chocco boxo Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 I think I still got my " I;ve seen Charlie George play for Saints car sticker! Was not the fee £333,333,333? Anyway waste of money but saw him play at Brum away we won 4-0 I think and he was superb!
This Charming Man Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 Are we still talking about the biggest waste of money or just listing rubbish players we've had over the years?
Window Cleaner Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 Delgado pushed hard by Mark Draper. I'd count Draper as pretty good value for money when compared to say Stuart Ripley. He's a sports lawyer now you know, Stuart Ripley I mean. Anyway with the Tinman costing us well north of 5 million £ for absolutely f all return all the rest are pretty academic.
Kingsland Red Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 Must be Delgado, hopefully not Tadanari Lee.
SuperMikey Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 Must be Delgado, hopefully not Tadanari Lee. Tadanari was a free transfer and I think has helped to shift quite a few shirts in Asia, so he's probably not really cost us too much!
Guan 2.0 Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 Marcelo Tajera When we had no money, good old 'arry wasted 100,000 on a player he would never pick, and was available on a free transfer (Mcmenemy's son was the agent). Harry is a Saint A major South American club has admitted to The Independent that it received £100,000 from Southampton for a player who was actually available for nothing, in a transfer that has been reported to the Premier League's ongoing "bungs" inquiry as "suspicious". So ****ing dodgy and wasteful, at a time we had so little.
Kenilworthy Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 We didn't pay anything for Kanchelskis. He came orginally just to train with us. Then Strachan gave him a 1 year contract at the start of 2012/13. But he left in the January transfer window. So in the scale of waste we are talking here he hardly registers. And we did win the one game he played in. For me its Mark Hughes. What I hated most is that when he signed his agent said 'Southampton have never had a player like Mark Hughes' - because of course we never had a player who was voted European Footballer of the Year two years in a row. Because Hughes couldn't hack it as the striker he was signed as he had to drop back into midfield where he was useless. I always suspected that he had a 'must play' cause in his contract. His pathetic goalscoring was due to the fact that when chances came he always went for the spectacular 'look at me' volley rather than an easy tap-in. To be fair though, he did score the greatest goal that never was in our history.
Dig Dig Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 We didn't pay anything for Kanchelskis. He came orginally just to train with us. Then Strachan gave him a 1 year contract at the start of 2012/13. But he left in the January transfer window. So in the scale of waste we are talking here he hardly registers. And we did win the one game he played in. For me its Mark Hughes. What I hated most is that when he signed his agent said 'Southampton have never had a player like Mark Hughes' - because of course we never had a player who was voted European Footballer of the Year two years in a row. Because Hughes couldn't hack it as the striker he was signed as he had to drop back into midfield where he was useless. I always suspected that he had a 'must play' cause in his contract. His pathetic goalscoring was due to the fact that when chances came he always went for the spectacular 'look at me' volley rather than an easy tap-in. To be fair though, he did score the greatest goal that never was in our history. Little edit required?
Kenilworthy Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 Little edit required? Where have 10 years gone?
Saint Charlie Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 Neil McCann - woefully inadequate in the PL.
Saint Without a Halo Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 To name but a few Barry Venison, Luis Boa Morte, Agustin Delgado, Jelle VanDamme, Tommy Forecast, Jonathan Forte Kerry Dixon and David Speedie after their sell by dates as replacements for Shearer are worth a mention Also Charlie George same category earlier period
Horton Heath Saint Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 Kevin Phillips He didn't want to come to us in the first place, saw the pound signs. He even said after that he should not have signed for us. How ironic he ended up with Brett Ormerod at Blackpool!!
Neil Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 Some bad memories being revived by this thread, but surely the winner by a country mile is "Tin Man" Delgado.
