He had G/A and looks decent in the compilation videos. But was worst in games. Always tries to take the ball on left foot and shoot. While auba waits for the ball
As a Bundesliga fan, I love the PL clubs endless resources and determination to burn money by refusing to do any sort of scouting or roster planning. Edit: due to my direct translation from German I have apparently misused the word roster. So to stop some from getting so upset, as this appears to be a massive hurdle for them to get over, I meant to say squad. Thank you to the majority who overlooked this error and attempted to understand my opinion.
@@Thespacecadet187 Maybe don't attack someone for not using the ideal word when it's very reasonable that they're not a native speaker. Especially when you perfectly understand the meaning
@@RoseColored_ thank you brother, I didn’t realise that you don’t use the word roster in English, I’m glad you still understood the basis of what I was trying to say.
The fact that this list could deservedly be all Chelsea players three times round is amazing Also if you’re looking for the most expensive per minute, Mislav Orsic cost Southampton about £10m last season and played 6 whole minutes for them
As a Saints fan I was excited when we signed Orsic, seemed exactly what we needed. On top of those 6 minutes in the PL he also made a couple of appearances in cup games and was utterly dreadful. That said he still should have been given more of a chance, especially considering how bad we were.
@@drhenrywaltonjonesjr they'll have to accept half of what they paid for him and they'll be lucky to get that. He hasn't put in one great performance, not one.
@@drhenrywaltonjonesjr Ten Hag may have made some bad signings, but I back him on the Sancho situation. If he'd actually been playing well there might have been a case, but the fact he's been so poor you wouldn't even notice he's gone from the team.
Did you watch the video to the end? I don't think anyone can challenge the top spot. That Leeds story is so hilarious. At least Sancho has played 58 games for United.
It's almost like throwing the warchest at a random foreign player in their early 20s, with half a decent season under their belt in an inferior league, isn't the best way to recruit new players. Who knew?
Are you implying that throwing the warchest at a random English player in their early 20s with a half decent season under their belt in the Premier League would somehow be better? For example, Andy Carroll? Or perhaps Danny Drinkwater?
yeah i'm just really confused why clubs do this? I feel like they don't have to do it if they don't want to. Look at Luton, sure, they are still favorites to go down, but they made some decent business for cheap. In contrast, most clubs seem to overspend and take needless risks
And their new clubs don't do these players any favor with this massive fees. If you have so much money and got it just by a big investor instead of hard working, you don't have any sense of the true worth of it. PL clubs are literally like this: "We want Fabio Silva" "20M please" "Ok fine, here you have 40M"
your comment is very true but its risk, look at Bellingham this season. There are some young players that can adapt to any club and perform no matter what, Haaland is another one, Mbappe, but you need to put that risk to invest and profit off them before they become too successful you can't afford them. Like the economy, more money is introduced each year, even though inflated it still makes a difference.
just saying each transfer is a calculated investment in every part of the world at any time. These clubs need to sign players who will improve their club though, that's the problem, don't use their brain.
@@Tre_Vor194 Bellingham was one of the best Bundesliga players of the last season and also captain. Haaland was also an absolute beast before he left. Fabio Silva or Højlund e.g. have been just talented players with mediocre stats. And that's the problem. Bellingham has already proofed what he can do and because of that he was so expensive. Fabio Silva didn't even play constantly in the first team but costed 40M. And then everyone is excpecting a performance he haven't even shown before
@@thomashalbgottschalk8461 Haaland and Bellingham seem to are those kind of guys you can pay anything, they have the mentality to only care about becoming better players. They are exceptional imo And its a difference to players like Neymar. Hopefully they don't get injured that much more....
well I think Chelsea will do better than Man U in the long run. Chelsea are very slow at progressing but will do it eventually. Man U will always be the same with this ownership no matter who is in charge
yeah he shouldn't but he could yet be worth it anyway if he does well. Or at least be worth half that. Plus Chelsea clearly needed a player like him and I think he will do alright in the end because of how young he is. Same can't be said for many others who cost comparable amounts. The list sounds about right to me
Ten Hag has had so many shockers that should be on this list. Let’s play Ten Hag transfer bingo: 1. Is he Dutch? 2. Has he played in Eredivisie? 3. Has he played for Ajax / U21s? 4. Has he played for Ten Hag before? 5. Is he under a long contract / overvalued AF? 6. Does he have a concerning injury record? That about covers about it.
@anthonykenneth.1780 no he doesn't lol he is warming the bench at Leipzig that's why they want to sell him. That aside, the original comment is right he wasn't that bad at Chelsea but certainly not great
Some of these are good players signing for the wrong club at the wrong time. Lukaku to Chelsea made no sense, as they'd just sold Tammy Abraham who would have done no worse for a lot less cash. Van de Beek and Sancho were exceptional talents before joining Manchester United, which I think has more to do with the club than the players. A huge part of the problem is big clubs wanting to be seen to make high profile signings irrespective of the squad (Chelsea and Man U are the obvious culprits) so as to bolster their global image. Remember also that a few years ago, Dom Solanke would have been included in this list, so there's hope yet for some. Oh, and please do an investigation into the way that amortization has fuelled grossly inflated transfer fees and ridiculously long-term contracts. Have a great 2024, Alfie.
Mangala was ok and was at the time city signed him, the starter center back whilst Silva and Imboula werent. Silva's deal was very weird and Imboula was a bit weird. He had a good season for marseille but for Porto, imboula was average. Porto was able to sale him at a 0 profit, something rare for Porto
Day 1 of asking a "What on Earth is going in Brest?" There's not much alarming going on, but it is the best season, at minimum in the last 40 years when they had World Cup Winner José Luis Brown on the team, and it's unusual to see the historically small club doing very well
Regarding Sancho's cost to United: 140m is only transfer fee and wages, I would be surprised to learn that there wasn't a huge sign-on fee, a loyalty bonus, a number of other bonuses as well as the usual agent fees involved.
