Who is our worst value for money signing ever?

[Always Next Year]

To many to name, at least 5 playing today.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

6 hours ago, 49er said:

Tommy English. No fee involved but he was swapped for Melrose. Stepped down to Division Two with a record of being a young goalscorer in the top flight. Complete disaster - ended up playing left midfield

Yes and to compound that I heard we had a choice of English or Mark Hateley, we chose wrong ?

[Suffolk exile]

Gokhan Inler has to be up there?

[yorkie1999]

Nacho, someone should have asked him if he really wanted to come here in the first place

[AylestoneRaider]

Kelechi. No arguments - awful.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

It's Silva. At least Nacho has scored a few.

[hebangsthedrums]

Dennis Wise - think we paid a few million for an over the hill arsehole who would have been on big bucks and then phoned in a few appearances before fighting a teammate and then threatening to push the club over the edge financially when he was sacked.

[Bezzanator89]

Most signings we have made since we won the league? Quite a lot of names under that umbrella.

[mucfox]

Nacho - because he is not a real professional football player. But the poor Nacho can not be held responsible for the high transfer fee and the purchase.

 

There are other guilty persons...who have burned many millions

[The whole world smiles]

11 hours ago, fleckneymike said:

Silva

I don't agree with this. When looking at the bigger picture we only brought Silva to replace DD to replace an injury prone Danny Drinkwater on 80k so as bad as Silva had been his signing made us money.

[Tuna]

Slimani. Nearly 30 million, our record buys usually turn out to be disasters.

[Chairman of the Bored]

Ian Fecking Nacho. Followed closely by Ade Panc Buy.

[Manwell Pablo]

11 hours ago, Sampson said:

Didn't we also spend like £8mil on Kaputska and then he never played.

 

Danny Ward, although is a good back up, was also extortionate money for a back up goalkeeper.

 

Christ sake, he’s 25, he’s an under study with great potential and could well spend the next ten years at the club and he cost what 12 million?

 

Give the thread title another read man!

[Blue-fox]

Slimani 

musa

Nacho

Silva

 

most certainly not value for money. 

[inckley fox]

Kalac under McGhee. It wasn't a record transfer but it was hefty fee by second tier standards. Fenton and Gunnlaugsson from the O'Neill era. You could argue Eadie too, though he looked the part before his injury.

 

Akinbiyi, Wise and to a lesser extent Jones from the Taylor era. Some of his other big signings were, to a limited extent, useful - Rowett, Davidson, even poor old Benjamin played his part in promotion in 2003 - whereas his budget buys were truly awful, and often given way too much game-time. Lewis and Marshall are the obvious examples, but it's hard to call them bad value for money.

 

And from that point all the way to Mandaric, our many awful signings cost us next to nothing.

 

Of the Mandaric and post-Mandaric era, I'd say Clemence, Campbell, Mills, Beckford, Slimani, Silva and Kapustka stand out as relatively large fees paid for little return. I'll leave Kramaric and Musa off the list because we at least recouped the money.

 

Iheanacho and Ghezzal will obviously end up falling into that category too if things don't pick up.

 

For every appalling waste of money, though, we can name 2 or 3 incredible bargains, in the 90s and the past decade at least. Not every club can say that, I suspect.

[Foxaholic ME]

30 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Slimani. Nearly 30 million, our record buys usually turn out to be disasters.

They didnt use to be Lenny Glover a good example  a world record fee for winger

[NewEnglandFox]

4 hours ago, Suffolk exile said:

Gokhan Inler has to be up there?

Only £3M.

[Arriba Los Zorros]

Musa and Nacho stand out in recent times. Thank God for Ndidi being quality, otherwise I'd never want us to sign Nigerians again.

[Dave Fishwick]

Ian Nacho at least had potential and had potential resale value

 

Silva was supposed to be signed as a ready package and his value was only going to depreciate. An awful signing with hindsight

 

Zieler could be up there

[ForeverandEver]

Junior Lewis

[dylanlegend]

I don’t think players that play for us now can be classed as our worst value signing ever. Nacho may turn out a good buy eventually, I thought Mendy was a gonna now he plays every week.

 

I think it has to be some of the guys from just before we went into admin. Matty Jones springs to mind, hefty fee big wages and basically injured straight away 

[Leeds Fox]

5 hours ago, Suffolk exile said:

Gokhan Inler has to be up there?

 

Silva cost a hell of a lot more and is probably on similar if not more per week. He has done absolutely nothing.

 

Nothing against the bloke but he’s had zero impact bar highlight our inept transfer dealings with the 14sec debacle. 

[Bezzanator89]

2 hours ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

Musa and Nacho stand out in recent times. Thank God for Ndidi being quality, otherwise I'd never want us to sign Nigerians again.

N'didi? Quality in some ways, absolute travesty in others. One of those frustrates and amazes kind of player.

[J.Lisemore]

To think we spent £25m on Silva and not one of us knows what his strengths are. Nobody knows what he’s good at. What a strange signing 

[demon_dog]

As someone mentioned depends on what era you look at.

For me Ade Akinbadbuy

However one could always say Musa or Icheanacho.............etc.

It all depends on your age and how long you've been watching city.