Who is our worst signing?

[Nutsin]

I’ve got Kieran Dyer.

Who you got?

[Far Cough UKunt]

He should have been knighted for trying to kill the cսnt alone.

[Massive Attack]

[One Sunny Day]

Marco Boogers has got to be in with a shout. As well as never going to sell shirts, with that name, a million quid for him was huge money, at the time. And all we got for that was 10 minutes of him trying to kill Neville before getting sent off and pissing off back to the Netherlands.

[Swiss.]

Ljungberg and Suker come to mind. 

[Mad Ferret]

Does Mascherano count? 

A supposedly world class player who couldn’t get in the side ahead of Hayden Mullins.

Along with Tevez, ended up costing us a lot of money. Though at least Tevez kept us up.

[Far Cough UKunt]

Hayden Foxe taking a piss in a vase at a Christmas party. 

[stubbo-admin]

As things stand, Todibo has to be a good shout.

Fullkrug not far away in terms of output vs investment.

Danny Ings another that we spent a lot of money on for almost zero return. 


There was obviously some real garbage under Redknapp and soon after.

Song was bad (especially given he was the Rio replacement). Dumitrecu....pursued for ages then barely played. Foxe another we battled for a work permit for for an age and then barely played. 

Zaza, Tore, Nordveidt...all miserable signings. 

Roberto was diabolical of course under Pellegrini.

The Chilean lad and Savio that were part of the master plan under Zola. 

Plenty of howlers as I'm sure all clubs have. 

If I had to pick one right now in terms of cost, what they've delivered, and impact on the side's fortunes....id have to say for me it's Füllkrug.

[zico]

David Kelly and Alan McKnight (mare) unfortunately just about done for Lyall.so must rank among the worst 

 

Gary Strodder too if I remember rightly.  To be fair to John, Kelly was being looked at (apparently) by a lot of clubs and when he left he did quite well at Leicester, Newcastle and Wolves.  Hiding to nothing trying to replace Frank and TC, plus I think inguries did for him in the end.  Alvin, Galey, Ray Stewart, Dev, nonew of them could stay fit.  Stewart Robson wasn't the best signing.  Think the fans loved him because he ran about but he wasn't really a West Ham type of player.

[WHUDeano]

Max Kilman by a country mile for me 

[greenie1]

Rigobert Song.


 

[BerlingtonBertie]

Talking of that Lee Bowyer was a pretty shit signing too

[One Sunny Day]

God, I remember doing a Blagg column on this back in the days when WHO was the Ironworks - yea, it's been that long smartarse - my winner was Derek Hales. His only claim to fame was his astonishing ability with facial hair. I once saw him turn out at v Coventry at Highfield Road clean-shaven before the match. By the time 90 minutes came around, he had a full beard. 

I mostly remember him for having an on pitch punch up with his team mate, when he was at Charlton 

[zebthecat]

He also bought in Bishop and Morley for Ward if I'm not mistaken.

That was a great deal given the impact both players made over time.
I never understood the stick that Bishop got from some of the West Ham faithful.
A couple of times I was sat behind a bloke in the West stand who shouted at Bishop relentlessly pretty much from kick off to the final whistle. I felt sorry for the poor kid who tagged along with him to the matches.

[Council Scum]

David Kelly and Alan McKnight (mare) unfortunately just about done for Lyall.so must rank among the worst 

Macari his successor despite being a failed experiment actually made one of the most significant and valuable signings of modern times in Ludo.

He also bought in Bishop and Morley for Ward if I'm not mistaken.

 

And he signed Martin Allen as well. 

[Gary Strodders shank]

David Kelly and Alan McKnight (mare) unfortunately just about done for Lyall.so must rank among the worst 

Macari his successor despite being a failed experiment actually made one of the most significant and valuable signings of modern times in Ludo.

He also bought in Bishop and Morley for Ward if I'm not mistaken.
 

[El Scorchio]

Benni McCarthy called Karren Brady" the devil with a set of tits". This comment was a retort after Brady had heavily criticized him in her newspaper column for his performance at the club. The public argument continued with each of them trading insults, with Brady famously responding to his sexist jibe by saying, "At least I'm supposed to have tits".

