Greatest Bargains of all time

mormank

Just noticed this on a differnet forum and was wondering what people here thought. Who do people think is the best bargain of all time??

I'll gte the ball rolling with nicolas anelka to arsenal for 900k. Or Zidane to Juve for 3m..

Necronomicon

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. In the region of €1.5 million wasn't it?

Death or Glory

Gotta be C*ntona to the Mancs for a couple of butter vouchers

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Death or Glory wrote: »

Gotta be C*ntona to the Mancs for a couple of butter vouchers

Was going to say that one alright.

Doyle to Reading for a packet of tayto.

shoutman

Gotta agree with the above, Cantona was class, Even the lilkes of Roy Keane for them at the time it was a lot of money but looking at it now it was pennies considering the player they got.

Dont be at yourself

Gary Mac to Liverpool on a freebie was a great bit of business for Liverpool.

Zidane and Cantona immediately sprung to mind for me.

mormank

Cesc fabulous of course was a free transfer and so far looks like he could be a really great player

Fratton Fred

Necronomicon wrote: »

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. In the region of €1.5 million wasn't it?

+1

I also think Riise was as well. Didn't Liverpool pay about 50 quid for him?

Mr. Presentable

Death or Glory wrote: »

Gotta be C*ntona to the Mancs for a couple of butter vouchers

Leeds paid 10% of that for him two years before! 100,000 IIRC

Schmeichel for £500,000


Lee Sharpe for £125,000




Gary McAllister to Liverpool, free wasnt he? worked out very well for them in so far as his pay off on the field.

mormank

nipplenuts wrote: »

Leeds paid 10% of that for him two years before! 100,000 IIRC

Wow didn't know that!! It's gotta be cantona so as a double bargain buy!

5ForKeeps

Kenny Dalglish 440k at the time when he signed for Liverpool, Ian Rush 50k plus as a teenager signed from Chester.

Xavi6

For City the Goat definitely is up there, Didi and Ali Benarbia cost us feck all, half a mil for Hart looks like good business and Kinky for 3mil was money well spent.

NinjaTruncs

WRT Cantona, a Million was quiet a bit of cash pre premiership. I'm not saying he wasn't worth it but i would hardly call it a bargain.

BaZmO*

mormank wrote: »

Cesc fabulous of course was a free transfer and so far looks like he could be a really great player

"Could" be a great player? I think you'll find he already is

Cadzer

Dennis Irwin £625,000 alot in 1990 but chip as chips now a days!

tomred1

Dwight Yorke to Villa Free

emc2

toure to Arsenal and cesc as well.

but Gary Mac is my favourite

Nalz

Denis Irwin
Ronnie Johnsen
Peter Schmeichel
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Teddy Sheringham

Treble 1999? United wojuld have been relegated only for those 5 bargains!

Death or Glory

Tresor Kandol, Barnet to Leeds for 200k

BARGAIN!

gixerfixer

Big Sami Hypia.

Mitch Connor

Could turn out to be Ronaldo.... 2 prem titles and a CL, and possibly a £50million profit!

mormank

BaZmO* wrote: »

"Could" be a great player? I think you'll find he already is

well i just dont like to get agead of myself with callin players great!! i think the word great has to be kept for a handful of players. i hate the way in which it is bandied about to anybody who has a good season!!!

Lex Luthor

Schmeichel would be my #1 bargain...how many times did he win matches for the mancs...?

ITT-Pat

For me its very close between Irwin, Cantona and Schmeichel

Charlie

For Newcastle:

- Shay Given. £1.5 million for 11 years and counting of world class goalkepping.

- Peter Beardsley. Beardo was absolutely magic in his second spell at the club, i've never seen a player who loved to play as much a s Beardo did (well maybe Gazza as well)

-Andy Cole. Under £2 million for an incredible goalscoring rate, helping us to get on the premiership map. Sell on of 3 times the profit wasn't bad either, particulalry considering his replacement was Sir Les.

- Rob Lee. £700,000 for a highly underrated player who gave us 10 years service, constantly adapting himself to suit the team.

Bubs101

The answer is clearly Zizou. He was signed for virtually nothing at a time when virtually all transfer rates were ridiculously inflated and then sold for something along the lines of 1500% of his original price after Juve had gotten his best years out of him.

Along the English lines, we got Cudicini for practically nothing and he turned out to be a quality player

eZe^

Luis Enrique... Signed on a free transfer from Madrid.. Bargain...

Galvasean

Fabregas, Cantona, Zidane, Schmeichel, Vieira, Anelka.
There have been some truly amazing bits of business. Previous employers must have been kicking themselves.

OhNoYouDidn't

No mention of Henrik Larsonn for £650k?

Phenominal business.

RefulgentGnomon

I agree with many of the above but I don't buy into this Solskjaer thing. The chap is remembered as being greater than he actually was IMO.
His goalscoring records aren't great and I never really felt he was that important for United in the nineties. If he didn't score THAT goal, I think he would be remembered quite differently......

Charlie

RefulgentGnomon wrote: »

I agree with many of the above but I don't buy into this Solskjaer thing. The chap is remembered as being greater than he actually was IMO.
His goalscoring records aren't great and I never really felt he was that important for United in the nineties. If he didn't score THAT goal, I think he would be remembered quite differently......

