Let’s look at the 21 worst signings of the 21st century. To be fair I’ve not included young players who we were told were the next this that and the other only for them not to play a single game or to rarely get a minute. I’ve then tried to weigh up are free transfers that cost us nothing worthy of a place on the list. 1 or 2 snuck in! Where I was in 2 minds between some players, I again looked at game time or were they used in their best position etc
21) Diego Cavalieri: Makes the list as he cost 3 million quid to make no appearance of any worth. Seriously we spunked away some cash over the years. Cost 3 million
20) Robbie Keane: Fine player who I thought would go on to be an excellent signing. Part of his problem might have been Rafa but for what we spent on him to what we got back he squeezes in..Cost 20 miilion
19) Adam Bogdan: Just why? Cost Feee
18) Lazar Markovic: Another I was delighted we got. Had genuine talent but for whatever reason it just did not work and again after paying a pretty penny. Cost 20 miilion
17) Bruno Cheyrou: The new Zidane!! Not his fault he was labelled that but another we had hopes for who just wasn’t up to it. Boss goal at Chelsea though. Cost 4 million
16) Bernard Diomede: Back at this time I was football mad. Knew everything about every player so thought we had signed a sneaky little gem here, French international etc…. man was my face red. Cost 3 million
15) Lorius Karius: I must confess, had he not cost us the champions league he might not make this list. He made a lot of mistakes but was decent at times to. However, unforgiveable what he done. Cost 4.75 million
14) Danny Wilson: Set the world alight at Rangers. Big centre half, the answer to our problems. 2 appearances after a 2 million move, the maths is easy. Cost 2 million
13) Josemi: Front of the q to collect the European cup for some reason. Don’t recall one thing he done that made him worthy of taking Finnans place which he had done for a lot of games until a red card. Not terrible but why did we sign him when we had Finnan? Start adding up the transfer fees of these lot and we can buy a world class player and were only at 13!!. Cost 2 million
12) Fabio Borini: 13 million quid and 2 goals…Was not a bad player but that return was sh*te and not good enough for us.. Cost 13 million
11) Alberto Aquilani: The replacement for Xabi. 17 million on a lad who made Naby Keita look like a fitness machine. 1 goal in 18 games I think it was.. Cost 17 million
10) Christian Ziege: Couldn’t believe we signed this fella. Genuine class. German international who looked like the real deal at Bayern. Just did not get from him what we should have. Cost 5.5 million
9) Charles Itandje: Never played but he’s on the list for other reasons. T*at. Cost free
8 Joe Cole: Cost us nothing gave us nothing. Cost free
7) Stewart Downing: Might be harsh to be so high up but for the fee and he reputation he always underwhelmed me in a Liverpool shirt. Cost 20 million
6) Andy Carrol: Like Downing it might be harsh to be this high up the list. But again, the fee for the return. Did core some good ones and was a likeable fella but for the money paid he should at least have matched Crouchie. Cost 35 million
5) Christian Benteke: What a signing at the time, anyone who said they thought otherwise Is lying or talking through hindsight. A disaster. Could be top of the list easily. Boss goal v utd all the same. Cost 32.5 million
4) Christian Poulsen: Danish international signed from Juventus where he seemed to do ok, won’t say I was disappointed when I heard we got him. But it was all downhill from there. Maybe he was a victim of what he was alongside or maybe he was just out of his depth, either way it wasn’t good. Cost 4.5 million
3) Paul Koncheskey: ………….cost 4 million
2) Mario Balotelli: Credit to those who spotted this one being a disaster. I though this can be our Cantona type signing. Potential and hype. 16 million quid for Suarez replacement, we got 1 goal in 16 games. Just a joke. Why always us? Cist 16 million
1) El HadjI Diouf: We signed this instead of Anelka!! In fairness he looked decent at the 2002 world cup. We felt that he was worth £10 million of our cash and in he came. We got 3 goals in 55 games 2 of those game in his first game!! His 3rd came about 6 months later. After that he was more interested in spitting at people and being a horrible c**t. For me the worst ever to wear a red shirt..Cost 10 million
Total transfer fee £216.25 million
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