SNSUN Posted 23 May, 2013 Share Posted 23 May, 2013 I was having a look at our most expensive signings and it doesn't make great reading. With big money set to be spent this summer, I hope we can buy players better than some of these. (Information from transfermarkt.co.uk http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/fc-southampton/transferrekorde/verein_180.html) Top 25 are: Ramirez Rodriguez Delap Phillips Forren Mayuka Prutton Clyne Gazzaniga Quashie Van Damme Niemi Crouch Rasiak Svensson (M) Yoshida Ormerod Hirst Ripley Higginbottom Draper McCann Skacel Sharp Fox Players from that list that have been very good (IMO) are Rodriguez (although has he showed £7million of talent yet?), Clyne, Niemi, Crouch, Rasiak and Svensson. 6 from 25, although you could argue that a few of the others have done good jobs. Are you concerned about big money signings not coming good? Last summer we did very well from smaller money signings like Clyne and Davis. Are we just good bargain hunters? Do you think the voodoo on signing decent big money talent will end this summer? Or do you think we ARE actually good at spending big money? Discuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 23 May, 2013 Share Posted 23 May, 2013 How would you define 'big' money? For me, in the modern era that is 10 million plus, therefore we will need more players to sign at that level to judge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 23 May, 2013 Author Share Posted 23 May, 2013 Big money for us, according to the era in which it was spent. For example Clyne is in the top 10 in that list, but is a modern signing, so actually was cheap compared to Rodriguez and Ramirez made in the same summer. Whereas Delap and Delgado were big money signings from the past for us - and both were not worth the money we spend. Delap did a job for us (one of the ones I said you could argue about) but was he really worth the £4 odd million we spent on him? I don't think so. There appears to be a lot of wasted money on that list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 23 May, 2013 Share Posted 23 May, 2013 I was having a look at our most expensive signings and it doesn't make great reading. With big money set to be spent this summer, I hope we can buy players better than some of these. (Information from transfermarkt.co.uk http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/fc-southampton/transferrekorde/verein_180.html) Top 25 are: Ramirez Rodriguez Delap Phillips Forren Mayuka Prutton Clyne Gazzaniga Quashie Van Damme Niemi Crouch Rasiak Svensson (M) Yoshida Ormerod Hirst Ripley Higginbottom Draper McCann Skacel Sharp Fox Players from that list that have been very good (IMO) are Rodriguez (although has he showed £7million of talent yet?), Clyne, Niemi, Crouch, Rasiak and Svensson. 6 from 25, although you could argue that a few of the others have done good jobs. Are you concerned about big money signings not coming good? Last summer we did very well from smaller money signings like Clyne and Davis. Are we just good bargain hunters? Do you think the voodoo on signing decent big money talent will end this summer? Or do you think we ARE actually good at spending big money? Discuss. No Delgado? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 23 May, 2013 Author Share Posted 23 May, 2013 No Delgado? Good point - I even included him in my second post! Perhaps the biggest waste of money of all - and that website didn't even include him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 23 May, 2013 Share Posted 23 May, 2013 6 of the top 10 are in our current squad huh? That's inflation for you I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintBobby Posted 24 May, 2013 Share Posted 24 May, 2013 Certainly, very few of those most expensive 25 players would make it into a list of Saint's best 25 players - or even our best 50. That said, I think our recent signings haven't been too bad - with the jury still out on a few of them (I'm not writing off Ramirez, Mayuka, Gazzanigga or the mysterious Forren) and a couple of truly excellent signings (Clyne and Yoshida) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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