| ME's most expensive signings 10:30 - Jan 28 with 4054 views | hatch |
Just as some light relief - who can tell me the top 5 most expensive signings under Marcus Evans? I was curious at 2am last night so went hunting on transfermarkt to retrieve the list and it was fairly close to what I expected.
Transfer fees only, not wages or paying off Chopra's hitmen. |  | | |  |
| ME's most expensive signings on 12:02 - Jan 28 with 773 views | hatch |
| ME's most expensive signings on 11:53 - Jan 28 by PhilTWTD |
Martin was bad as even people around the club were amazed he was given a four-year deal on very good money at the time he was signed. Still not entirely sure of the fee, although people have talked about £2m in the past. Priskin at £1.7m was a lot as well.
Difficult to argue with any of those as the best, although Walters was signed pre-Evans if I remember rightly. |
Now I understand why Martin apologised to me on the golf course last month I said I was a town fan | | | |
| ME's most expensive signings on 12:23 - Jan 28 with 740 views | FrankMarshall |
| ME's most expensive signings on 11:16 - Jan 28 by hatch |
According to TransferMarkt it's:
Leadbitter £2.7m
Norris £2.7m
Martin £2.03m
Taylor £2.03m
Priskin £1.8m
Selected others:
McAuley £1.7m
Jackson £1.62m
Chopra £1.53m
Huws £1.04m (The first signing over £1m for around 5 seasons)
Edwards £1.35m
Not sure if there are any missing there but the majority were in the early days as we know. |
Surely Civelli would be on that list too? |  |
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| ME's most expensive signings on 12:23 - Jan 28 with 740 views | SuffolkPOSH |
| ME's most expensive signings on 10:50 - Jan 28 by Bluefish |
I think it is probably close but with Martin replacing Edwards
Norris - decent enough but massively overpaid because of the sell on clause. To overpay that much he needed to be a final piece in a jigsaw opposed to a steady enough player.
Leadbitter - was OK but we never found a way to get the best out of him. Massively playing within himself by dropping too deep and never trying to drive us forward. Terrible waste of money
Edwards - overspent on a 30+ year old pacey winger. Far too much for a player going backwards in a career but probably was the best value in this list in the end
Priskin - horrific was waste especially when you consider who we had waiting to play that position. Honestly saw about 10 minutes of his debut to realise we had been done.
Martin - how can anyone get a value so wrong? Turned into a decent lower level player but over 2 million was scandalous
Jackson - interestingly he was enormously overpriced but despite doing nothing here at all could have gone for a profit. The price was based on potential which means he needed to be developed, we needed a ready made result for that money and haven't developed him or tried to support him at all |
Edwards 30+ ??? |  | | |
| ME's most expensive signings on 12:27 - Jan 28 with 729 views | Bluefish |
| ME's most expensive signings on 12:23 - Jan 28 by SuffolkPOSH |
Edwards 30+ ??? |
Carlos
If we had paid that much for gwion he would be the worst signing of all time |  |
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| ME's most expensive signings on 12:35 - Jan 28 with 715 views | tractordownsouth |
Leadbitter
Norris
Martin
Priskin
Jackson
I think that’s correct, in that order. |  |
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| ME's most expensive signings on 12:37 - Jan 28 with 712 views | tractordownsouth |
| ME's most expensive signings on 11:01 - Jan 28 by Bluefish |
I thought
Leadboots 2.6
Martin 2.2
Norris 2
Priskin 1.7
Jackson 1.6
Edwards 1.5 |
Norris was 2.5m IIRC | |
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| ME's most expensive signings on 12:40 - Jan 28 with 707 views | Radlett_blue |
| ME's most expensive signings on 12:23 - Jan 28 by FrankMarshall |
Surely Civelli would be on that list too? |
I believe Civelli cost £1m.
Walters was signed for £100k in January 2007 & Evans didn't take control until 2008. |  |
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| ME's most expensive signings on 12:47 - Jan 28 with 700 views | Plums |
| ME's most expensive signings on 12:02 - Jan 28 by hatch |
Now I understand why Martin apologised to me on the golf course last month I said I was a town fan |
I imagine he was just being sympathetic to what being a Town fan means these days! |  |
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| ME's most expensive signings on 12:47 - Jan 28 with 700 views | PrideOfTheEast |
| ME's most expensive signings on 12:40 - Jan 28 by Radlett_blue |
I believe Civelli cost £1m.