Cucurella deserved his Spot on the list; 65 M£ if im right! Even 10 M would be expensive for a guy who's right place is in front of a camera makin' shampoo ads
An idea for a future video: For each Premier League club, pick ONE player from every other Premier League club that would improve their first team. It would be interesting to see which club gains the most/least players from other clubs. For example, I don't imagine there are any Sheffield United players that would improve Arsenal, or Luton players that would improve Man City, but there could be several Villa players that would improve Fulham or Newcastle players that would boost the starting 11 at N. Forest. Etc... Noted, it could be a very long video
Grealish gets an unfair amount of criticism tbh. Like all other players, Grealish was not the one who deemed him worth 100mill. I will never understand why people make transfer fees the players fault. Secondly, Guardiola has changed Grealish's game to fit the system. He started to take less risks and became much more defensively sound, tracking back and covering the fullbacks. This is why at the start of the season and up until recently, Grealish was preferred over Doku in the big games. Just look at the 4-4 game Vs Chelsea. Doku was at fault for 3 goals, and after that Grealish started all of the champions league games. Yes, he needs to be braver and score a bit more but he's still a very good player he offers much more than he seems to get credit for
Fabia Silva's transfer value had nothing to do with his value/potential. Porto was in trouble with eufa's fair play rules and jorge mendes managed to sell him for the right value to get them of the hook. Mendes players signings are most times overpriced for reasons unrelated to the player's value
It was an obligation to buy if they get promoted i.e. he is apparently so good that he can't be bought, while Leeds has Championship revenue but once that sweet sweet Premier league bag comes in they can pay. It's like a delayed permanent signing. Really Leeds tried to get out of making a regular bad signing through a technicality and it backfired hard.
@@samuelschonenberger I get the technicalities but why on earth would anyone use an obligation to buy. It's not like signings are paid 100% up front. Either loan, loan with an option, or just sign. Was funny seeing Leeds get screwed over though
@@kieronparr3403 it's pretty simple really, it is to cover teams in case of a serious injury, poor form of the player, or in their case, if it so happens they miss out on promotion...usually there are minimum appearances required to trigger the obligation also...but in Leeds' case they could only afford to buy him if they got to the EPL...if they didn't win promotion, they were not obligated to pay the hefty transfer fee. It is a good practice in some situations like this. But Leeds should have included a minimum appearance clause in the obligation also though, then they wouldn't have been stuck with him 🤣🤣
How EtH got it so wrong with Antony just baffles me. You made this player shine, why can’t you do it no more. Well same could be said about VDB too though. Also, just like Antony, how Onana came in and became even worse in terms of shot stopping compared to de gea astonishes as well. Yet, he also has a history with the manager
If I'm a Dortmund player, I'm either staying in Germany or only signing for Man City in the EPL. City have done very well with Dortmund signings (Gundogan, Akanji, Haaland).
Antony is the worst signing in Premier League history. He was signed for an extortionate fee of £82m when they needed a striker. Instead they could have got Isak or Haaland for under £60m
As is the case with 99% of Liverpool academy 1st team prospects (literally only TAA has avoided this fate in the last 25 years), Brewster was out with serious injury for over a year just before Sheffield Utd signed him.
Alfie had a stinker there. Yes, Brewster has been bad but there have been many factors going against him since his switch, not just by him; but you literally have Anthony who costed 80M and doesn't even have 10 league goals yet in two seasons... plus the lovely added bonus of his accusations which brings negative PR to your club, and his massive wages that you can't shake to another club without losing money. Lovely investment of, again: 80.MILLION.POUNDS... but sure, Brewster is way worse.
Brewster still has time to build a career, some injuries can take a couple of years to recover from and a bit longer for the player to regain confidence and start fully using that part of their body again. And sometimes the injury never fully recovers and can hinder a player's progress, but they can still build a decent career.
@@nganhuyen8351 Quansah has played 3 league games. Jones has been poor for 5 years bar his debut and one game 2 weeks ago with constant injuries, has never strung more than 8 games together without injury, and Kelleher doesn't play.
Antony's stats at Ajax weren't even anything special, this idea he's a talent waiting to blossom is kinda of BS. He's just not good enough and shouldn't have been signed, there's nothing he does well, he's slow, struggles to beat players, crossing is bad, vision is bad, shooting is bad, has no left foot..
Ajax is a club that develops young players, so they are supposed to be better at 22 years old than at 19, the fact that you are able to read numbers does not make the numbers reflect his development. Manchester United is such a mismanaged club that it had to get him a year too early, so he wasn't ready yet, from Ajax that wasn't ready to sell yet. So you overpay about 20 million relative to a matured Antony one year later for a player that at that point in time was worth 20 million less, so that makes a 40 million loss compared to a proper squad policy. On top of that you give that player a bad start making him having to recover from a struggle.
I remember thinking how Donny Van de Beek could have been the new Thomas Muller based on his fluidity and Champions League performances for Ajax... I am so sad to see that never happened, even if Frenkie was clearly the most promising player, I had so much faith on VDB becoming a legend somewhere. Hope he recovers somehow as many of that Ajax team who were young are flourishing or have had some success
Because the other signings have been far worse for far longer than Mudryk 😂 You ppl really think just because mudryk was a bad signing (which he was), that he is a top7 worst signing, that’s just not the case
Wolves was making a bunch of dumb decisions around that time. I will never understand why we spent a record fee on a kid that couldn't even score in the league that he was coming from.
