| Worst pound for pound signing ever? 09:50 - Mar 4 with 8580 views | WarkTheWarkITFC |
Got to be Nolan or Nsiala surely?
At least with Sereni, Martin, Priskin, Edwards, Norris, Leadbitter we actually had moments from them, games or even a run of games.
Civelli and Le Pen were not really at fault for getting injured.
But Nolan is absolutely awful and he was what? £1.5m with Nsiala being £1m? |  |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 10:45 - Mar 4 with 4977 views | StokieBlue |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 10:09 - Mar 4 by Fenland_Blue |
Stuart Slater
Lee Chapman
JET
Dan Harding |
That's very harsh on Slater.
Chapman cost 70k.
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 10:58 - Mar 4 with 4951 views | GeoffSentence |
Ulrich Le Pen.
Not his fault but we paid one and half million pounds for him and got 33 minutes football out of him. |  |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 11:00 - Mar 4 with 4939 views | Herbivore |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 10:44 - Mar 4 by ChiefXL |
Sereni was a good keeper for us. Kept us in many games, and this nonsense about asking for a break was for a third round FA Cup tie against lower league opposition. A policy which pretty much every club now follows.
So not only was he decent, he was also ahead of his time man. |
Sereni was a bit of an odd one. He clearly didn't really want to be here but he was capable of making some excellent saves, especially in one on ones, and then at other times he'd conspire to more or less throw the ball in his own net. He had that whole world beater to panel beater vibe. |  |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 11:02 - Mar 4 with 4941 views | itfcjoe |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 10:44 - Mar 4 by ChiefXL |
Sereni was a good keeper for us. Kept us in many games, and this nonsense about asking for a break was for a third round FA Cup tie against lower league opposition. A policy which pretty much every club now follows.
So not only was he decent, he was also ahead of his time man. |
Imagine now if your 1st choice keeper was dropped because in his first ever season without a winter break, in a foreign country, whilst in a relegation battle he asked to be rested for an FA Cup game against a non league side on a dodgy pitch |  |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 11:03 - Mar 4 with 4934 views | urbanblue |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 10:30 - Mar 4 by Matt_Netherlands |
Three words for you....
Ulriich. Le. Pen.
Played 12 minutes of league football for us at a cost of £1.4m. Got injured 12 minutes into his debut and was never seen again. Our12th highest transfer tee ever paid.
Honourable mentions also for:
Luciano Civelli - a fans favourite, but 17 appearance and nearly two years out injured for a cost of £1m earns him a place on the list
More recently, Ellis Harrison should get a mention.... £850k for one goal in 16 appearances. Only saving grace is that we got a bit of his transfer fee back. |
I was at that game ... He looked really good for that 12 minutes. |  | | |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 11:23 - Mar 4 with 4902 views | BrianTablet |
Graham Harbey - even if he came on a free. |  |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 11:23 - Mar 4 with 4899 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 09:59 - Mar 4 by NotSure |
Jon Nolan is a peculiar one.
Managed by Hurst at Chesterfield and then signed by Hurst at Shrewsbury / Ipswich.
But Lambert keeps persevering with him. An expensive mistake who needs to be shipped out.
My nomination is Lee Martin. |
Nolan would be up there. A significant sum for a lower league player. I'd argue that we got a lot more out of Lee Martin. |  |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 11:26 - Mar 4 with 4886 views | Herbivore |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 11:23 - Mar 4 by Swansea_Blue |
Nolan would be up there. A significant sum for a lower league player. I'd argue that we got a lot more out of Lee Martin. |
We got more minutes and red cards out of Lee Martin. | |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 11:31 - Mar 4 with 4883 views | MattinLondon |
Cameron Stewart. |  | | |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 11:54 - Mar 4 with 4866 views | BiGDonnie |
We spunked wayyyyyy to much on Leadbitter. He has to be up there in terms of cost and what he did for us. |  |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 13:11 - Mar 4 with 4829 views | Kropotkin123 |
Whilst it was not Ulrich Le Pan's fault that he got injured, he was still the worst pound for pound signing.
I see a few people suggesting free transfers. If we are going there then Andy Marshall. He cost us promotion and the opportunity to truly rebuild the club as a financially stable unit. |  |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 13:17 - Mar 4 with 4826 views | Garv |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 10:24 - Mar 4 by Herbivore |
Nolan has had good games even last season in the Championship, they've just been overshadowed by all the dross. Paul Taylor is almost certainly the correct answer here. £1.5m for a handful of appearances from a bad apple. Classic banter era. |
His performances before injury relevant do you think? You say a handful of appearances as if he couldn't get in the side. During 2012/13 he was injured. During 13/14 I'll admit he couldn't get in the side, but he was being kept out by Frank Nouble, which says it all. He was criminally (pun intended) underused. |  |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 13:33 - Mar 4 with 4805 views | BryanPlug |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 13:50 - Mar 4 with 4793 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 13:17 - Mar 4 by Garv |
His performances before injury relevant do you think? You say a handful of appearances as if he couldn't get in the side. During 2012/13 he was injured. During 13/14 I'll admit he couldn't get in the side, but he was being kept out by Frank Nouble, which says it all. He was criminally (pun intended) underused. |
Is that the same Frank Nouble who since leaving Ipswich has made double the number of appearances than Taylor in the football league, and scored 3 times as many goals, despite having a spell in China? |  |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 13:58 - Mar 4 with 4781 views | Radlett_blue |
Adrian Paz for £1m in 1994 was awful.