Walters was signed for £100k in January 2007 & Evans didn't take control until 2008. |
Charlie Woods persuaded ME to sign Civelli. I suspect he could have been a top player if he hadn't picked up that injury. |  | | |
| ME's most expensive signings on 12:49 - Jan 28 with 698 views | 44_not_out |
| ME's most expensive signings on 10:41 - Jan 28 by FrimleyBlue |
Nsiala and Nolan for £2 Million is also painful
Gio would have cost a fair wack of wages |
I struggle to get my head round the fact that we are light years away from spending 2m on a player/s, yet a couple years we spent this amount on Toto and Nolan
To add to that, we probably kept Shrewsbury in business for a couple seasons and now we are just 11 points ahead of them and they have a game in hand.
I’ll let that sink in | | | |
| ME's most expensive signings on 13:00 - Jan 28 with 690 views | PhilTWTD |
| ME's most expensive signings on 12:02 - Jan 28 by hatch |
Now I understand why Martin apologised to me on the golf course last month I said I was a town fan |
Ha! He was actually offered the chance to stay by Mick but when he got booed coming on as a sub in his final home game he thought he ought to move on. |  | | |
| ME's most expensive signings on 13:03 - Jan 28 with 677 views | Radlett_blue |
| ME's most expensive signings on 12:49 - Jan 28 by 44_not_out |
I struggle to get my head round the fact that we are light years away from spending 2m on a player/s, yet a couple years we spent this amount on Toto and Nolan
To add to that, we probably kept Shrewsbury in business for a couple seasons and now we are just 11 points ahead of them and they have a game in hand.
I’ll let that sink in |
Hurst's squandering of the proceeds of the sales of Webster & Waghorn on Edwards (£700k), Nsiala & Nolan (£2m the pair), Jackson(£1m), Harrison (£750k) & Donacien (£750k) is the main reason why Town are in such a pickle.
That's £5.2m spent on 6 very average 3rd division players. | |
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| ME's most expensive signings on 13:04 - Jan 28 with 676 views | hatch |
| ME's most expensive signings on 12:47 - Jan 28 by PrideOfTheEast |
Charlie Woods persuaded ME to sign Civelli. I suspect he could have been a top player if he hadn't picked up that injury. |
Well according to transfermrkt we signed him for £1.04m and let him go free two years later to Libertad. He spent one season there then sold again for £1.31m!
So he was clearly a decent player who just struggled here, mostly due to injury and lack of gametime. | | | |
| ME's most expensive signings on 13:44 - Jan 28 with 638 views | Bluefish |
| ME's most expensive signings on 13:04 - Jan 28 by hatch |
Well according to transfermrkt we signed him for £1.04m and let him go free two years later to Libertad. He spent one season there then sold again for £1.31m!
So he was clearly a decent player who just struggled here, mostly due to injury and lack of gametime. |
He was class. The story goes that Faurlin was also lined up to follow but when we sacked him it was cancelled so Jim singed Jim for QPR instead. Very good player and having him and Civelli together might have got the best out of both of then. Guentchev and Bosinoski or taricco and paz | |
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| ME's most expensive signings on 14:12 - Jan 28 with 615 views | 44_not_out |
| ME's most expensive signings on 13:03 - Jan 28 by Radlett_blue |
Hurst's squandering of the proceeds of the sales of Webster & Waghorn on Edwards (£700k), Nsiala & Nolan (£2m the pair), Jackson(£1m), Harrison (£750k) & Donacien (£750k) is the main reason why Town are in such a pickle.
That's £5.2m spent on 6 very average 3rd division players. |
It just beggars belief
Peak banta era | | | |
| ME's most expensive signings on 14:51 - Jan 28 with 596 views | Radlett_blue |
| ME's most expensive signings on 13:04 - Jan 28 by hatch |
Well according to transfermrkt we signed him for £1.04m and let him go free two years later to Libertad. He spent one season there then sold again for £1.31m!
So he was clearly a decent player who just struggled here, mostly due to injury and lack of gametime. |
We were just unlucky with Civelli. Understandably, he took times to get to grips with English football & just as he was finding his feet he got a terrible injury. For once, I don't think blame for this can be placed with ITFC. | |
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| ME's most expensive signings on 14:53 - Jan 28 with 592 views | Swansea_Blue |
| ME's most expensive signings on 12:23 - Jan 28 by FrankMarshall |
Surely Civelli would be on that list too? |
At least he had something about him but was just unlucky with injury. |  |
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