Biggest Transfer Flops of All Time

[kevin_kyle]

There are a lot of them but a few really stand out to me.

Tore Andre Flo - 12 million pounds to go from Chelsea to Rangers, and another huge fee to Sunderland. He was pretty awful for that sort of money.

Sergei Rebrov - 11 million pounds to Tottenham, scored a few goals, lazed around in the reserves for a season then went to Fenerbahce.

Diego Forlan - Not that he was that bad a player, but he was total scum at United. Absolute hack there, couldnt settle and cost them 7.5 million pounds plus wages. Now hes at Villareal and is doing quite well for himself. Pity his English adventure didnt go quite as well.

There are a heap out there. Who do you think are the worst flops of all time?

[semja]

Here's a few

Carl Cort - 7.5 Million pounds from Wimbledon to Newcastle. Obviously he isn't playing for them anymore. Bobby Robson was rumoured to of made a mistake with this transfer.

Hernan Crespo - 16.75 Million pounds from Inter Milan to Chelsea. Alot of money for someone who only scored a few goals and looks likes only spending just the one season with them. But saying that Chelsea have got money to blow, with the help of their Sugar Daddy

Helder Postiga - 8 Million pounds from Porto to Tottenham. Postiga scored just the one goal for Tottenham and spent one season with them. He was sold for half that price after.

Adrian Mutu - 16.75 Million pounds from Parma to Chelsea. Scored 6 goals for them all up, then got busted for cocaine usage.

Locally I think Alex Moreira is the biggest transfer flop, he came to Adelaide City a few years back and he stank. It's because of players like him Melbourne Victory are afraid to venture out and sign foreign players.

[atlas]

Here's the tale of two goalkeepers:

Massimo Taibi:
-To Man Utd from Venezia: What was Ferguson thinking? Signed to replace Mark Bosnich. Who will ever forget those goals Taibi conceded against Southampton. Since that day he became known as the Blind Venetian and was transfered back to Italy at the end of that season.
-To AC Milan from Piacenza: Was signed after playing a well for Piacenza for a few seasons. Signed to be number one keeper at AC Milan, played a few games and made some crucial errors and was sold to Venezia at the end of that season.

Jens Lehmann:
-To AC Milan from Schalke 04: Signed by AC Milan to be the number one and again did not perform and was signed by Borussia Dortmund.
-To Arsenal from Borussia Dortmund: Signed by Arsenal last season, has been inconsistent and is currently out of favour.

[atlas]

Here are some more players:

-Pascal Cygan: to Arsenal from the French League. Cygan has already been discussed on other threads in this forum, need I say more.

-Darko Pancev: to Inter from Red Star Belgrade. While at Red Star was rated one of the best strikers in the world, however he moved to Inter and barely played a game and then just seemed to disappear after that.

-Diego Maradona: to Sevilla from Napoli. Sevilla was the club where Maradona made his first comeback. Played a few games in that season, then returned to Argentina.

-Dennis Bergkamp: to Inter from Ajax Amsterdam. Bergkamp struggled in Italy, however his transfer to Arsenal was just what he needed and has gone on to probably becoming a club legend at Arsenal.

-Hakan Sukur: to Torino from Galatasaray. Hakan's first stint in Italy lasted about 3 games with Torino, he got homesick and he also had some problems in his personal life and returned straight back to Galatasaray, but was successful there on his return.

[Bendigo Blue]

Locally I think Alex Moreira is the biggest transfer flop, he came to Adelaide City a few years back and he stank. It's because of players like him Melbourne Victory are afraid to venture out and sign foreign players.

Hey, Alex wasn't great, but he wasn't the biggest transfer flop. Surely that must be reserved for Nicola Berti. The former Azzurro signed on for one last paycheck at Northern Spirit and was utter crap.

[barca]

Steve McMahon, Perth Glory's new head coach, was transferred from Liverpool to Man City for £900,000 (in 1991). He made 87 appearances for Manchester City in midfield and scored a single goal.

[Melbourne Boys]

hahahaha

This thread was taken exactly of South Melbournes msg board.. cant we be original

[kevin_kyle]

Houllier really didnt do much good with his signings.
All I can think of is Heskey.
But he has scored a bit recently for Birmingham I guess.
I also think Reyes at Arsenal for that amount of money could bite Wenger in the rear....

[criscione]

shit thread.
but i'll say a transfer flop would beee.........sarkies to adelaide

[Strawberry Kisses]

ibrahimovich to inter

[broxham22]

shevchenko to chelsea
and
kemp to melbourne

[Carlito]

gavin harris to newcastle united

[markattack]

Sander Westerveld fom Vitesse Arnhem to Liverpool

WORST
KEEPER
EVER

[Carlito]

Sander Westerveld fom Vitesse Arnhem to Liverpool

WORST
KEEPER
EVER

hes got a f.a cup and uefa cup winners medal with the pool

i would hardly call that a flop

[CalabreseBoy]

Jardel to Jets

[NULL]

Archie Thompson - Lierse to Melbourne Victory

[Carlito]

romario to adelaide united

[Pasqualino]

Tiago

lyon to juve.

[mulhollanddrive]

Seb Veron.

[Victory2006]

Stan Collymore to Villa.
Eric Djemba Djemba to Utd.
Eric Djemba Djemba to Villa.

[The Technician]

Emerson to AC Milan

[DannyAllsopp]

morientes to liverpool

[Curva Nord]

MENDIETA TO LAZIO

WE ARE STILL OWE MONEY TO VALENCIA FOR THAT PIECE OF SHIT

30 million euro transfer fee and then we went bust, easily in the top 10 flops of all time

[CalabreseBoy]

vlahos to melbourne victory

[s3tTz]

Ali Dia

GyT1r_oVcdA

[StevieG]

Djimi Traore

[Ella]

Estoynoff, Bueno, Rodríguez and Olivera to Penarol.

Four current Uruguayan internationals and they lose two Clasico's in a row, very poor form.

[~PC~]

Karel Poborsky > Slavia Prague £3.5mil
Jesper Blomqvist > AC Parma £4.4mil
Massimo Taibi > Venezia £4.5mil
Juan Sebastian Verón > Lazio £28.1mil

[TechnicalArea]

Woodgate to Real Madrid

[stinger]

Brolin to leeds

[dave30]

jordi cryuff to man u

[~PC~]

jordi cryuff to man u

Deliberately didn't mention that one. United paid very little for him relatively and he did a fair job.

[dougie_brown]

Robbie Keane to Inter

[DannyAllsopp]

djibril cisse too liverpool would have to be up there

sheva to chelsea

henry to barca

these are all some recent ones

[Looptroop]

djibril cisse too liverpool would have to be up there

sheva to chelsea

henry to barca

these are all some recent ones

fuck off

Every player to liverpool.

[oz mackem]

gavin harris to newcastle united

lol -- his subsequent move to Real Madrid was an even bigger one then -- though he did score against Barca.

[froggy]

Juan Sebastian Verón > Lazio £28.1mil

Veron was worth his weight in gold at Lazio, it was a pity the whole passport thing happend and then he was moved on to Man U.

[Looptroop]

Santiago Munez. First at a shit club, now at the shittiest

[Carlito]

rustu recber to barcelona

one bad game and that was it,victor valdes was in the posts

[davidvilla_7]

Chris Tadrosse

[Niko_52]

Mat kemp to melb victory

[In Search Of.............]

Denilson to Real Betis (or was it Celta or someone else) for a world record fee.