Your manager's best/worst ever signing?

Mgoraf

Who do you think has been the best/worst signing made by the manager of your club?

eZe^

Best : Alves

Worst : Hleb

That was easy..

Kirnsy

best: henry viera fabregas i actually cannot pick between them.

vela is probably gonna be up there in a few years!


worst: jeffers

Charlie

Well, considering our manager doesn't even sign players, and even if he did, fook all has been signed.

Xavi6

Best: Zabaleta/Given

Worst: Ben Haim

pierrot

Schmeichel was a bargain, as was Denis Irwin. And we'll never forget the summer of Kleberson, Djemba x 2 and Liam Miller.

DSB

This time around anyway:
Best: David McAllister

Worst: David Freeman

Samurai

best: ash young!!!!

worst: salifou? unsure really maybe shorey, biggest waste of money was routledge but he never really got a chance

Mossy Monk

Kirnsy wrote: »

best: henry viera fabregas i actually cannot pick between them.

vela is probably gonna be up there in a few years!


worst: jeffers

What he said.

kryogen

Best signing: ahh........its a close one between Cantona and Keane for me, but there have been so many that could go close! Schmeichel,Irwin,Bruce,Ronaldo,RVN,Rio, etc....

Worst signing: again, there are many....Veron was probably the most expensive mistake...although i feel he is harshly treated by critics

to be fair i guess i should list a few other ones like i did with the best

Djembax2, Bellion, Kleberson, Taibi,Ralph Milne, Prunier, Guiliano Maiorana, Poborsky!

grames_bond

Best: Roy Keane

Worst: Massimo Taibi

kryogen

Mossy Monk wrote: »

What he said.

ahh come on now, there have been much worse then Jefferes!

matrim

best: young (either of them)
Worst: probably shorey

MonkeyTennis

Poborsky? how strange

Daysha

Roy Keane

Eric Djemba Djemba

MonkeyTennis

Best Xabi Alonso/ Pepe Reina



Andrea Dossena

Jazzy

best - torres

worst - Nunez

Kirnsy

kryogen wrote: »

ahh come on now, there have been much worse then Jefferes!

for price paid = £8m

impact made = 22 apps 4 goals

and money recouped = £2.6m

AND the fact he is currently at Sheffield Wednesday scoring 3 in 30 apps


i reckon he must be number one..:rolleyes:

who do you suggest?

Helix

best: ashley young
worst: steve sidwell (purely based on his shocking contribution of ogs, red cards and penos given away. i fully expect he wont be in this list if hes still at us in a year tho)

ziggy

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redout

Best: Keane, Schmeichel, Irwin

Worst: Kleberson, Taibi, Eric (he was so good they named him twice) Djemba-Djemba, Forlan, Veron, endless really.

kryogen

Kirnsy wrote: »

for price paid = £8m

impact made = 22 apps 4 goals

and money recouped = £2.6m

AND the fact he is currently at Sheffield Wednesday scoring 3 in 30 apps


i reckon he must be number one..:rolleyes:

who do you suggest?

why the roll eyes? im not in the humour to get into a condescending arguement here

Richard Wright

Igor Stepanovs

Pascal Cygan

Luznhy (sp?)

Reyes

Grimandi

Guy:Incognito

Helix wrote: »

worst: steve sidwell (purely based on his shocking contribution of ogs, red cards and penos given away. )

Harsh. Sure Xavi let Richard Dunne away with the exact same stuff.:)

anonymous_joe

Best/worst in one: Diego Forlan

I know he's neither, but a great player whose form was awful and only did well after he left United. ><

Xavi6

Stekelly wrote: »

Harsh. Sure Xavi let Richard Dunne away with the exact same stuff.:)

Ah now that's just plain untrue. Dunne doesn't give away penos! :pac:

x in the city

Best

Cahill/Arteta/Lescott/Jags all of them are multimillion pound players now compared to their signing fee. good auld moyes

worst

Per Krøldrup :rolleyes:

Savman

Me.
The fat kid.

shoutman

Best: Ash Young

Worst: Value for money the worst has to be the hare unfortunately, but I'd say Zat Knight for game losing potential.

Shanotheslayer

x in the city wrote: »

Best

Cahill/Arteta/Lescott/Jags all of them are multimillion pound players now compared to their signing fee. good auld moyes

worst

Per Krøldrup :rolleyes:

Agree

cson

kryogen wrote: »

why the roll eyes? im not in the humour to get into a condescending arguement here

Richard Wright

Igor Stepanovs

Pascal Cygan

Luznhy (sp?)

Reyes

Grimandi

Luzhny and Grimandi were average enough players, certainly not bad enough to be included in as possibles for a worst signing ever category. As for Reyes, I don't know what you're thinking there. Granted the kid never really got to grips with the EPL but he was a decent player and we still got a few euro's for him.

Stepanov's and Cygan were atrocious alright but they cost buttons, something like £500,000 and £1.5mil respectively. Richard Wright was quite unlucky with injury and the fact that one of the great gk's of recent memory just kept going. Certainly you'd have to chalk him down as a waste of £6million though.

Which brings us to Frannie Jeffers, I merely restate all Kirnsy said about goals-appearences-value etc. I feel at the time Wenger bowed to media and outside pressure to start signing English players. The same standard Jeffers or Wright on the continent at the time would have been half the price.

