City's Biggest Transfer Disaster - Burn the Cash (1 Viewer)

DannyThomas_1981 · Mar 28, 2020

This is obviously a highly competitive list.

In terms of money spent, money we got back and very little contribution on the pitch, Kevin Drinkell or Kevin Kyle have to be in with a pretty good shout.

Many contenders. Discuss.

Walsgrave · Mar 28, 2020

Freddie Eastwood, though he was more of a hindsight mistake. He was prolific for Southend in the Championship but never seemed to get going for us.

DannyThomas_1981 · Mar 28, 2020

Walsgrave said:
Freddie Eastwood, though he was more of a hindsight mistake. He was prolific for Southend in the Championship but never seemed to get going for us.

Eastwood was an enigma. You could see that he was great technically and had brilliant feet. But as you say it just didn't work out and we paid a very high fee.

Grendel · Mar 28, 2020

It’s all relative in terms of time but when the club was skint we signed Ashley Grimes for a quarter of a million and he was a disaster

Garry Collier and David Jones were probably the worst

Otis · Mar 28, 2020

Peter Ramage.

Even free was far too much.

Grendel · Mar 28, 2020

Collier and Jones have to be the worst. They were signed for a combined fee of £725,000 and were dire. Collier played two games - I think on debut it was against Stoke and he was like Malaga - it was odd and he never played in England again. Jones scored a 25 yarder - I think also against Stoke - into his own net and played 11 games before going to Hong Kong

Johnnythespider · Mar 28, 2020

Keith O'neill, £750,000, 12 appearances, "a bargain" Gordon Strachan

usskyblue · Mar 28, 2020

Lee Hughes £5 million for 42 appearances, 15 goals...and we all know what else

mr_monkey · Mar 28, 2020

Moldovan
Kevin Kylie
Bellamy

westcountry_skyblue · Mar 28, 2020

Johnnythespider said:
Keith O'neill, £750,000, 12 appearances, "a bargain" Gordon Strachan

Yes was gonna say the same fcuking useless a non trier,Seem to remember him coming on as sub at HR then getting taken off ‘injured’ after about 5 mins.
More bothered about how his hair looked!!

HuckerbyDublinWhelan · Mar 28, 2020

Bellamy. In hindsight it was a lot of money for a player who’d never played premier league football and was coming off a bad injury.

Was never going to adequately replace McCallisters assists and Keane’s goals

westcountry_skyblue · Mar 28, 2020

mr_monkey said:
Moldovan
Kevin Kylie
Bellamy

I’m not having Moldovan as a waste

NortonSkyBlue · Mar 28, 2020

Grendel said:
Collier and Jones have to be the worst. They were signed for a combined fee of £725,000 and were dire. Collier played two games - I think on debut it was against Stoke and he was like Malaga - it was odd and he never played in England again. Jones scored a 25 yarder - I think also against Stoke - into his own net and played 11 games before going to Hong Kong

Although I believe Collier was sold for a profit

ccfc92 · Mar 28, 2020

westcountry_skyblue said:
Yes was gonna say the same fcuking useless a non trier,Seem to remember him coming on as sub at HR then getting taken off ‘injured’ after about 5 mins.
More bothered about how his hair looked!!

According to his wiki, he had a degenerative bone disease? Didn't know that, but that may explain the injuries.

Grendel · Mar 28, 2020

riyadhskyblue said:
Although I believe Collier was sold for a profit

I never believed that for one minute

mr_monkey · Mar 28, 2020

westcountry_skyblue said:
I’m not having Moldovan as a waste

I did debate not putting him just for that goal against villa but for the money we paid for him at the time he was poor

Ring Of Steel · Mar 28, 2020

Larry Lloyd has to be up there- we agreed to sell Jimmy Holmes and someone else I can’t remember for £200,000, and that was to basically pay for Lloyd, but that sale fell through and it financially crippled us, pretty sure Jimmy Hill said that we never recovered. And it’s not as if Lloyd was a success for us, we sold at a big loss.

