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Last time we ripped off another club.

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Following on from my thread on less than successful 'big' fee signings, who was the last player we sold on who turned out to be a duffer?

 

Steve Bruce has rinsed us numerous times with Clemence, Waggy and Campbell all proving underwhelming acquisitions. Iain Hume's ill fated spell at Barnsley and Matt Piper's injury ruined time on wearside aside, I cannot really recall us selling a player for a significant sum who went on to do nothing. Heskey had a great career, Lennon won things in Scotland, Savage forged a good career, Newell did well for Blackburn, Fryatt has done OK at Hull, Stearman has played at the highest level for Wolves etc

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Gary Rowett was sold to Charlton and couldn't have made more than 30 appearances before retiring through injury.

 

Turns out it was 13 games in 2 years!

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I think Liverpool overpaid for Heskey, he wasn't a failure or poor exactly but wouldn't say he was worth what we sold him for.

in his 1st full season they won a treble and he cored loads of goals, he was doing superb there until Houllier bought Diouf and shunted Emile onto the wing to accommodate him

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Wigan paid 3m for David Connelly who then flopped (mostly down to injuries), can't really remember anyone else like that though.

Yes I remember that I thought it was a shocking amount of money at the time, and he wasn't that great for us either.

 

Think we got Hume as a replacement.

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Gary Rowett was sold to Charlton and couldn't have made more than 30 appearances before retiring through injury.

Turns out it was 13 games in 2 years!

Hate when people cite an injury as a reason a player was a bad signing or overpriced. People used to say it about Darren Eadie and more specifically Matt Jones. Leeds didn't over charge is for Jones at £3m, he was a decent young player, just unfortunately got injured before making a big impact, but that's football.

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Hate when people cite an injury as a reason a player was a bad signing or overpriced. People used to say it about Darren Eadie and more specifically Matt Jones. Leeds didn't over charge is for Jones at £3m, he was a decent young player, just unfortunately got injured before making a big impact, but that's football.

 

Eadie is slightly different in that he was always injured prior to arriving here.

 

I do think Jones was over priced, he wasn't a regular in the Leeds first team.

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Eadie is slightly different in that he was always injured prior to arriving here.

 

I do think Jones was over priced, he wasn't a regular in the Leeds first team.

I take your point of you think Jones was overpriced anyway, but it's still an argument I've heard lots of times "He was a too expensive because he was always injured" People said Lee Marshall was a shit signing because he was constantly injured, no he was a shit signing because he was a shit footballer. You wouldn't buy a car then claim it was overpriced because somebody else crashed into it would you?

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Joe Mattock? £1.2m

 

TBH around that time we had Joe Mattock, Richard Stearman, Jordan Stewart, they'd have all been in the same academy squads wouldn't they? They all had bags of potential, they all showed their potential at early points in their Leicester careers but went on to do fuck all!

 

Stearman was awesome in his first season, but never replicated that form, I know a couple of Wolves fans who said he did exactly the same at Wolves.

Joe Mattock I thought was decent at first, but he went downhill and got bigheaded, what he has done since leaving us hasn't helped his career.

Jordan Stewart wasn't bad but went downhill very fast.

 

Just researched abit and no they wouldn't have been in the same academy squads - Maybe Stearman and Mattock but no Stewart.

 

Didn't realise how old Stewart was - He's 32! Playing in America now, didn't think he was that old, and Mattock is (still) 24 :o thought he was older than that.

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Hate when people cite an injury as a reason a player was a bad signing or overpriced. People used to say it about Darren Eadie and more specifically Matt Jones. Leeds didn't over charge is for Jones at £3m, he was a decent young player, just unfortunately got injured before making a big impact, but that's football.

 

Technically though, they *are* bad signings in terms of business and getting value for your money (even if injuries are the reason for their lack of success in the case of Eadie and Jones). Bad players, perhaps not - but bad deals for the club when reflecting back as we are and factoring in everything, yes.

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Technically though, they *are* bad signings in terms of business and getting value for your money (even if injuries are the reason for their lack of success in the case of Eadie and Jones). Bad players, perhaps not - but bad deals for the club when reflecting back as we are and factoring in everything, yes.

Signing every player is a risk though in that sense and as such bad business. Using the vehicle analogy I used in another post, I work for a coach company, if we buy a new coach then a month later a lorry goes into the side of it and rights it off, is that purchase bad business sense or just unfortunate? We know every time we send a coach or bus out there's a risk, same with every time a player takes to the field there's a risk their career will end. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and all that.

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