Who is our worst signing?

[Nutsin]

I’ve got Kieran Dyer.

Who you got?

[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.

[oh dear II]

They fans were singing you're not fit to wear the shirt at the Leeds game, that's how fucking bad Kilman is.

I can't think of any other player who was so bad to get that chant?

Thanks, that is pretty damming. 

I looked him up on Google, he has played for England - at 5-a-side!

[Fauxstralian]

Don’t think Liverpool’s results have been down to keeping
The defence has looked shaky & Salah has put the cue back in the rack
Talking to a Liverpool fan last night & she reckons Klopp might come back
I suggested Brendon Rodgers or Roy Hodgson as other possible returning heroes but she wasn’t keen

[southbankbornnbred]

Not only that but the Danish goalkeeping coach who recommended Hermans Hermitson was part of Potter's backroom staff who also promptly got the sack before he was able to get his parking spot sorted.

We also got rid of Xavi Valero who was considered a very good GK coach  - who has now got the gig at Liverpool because he was so overrated and overpaid for what he does!



 

Fair point, fella. Although it's not working out brilliantly at Liverpool just yet!

(I do think Valero was a good GK coach, btw)

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

I suppose that Sullivan could effect a bung by increasing the agent fee the club pay during transfer negotiations and agreeing to split the difference with the agent. Doubtful that any of the agents Sullivan works with would go for this seeing as they make shitloads anyway and wouldn't want to get their licence revoked. Doubtful as well that a billionaire like Sullivan would commit fraud just to pocket a million or two here and there.

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

For those, who know more than me, does it go like this?  Sullivan gets involved in the transfer with his favourite agents, on the understanding that he uses the club money to buy the player - at an over-inflated price - and the agent re-directs a good proportion off the funds into Sullivan's own personal bank account. The more transfers, the more we pay, the fewer agents - the more money for Sullivan. 

No, of course it's not true. It's a ridiculous idea. Firstly transfer fees obviously don't go through agents. They're paid club to club. So for this to work it would require the agent and various people at both clubs to conspire to commit fraud. Secondly anything like this would be so easily discovered anyway, especially as Sullivan's not the sole owner and I'm sure Kretinsky in particular has a watchful eye on the accounts.

I get the desire to believe this sort of thing of the midget cսnt, but it's not helpful, is it? Some people want to just throw as much shit as possible at Sullivan in the hope that some of it sticks when it would be far better to focus on the fact that the man is utterly incompetent as chairman of the club and needs to step down as chief executive, whether he keeps his shares or not.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Fucking hell, and having typed that it looks like according to hammers chat Sullivan has even chucked Salty under the bus now for the state of our club. More platitudes- yes he's been trying to hawk his shit onto us, but SULLIVAN is the one fucking buying it. If it's not Salthouse it'll be someone else conning the idiot.

My old man was a very good tiler and also knew how to cut marble properly for kitchen worktops and bathrooms back in the day.

He would quote a sum for any proposed job and often get turned down as it was deemed too expensive. Coz it's so easy to do init?

There were many times when months later or even in the following years he would get a call asking him to come around because somebody had completely monstered the kitchen or bathroom and the marble was fucked and the missus was in floods of tears so could he please take a look again.

So of course, he would end up charging even more than the original quote to remove the botch job and to re-do it properly.

This is Sullivan in a nutshell. Only he seems to make a habit of repeating the very same fuck up the second time around as well! 

Absolutely not going to disagree with that! Buy cheap buy twice. Trouble is Sullivan is such a fool it's buy cheap, medium OR expensive and buy twice because he's so so bad at it.

Buy cheap, by twice, get two brown envelopes. Fuck me! The dots are even numbered for us...

[BerlingtonBertie]

Greaves was dog shit and an alcoholic when we signed him - cսnt always took the piss out of West Ham in his tv days and said West Ham was like a holiday camp. embarrassing old soak