Stuart Slater for £750k wasn't much better. I don't have the rosy eyed view of John Lyall that some fans do. |  |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 14:00 - Mar 4 with 4776 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Le Pen wasn’t at fault but he is the only real answer to this question - seven figures spent for pretty much zero contribution
However in relative terms I’d argue Paul Taylor was worse, given what a large chunk of our budget his fee represented and offering f*ck all in return. Plus being an absolute waster
Nolan and Nsiala don’t even come close [Post edited 4 Mar 2020 14:00]
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 14:01 - Mar 4 with 4768 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 10:12 - Mar 4 by No9 |
Nigel Reo-Coker ? Kelly Youga ? Patrick Kisnorbo ? Aaron Mclean ? |
Yeah I don’t think you really understand how this works, and one of those wasn’t signed by who you think he was either... | |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 14:01 - Mar 4 with 4766 views | r2d2 |
Jackson. Pound for pound he is cr@p. League 2 striker at best. He can take the other 3 strikers with him too. |  | | |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 14:03 - Mar 4 with 4755 views | Radlett_blue |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 11:02 - Mar 4 by itfcjoe |
Imagine now if your 1st choice keeper was dropped because in his first ever season without a winter break, in a foreign country, whilst in a relegation battle he asked to be rested for an FA Cup game against a non league side on a dodgy pitch |
It seemed completely bonkers at the time but I think it was more related to Sereni's performance at Charlton where he clearly didn't fancy the pitch & gifted them at least one goal. Poor man management and yet another example of how GB totally lost the plot that season. | |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 14:04 - Mar 4 with 4754 views | Herbivore |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 13:17 - Mar 4 by Garv |
His performances before injury relevant do you think? You say a handful of appearances as if he couldn't get in the side. During 2012/13 he was injured. During 13/14 I'll admit he couldn't get in the side, but he was being kept out by Frank Nouble, which says it all. He was criminally (pun intended) underused. |
I forgot you're one of the Paul Taylor fan club. He looked play in the couple of games before he got injured. That he didn't get back in the side was the combination of a por attitude and not being esepcially good at football. | |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 14:05 - Mar 4 with 4745 views | Herbivore |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 14:01 - Mar 4 by r2d2 |
Jackson. Pound for pound he is cr@p. League 2 striker at best. He can take the other 3 strikers with him too. |
Obvious troll is obvious. | |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 15:08 - Mar 4 with 4717 views | Garv |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 13:50 - Mar 4 by C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Is that the same Frank Nouble who since leaving Ipswich has made double the number of appearances than Taylor in the football league, and scored 3 times as many goals, despite having a spell in China? |
We're discussing what the players did for Ipswich aren't we?
Taylor's career fell off a cliff, I'm not denying that, but it's not relevant.
Mick wanted 100% effort and running which is fair enough, Nouble gave more of that than Taylor, but to suggest Taylor was less creative or not a better footballer is nonsense. | |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 15:14 - Mar 4 with 4710 views | Garv |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 14:04 - Mar 4 by Herbivore |
I forgot you're one of the Paul Taylor fan club. He looked play in the couple of games before he got injured. That he didn't get back in the side was the combination of a por attitude and not being esepcially good at football. |
Puzzling why someone can't rate a player without being inducted into fictional, condescending fan club. Seems an odd defence mechanism.
That he didn't get back into the side was the fact Mick McCarthy was the manager and the two of them were never likely to, and clearly never did, get on. Let's call a spade a spade.
He was the creative player were lacking in the summer of 2012, and it was a big blow when he got injured. | |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 15:27 - Mar 4 with 4696 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 15:08 - Mar 4 by Garv |
We're discussing what the players did for Ipswich aren't we?
Taylor's career fell off a cliff, I'm not denying that, but it's not relevant.
Mick wanted 100% effort and running which is fair enough, Nouble gave more of that than Taylor, but to suggest Taylor was less creative or not a better footballer is nonsense. |
Nouble did more for Ipswich aswell - considerably more in fact
McCarthy didn’t want Taylor as he was both sh*t and a kn*bhead, and thought Nouble was a better option to get results. That Nouble has gone on to have more of a career than Taylor ever since rather indicates that McCarthy was absolutely right | |
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| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 15:33 - Mar 4 with 4690 views | BlueBadger |
| Worst pound for pound signing ever? on 14:05 - Mar 4 by Herbivore |
Obvious troll is obvious. |
Must be misty and obscuring his view of the World's Largest Village Green. |  |
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