by aCe' » Wed Sep 02, 2015 1:29 pm
I dont think theres a club in world football that has wasted more money than we did over the past 10 years or so. We might only have 2 or 3 names in a top 15 list, but I'm sure we would have dominated the 10-20mill list.
First, you have to define what a poor buy is. For me, it''s a player who was brought in for more than 6-7mill, wasnt good enough/didnt contribute enough and was sold at a significant loss (percentage-wise of his transfer fee)/ doesn't feature regularly at present.
Liverpool:
Adam Lallana £25,000,000.00
Lazar Marković £20,000,000.00
Dejan Lovren £20,000,000.00
Divock Origi £10,000,000.00
Alberto Moreno £12,000,000.00
Mario Balotelli £16,000,000.00
Luis Alberto £6,800,000.00
Iago Aspas £7,000,000.00
Tiago Ilori £7,000,000.00
Mamadou Sakho £18,000,000.00
Joe Allen £15,000,000.00
Charlie Adam £7,000,000.00
Stewart Downing £20,000,000.00
Sebastian Coates £7,000,000.00
Andrew Carroll £35,000,000.00
Alberto Aquilani £17,000,000.00
Andrea Dossena £7,000,000.00
Robbie Keane £19,000,000.00
Ryan Babel £11,500,000.00
Jermaine Pennant £6,700,000.00
Total of close to 300mill. I've excluded players who have cost less than 6mill (your Poulsens) and players we bought, flopped, but were moved on for a fee comparable to what we paid (Borini, Meireles, etc.)
Manutd have a much shorter list:
Fellaini
Zaha
Bebe
Anderson
Hargreaves
You could argue for the inclusion of the likes of Berbatov & Nani but both played significant parts in championship winning sides so you'd be clutching at straws there.
Chelsea:
Torres
Marin
Moses
Meireles
Boulehrouz
Man City:
Caballero
Jovetic (arguable since he is out on loan and could fetch a fee similar to what was paid)
Sinclair
Savic
Santa Cruz
Adebayor
Jo
Robinho (arguable, he was a statement signing and opened the door to top class players joining them)