This piece is stunning. It’s something everyone probably already knew already, but to see it in a list like this, showing that 100 million for grealish is the second best deal of the lot, really drives home how badly our supposed rivals have used their money in recent years.
Problem is City and Utd and to a lesser extent Chelsea seem to be completely immune to expensive bad signings. They just continue to splash out the cash with impunity. It almost negates our superior recruiting.
High: He scored on both his Champions League and home Premier League debuts for City last season, but his most memorable contribution might be his starring role in the club’s title celebrations.
Low: It must have stung to be England’s most expensive player ever, and only come off the bench in the second leg of a Champions League semifinal against Real Madrid and then see them dramatically win the tie in extra time.
Rating: 6/10
How the hell does he get 6/10? He’s done nothing at all!
4/10 would be generous especially given his price.
Not a record signing maybe but bought to replace Suarez. I called it a ridiculous panic signing that we would regret and got lambasted by several posters on TIA. I still remember who you are
I’m about as hard to forget as not so Super Mario’s Liverpool career.
Probably up there with Morientes as the biggest flops for talent we’ve had, hugely talented player still had his prime years ahead of him and for some reason didn’t work out.
Still remember his debut at Spurs I think it was, very good debut and I thought he was the guy to fire us back to the top.