Royale with Cheese

kryogen wrote: »

Richard Wright

Igor Stepanovs

Pascal Cygan

Luznhy (sp?)

Reyes

Grimandi

Frannie Jeffers was definitely a worse signing than all of those, and I'd have Reyes nowhere near that list.

postalservice

pierrot wrote: »

And we'll never forget the summer of Kleberson, Djemba x 2 and Liam Miller.

Ya but that was the same summer they bought Ronaldo.
:cool:

evad_lhorg

Best: Cantona, Ronaldo, Schmeichel
Worst: Kleberson, NAni(dont like him one bit), Dong Fnagzhhuo

Xavi6

evad_lhorg wrote: »

Best: Cantona, Ronaldo, Schmeichel
Worst: Kleberson, NAni(dont like him one bit), Dong Fnagzhhuo

Depends on how you define 'worst signing'. In the context of the team maybe but certainly not in terms of what he did for the club with regard to their exposure in China.

Much like Ji Sung Park he was partly signed to help tap into a niche market. Luckily Park is quite good so it was a winner there. Dong was pretty crap but he sold shirts and played on tours over there.

Great bit of marketing as they probably made any fee they paid back in shirt sales and then some.

LarWright

Best: Reina
Worst: Kromkamp

(I can think of a more bad signings than good ones!)

PHB

Xavi6 wrote: »

Depends on how you define 'worst signing'. In the context of the team maybe but certainly not in terms of what he did for the club with regard to their exposure in China.

Much like Ji Sung Park he was partly signed to help tap into a niche market. Luckily Park is quite good so it was a winner there. Dong was pretty crap but he sold shirts and played on tours over there.

Great bit of marketing as they probably made any fee they back in shirt sales and then some.

Dong gets a lot of crap about being Chinese, people forget he was indeed part of a find the best Chinese player to sign thing. At the same time though, watching him in the reserves he looked like he had all the natural abilities to make it, got real good pace and an eye for goal. He just never stepped up in any way, but when you hear Fergie talk about him, it sounds like he was disappointed in him.

As for Fergie,

best?
Ole

Worst?
Taili

Kirnsy

kryogen wrote: »

why the roll eyes? im not in the humour to get into a condescending arguement here

Richard Wright

Igor Stepanovs

Pascal Cygan

Luznhy (sp?)

Reyes

Grimandi

fair enough
IMO they mostly were pretty bad but not £8m was spent on any of them (thank god!).

we even made a bit of money back on Reyes who went on to score the league winning goal at Real on loan.


and as for the roll eyes, that was directed at jeffers general ****eness than yourself.

Seaneh

er, at milan the manager doesnt sign players but galiani does so from him id say...

Best: KaKa or Shevchenko (from Kiev not Chelsea).

Worst: Pancaro/Vieri/Rivaldo/Jose Maria/Javi Moreno/Sam Della Bona/Vitaly Kutuzov... the list goes on...

Galvasean

Arsene Wenger for Arsenal;

Best:
Henry - granted he wasn't particularly cheap but he became our greatest ever player
Fabregas - cost nearly nothing and became world class
Vieira - cheap and became the backbone of our greatest team

Worst:
Jeffers - put Wenger off signing English players for a few years

eZe^

Fabregas? That was more of a robbery really.

m83

best: cantona

worst: brian may

EDIT: David May!! roflcoptersssss111011!!!!

kryogen

Kirnsy wrote: »

fair enough
IMO they mostly were pretty bad but not £8m was spent on any of them (thank god!).

we even made a bit of money back on Reyes who went on to score the league winning goal at Real on loan.


and as for the roll eyes, that was directed at jeffers general ****eness than yourself.

no sweat

Just to point out, Richard Wright did push Jeffers close in terms of the fee! he cost 6million :eek:

scary thought

Xavi6

m83 wrote: »

best: cantona

worst: brian may

V9

Xavi6 wrote: »

Suppose he would pull the strings in a team alright.

....

I'll get my coat.

OPENROAD

Best : Henry, no doubt in my mind, not just for his contribution on the field but played a part in the whole Emirates move imo. I will always feel welet himgo too early and I never bought into the "he was holding back the kids"

Worst: Jeffers, just wasn't up to it imo.

bUILDERtHEbOB

Best: Reina, he was relatively cheap and is one of the best keepers in the world now.

Worst: Difficult to find a player we lost a lot of money on, bar Keane obviously, but we may only make a total £2-3m loss on him in the end which isn't too bad all things considered, Babel maybe but he's still quite young, maybe Dossena but I still think he needs more time, Morientes?

SWAR

Best: Torres - paid a lot for him but he's worth at least double that now.

Worst: Oh boy, there has been quite a few...Dossena looking pretty bad, Nunez, Gonzalez, Paletta, Kromkamp etc

Helix

Stekelly wrote: »

Harsh. Sure Xavi let Richard Dunne away with the exact same stuff.:)

dunne has provided the goods for city tho, sidwell has not bar a handful of semi decent performances and a couple of goals. hes cost us more games and points than any single player should in his villa career

shakespeare

best: cantona, Keane.

Worst: Veron (seemed like the missing link...what happened?)

gustavo

Best signing by Cookie would probably be Mauro Almeida or maybe Richie Ryan

Worst Patrick Jennings

eagle eye

Best signings: Givet and Diouf.

Worst signings: None.