Gary Darkness 1:14 Tue Nov 6
worst ever west ham signings pound for pound
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This was supposed to be a top 10 list but i got carried away. This list is about value, not just the worst players. Some of them were actually decent.
Thoughts?
1 dyer
2 ljungberg
3 carroll (the most expensive but at least we got some good moments out of him)
4 benni mccarthy
5 Titi camara
6 yarmolenko (sorry but he will be 30 next season and all his re-sale value gone, plus high wages)
7 matt jarvis
8 maiga
9 alou diarra
10 pablo barrera
11 Hutchison (second time we signed him)
12 savio
13 Boa morte
14 Quashie
15 herita llunga (terrible after we signed him permanently)
16 Radiciuou
17 enner valencia
18 diamanti (lost about £6m on him)
19 Faubert
20 Gary Charles
21 Dumitrescu
22 dale gordon
WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY!
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Gary Darkness
1:15 Tue Nov 6
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and obviously we have to account for inflation and the market at the time
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Trevor B
1:16 Tue Nov 6
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Ridiculous about Yarmolenko. You're a proper dick, no doubts.
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Biggie Biggs
1:20 Tue Nov 6
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I stopped reading at 6 . Pathetic
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joe royal
1:34 Tue Nov 6
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Davor Suker ?
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Far Cough
1:39 Tue Nov 6
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Valencia wasn't that bad
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Manip
1:40 Tue Nov 6
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Maiga shouldn't be counted in this list for his Carling Cup header against Spurs alone.
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Rossal
1:42 Tue Nov 6
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Hugill has to be on there
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Gary Darkness
1:43 Tue Nov 6
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We will pay about £30m for Yarmolenko and we will not get much more out of him now. Anyone who can't see that does not know the history of this club, sorry.
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Gary Darkness
1:44 Tue Nov 6
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Hugill we could yet get our money back on, give or take 2 or 3 mill.
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Trevor B
1:46 Tue Nov 6
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Gary
you are talking about a player who will be two years into a 4 year contract when he is thirty, so obviously his resale value is going to drop. not because he has turned 30, you absolute moron. players resale value doesn't automatically drop once they relinquish a 2 at the start of their age, this isn't championship manager '93.
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terry-h
1:46 Tue Nov 6
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I agree with Manip.
Maiga had some decent moments in addition to the goal against Spurs. I don't recall him ever being injured either, unlike the other sicknotes mentioned.
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1:48 Tue Nov 6
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Several spring to mind especially Peter Eustace and Ted McDougal.
In recent years the stand out stinking buy for me has been Matt Jarvis by a country mile
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Takashi Miike
1:53 Tue Nov 6
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Dyer
Mean
Quashie
Carroll
Llunjberg
there's loads more but those come to mind immediately
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Westham67
2:07 Tue Nov 6
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John Radford Scoring about 1 in 3 games for arsenal and got injured , guess who bought him, we did for 80,000 a lot of money then, played 28 games for us and didn't score and went to Blackburn on free
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BubblesCyprus
2:13 Tue Nov 6
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Useless Eustace to add to the list bought to reolace Martin Peters IIRC ?
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
2:18 Tue Nov 6
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Some of the players on that list were perfectly OK or at worst a little disappointing.
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stirlinghammer
2:21 Tue Nov 6
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carroll back after the international break according to physioroom...it may have meant he will break his back
jack wheelchair also back on the 24th...
boogers was a class act as was robbie keane and benny mac
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Trevor B
2:23 Tue Nov 6
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I'd also say the likes of Rigobert Song, Joey Beauchamp, Razvan Rat, Marco Boogers, Jose Fonte all deserve to be on there for the return we got from them.
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Sniper
2:30 Tue Nov 6
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Pound for lb, McCarthy was a steal
A lot of those on there don’t deserve to be - diamanti for example. Even Valencia we made money back on him.
Though I would say joe hart and Zaza - cost a fortune in loan fees and wages and were both utter toilet.
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Crazy In Cremonese
2:31 Tue Nov 6
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Alex Bunbury, the Canadian who Bonds signed in 1993. He was just as bad as the ringer who Graeme Souness was conned into signing for Southampton.
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