Terry Gibson's perm · Mar 28, 2020

Evatushok the Russian defender

rob9872 · Mar 28, 2020

Kyle
Drinkell
Hughes
Bellamy

Ring Of Steel · Mar 28, 2020

Terry Butcher- cost us £400k plus legal fees & disputed figures & wages when he left, and had a decent crack at destroying a previously stable club.

SlowerThanPlatt · Mar 28, 2020

We paid £1m for Leon McKenzie and it gets worse when Norwich said he couldn’t play against them in the two games that season

Liquid Gold · Mar 28, 2020

Bellamy, undoubtably a good player but wrong club wrong time and that poor bit of business sent us down. Who know where we'd be if we stayed up then.

Ring Of Steel · Mar 28, 2020

He’d get nowhere near worst buys but I thought Garry Bannister was a huge let down, he was probably the most natural finisher we had between Gibson and Quinn, but he never delivered for us like he could/ should have done. That 88/89 team was superb and I was all hyped up that between him, Speedie, Regis, Smith we would score shitloads of goals.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · Mar 28, 2020

Bit left field but John Hartson. Not for the player, who was great in his short time with us, but the timing. It took so long to get it done by the time he was through the door it was too late. Had we got it through we may have had a chance to stay up.

Lightbourne and Haworth were awful, as were Delorge and Normann. Not massive fees but really never looked up to it.

Another that I remember annoying was Andy Impey. On a free but got quite a bit of appearance money and was brought on for 30 seconds at the end of matches. Must have spent a fortune on those at a time we were broke.

fernandopartridge · Mar 28, 2020

HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
Bellamy. In hindsight it was a lot of money for a player who’d never played premier league football and was coming off a bad injury.

Was never going to adequately replace McCallisters assists and Keane’s goals

He was the right player at the wrong time. 19 year old expected to live up to what Keane had done in an inferior team.

Mcbean · Mar 28, 2020

HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
Bellamy. In hindsight it was a lot of money for a player who’d never played premier league football and was coming off a bad injury.

Was never going to adequately replace McCallisters assists and Keane’s goals

Did'nt we get back what we paid for Bellend

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · Mar 28, 2020

Mcbean said:
Did'nt we get back what we paid for Bellend

We did, but relegation cost us a LOT more.

steve cooper · Mar 28, 2020

mr_monkey said:
Moldovan
Kevin Kylie
Bellamy

As far as I can remember we didn't lose significant money on either Moldavan or Bellamy

procdoc · Mar 28, 2020

Julian Joachim spent more time on the treatment table than on the pitch

clint van damme · Mar 28, 2020

mr_monkey said:
I did debate not putting him just for that goal against villa but for the money we paid for him at the time he was poor

Strachan said his arrival spurred Dublin and Huckerby on to greater things.
He tried to shoehorn the of them in against Chelsea away and it didn't work and brought a decent unbeaten run to an end if I remember correctly.

clint van damme · Mar 28, 2020

fernandopartridge said:
He was the right player at the wrong time. 19 year old expected to live up to what Keane had done in an inferior team.

and carrying an injury apparently.

Broken Hearted Sky Blue · Mar 28, 2020

westcountry_skyblue said:
I’m not having Moldovan as a waste

Adge · Mar 28, 2020

Bellamy is the obvious candidate of more recent times. Leon McKenzie is another good shout.
Not that he cost anything 2nd time around but the prodigal son McSheffrey was a disaster when he returned. To think some people wanted him for a third tome too!

Wyken Sky Blue · Mar 28, 2020

We paid a fair bit for Kevin Kyle and Leon McKenzie, £2m for the pair

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SlowerThanPlatt · Mar 28, 2020

skyblue1991 said:
We paid a fair bit for Kevin Kyle and Leon McKenzie, £2m for the pair

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Add Eastwood for £1.2m

Over £3m worth of talent, 37 goals between them and all left the club on frees

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