So in this video the proof: "Sports Director" is one skillset, "Manager" is a completely and unrelatedly different skillset, and the two must work in harmony. Not many that know that.
Should've been half Man Utd, half Chelsea, these 2 clubs have destroyed themselves over the last 10 years to the point they are consistently on par with Bournemouth and Wolves these days. As a Chelsea fan I am disgusted with the board over the last 15 years.
)You guys(Chelsea) over the past 2 decades were actually good other than Roman despite him sacking managers left, right and center and big money signings that never worked at least Chelsea were winning trophies and acting smartly under him Ever since Boddly and the whole Ukraine invasion thing there has been utter chaos at Chelsea with Todd trying to do same things under Roman but spending more money in much shorter time
@@luyandzabavukiledlamini4693 too much info to read but yea bro Roman can EAD. The clubs have the money, its whether they have the motivation and determination, with a manager who emphasis that s*at.Chelsea and Man UTD just dont care, not one person in the club aye.
You mentioned Richarlison he's balling this season though 9 goal contributions in 17 and with son not around RN he might become their main man, seriously this might be his season
It's ridiculous that City has become one of the more reasonable clubs in the prem when it comes to transfers by now lol Edit: more reasonable doesn't mean truly reasonable though, it's still a clusterfuck
You could've put Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo on the list of Premier League worst transfer ever since 2020. Chelsea's performance is still unstable and has not moved from the bottom of the table. And often reap minor results. Is it possible that Chelsea's dark period will happen again like last season?
I guess the length of their contracts and that they haven't been horrendous is probably why, but they are part of a very mediocre Chelsea team, and haven't been good enough to make the difference (Grotesquely expensive rbf)
He said it would be harsh to put in anyone in the last 12 months, and Enzo Fernandez was signed in Jan, and Caicedo over the summer. Very possible that they would be in a year or two.
Chelsea stability has nothing to do with them as player and them being signed. One played under Potter and Lampard, and the other's 4 months into an injury stricken team that hasn't gelled yet under a manager with no clue what he's doing either. If you weren't picking easy targets you'd say Sterling bcs he's a senior PL experience player on 350k pw that's at the center of the team's struggle for goals the entire time those two have been at Chelsea
But its not antonys fault man united overpaid for him, ajax didnt want to sell coz it was near the end of the transfer window they put a price tag to scare united but they paid anyway
Antony is included on the list because he gets clicks and comments from uneducated people saying he’s “invisible”, “shite” and “awful… let’s have a quick comparison between Antony and Grealish in their first Manchester seasons: Antony - 8 goals in 44 appearances - I’d say that’s reasonable for a player in a new league. Grealish gets 6 in 39 games and only scored 5 last season - he also cost almost £20m more and peps trying to replace him with Doku already after 2 seasons. Antony is fashionable to hate on by the brainless
Everyone clowns Maguire when he makes mistakes, but he can be a very solid defender and leader when in form. Wasn't worth the money, no, but absolutely does not deserve to be anywhere near this list.
I know this doesn’t include people within the last 12 months but Onana is literally the worst keeper I’ve ever seen at any paid level. He looks like an outfield player who had to put the gloves on. Even when he makes a save it looks absurd. I can’t even believe he’s a professional
The hate you have for Lukaku Alfie has no bounds. The guy is a great player that just wasn't in the right team with the right coach. Underrated player.
@StephenC-dk1vl No it isn't. A millennium is 1000 years. So the first millennium was 1-1000. The second was 1001-2000. The third is 2001-3000. It's called counting.
@Ceaseless_Watcher the first year of your life begins exactly a year before your first birthday. the first minute of football takes place between 0:00 and 0:59. The ninetieth between 89:00 and 89:59. Hope this helps
This is why the world ended on both dates. Once for the literalists and once for the pendants. (Take your pick which is which) All the bad signings since then have been purely figments of our now extinct imaginations.
Chelsea have had mostly disastrous transfers for the last 5 years, but Lukaku wasn’t worth his fee because he didn’t fit in with their style as it had been for a while: low scoring games with a great defense. I think of the likes of Timo Werner, who was incapable of scoring unless the ball bounced off his ass into the goal and how many times does that happen in a season. They recruited Kai Havertz at the same time and he, too, though able to score if there was no time to consider missing, only racked up 4-6 goals even when for some reason (height?) he played as a striker. Why Arsenal thought he would score for them I have no idea but he’s done no better and is the worst transfer I’ve seen happen under MA. Mason Mount was adored by pundits and every Chelsea manager for reasons I never understood. He isn’t a good shooter, he doesn‘t have great passer’s vision, I never understood the pedestal they put him on but at MU he has played (when he plays) just like back at Chelsea and his productive output is minimal.
To not put Jean Philippe Gbamin is nuts. Lad came in, got injured, then got injured, then got injured, and then got injured. Gbamin came in under Marco Silva in 2019 and has played 7 games in the blue since. Biggest waste of 25 million ever
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 589) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
The shocking thing is that Man United's 3 best signings since 2020 are Casemiro (injured), Martinez (injured) and Ronaldo (sacked himself) All the others have either been youth players, squad players like Malacia and Evans, or big money disasters.
When will the clubs find out to not paying idiotic wages, and make them performance-related. The wages at the moment are in many cases pissing on the fans.
“This decade is just under 4 years”
That statement just sent a shock down my spine…
Living through 2020 felt like 3 years had passed.
Funny how our perception of time works considering the calendar always moves at the same speed.
The decade stars in 2021, so 3 years
@@golantrevize1245it’s called the 20’s…it starts in 2020 😂😂
@@GIBBO4182if that is true, the first decade had only 9 years.
To think Van de Beek was nominated for the Ballon d'or only four years ago
HE WAS?
@@slips. 2019 Ballon d'Or
TEN HAG OUT!!!
