndombele and Maguire is wild. Pepe got us to the Europa league KO stages last season with his goals and we would have finished a lot lower than 8th in the past 2 seasons if not for his second half of the season form
Is the Prem really any different to any other big league? I get the little bit of hyperbole to start the video but you really leaned into that concept which suggests you genuinely believe it.
Given the Prem lagged behind other major leagues in terms of spending for quite some time, I’m pretty sure there were some ropey transfers in Italy and Spain each year through the 90s…and beyond.
Loved Derek McGoverns quip about Andy Carroll when he was held up at gunpoint when playing for West ham.
"It's the closest he's been to a shot in two years"
23:25 : £35mil for Andy Carrol. Thirty five mil pounds. Three-five mil pounds..
Good God..
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