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[Owzat]

50 Carlos Cuellar (Rangers to Aston Villa, £7.8m - 2008)
49 Dean Richards (Southampton to Tottenham, £8.1m - 2001)
48 Damien Duff (Chelsea to Newcastle, £5m - 2006)
47 Jose Antonio Reyes (Sevilla to Arsenal, £17m - 2004)
46 Jon Dahl Tomasson (Heerenveen to Newcastle, £2.2m - 1997)
45 Ade Akinbiyi (Wolves to Leicester, £5m - 2000)
44 David Bellion (Sunderland to Manchester United, £3m - 2003)
43 Shaun Wright-Phillips (Manchester City to Chelsea, £21m - 2005)
42 Deco (Barcelona to Chelsea, £8m - 2008)
41 Jermaine Pennant (Birmingham to Liverpool, £6m - 2006)
40 Dimitar Berbatov (Tottenham to Manchester United, £30.75m - 2008)
39 Gilles de Bilde (PSV Eindhoven to Sheffield Wednesday, £3m - 1999)
38 Winston Bogarde (Barcelona to Chelsea, free - 2000)
37 Per Kroldrup (Udinese to Everton, £5m - 2005)
36 Florin Raducioiu (Espanyol to West Ham, £2.4m - 1996)
35 Adrian Mutu (Parma to Chelsea, £15.8m - 2003)
34 Tore Andre Flo (Rangers to Sunderland, £12m - 2002)
33 Dave Kitson (Reading to Stoke, £5.5m - 2008)
32 Salif Diao (Sedan to Liverpool, £5m - 2002)
31 Hugo Viana (Sporting Lisbon to Newcastle, £8m - 2002)
30 Ali Dia (Southampton, free - 1996)
29 Bruno Cheyrou (Lille to Liverpool, £3.5m - 2002)
28 Helder Postiga (FC Porto to Tottenham, £6.5m - 2003)
27 Jo (CSKA Moscow to Manchester City, £19m - 2008)
26 Richard Wright (Ipswich to Arsenal, £6m - 2001)
25 David Bentley (Blackburn to Tottenham, £15m - 2008)
24 Marcelino (Real Mallorca to Newcastle, £6.7m - 1999)
23 Paolo Tramezzani (Piacenza to Tottenham, £3m - 1998)
22 Andrea Silenzi (Torino to Nottingham Forest, £1.8m - 1995)
21 Stephane Guivarc'h (Auxerre to Newcastle, £3.5m - 1998)
20 Harry Kewell (Leeds to Liverpool, £5m - 2003)
19 Corrado Grabbi (Ternana to Blackburn, £6.75m - 2001)
18 Afonso Alves (Heerenveen to Middlesbrough, £12m - 2008)
17 Albert Luque (Deportivo La Coruna to Newcastle, £9.5m - 2005)
16 Jean-Alain Boumsong (Rangers to Newcastle, £8m - 2005)
15 Eric Djemba-Djemba (Nantes to Man United, £3.5m - 2003)
14 Chris Sutton (Blackburn to Chelsea, £10m - 1999)
13 Kleberson (Atletico Paranaense to Man United, £6.5m - 2003)
12 Robbie Keane (Tottenham to Liverpool, £20.3m - 2008)
11 Marco Boogers (Sparta Rotterdam to West Ham, £750,000 - 1995)
10 Steve Marlet (Lyon to Fulham, £11.5m - 2001)
9 Joey Barton (Manchester City to Newcastle, £5.8m - 2007)
8 Michael Owen (Real Madrid to Newcastle, £16m - 2005)
7 Francis Jeffers (Everton to Arsenal, £8m - 2001)
6 Sergei Rebrov (Dynamo Kiev to Spurs, £11m - 2000)
5 Bosko Balaban (Dinamo Zagreb to Aston Villa, £5.8 - 2001)
4 Massimo Taibi (Venezia to Man Utd, £4.4m - 1999)
3 Thomas Brolin (Parma to Leeds, £4.5m - 1995)
2 Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan to Chelsea, £31m - 2006)
1 Juan Sebastian Veron (Lazio to Man Utd, £28.1m and Man United to Chelsea, £14m  - 2001 and 2003)

Looks like the top 10 won't be out until tomorrow,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport....11.html

Is it fair to put Pennant (41), Diao (32), Cheyrou (29), Kewell (20), Keane (12) in there? There are only four manc signings, I reckon Taibi, Veron, Blanc and Forlan must be candidates to make that list and I wouldn't put all of those in the top ten. I think it's a bit harsh on Ali Dia, it was a laughable situation but he cost nothing moving to an ok club (at the time) so worth a chuckle, but a place in worst transfer history lists?!?!