That midfield of van de beek, frenkie de jong, and schone was insane at that year
Nominated but didn't receive a single point.
Could have easily just chosen any 7 signings for Chelsea under Todd Boehly 😂
Or united ole era, that was funny.
@@Church_Of_Kloppism Bruno Fernandes?
@@FerreusNRGexceptions always exist
@@sammybosak10Wan Bissaka?
@@FerreusNRG Mediocre at best but overall a pretty disappointing transfer considering the expectations.
Nicholas Pepe actually looks OK compared to some of these, and was cheaper
Pepe was signed in 2019.
Pepe had 25 goals + assists in 80 PL games, while Antony and Sancho have combined for 21 goals + assists in 97 combined games
Pepe was doing okay but he just didn't suit Arteta's system.
He had G/A and looks decent in the compilation videos. But was worst in games. Always tries to take the ball on left foot and shoot. While auba waits for the ball
pepe was good but didn't want to adapt or be humble in the high pressing arsenal tactic
Finally, a contest where Chelsea and Man U can go head to head for the trophy!
Charitable of you to leave out Nick Pepe.
Pepe was bought in 2019.
That’s funny but also true 😢😢😢
How far they’ve fallen from that champions league final…
As an Arsenal fan, Pepe was better than Anthony+Sancho combined.
😂
As a Bundesliga fan, I love the PL clubs endless resources and determination to burn money by refusing to do any sort of scouting or roster planning.
Edit: due to my direct translation from German I have apparently misused the word roster. So to stop some from getting so upset, as this appears to be a massive hurdle for them to get over, I meant to say squad.
Thank you to the majority who overlooked this error and attempted to understand my opinion.
This is how poor people see rich people.
Roster.... Roster...
What the fuk...
Football doesn't have a 'roster'....
You are no football fan...
@@Thespacecadet187 Maybe don't attack someone for not using the ideal word when it's very reasonable that they're not a native speaker. Especially when you perfectly understand the meaning
@@RoseColored_ thank you brother, I didn’t realise that you don’t use the word roster in English, I’m glad you still understood the basis of what I was trying to say.
@@kth6736 Only foolish rich people who will be poor sooner
The fact that this list could deservedly be all Chelsea players three times round is amazing
Also if you’re looking for the most expensive per minute, Mislav Orsic cost Southampton about £10m last season and played 6 whole minutes for them
I have zero clue why Orsic was signed, only to get zero chance. It was just so bizarre
@@TylerAven10 money laundering
Wtf are they dimb hahaha
But he is a brilliant player . Would have been the best after jwp
As a Saints fan I was excited when we signed Orsic, seemed exactly what we needed. On top of those 6 minutes in the PL he also made a couple of appearances in cup games and was utterly dreadful. That said he still should have been given more of a chance, especially considering how bad we were.
Jadon Sancho should be number 1. The combination of his shocking performances and the pricetag cements it for me.
Not to mention all the issues he’s caused this season and will cause in future to get rid of him.
@@drhenrywaltonjonesjr they'll have to accept half of what they paid for him and they'll be lucky to get that. He hasn't put in one great performance, not one.
@@carrauntoohil86 I’m a United fan mate and as soon as he full on shirked a 50/50 against Besiktas I think it was I knew he wasn’t up to it.
@@drhenrywaltonjonesjr Ten Hag may have made some bad signings, but I back him on the Sancho situation. If he'd actually been playing well there might have been a case, but the fact he's been so poor you wouldn't even notice he's gone from the team.
Did you watch the video to the end? I don't think anyone can challenge the top spot. That Leeds story is so hilarious.
At least Sancho has played 58 games for United.
It's almost like throwing the warchest at a random foreign player in their early 20s, with half a decent season under their belt in an inferior league, isn't the best way to recruit new players. Who knew?
Are you implying that throwing the warchest at a random English player in their early 20s with a half decent season under their belt in the Premier League would somehow be better? For example, Andy Carroll? Or perhaps Danny Drinkwater?
Honestly baffles me that clubs do this. The football/business people are on 6 figure salaries and are almost incompetent at their jobs
@@caesar-dynastysports Where did he imply that, apart from within your head?
yeah i'm just really confused why clubs do this? I feel like they don't have to do it if they don't want to. Look at Luton, sure, they are still favorites to go down, but they made some decent business for cheap. In contrast, most clubs seem to overspend and take needless risks
The premier league has a great sense of destroying every single player produced by the eredivisie
Can’t blame Chelsea for Marco van Ginkel; dude had a glass knee.
It's probably because cannabis is illegal in the UK.
Except Cody Gakpo. Perhaps they should stay away from Buschester and Chelshite?
Not Suarez
maybe the EPL is just way more difficult and competitive than the dutch league??
It's not that these are bad players it's the crazy transfer fees for kids with a handful of games under the belt
And their new clubs don't do these players any favor with this massive fees. If you have so much money and got it just by a big investor instead of hard working, you don't have any sense of the true worth of it. PL clubs are literally like this:
"We want Fabio Silva"
"20M please"
"Ok fine, here you have 40M"
your comment is very true but its risk, look at Bellingham this season. There are some young players that can adapt to any club and perform no matter what, Haaland is another one, Mbappe, but you need to put that risk to invest and profit off them before they become too successful you can't afford them. Like the economy, more money is introduced each year, even though inflated it still makes a difference.
just saying each transfer is a calculated investment in every part of the world at any time. These clubs need to sign players who will improve their club though, that's the problem, don't use their brain.
@@Tre_Vor194 Bellingham was one of the best Bundesliga players of the last season and also captain. Haaland was also an absolute beast before he left. Fabio Silva or Højlund e.g. have been just talented players with mediocre stats.
