comment by InBefore (U20589)
posted 5 seconds ago
AC had scored 28 in 58 prem games for newcastle at 21? 11 in 19 tht season before we signed him. Wasnt exactly out of nowhere. He was talented, on his day unplayable in the right system. Didnt fit us at all though wasnt ever going to really and was injury prone in the end anyway.
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Didn't you get Stewart Downing to supply him but then hardly play them together?
Stewart Downing, there's another.
comment by Ace (U22861)
posted 48 seconds ago
comment by InBefore (U20589)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Ace (U22861)
posted 20 minutes ago
comment by tcruel87 (U11882)
posted 7 hours, 53 minutes ago
Konchesky. I know he was cheap but that was the signing where reality really hit at how far we had fallen
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I used to know Konchesky, he’s an absolute belllend.
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know his mum? i remember her mouthing off in the papers attacking Liverpool fans for giving him stick.
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No, but wouldn’t surprise me, by bro was in his year at school, he comes from a right scratty family. He’d be a bin man or a drug dealer if he wasn’t a footballer. I’m pretty sure he married John Terry’s sister, all that lot including Terrys family used to hang out at a football club I used to go to, I played against Terrys brother Paul a couple of times, he was right up his own arris just because his brother was JT. Mug.
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i remember seeing a p0orn vid claimed it was JTs mum, not sure if it was or not.
comment by Boudewijn Pahlplatz (U15867)
posted 26 seconds ago
comment by InBefore (U20589)
posted 5 seconds ago
AC had scored 28 in 58 prem games for newcastle at 21? 11 in 19 tht season before we signed him. Wasnt exactly out of nowhere. He was talented, on his day unplayable in the right system. Didnt fit us at all though wasnt ever going to really and was injury prone in the end anyway.
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Didn't you get Stewart Downing to supply him but then hardly play them together?
Stewart Downing, there's another.
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and Charlie Adam Damien Comolli scatter gun moneyball signings.
Siggurdson to Everton at £45m is easily one of the worst buys of all time.
Always goes under the radar
comment by Metro.⚽️ (U6770)
posted 7 minutes ago
Siggurdson to Everton at £45m is easily one of the worst buys of all time.
Always goes under the radar
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True, theres prob loads ive missed from that lot, 600m in like 5 years to barely escape relegation.
The fack? He was pretty decent for them for a while and certainly not anywhere near most of the players mentioned. Klassen, for example, was way worse.
comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 10 minutes ago
The fack? He was pretty decent for them for a while and certainly not anywhere near most of the players mentioned. Klassen, for example, was way worse.
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Here it is again…
It’s like living in the twilight zone. He was a disaster and at the time of signing was one of the top 5 most expensive players purchased in English football history
Klassen was less than half the amount paid for Siggurdson
and he didnt turn out to be a nonce?
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
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
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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.
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?
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.
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.
Yep Carroll cost £35m of the £50m Torres money within about an hour
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
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posted on 1/7/22
comment by InBefore (U20589)
posted 5 seconds ago
AC had scored 28 in 58 prem games for newcastle at 21? 11 in 19 tht season before we signed him. Wasnt exactly out of nowhere. He was talented, on his day unplayable in the right system. Didnt fit us at all though wasnt ever going to really and was injury prone in the end anyway.
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Didn't you get Stewart Downing to supply him but then hardly play them together?
Stewart Downing, there's another.
posted on 1/7/22
comment by Ace (U22861)
posted 48 seconds ago
comment by InBefore (U20589)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Ace (U22861)
posted 20 minutes ago
comment by tcruel87 (U11882)
posted 7 hours, 53 minutes ago
Konchesky. I know he was cheap but that was the signing where reality really hit at how far we had fallen
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I used to know Konchesky, he’s an absolute belllend.
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know his mum? i remember her mouthing off in the papers attacking Liverpool fans for giving him stick.
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No, but wouldn’t surprise me, by bro was in his year at school, he comes from a right scratty family. He’d be a bin man or a drug dealer if he wasn’t a footballer. I’m pretty sure he married John Terry’s sister, all that lot including Terrys family used to hang out at a football club I used to go to, I played against Terrys brother Paul a couple of times, he was right up his own arris just because his brother was JT. Mug.
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i remember seeing a p0orn vid claimed it was JTs mum, not sure if it was or not.
posted on 1/7/22
comment by Boudewijn Pahlplatz (U15867)
posted 26 seconds ago
comment by InBefore (U20589)
posted 5 seconds ago
AC had scored 28 in 58 prem games for newcastle at 21? 11 in 19 tht season before we signed him. Wasnt exactly out of nowhere. He was talented, on his day unplayable in the right system. Didnt fit us at all though wasnt ever going to really and was injury prone in the end anyway.
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Didn't you get Stewart Downing to supply him but then hardly play them together?
Stewart Downing, there's another.
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and Charlie Adam Damien Comolli scatter gun moneyball signings.
posted on 1/7/22
Siggurdson to Everton at £45m is easily one of the worst buys of all time.
Always goes under the radar
posted on 1/7/22
comment by Metro.⚽️ (U6770)
posted 7 minutes ago
Siggurdson to Everton at £45m is easily one of the worst buys of all time.
Always goes under the radar
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True, theres prob loads ive missed from that lot, 600m in like 5 years to barely escape relegation.
posted on 1/7/22
The fack? He was pretty decent for them for a while and certainly not anywhere near most of the players mentioned. Klassen, for example, was way worse.
posted on 1/7/22
comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 10 minutes ago
The fack? He was pretty decent for them for a while and certainly not anywhere near most of the players mentioned. Klassen, for example, was way worse.
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Here it is again…
It’s like living in the twilight zone. He was a disaster and at the time of signing was one of the top 5 most expensive players purchased in English football history
Klassen was less than half the amount paid for Siggurdson
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.
_________
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
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