Does my nut in when the United away supporter start chirping out with that 'my only Solskjaer' song when they come to St. James. FFS, Alan Shearer was dearer for a reason ya bitter tools.

Mr Alan

Sami Hypia is a great shout at £2.6million afaik.

Necronomicon

RefulgentGnomon wrote: »

I agree with many of the above but I don't buy into this Solskjaer thing. The chap is remembered as being greater than he actually was IMO.
His goalscoring records aren't great and I never really felt he was that important for United in the nineties. If he didn't score THAT goal, I think he would be remembered quite differently......

126 goals in 366 appearances isn't a great record? Whether you think he's a great player or not, I don't see how you can't consider that a bargain for the money paid. Solskjaer changed absolutely countless games for United. He must've been a manager's dream, never complaining about having to start on the bench. Even when he was asked to do a job out on the right wing, he completely re-invented himself and pretty much kept Beckham out of the team. After years of rehab and coming back from a career threatening injury (and one that ultimately undid him) he still managed to get 11 goals when United won the Premiership two seasons ago, despite limited playing time and having to retire towards the end of that season. Arguably the most clinical finisher we've ever had, certainly in this generation. How was he not a bargain?

ITT-Pat

lol bitter.......

Royale with Cheese

Too many players from the early 90's being mentioned here. Not saying they weren't bargains, just that the market was very different back in those days and it's hard to judge whether they were bargains or not.

james123

Henry nuff said

MuPpItJoCkEy

Anelka
Viera
Henry
Cantona
Fabregas
Zidane
Schmeichel
Roque Santa Cruz
Michael Ballack
Gianfranco Zola
Dennis Bergkamp

In no particular order

RefulgentGnomon

Premier League goals in his 11 seasons: 17, 6, 12, 12, 10, 17, 9, 0, 0, 0, 7.
A total of 90 league goals in 235 games, not that impressive IMO at such a successful club.
You say he changed games with the goals he scored. I was impressed by the 4 goals against Forest etc and wouldn't regard him as a bad player but I think if United had a different striker at that time, who was decent (not saying Ole wasn't), he could have scored that amount of goals too.

Henry etc much bigger bargains

Mr Alan

MuPpItJoCkEy wrote: »

Anelka
Viera
Henry
Cantona
Fabregas
Zidane
Schmeichel
Roque Santa Cruz
Michael Ballack
Gianfranco Zola
Dennis Bergkamp

In no particular order

poor defenders

ITT-Pat

Scott Carson, £3.25m

newbie2

Anelka - I don't think anyone else comes close to a bargain.

meditraitor

Cantana, solskar and irwin will get a mention because of united fanbase but if you really want to call someone a bargain.
Someone who got results and helped change the game in England there is only one player in my time that deserves that accolade (im a liverpool fan)

Thierry Henry

gifted

and a genuine football legend.

And unlike another frenchy I could mention- Sane(nice guy)

Smegball

Darren Bent - £16.5m :pac:

OhNoYouDidn't

Mr Alan wrote: »

Sami Hypia is a great shout at £2.6million afaik.

there just has to be a murderpool player in there, doesnt there. Regardless of whether he was a bargain or any good. :rolleyes:

mayordenis

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

there just has to be a murderpool player in there, doesnt there. Regardless of whether he was a bargain or any good. :rolleyes:

ah come on now.

Sami Hyypia was an absolute steal.

Like I agree there shouldn't be even mentions of Riise - like I love the guy but cost about 5m from monaco - and in fairness was always culpable - but hyypia for **** sake has been a rock in the hearth of our defense for a decade.

Im_No_Superman

RefulgentGnomon wrote: »

Premier League goals in his 11 seasons: 17, 6, 12, 12, 10, 17, 9, 0, 0, 0, 7.
A total of 90 league goals in 235 games, not that impressive IMO at such a successful club.
You say he changed games with the goals he scored. I was impressed by the 4 goals against Forest etc and wouldn't regard him as a bad player but I think if United had a different striker at that time, who was decent (not saying Ole wasn't), he could have scored that amount of goals too.

Henry etc much bigger bargains

Well those goal scoring figures look alot better when you show how many games he played:

Apps Goals
33

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17
22

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6
19

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12
28

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12
31

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10
30

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17
37

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9
13

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0
0

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0
3

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0
19

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7

He was out injured for in and around 2 seasons and was deployed as a right winger for awhile too. Averging a goal every 2.6 games for a player who was constantly coming off the bench and had an injury plagued few seasons is amazing imo. You certainly would pay a hell of alot more than £1.5 million for a player of his qualiy now, thus making him one of the greatest bargins of all time imo.

Mr Alan

Sami Hypia is one of the best defenders ever to play for Liverpool. and one of the best defenders ever to play in the Premier League, he has won every honour for the club except the PL and is there 10 years during that time scoring some vital vital vital goals.

You really do expose yourself for wat you are from time to time.

meditraitor

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

there just has to be a murderpool player in there, :

Poor post

chopperbyrne

Gary Mc was one of the best free transfers ever.

hunter164

Grow a pair lads.