And that's the problem. Bellingham has already proofed what he can do and because of that he was so expensive. Fabio Silva didn't even play constantly in the first team but costed 40M. And then everyone is excpecting a performance he haven't even shown before
@@thomashalbgottschalk8461 Haaland and Bellingham seem to are those kind of guys you can pay anything, they have the mentality to only care about becoming better players. They are exceptional imo
And its a difference to players like Neymar. Hopefully they don't get injured that much more....
Its a bloody race to the bottom between Chelsea and Manchester United and by god I think both teams won!
Chelsea win it.
@@noble7461 United should have won it HITC excluded Onana and Hojlund as they are both mediocre at best for the price paid.
@@noble7461how. United have featured in this list 4 times Chelsea once
well I think Chelsea will do better than Man U in the long run. Chelsea are very slow at progressing but will do it eventually. Man U will always be the same with this ownership no matter who is in charge
The fact that many plays in this list are from Manchester United really shows how they need a true director of football
For me is Moises Caicedo even if he turns out to be good a player like him should never be worth over £100 million
Rather have a good player than a player like Antony Sancho or Lukaku
yeah he shouldn't but he could yet be worth it anyway if he does well. Or at least be worth half that. Plus Chelsea clearly needed a player like him and I think he will do alright in the end because of how young he is. Same can't be said for many others who cost comparable amounts. The list sounds about right to me
Ten Hag has had so many shockers that should be on this list. Let’s play Ten Hag transfer bingo:
1. Is he Dutch?
2. Has he played in Eredivisie?
3. Has he played for Ajax / U21s?
4. Has he played for Ten Hag before?
5. Is he under a long contract / overvalued AF?
6. Does he have a concerning injury record?
That about covers about it.
7. Is he fairly shite?
That Lukaku analogy went lovely
It was fire 🔥
And then your entire house burned down 😂😂😂
Genius
Werner wasn't so bad, couldn't finish but made things happen. They were certainly better with him than without.
He's doing very well back in Germany
@anthonykenneth.1780 no he doesn't lol he is warming the bench at Leipzig that's why they want to sell him. That aside, the original comment is right he wasn't that bad at Chelsea but certainly not great
Like Darwin Nunez, Werner missed many chances but can still create chaos for opposing teams.
Love the comparison between Antony and Anthony Gordon, who everyone wrote off and thought was a waste of money at the time.
Some of these are good players signing for the wrong club at the wrong time. Lukaku to Chelsea made no sense, as they'd just sold Tammy Abraham who would have done no worse for a lot less cash. Van de Beek and Sancho were exceptional talents before joining Manchester United, which I think has more to do with the club than the players. A huge part of the problem is big clubs wanting to be seen to make high profile signings irrespective of the squad (Chelsea and Man U are the obvious culprits) so as to bolster their global image.
Remember also that a few years ago, Dom Solanke would have been included in this list, so there's hope yet for some.
Oh, and please do an investigation into the way that amortization has fuelled grossly inflated transfer fees and ridiculously long-term contracts.
Have a great 2024, Alfie.
I notice how prominently Man Utd and Chelsea can feature on these sort of lists they really have been 2 examples of how not to do transfer business
Funny AF isn't it
Mangala and Imboula are both shady Porto deals.
Jorge Mendes (Gestifute) and Pinto da Costa shady dealings
Fábio Silva: HELLO!
Mangala was ok and was at the time city signed him, the starter center back whilst Silva and Imboula werent.
Silva's deal was very weird and Imboula was a bit weird. He had a good season for marseille but for Porto, imboula was average. Porto was able to sale him at a 0 profit, something rare for Porto
Day 1 of asking a "What on Earth is going in Brest?"
There's not much alarming going on, but it is the best season, at minimum in the last 40 years when they had World Cup Winner José Luis Brown on the team, and it's unusual to see the historically small club doing very well
Hehehe. Brest.
It’s great to see Brest getting bigger.
Haha brest
I love breasts😂
No big cups...
This should be filled with Man U and Chelsea players
And declan rice kid can't forget that guy £100 million to bottle the league 😂😂😂😂
@@Thelegendhimself91The season's not even halfway done yet🤨 (United fan btw, before you start calling me biased)
@@calmarsh9363 and we all know how it goes they'll bottle yet again as they are a small team
@@Thelegendhimself91 Don't be a bitter lad
@@Thelegendhimself91 Rice is the player of the season so far.
jesus christ that jigsaw analogy was absolutely hilarious.
Regarding Sancho's cost to United: 140m is only transfer fee and wages, I would be surprised to learn that there wasn't a huge sign-on fee, a loyalty bonus, a number of other bonuses as well as the usual agent fees involved.
Cucurella deserved his Spot on the list; 65 M£ if im right! Even 10 M would be expensive for a guy who's right place is in front of a camera makin' shampoo ads
He looks like a lapdog when he runs
An idea for a future video:
For each Premier League club, pick ONE player from every other Premier League club that would improve their first team. It would be interesting to see which club gains the most/least players from other clubs. For example, I don't imagine there are any Sheffield United players that would improve Arsenal, or Luton players that would improve Man City, but there could be several Villa players that would improve Fulham or Newcastle players that would boost the starting 11 at N. Forest. Etc...
Noted, it could be a very long video
Damn! Manchester united with three players? Crazy stuff
No surprise when the glazers and their puppets such as Woodward have called the shots
Not glazers fault they spent billions on players but they don't pick the players@@jhaych
Chelsea could have had all seven
Not surprising
@@carltonleboss that's absolutely mental
Brewster's scoring record for Sheffield sounds awfully similar to Antony and Sanchos at United lol
Atleast he is not a 85$million flop🤣🤣
Jack Grealish Apps 64 goals 11 £100 million - not much difference
Champions league winner?
