Just gonna post a list of players and rough fees, ill add to it with suggestions people can compile their personal top 10?
Man Utd
Di Maria - british record 60m
Pogba - 89m world record 89m.
Maguire - world record fee for a def 80m
Sanchez - was a swap deal for a player signed for 30m but the drop off was astonishing.
Veron British record way back then 28m
Hargreaves 22.5m back in 07 was a lot of money for a crock
Wan-Bissaka 50m
Van der Beek 35m
Baily 32m
Lindelof 31m
Martial 61m
Fred 52m
Sancho 73m
Man City
Mangala - 42m
Grealish 100m
Bony 32m
Jo 24m
Jovetic 26m
Mendy 52m
Danilo 26m
Robinho - 32.5m
Chelsea
Bakayoko - 40m
Drinkwater - 35m
Torres - 50m
Shevchenko - 32m
Luspaku - 100m
Kepa 72m
Batshuayi - 33m
Morata – 58m
Werner - 45m
Mutu - 17m in 2003
Liverpool
Aquaman - 18m
Balotelli - 16m
Carroll - 35m
Benteke - 32m
Markovic - 20m
Naby Keita - 52.5m
Ox - 35m
Robbie Keane - 19m
Joe Cole - Free
Milan Jovanovic - Free
Konchesky - 4m?
El Hadji Diouf - 11m
Everton
Bolasie 35m
Iwobi - 35m
Kean - 29m
Tosun - 28m
Klassen - 24m
Niasse - 16m
Siggurdson - 45m
Arsenal
Jeffers 14m in 2001
Pepe 72m
Mustafi 35m
Perez - 17m
Xhaka - 35m
Spurs
Ndombele 63m
Bentley 20m
Sanchez 42m
Sissoko 30m
Soldado - 27m
Janssen - 20m
Lo Celso - 29m
Sergei Rebrov - 11m back in 2000
Lamela 30m
Others
Imbula to Stoke - 22m
Owen to Newcastle - 23m
Seth Johnson to Leeds in 01 - 11m
Ndong to Sunderland - 18m
Grabbi to Blackburn in 01 - 10m
Gibson to Burnley - club record 15m
Alves to Middlesbrough - 15m
Kevin Davies to Blackburn in 98 - 10m
Gaston Ramirez to Southampton - 14m
Steve Marlet to Fulham - 16m in 2001
Osvaldo to Southampton - 15m
Sutton to Chelsea in 99 - 10m
Jurgen Locadia to Brighton - 15m
Mitroglu to Fulham - 12m
Joelinton to Newcastle - 40m
Haller to Whammers - 45m
Nsereko to Whammers - club record 9m in 09?
Your top 10 worst premier league signings?
posted on 1/7/22
and he didnt turn out to be a nonce?
posted on 1/7/22
Sancho at £75m is clearly in the conversation although I do expect he’ll show some worth eventually.
As for Carroll, he didn’t do well but I can’t put him up there alongside some of the clangers in the list.
Financially, it cost Liverpool buttons for starters because it was a three way saga between Liverpool, Newcastle and Chelsea. As John Henry said …
“The fee for Torres was dependent on what Newcastle asked for Carroll. The negotiation for us was simply the difference in prices paid by Chelsea and to Newcastle. Those prices could have been £35m [from Chelsea for Torres] and £20m [to Newcastle for Carroll], 40 and 25 or 50 and 35. It was ultimately up to Newcastle how much this was all going to cost.”
Plus, he won more with Liverpool than the last few hundred Spurs players combined
posted on 1/7/22
Seriously though of all the United players listed in the OP, the majority are just there on price alone, if we’re being serious about flops, then you need to look at names like
Bebe
Kagawa
Mkhitaryan
Miller
Bellion
Depay
Tosic
posted on 1/7/22
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posted on 1/7/22
comment by InBefore (U20589)
posted 56 minutes ago
and he didnt turn out to be a nonce?
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Didn’t he turn out to score more goals in a season than the apparently good Firmino?
Getting a midfielder with his goal return is good. The nonce stuff would be more relevant had he not been there 5 seasons or whatever prior.
posted on 1/7/22
Didn’t he turn out to score more goals in a season than the apparently good Firmino?
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Who ever thought Firmino was good?
posted on 2/7/22
comment by Naby8 (U6997)
posted 17 hours, 41 minutes ago
Personally I would always find room for El Hadji Diouf on a worst ever signings list.
Expensive for the time, atrocious attitude and absolute dog-poop on the pitch. Just terrible in every way.
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And he believed himself to be the second coming and better than EVERYONE else.
posted on 2/7/22
comment by #LiquidGenius (U20571)
posted 10 hours, 24 minutes ago
comment by InBefore (U20589)
posted 2 minutes ago
Also we can sell him now and make at least 30m back, and his wages are middling.
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oh right, you sell a flop that cost 72m for 30m and that makes it ok.
We sold carroll for 17.5m and 2.5m loan fee. yet you said overall carroll
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Yeah you did well to claw back some of that money on Carroll.
But it sticks out in a way because there was just no justification for spending that kind of money on him in the first place. He wasn't talented in any way.
With most of these other ones, you can see why they were signed in the first place - even at a big cost. Carroll was just out of nowhere.
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Last hours of the window after Torres left for £50m (or close to) I think, also one of those times when Liverpool bought a player who scored the winning goal against them the last time they met.
He had scored double figures for the Toon before his injury but still, very underwhelming.
posted on 2/7/22
Yep Carroll cost £35m of the £50m Torres money within about an hour
posted on 3/7/22
While Fred is definitely not worth the 52m he was bought for he’s not a terrible player and has probably had more good games for United than keita has actually played for Liverpool.
If Fred is in a top 10 then keita is a place or two ahead of him.
He’s arguably Klopps biggest ever flop