Hahaha

Good that she's handy with a pre prepared quip in her newspaper column, akin to the Richard Keys one, because she seems to be fucking useless at any other aspect to do with running a football club.

[El Scorchio]

The VAST majority we've been discussing have come under the current stewardship, no surprises. Granted massively inflated cost amplifies how bad these signings look in comparison to former generations but also scouting and recruitment strategy has moved on so so so far that it's inexcusable to miss so spectacularly so many times especially in an era where there aren't really THAT many bad signings, seen as most clubs are so sophisticated in how they run their football business and squads and recruit players to play roles in a system which allows everyone to flourish. Well run clubs like the three B's DON'T make bad signings, even when they are making big swings on more expensive players alongside the endless value they find, but even if they do it's not catastrophic. We have no long term plan or strategy and an absolute scattergun approach to transfers depending on the whims of Sullivan, regardless of any thought to the impact on the team.

Our litany of terrible terrible transfer business is indicative of how the club is run in contrast with those well run clubs. An absolute aimless directionless mess behind the scenes which has finally spilled out into the dressing room and onto the pitch as it has been periodically threatening to do over the last decade, but something or someone has always come along to bail us out just in time or other sides have just been that little bit shitter. Well our luck appears to have run out finally and our castle made of sand appears to be collapsing.

[zico]

Hales was a very good striker but by his own admission liked the contents of a brown paper bag and I think the club needed the money to rebuild after relegation and Hales was one who could command a fee and got another signing on fee so was quite happy. Felt sorry for Radford.  Ddin't he suffer a really bad jaw injury?  Think he left for Blackburn and promptly scored on his debut!  A lot of the below either suffered injuries or were just too old by the time they came to West Ham.  Kilman for what he cost and how he "should" be in his prime must be one of the worst. Worst signing compared to what we should have got was Bobby Ferguson.  Decent enough keeper but old Ron and his principles denied us having a fourth world cup winner in Gordon Banks.  Sliding door moment.

[Mad Dog]

Most years we buy a player or 2 for about 2 mil, usually young player.  Then we never see them again

This year it's that celtic forward, cummings or whatever his name is

[Billy Blagg]

Derek was a top bloke and teacher at my old school. He scored 10 goals in 24 games for West Ham in one season,  he'd be our best player these days. 

Good point well made. Wasn't he one of those who Bonds thought was a lazy, arrogant feck and disrupted the dressing room? I know BB loathed Ted McDougall (another bad buy).

BTW, my Hales reference was to the original debate some 25+ years ago. Hales wouldn't even get on the board now.

[Council Scum]

Didn't Hales have an on field punch-up with Flanagan when both were at Charlton? Yeah Derek Hales was a hard bastard.

Yes mate. 

[Far Cough UKunt]

Didn't Hales have an on field punch-up with Flanagan when both were at Charlton? Yeah Derek Hales was a hard bastard.

[Council Scum]

God, I remember doing a Blagg column on this back in the days when WHO was the Ironworks - yea, it's been that long smartarse - my winner was Derek Hales. His only claim to fame was his astonishing ability with facial hair. I once saw him turn out at v Coventry at Highfield Road clean-shaven before the match. By the time 90 minutes came around, he had a full beard. 

Derek was a top bloke and teacher at my old school. He scored 10 goals in 24 games for West Ham in one season,  he'd be our best player these days. 

[Billy Blagg]

God, I remember doing a Blagg column on this back in the days when WHO was the Ironworks - yea, it's been that long smartarse - my winner was Derek Hales. His only claim to fame was his astonishing ability with facial hair. I once saw him turn out at v Coventry at Highfield Road clean-shaven before the match. By the time 90 minutes came around, he had a full beard. 

[Rossal]

Savio was nowhere near £10m. From memory we only ever paid a couple of million for him.
Granted he was shit but the fee was all smoke & mirrors.

Even if this is correct he would still be up there for me even for a couple of mil!    He looked like that bloke from Soton who convinced Souness he was a pro.