@@FH-id6ximan city fc won not Jack grealish fc
Grealish gets an unfair amount of criticism tbh.
Like all other players, Grealish was not the one who deemed him worth 100mill. I will never understand why people make transfer fees the players fault.
Secondly, Guardiola has changed Grealish's game to fit the system. He started to take less risks and became much more defensively sound, tracking back and covering the fullbacks. This is why at the start of the season and up until recently, Grealish was preferred over Doku in the big games. Just look at the 4-4 game Vs Chelsea. Doku was at fault for 3 goals, and after that Grealish started all of the champions league games.
Yes, he needs to be braver and score a bit more but he's still a very good player he offers much more than he seems to get credit for
Where’s Kalvin Phillips?
He was never really meant to be a first team player for city
@@samwithers2147 yet he cost 45m£...
He got a mention at the end
@@ReudigerRuediger that's what it costs to be on the bench at city
He's actually a good player he's just at a club with better options he'd be a great addition to a mid table team or some big team in Italy.
Fabia Silva's transfer value had nothing to do with his value/potential. Porto was in trouble with eufa's fair play rules and jorge mendes managed to sell him for the right value to get them of the hook. Mendes players signings are most times overpriced for reasons unrelated to the player's value
What i think should be done when signing new players is keep their buying price anonymous so that they do not have pressure when they are expensive
I still remember Sancho arguing who scored more goals with Saka in england camp during his bumdesliga years.
I'll never understand the type of 'genius' needed to agree on a "obligation to buy" clause on an transfer.
Yeah I don't get it. It's just buying someone
It was an obligation to buy if they get promoted i.e. he is apparently so good that he can't be bought, while Leeds has Championship revenue but once that sweet sweet Premier league bag comes in they can pay.
It's like a delayed permanent signing.
Really Leeds tried to get out of making a regular bad signing through a technicality and it backfired hard.
@@samuelschonenberger I get the technicalities but why on earth would anyone use an obligation to buy. It's not like signings are paid 100% up front. Either loan, loan with an option, or just sign. Was funny seeing Leeds get screwed over though
@@kieronparr3403 They were too confident in him and themselves but probably needed to defer the payment even more than normal.
@@kieronparr3403 it's pretty simple really, it is to cover teams in case of a serious injury, poor form of the player, or in their case, if it so happens they miss out on promotion...usually there are minimum appearances required to trigger the obligation also...but in Leeds' case they could only afford to buy him if they got to the EPL...if they didn't win promotion, they were not obligated to pay the hefty transfer fee. It is a good practice in some situations like this. But Leeds should have included a minimum appearance clause in the obligation also though, then they wouldn't have been stuck with him 🤣🤣
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Good morning from Las Vegas!!!!!! You are so damn funny!😂😂
How EtH got it so wrong with Antony just baffles me. You made this player shine, why can’t you do it no more. Well same could be said about VDB too though. Also, just like Antony, how Onana came in and became even worse in terms of shot stopping compared to de gea astonishes as well. Yet, he also has a history with the manager
If I'm a Dortmund player, I'm either staying in Germany or only signing for Man City in the EPL. City have done very well with Dortmund signings (Gundogan, Akanji, Haaland).
What about Jude Bellingham?
The entire Augustin court saga is just one giant "ummmmm ACTUALLY"
You call it bad signings, I call it money laundering.
Antony is the worst signing in Premier League history. He was signed for an extortionate fee of £82m when they needed a striker. Instead they could have got Isak or Haaland for under £60m
They were never going to get Haaland, he would never play for them
@@epicmarschmallow5049 Tell that to Ole when he almost had a deal with him before being rejected by united board
Tanguy Ndombele was a 2019 signing so just missed out on making this list. I was expecting to see the chelsea squad dominate for a change
As is the case with 99% of Liverpool academy 1st team prospects (literally only TAA has avoided this fate in the last 25 years), Brewster was out with serious injury for over a year just before Sheffield Utd signed him.
Alfie had a stinker there. Yes, Brewster has been bad but there have been many factors going against him since his switch, not just by him; but you literally have Anthony who costed 80M and doesn't even have 10 league goals yet in two seasons... plus the lovely added bonus of his accusations which brings negative PR to your club, and his massive wages that you can't shake to another club without losing money.
Lovely investment of, again: 80.MILLION.POUNDS... but sure, Brewster is way worse.
Brewster still has time to build a career, some injuries can take a couple of years to recover from and a bit longer for the player to regain confidence and start fully using that part of their body again. And sometimes the injury never fully recovers and can hinder a player's progress, but they can still build a decent career.
Curtis Jones, Quansah and Kelleher are doing well right now tbh
@@nganhuyen8351 Quansah has played 3 league games. Jones has been poor for 5 years bar his debut and one game 2 weeks ago with constant injuries, has never strung more than 8 games together without injury, and Kelleher doesn't play.
@tdyerwestfield that's the problem with plastic out of towners like you claiming to support my club
Lukaku shouldn’t be that high. He was chelsea’s top scorer in the only title from team world cup chelsea achieved so far
Antony's stats at Ajax weren't even anything special, this idea he's a talent waiting to blossom is kinda of BS. He's just not good enough and shouldn't have been signed, there's nothing he does well, he's slow, struggles to beat players, crossing is bad, vision is bad, shooting is bad, has no left foot..
Brilliant agent
He can spin well. Maybe he should have tried beyblades instead of football.
Ajax is a club that develops young players, so they are supposed to be better at 22 years old than at 19, the fact that you are able to read numbers does not make the numbers reflect his development. Manchester United is such a mismanaged club that it had to get him a year too early, so he wasn't ready yet, from Ajax that wasn't ready to sell yet. So you overpay about 20 million relative to a matured Antony one year later for a player that at that point in time was worth 20 million less, so that makes a 40 million loss compared to a proper squad policy. On top of that you give that player a bad start making him having to recover from a struggle.
