Friday, June 22, 2007

Potential is one thing.....ability another

With Manchester United starting the summers frenzied transfer activity by splashing out over £30 million on two unproven youngsters, I thought it worthwhile to have a look at some of the biggest transfer flops of the premiership

Francis Jeffers was signed by Arsenal for a whopping £10 million. Awful, awful player. Remembered more for that horrific dive, than for his footballing ability. Now plys his trade with Ipswich Town

George Weahs cousin. Signed by Souness for southampon, and boasting the same blood line as the former World Footballer of the Year, he was played without having been properly assessed. He had what must be the shortest career in football. Having come on as a second half substitute, he was subbed back off after about 12 minutes. He now lives as a nomad liberia.

Next inline is Massimo Taibi. *THAT* goal from le tissier that went through his legs saw his united career cut short. Off he went.

Stan collymore. Three times a bad signing. The worst must have been alaves though who paid him a huge signing on fee, and then he retired without playing a month of football.

veron. again a reoffender. 48 million pounds have been spent on this guy buy united and chelsea. and he wasn't worth a quarter of it.

he waddles when he runs. he tries when he defends. titus bramble.

Finally, I'll leave you with one of the many many houllier signings who arrived over his liverpool tenure. He signed so many players and lavished them with hype that they could not reach. Bruno Cheyrou, signed for 4million(?) and dubbed the next zidane by gerard houllier.

5 comments:

Pete said...

Diouf for liverpool has to be up there. 3 goals in two seasons for ten million is that right?

Pete said...

Oh yeah and how much did ManU spend on Forlan?

Anonymous said...

yeah your right. forlan was a shocker.

arguably cisse could be there aswell, since he barely played for liverpool with his broken legs

Kevin Webb said...

collymore was class for liverpool for two years, so he wasnt always a flop. plus you cant really blame diouf for being a flop, he was playded on the right wing the whole time and never really given a chance. more gerard h madness. surely chelsea squad have the most flops. big money ones as well. swp, duff, sheva, mutu, crespo plus many more.

oh and cisse scored in the fa cup final therefore he cant be counted!

Pete said...

Diouf's definitley still a flop even if its the hooleeays fault, just like sheva, duff and crespo