Kenilworthy Posted 19 October, 2012 Posted 19 October, 2012 Kevin Phillips He didn't want to come to us in the first place, saw the pound signs. He even said after that he should not have signed for us. How ironic he ended up with Brett Ormerod at Blackpool!! We paid £3.25 million for Phillips and got £1 million when we sold him to Villa. £2.25 million for 22 league goals in 2 seasons is not fantastic value but way better than many of the names in this thread. In defence of Phillips, the job was not exactly as advertised. He was signed by Strachan who was gone within the season and he ended up playing for four managers including Arry who clearly took against him.
david in sweden Posted 20 October, 2012 Posted 20 October, 2012 David hurst actually .......it was David Hirst, and he played quite well the season prior to his injury. A really freak training accident destroyed his knee joint and he never got back to any standard of fitness afterwards ----not his fault and not a waste of money, either. I always felt that Charlie George was a big waste of money......£400K was A LOT of money ...in 1979. He was injured when we bought him and never got fit enough to perform on a regular basis. (He was another sort of Delgado deal). Delgado felt he was fit enough to play, but Strachan never wanted to pick him, but it didn't stop him playing in the 2002 World Cup... .and scoring ! However, the biggest rip-off was Blackburn "unloading Speedie AND Dixon on us in the Shearer deal.
Alain Perrin Posted 20 October, 2012 Posted 20 October, 2012 Pahars - Latvian sicknote trading on past glories.
Window Cleaner Posted 20 October, 2012 Posted 20 October, 2012 (edited) Pahars - Latvian sicknote trading on past glories. Bleidilis was a bigger waste, in fact I might put him down as runner up to Tinman. looks like at least 2 members of the commission got it right then http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmeduemp/218/0021628.htm Edited 20 October, 2012 by Window Cleaner
Chez Posted 20 October, 2012 Posted 20 October, 2012 I'd count Draper as pretty good value for money when compared to say Stuart Ripley. £1.25m (sizeable at the time) and a hefty wage and we got just 23 appearances out if him over three long years. Ripley was slightly more expensive, but we at least got 53 games from him. Both were major wastes of money
Chin Strain Posted 20 October, 2012 Posted 20 October, 2012 Ryan Dickson and Forte have been fees that we have gained very little from... Forte was worth it for the MK Dons game alone
Saint Without a Halo Posted 20 October, 2012 Posted 20 October, 2012 Pahars - Latvian sicknote trading on past glories. you are joking right? the fact he kept us up first season and cost the best part of f all surely shows he was great value and you can add in the Pompey goal for the icing on the cake!
Window Cleaner Posted 20 October, 2012 Posted 20 October, 2012 Forte was worth it for the MK Dons game alone Plus it was with doubt a relatively small fee, even at 300K in 2010 it just cannot compare to the 3.5 million for Tinman in 2002/3. It's a no contest
ottery st mary Posted 20 October, 2012 Posted 20 October, 2012 Bet Jamie Redknapp was one of our highest paid players, yet couldn't run for more than 45 minutes. I timed it at 25 minutes to be more precise:rolleyes:
ottery st mary Posted 20 October, 2012 Posted 20 October, 2012 Delgado for me....inclusive of his man servant Chala:D
sidthesquid Posted 20 October, 2012 Posted 20 October, 2012 Yep, he also got a 200k 'loyalty bonus' every year he was here as well. I think Euell would certainly make the top 5. People like Hirst or Venison who signed then were finished by injury is just bad luck. And Delgado looked like he had all the attributes, but injury and not settling did for him. (And you can't count the likes of Bleidelis & Chala as they were there to hepl Pahars - which made him well worth it, or Delgado - which didn't!) Poor old Jason looked punch-drunk from day one - scared of the ball, mentally 'gone' & off the pace - if we'd taken him on a pay-as-you-play basis you might have accepted it, but as one of our highest ever earners it was tragic. All of those Redknapp relegation signings - his son, Bernard etc certainly merit a mention.
sainthomer Posted 20 October, 2012 Posted 20 October, 2012 I will always remember when I went in the paper shop on the way home from school to read the quote from Branfoot that "Speedie and Dixon would score more goals than Shearer this season".
Miltonroader07 Posted 20 October, 2012 Posted 20 October, 2012 Eyal bercovic (spelling ) Wha a stupid post and probably anti-semetic...... Yulla Yulla
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