Dud signings

[Nic83]

yeah fair point - but that would be easier for us as liverpool fans as we know who we signed and what they did/don't achieve - i'm sure if you asked an arsenal fan they would prob have loads of players they think have flopped.

Also, as someone above pointed out - we have been shopping in a different market to chelsea and utd and more or less rebuilding a whole squad as opposed to just adding one or two quality signings.

Now if we compared our crap signings to say Newcastle, SPurs, Villa etc over the last 5 years or so who has made the worst signing then?

I don't know, that's the point of the thread - to find out!

As you mention Newcastle though, what about Keegan, he's made some great signings for them in the past, namely the likes of Asprilla, Albert and Ginola

[Rich]

It was just an observation

I think the other thing which makes comparisons uneven when looking at Arsenal and United is that they've had one manager in the last 10 years, so there isn't an urge for wholesale changes. Any new manager comes in and has his own ideas and freshens up the squad, and with any transfer there is a certain degree of risk attached (see Morientes, Malouda, or Veron!)

I think if it wasn't for the summer of 2002, Houllier's transfers would stand-up better, he obviously flopped spectactularly then, which took the club 5 years to get over.

[PTP]

I don't know, that's the point of the thread - to find out!

As you mention Newcastle though, what about Keegan, he's made some great signings for them in the past, namely the likes of Asprilla, Albert and Ginola

ay - i bet my left bollock he signed some ****ing ****e too

(starts praying keegan signed some ****e for the geordies)

[Rich]

Was Albert a good signing? He was a Youtube signing, and far inferior to Henchoz, Hyypia, Agger, Skrtel, Vidic and probably a million and one other centrebacks.

...but he did score a beauty against United!

[Rich]

ay - i bet my left bollock he signed some ****ing ****e too

(starts praying keegan signed some ****e for the geordies)

Of course he did, utter, utter ****e.

[redmacca]

- BURN HIM BURN HIM

He turned me into a newt!!

[PTP]

Of course he did, utter, utter ****e.

PHEW

haha i knew he would have

[Nic83]

I'm actually intrigued about who Keegan will sign in the summer. What chance Deco and ronaldinho? Actually, the former wouldn't shock me at all.

[PTP]

I'm actually intrigued about who Keegan will sign in the summer. What chance Deco and ronaldinho? Actually, the former wouldn't shock me at all.

- seriously i wouldn't be suprised if keegan gets binned in the summer

Next newcastle manager will be Cesare Maldini

[Tee]

Crystal Palace replaced Ian Wright with Marco Gabbiadini

[Imy]

- seriously i wouldn't be suprised if keegan gets binned in the summer

Next newcastle manager will be Cesare Maldini

[Big Dave]

it makes me laugh this debate

People (fans/media) forget about

Ferguson
Kleberson
Djemba Djemba


Wenger
Franny Jeffers
Richard Wright
Pascal Cygan

feel free to add to my list @D

Lets not forget Taibi, the most expensive goalkeeper in the world at the time and of course Veron............how much did he cost again, more than all our flops put together I would imagine

[Nic83]

Maybe so, but he also did more on the pitch than all our 'flops' put together. I think some people are classing the wrong players in this bracket. Veron was seen as a bit of a let down as he was a big fee and he never reproduced the form he had in Italy, but if you weigh what he did on the pitch even below his best when at utd and chelsea, against the muck savages I'm on about, they're worlds apart.

[Kenneth]

Maybe so, but he also did more on the pitch than all our 'flops' put together. I think some people are classing the wrong players in this bracket. Veron was seen as a bit of a let down as he was a big fee and he never reproduced the form he had in Italy, but if you weigh what he did on the pitch even below his best when at utd and chelsea, against the muck savages I'm on about, they're worlds apart.

Veron would have been **** if he was a free. Veron was no better than Cheyrou.

[Big Dave]

Maybe so, but he also did more on the pitch than all our 'flops' put together. I think some people are classing the wrong players in this bracket. Veron was seen as a bit of a let down as he was a big fee and he never reproduced the form he had in Italy, but if you weigh what he did on the pitch even below his best when at utd and chelsea, against the muck savages I'm on about, they're worlds apart.

Why? Because they didn't play for Liverpool perhaps?!