The list passes my plausibility time test, I reckon 12 out of the 40 still play in the Premiership (or are owned by a Premiership club in the case of Kitson) If it had been heavily weighted to current players then I might have doubted its validity, like having a top 100 all time greatest singles list with 60-90% having been released since 2000 in a chart that's been around about 50 odd years. I think they do some of the 100 countdowns by sales, like the top 100 films and you end up with a top 10 of recent box office hits and films from back when TV's weren't in many houses let alone one in every kid's room.


To make this relevant to Liverpool FC as much as the general Premiership forum, who would you put in our top 10? We'll make it Premiership history, I expect to see the likes of Piechnik and Dundee get mentions. Robbie Keane a flop? He may not have had a long time to prove himself, but lasting only six months hardly makes the move a success. If you do a top 10, if possible could you put the manager who signed the player next to the transfer. Would be interesting to see how many times Souness, Evans, Houllier and Benitez appear. The five in the list between 50-11 are split three Houllier, two Benitez - although Im pretty sure Rafa sold/offloaded all of them

EDIT : looks as if they cheated a bit by putting two transfers as one at number one (Veron)

[mistyred]

Where's Diof? or whatever the muppets name is, dirty little tramp
he is a nasty little kn.objockey he's number one for me.

[Owzat]

Where's Diof? or whatever the muppets name is, dirty little tramp
he is a nasty little kn.objockey he's number one for me.

Top 10 should in theory be out tomorrow, he might be in that. Veron could arguably be in it twice, £28.1m to the mancs and then £15m to Chelsea. £43.1m and how many seasons did he stay in England?

[mistyred]

I think about 3 Owzat mate.

[DrPepe]

harry kewell 5m quid and a flop?

he wasn't a brilliant performer but to get 4 or 5 years out of a 5m player (and win things too) is hardly a flop

[tonyeh]

I agree Doc. Kewel may not have been the greatest player in the world, but he's hardly a flop.

Some if those names on that list are strange, to say the least.

[heimdall]

I agree Doc. Kewel may not have been the greatest player in the world, but he's hardly a flop.

Some if those names on that list are strange, to say the least.

How many games did we get out of him in those 4-5 years though? I reckon that's why he's marked down as a flop. He did play fairly well on the rare occasions he was fit though which used to mysteriously coincide with when Australia were playing. 

[Greavesie]

Did Sunderland really spend £12m on Tore Andre Flo?

just looked this up myself, its £6.75m they bought him for. Wonder how many others are wrong 

Its a very strange list. Number 38 is a free transfer for God's sake! Just how bad do you have to be

[DrPepe]

I agree Doc. Kewel may not have been the greatest player in the world, but he's hardly a flop.

Some if those names on that list are strange, to say the least.

How many games did we get out of him in those 4-5 years though? I reckon that's why he's marked down as a flop. He did play fairly well on the rare occasions he was fit though which used to mysteriously coincide with when Australia were playing. 

harry kewell = 136 games/16 goals in 4 seasons

to put into context :
nani
2 seasons, 38games/4goals, 17million quid 
hargreaves
2 seasons, 25/2 17 millions quid 

neither of those are on that that list (unless they're in the top10)


strange that we have 4 bargain basement players we bought for 3.5m,5m,5m,6m  on the list

[GYBS]

Only problem kewell had for us was injuries - things would of been different for him if he was fit more often . His first season up until he got injured he was very very good . then 05/06 he had a very good season for us while injury free and helped us win the FA Cup.

[Toffeehater]

Some of the names there are jokes , where's berbatov he better be in the top 10 , him costing 30 million makes torres look like a free transfer . Knowing the papers however i doubt we will see berbatov in that top 10 , forlan did okay with the amount of time he had at manu

[GYBS]

Berbatov is number 40 .

[Reg]

I dont understand how Winston Bogarde is only at number 38, he deserves to be in the top 5.

The guy is a hero => happy reading!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Bogarde

[maypaxvobiscum]

i thought Deco was a freebie?

[Boocity]

A similar thing to this was done by the Times in 2007 and Ali Dia was No 1, I cannot believe there are 29 worse than him since 2007.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article2025420.ece