Who is our worst signing?

[Nutsin]

I’ve got Kieran Dyer.

Who you got?

[Massive Attack]

It says around £9M but remember it being £10M reported at the time, either way still a fuck load of money trusted on him to produce big results. His career now as it was at the time is 1 of a charlatan. 

https://talksport.com/football/2836031/ ... tsigation/

We never, ever fucking learn...

[eusebiovic]

I just remembered another one...

Despite his goal against Sevilla and the double whammy against Chelsea being notable Yarmolenko was well off the pace and largely a disappointment considering his wages and fitness issues. £18M quid for a bloke who rarely featured.

He got bombed out of Dortmund for not being fit enough to play Bundesliga so I don't know why anybody expected his body to consistently hold together in the Prem.

He was good for about 5 goals - I remember another double against Everton but that was about it. 

Yarmo wasn’t that bad when fit. He got a couple of serious injuries anx scored some really priceless goals and some screamers for us. The one against Sevilla was just an awesome moment which was just after his return from compassionate leave after the invasion- his first game back being the Villa game where he also scored the winner and that was quite the emotional moment as well. 

I liked him - obviously a truly skillful player but another example of taking a punt on somebody with physical issues and see how it falls.

We continue to do this when so many other clubs have bypassed this out of date, throw the plate against the wall mentality and see what sticks by having a far superior recruitment model.

[El Scorchio]

I just remembered another one...

Despite his goal against Sevilla and the double whammy against Chelsea being notable Yarmolenko was well off the pace and largely a disappointment considering his wages and fitness issues. £18M quid for a bloke who rarely featured.

He got bombed out of Dortmund for not being fit enough to play Bundesliga so I don't know why anybody expected his body to consistently hold together in the Prem.

He was good for about 5 goals - I remember another double against Everton but that was about it. 

Yarmo wasn’t that bad when fit. He got a couple of serious injuries anx scored some really priceless goals and some screamers for us. The one against Sevilla was just an awesome moment which was just after his return from compassionate leave after the invasion- his first game back being the Villa game where he also scored the winner and that was quite the emotional moment as well. 

[Massive Attack]

I can't see how we can ever seriously look past Savio Nsereko. He clearly was never a Footballer and were sold an absolute pup without making sure the Club did it's due diligence on the fraud footballer before parting company with £10M big ones. 

The horrible little cսnt even faked his own hostage claim so he could get thousands out of his own family! Sums the fraud up and we were mug enough as a so called top flight Professional Football Club who couldn't afford to waste much around that time. 

£10M back in 2009 remember. That's an incredible amount of money back then to spunk on someone knew fuck all about. 

Think it was that fat iti twat Gianluca Nani (another useless Director of Football) who convinced us to buy him. cսnt should be locked up for defrauding us.

Yep 100% 

Absolutely scandalous how nobody got prosecuted for a blatant scam. 

Disgraceful

Out of curiosity I just looked up and edited the record transfer of the time Ronaldo went to Real Madrid from Man Utd for £80M! Fucking shocking!

[eusebiovic]

I can't see how we can ever seriously look past Savio Nsereko. He clearly was never a Footballer and were sold an absolute pup without making sure the Club did it's due diligence on the fraud footballer before parting company with £10M big ones. 

The horrible little cսnt even faked his own hostage claim so he could get thousands out of his own family! Sums the fraud up and we were mug enough as a so called top flight Professional Football Club who couldn't afford to waste much around that time. 

£10M back in 2009 remember. That's an incredible amount of money back then to spunk on someone knew fuck all about. 

Think it was that fat iti twat Gianluca Nani (another useless Director of Football) who convinced us to buy him. cսnt should be locked up for defrauding us.

Yep 100% 

Absolutely scandalous how nobody got prosecuted for a blatant scam. 

Disgraceful

[Massive Attack]

I can't see how we can ever seriously look past Savio Nsereko. He clearly was never a Footballer and were sold an absolute pup without making sure the Club did it's due diligence on the fraud footballer before parting company with £10M big ones. 

The horrible little cսnt even faked his own hostage claim so he could get thousands out of his own family! Sums the fraud up and we were mug enough as a so called top flight Professional Football Club who couldn't afford to waste much around that time. 

£10M back in 2009 remember. That's an incredible amount of money back then to spunk on someone knew fuck all about. Just to put that in to perspective, one Cristiano Ronaldo went for a world record transfer around the same time from Man Utd to Real Madrid for £80M. 

Think it was that fat iti twat Gianluca Nani (another useless Director of Football) who convinced us to buy him. Another fraud in Football stealing a living. cսnt should be locked up for defrauding us.

[eusebiovic]

I just remembered another one...

Despite his goal against Sevilla and the double whammy against Chelsea being notable Yarmolenko was well off the pace and largely a disappointment considering his wages and fitness issues. £18M quid for a bloke who rarely featured.

He got bombed out of Dortmund for not being fit enough to play Bundesliga so I don't know why anybody expected his body to consistently hold together in the Prem.

He was good for about 5 goals - I remember another double against Everton but that was about it. 