I remember thinking how Donny Van de Beek could have been the new Thomas Muller based on his fluidity and Champions League performances for Ajax... I am so sad to see that never happened, even if Frenkie was clearly the most promising player, I had so much faith on VDB becoming a legend somewhere. Hope he recovers somehow as many of that Ajax team who were young are flourishing or have had some success
So why is mudryk not on the list
Mudryk is going to be called a young up and coming talent at age 26 or something like he’s Jesse Lingard
Because the other signings have been far worse for far longer than Mudryk 😂
You ppl really think just because mudryk was a bad signing (which he was), that he is a top7 worst signing, that’s just not the case
He’s scored a fair bit now
12:52 Alfie’s abstract humor is actually GOLD 😂😂😂😂😂
Wolves was making a bunch of dumb decisions around that time. I will never understand why we spent a record fee on a kid that couldn't even score in the league that he was coming from.
As a man United fan, I’m immensely proud we didn’t make every single name on this list … because I expected that.
Can you make a list on the 7 Worst Todd Boehly Signings?
I second this as a yank
So in this video the proof: "Sports Director" is one skillset, "Manager" is a completely and unrelatedly different skillset, and the two must work in harmony. Not many that know that.
Should've been half Man Utd, half Chelsea, these 2 clubs have destroyed themselves over the last 10 years to the point they are consistently on par with Bournemouth and Wolves these days. As a Chelsea fan I am disgusted with the board over the last 15 years.
15😂 ungrateful plastic
)You guys(Chelsea) over the past 2 decades were actually good other than Roman despite him sacking managers left, right and center and big money signings that never worked at least Chelsea were winning trophies and acting smartly under him
Ever since Boddly and the whole Ukraine invasion thing there has been utter chaos at Chelsea with Todd trying to do same things under Roman but spending more money in much shorter time
@@luyandzabavukiledlamini4693 too much info to read but yea bro Roman can EAD. The clubs have the money, its whether they have the motivation and determination, with a manager who emphasis that s*at.Chelsea and Man UTD just dont care, not one person in the club aye.
Ha ha ha ha ha. The jigsaw analogy. Goodness. That broke me. Happy New Year to you, Alfie. Hope 2024 is a good one for you
Anthony can be an absolute top performer, on Strictly come dancing
You mentioned Richarlison he's balling this season though 9 goal contributions in 17 and with son not around RN he might become their main man, seriously this might be his season
The lukaku puzzle analogy...bloody hilarious (despite me being a Chelsea fan)
Omg man the part of YOUR HOUSE BURNS DOWN actually killed me
His sense of humour is so underrated 😂
Seeing Jack Rodwell give me so much PTSD the worst time to be a Sunderland fan that was
It's ridiculous that City has become one of the more reasonable clubs in the prem when it comes to transfers by now lol
Edit: more reasonable doesn't mean truly reasonable though, it's still a clusterfuck
Even as a united fan, I'll admit city's transfers are usually spot on. Only mistake id say is grealish, way too much money for not enough output
@@efancording6363as ronaldo fanboy put it, he is big time player
@@efancording6363not worth 100m but he played a big part in their treble win with chance creation
Sorry but placing Antony anywhere other than #1 failure is just straight wrong. And it's not even close.
You could've put Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo on the list of Premier League worst transfer ever since 2020. Chelsea's performance is still unstable and has not moved from the bottom of the table. And often reap minor results. Is it possible that Chelsea's dark period will happen again like last season?
I guess the length of their contracts and that they haven't been horrendous is probably why, but they are part of a very mediocre Chelsea team, and haven't been good enough to make the difference (Grotesquely expensive rbf)
Enzo and caicedo are two of the best talents in world football its just that chelsea is in such a mess that they haven't been at their best
He said it would be harsh to put in anyone in the last 12 months, and Enzo Fernandez was signed in Jan, and Caicedo over the summer. Very possible that they would be in a year or two.
Chelsea stability has nothing to do with them as player and them being signed.
One played under Potter and Lampard, and the other's 4 months into an injury stricken team that hasn't gelled yet under a manager with no clue what he's doing either.
If you weren't picking easy targets you'd say Sterling bcs he's a senior PL experience player on 350k pw that's at the center of the team's struggle for goals the entire time those two have been at Chelsea
Two quality players playing for a side who struggle to score goals.
if you'll make something like this again in the next 2-3 years, I can see it will be a battle between Man United and Chelsea
But its not antonys fault man united overpaid for him, ajax didnt want to sell coz it was near the end of the transfer window they put a price tag to scare united but they paid anyway
Doesn't change the fact that he's shite
It is his fault he's virtually invisible
It’s absolutely his own fault that he is awful
Antony is included on the list because he gets clicks and comments from uneducated people saying he’s “invisible”, “shite” and “awful… let’s have a quick comparison between Antony and Grealish in their first Manchester seasons: Antony - 8 goals in 44 appearances - I’d say that’s reasonable for a player in a new league. Grealish gets 6 in 39 games and only scored 5 last season - he also cost almost £20m more and peps trying to replace him with Doku already after 2 seasons. Antony is fashionable to hate on by the brainless
@@juliushibbert1091 first day on the Internet is it? Anthony is wank though, he's easy top 10
Bro dropped a ManU transfer video and thought we wouldnt notice
By counting just with transfer from 2020 onwards you are leaving the most elite one of Maguire
At least Maguire's been on the pitch for most of his time at United. Unlike the lads featured.
