Who has been the worst signing, since the Premier League title?

[Lewis's Junior]

I think we're so specialist at this you need sub categories:

Complete Waste of Time (barely played)
- Toss up between Edouard and Bertrand

Lack of value from Fee Paid / Recouped
- Already likely to be Skipp I'm afraid to say; otherwise Daka or Slimani as they are our 4th and 5th most expensive signings ever and we'll get got £0 sell on fee for either. They haven't done nothing when playing, but nowhere near enough return on investment. 

Actively making us worse (AKA the Danny Ward trophy)
- Ward obvs, but Faes has a strong case given how much he's played during our demise

[enmac]

On 26/04/2025 at 17:29, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Musa

Slimani

Silva

Ward

Perez

Praet

Soumare

Daka

Faes

Vestergaard

Kristiansen

Coady

Winks

Skipp

Ayew

Coulibaly

 

No real value back from any of them. Have I missed anyone? My word we like to piss money up the wall.

I liked Perez. Always gave 100%. Pricey, though.

[Langston]

4 hours ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

At the time though it was a complete misuse of the hard earned prize money.

 

Slimani should’ve been Deeney.

 

Sorry but we were PL champions.. It should have been neither Slimani or Deeney. Signing the latter for whatever we spent on Slimani would've also been very very frivolous..

[enmac]

4 hours ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Jesus wept the more I look into stuff the worse it gets.

 

We paid over 12.5m for Ghezzal.

 

13m for Mendy. (19m in todays money😂) 

 

15m for Iborra. 
 

30m for Perez. (6 years ago, god knows what this would be now) 

18m for Praet. 
 

23m for Daka.

 

32m on VK and Souttar.

 

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

 

Mendy, Iborra and Perez would really improve our current team .

[SuperMike]

2 minutes ago, enmac said:

Mendy, Iborra and Perez would really improve our current team .

Agreed.

But so would a traffic cone, a llama and a case of grapefruits.

[Guy]

7 hours ago, bovril said:

Has to be Ward. Maybe not a disastrous signing on paper but in terms of effect on the club he is unmatched. I could cry thinking about the 22/23 relegation and how avoidable it was. 

The irony was he had a good run of clean sheets in the purple patch run up to the Qatar World Cup in 2022, up to mid November (aided by the defence being decent I'm sure) but when that season resumed again on Boxing Day v Newcastle at home we arguably saw the real Danny Ward - as well as in the two horror shows v Wolves and Newcastle in December gone.

[Gubbins]

It can only be Ward. As terrible as the likes of soumare, vestergaard and faes are no player in the clubs history has done as much damage through their sheer inability to play football as this useless tvvat.

[when_you're_smiling]

I thought Bertrand was a great signing on a free. He was on £2m a year supposedly and played four times. So £1m a performance.

[ParkerPen]

27 minutes ago, when_you're_smiling said:

I thought Bertrand was a great signing on a free. He was on £2m a year supposedly and played four times. So £1m a performance.

if it helps at all, so did I