[Sweep]

Could argue Bobby Ferguson and Pedro Obiang because they were chosen instead of Gordon Banks and N'Golo Kante.

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Ashley Fletcher was shit for us but we got him on a free and sold him for £6.5m a year later. In the current regime that puts him as one of our best signings.

[nychammer]

Can’t remember how much he cost but I always thought Hernández was a complete waste of time and the same with Ashley fletcher but can’t remember if he was simply on loan 

Hernandez scored a few goals for us, considerably more than a few expensive duds and certainly multiples more than the german cripple. 

[Eastside surge]

Can’t remember how much he cost but I always thought Hernández was a complete waste of time and the same with Ashley fletcher but can’t remember if he was simply on loan 

[honky cat]

Looks like it would be quite easy to put a "Worst team...ever!" XI (or even XXVI) together...

A worst team before Sullivan vs a worst team after Sullivan would be interesting. The post Sullivan one will probably be worse and multitudes more expensive 

You're probably right but with Boogers for example he was only £1m, but it was almost half the transfer spend that season, so in todays world it would have been a £50m disaster.

Lets face it we've always been shit at buying players.

[El Scorchio]

Looks like it would be quite easy to put a "Worst team...ever!" XI (or even XXVI) together...

A worst team before Sullivan vs a worst team after Sullivan would be interesting. The post Sullivan one will probably be worse and multitudes more expensive 

[Mike Oxsaw]

Looks like it would be quite easy to put a "Worst team...ever!" XI (or even XXVI) together...

[Forest Gate Ugly]

I found myself tremendously disappointed in the goal scoring output of ‘strikers’ Jonathan Callieri and Simone Zaza. But the list of disappointing signings is truly awful and shameful to behold. 

[honky cat]

Bit harsh on Paul Hilton and Iain DowIe. Considering he came from that heavily beaten Bury team I don't think he ever let West Ham down. Played well in that 4-0 win at Chelsea when Alvin was injured. Decent back up player. Dowie was never a goal scorer but did a decent job as a support to the likes of Cottee and always worked hard. Just unfortunate he is remembered for that cracking own goal! 

to be fair i didnt have particulary bad memories of Dowie, had a good attitude and wasnt he 'West Ham'? Only when i looked at his stats, his goal scoring record was abysmal. 

[stubbo]

It’s Todibo, all things considered. And exactly why these obligation loans don’t work. We saw he was shit and completely disinterested last season, yet still had to make it permanent at £35m. He’s even more shit and disinterested this season. Bloke couldn’t give a flying. 

He’s the only player to come with grand delusions of getting an eventual move to Man United who can’t even be bothered to put a tiny amount of effort towards showing he’s gold enough. 

He’s an absolute prick. At least Kilman tries, he’s just no good. 

Roberto is the worst player we’ve signed but given he was free, and was supposed to be a back up, on balance he doesn’t really get close to worst signing. 


 

 

Obligation loans by and large are deferred payment signings...not try before you buy. We'd already decided to buy Todibo....just couldn't pay for him.

He only had to play 5 games to make it perm.

[Ron Eff]

It’s Todibo, all things considered. And exactly why these obligation loans don’t work. We saw he was shit and completely disinterested last season, yet still had to make it permanent at £35m. He’s even more shit and disinterested this season. Bloke couldn’t give a flying. 

He’s the only player to come with grand delusions of getting an eventual move to Man United who can’t even be bothered to put a tiny amount of effort towards showing he’s gold enough. 

He’s an absolute prick. At least Kilman tries, he’s just no good. 

Roberto is the worst player we’ve signed but given he was free, and was supposed to be a back up, on balance he doesn’t really get close to worst signing. 

 

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Blimey


ERR..JIMMY QUIMM

 

[Massive Attack]

Where do you start with this?

1895

[Sweep]

Where do you start with this?

[El Scorchio]

Most likely Sullivan might just get a little 'sweetener' for taking certain players if anything, or some sort of favour with something else. As said if anything it would have to be low key low risk and off the books. There must be some sort of underlying reason why he'd reject or torpedo deals for players who go on to become very valuable, but pushes through with ones we can all see are pups from a mile off. Then again didn't he have some sort of thing where he was trying to pressure Ben Johnson and other young players to sign with certain agencies, and making contract offers according to their decisions?

Could also just be that he's an absolute fuckwit who at the same time as he thinks he's the oracle of football, certainly above our managers, puts far too much trust in friendly agents and is easy to take advantage of.

 

[zico]

Bit harsh on Paul Hilton and Iain DowIe. Considering he came from that heavily beaten Bury team I don't think he ever let West Ham down. Played well in that 4-0 win at Chelsea when Alvin was injured. Decent back up player. Dowie was never a goal scorer but did a decent job as a support to the likes of Cottee and always worked hard. Just unfortunate he is remembered for that cracking own goal! 

[Pav BML]

Kilman definitely. Echoing Ljungberg and Wilshere as terrible wastes of massive wages. Hutchinson for the money spent at the time is up there. Lee Bowyer considering the hype the first time was disappointing but not our worst

[Westside]

Gary Charles. On the books for 3 years. 8 games.

Would have been better off signing Ray Charles.