They also forgot declan rice 100 million flop
Everyone clowns Maguire when he makes mistakes, but he can be a very solid defender and leader when in form. Wasn't worth the money, no, but absolutely does not deserve to be anywhere near this list.
@@Thelegendhimself91are you joking? He’s been unreal this season
@@edwardbrown7986 no he hasn't kid he's nowhere near 100 million don't be stupid son
12:37 is the most accurate description of what happened to Chelsea
i thought this would just be about chelsea...
I thought it was just gonna be man utd
And declan rice 😂😂😂😂
@@Thelegendhimself91as an arsenal fan i’d happily give west ham another 20m on top of what we paid…
@@zeeafraud7898 yikes kid you that desperate for average players 🤦♂️😂😂😂😂really are banter fc 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Thelegendhimself91 Rice is top 3 DMs in the world, far better than average
15:00 with the benefit of more hindsight Sancho was playing 4d chess and ripping off the glazers. What a legend
O NANA THE WORST KEEPER BUY OF ALL TIME 😂 THANKS FOR THE LAUGHS O NANA, FROM A MAN UTD FAN ❤
Going to far with that, plus it’s your own player so no
This was hysterical, great video
Can we get the 7 best next?
Antony is the worst player to have ever played in the premier league.
Anthony is another Nani,Memphis Depay. Clearly has it all there but just can’t deliver. All 3 { could be argued to be over confident in themselves.
The only thing is I remember Nani winning games for us...
Nani was miles clear of Antony
Antony does not "have it all"
Nani was actually cooking bro😂
Nani took over from CR more than anyohe could have expected for at least three seasons.
Antony is the biggest example of being expensive because of their passport.
That Wolves signing of Silva reeks of money laundering
I know this doesn’t include people within the last 12 months but Onana is literally the worst keeper I’ve ever seen at any paid level. He looks like an outfield player who had to put the gloves on. Even when he makes a save it looks absurd. I can’t even believe he’s a professional
The hate you have for Lukaku Alfie has no bounds. The guy is a great player that just wasn't in the right team with the right coach. Underrated player.
This list could easily be filled with just Man United and Chelsea signings
Lukaku is one of the most misused misunderstood players ever, watching Chelsea play him how they did was so insanely frustrating.
The shade in the intro already is sending me wailing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 “…. But no one does it quite like the premier league”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Decade started 1. January 2021 not 2020. You think that the year 2000 was already a part of third millenium of this era?
@StephenC-dk1vl No it isn't. A millennium is 1000 years. So the first millennium was 1-1000. The second was 1001-2000. The third is 2001-3000. It's called counting.
@Ceaseless_Watcher the first year of your life begins exactly a year before your first birthday. the first minute of football takes place between 0:00 and 0:59. The ninetieth between 89:00 and 89:59. Hope this helps
This is why the world ended on both dates. Once for the literalists and once for the pendants. (Take your pick which is which) All the bad signings since then have been purely figments of our now extinct imaginations.
12:37 Alfie’s humor is lowkey quality
Chelsea have had mostly disastrous transfers for the last 5 years, but Lukaku wasn’t worth his fee because he didn’t fit in with their style as it had been for a while: low scoring games with a great defense. I think of the likes of Timo Werner, who was incapable of scoring unless the ball bounced off his ass into the goal and how many times does that happen in a season. They recruited Kai Havertz at the same time and he, too, though able to score if there was no time to consider missing, only racked up 4-6 goals even when for some reason (height?) he played as a striker. Why Arsenal thought he would score for them I have no idea but he’s done no better and is the worst transfer I’ve seen happen under MA.
Mason Mount was adored by pundits and every Chelsea manager for reasons I never understood. He isn’t a good shooter, he doesn‘t have great passer’s vision, I never understood the pedestal they put him on but at MU he has played (when he plays) just like back at Chelsea and his productive output is minimal.
I'm a Chelsea fan and I agree. I can't get why every manager and pundit thought Mount was Lampard reincarnated.
The fact that half the players here are Manchester United tells you just how bad the recruitment is at the club not just in this decade
poor donny
To not put Jean Philippe Gbamin is nuts. Lad came in, got injured, then got injured, then got injured, and then got injured. Gbamin came in under Marco Silva in 2019 and has played 7 games in the blue since. Biggest waste of 25 million ever
2019 is before 2020 though
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 589)
I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored.
If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
It’s over
Forget about it buddy
second danny drinkwater mention in 7 days 💀
André Onana
Bruno Fernandes out
this is why I always say - the players you DON'T sign are just as important as the ones you do. Take heed, Brailsford.
How have you taken a video about seven footballers and dragged it out into a 23 minute epic? Serial waffler
First time here?
@@soundscape26 nah - I see these pop up from time to time and am just baffled by them every-time. This one I thought was particularly egregious
Fábio Silva is one more player of "Mendes Laundry Services"😉
It's Antony or Antony dos Santos. Not Anthony Martial. Top notch, quality video mate. Not in any way biased towards MU either. 👏😂
Havertz to Chelsea deserves a shout. That guy was horrendous for them
Havertz won us the Champions league and we sold him to Arsenal almost recruiting the very said amount.lol. so what are you talking about dude 😎
40 mil for mangala is wild when you sit and think about it for a minute
Danke!
Wow, thank you!
big club/league moves for 18/19 years for huge sums basically ruin their careers
The shocking thing is that Man United's 3 best signings since 2020 are Casemiro (injured), Martinez (injured) and Ronaldo (sacked himself)
All the others have either been youth players, squad players like Malacia and Evans, or big money disasters.
When will the clubs find out to not paying idiotic wages, and make them performance-related. The wages at the moment are in many cases pissing on the fans.
It's the long term contracts that really hurt when the guy doesn't play/produce