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There are players who never played much for us. Either brought in as cheap punts and squad players or they got injured early on. Cameron Stewart, Bajner, Skard, Malarczyk, Civelli, LePen, Ogbene, for example.
There are players who cost a lot of money relative to our then finances/position and never really delivered. Lee Martin, Joe Pigott, Finidi, Sereni, Greaves, Sam Parkin.
There are players who may have been OK on the pitch, but were detrimental off it, reducing their value for us. Paul Taylor, Michael Chopra, JET, Sereni (again).
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Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 14:26 - Sep 29 with 1188 views
The correct answer is Le Pen, but Priskin and Taylor were also terrible wastes of money, as were most of our 'big money' signings around that time like Lee Martin, and to a lesser extent David Norris
taylor was a different level of disaster to priskin, at least we got 50-odd games out of priskin, and a few goals (including the arsenal one). taylor was dreadful, even if you overlook the reputational damage and headaches around his conviction
I've no idea what we paid for Chopra, but given we bailed him out financially (I'm adding allegedly as a precaution), I can't think of many worse value than that charlatan. Quite easily tops my least favourite player list.
Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness.
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Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 15:37 - Sep 29 with 1028 views
How much did we pay for Luka Civelli? About a million quid? 17 games, most from the bench i think post rehab and left on a free. Horrific injury and a great shame for him and us
Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 15:30 - Sep 29 by Whos_blue
I've no idea what we paid for Chopra, but given we bailed him out financially (I'm adding allegedly as a precaution), I can't think of many worse value than that charlatan. Quite easily tops my least favourite player list.
He paid what the club lent him back, was taken from his wages before he was paid.
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Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 16:06 - Sep 29 with 933 views
Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 14:08 - Sep 29 by WolfieAtTheBack
He is 27 / 28 I reckon, so that is the end of him, with us. Big hit.
Twenty eight, on the way back from serious injury, played the entire game for Sheffield United on Saturday. The loan spell is probably either going to bring him up to a fitness level that makes him a contender for a place in our squad in January or seals him a permanent move with a fee from the Blades. I don't think we can take a view on how much that eight million transfer fee will really cost Town yet.
Just saw something on Facebook about Sereni, and a comment referred to his prosecution for child-related offences. I can't recall ever having heard about this but then I am getting old. According to wikipedia the allegations were sexual and related to his own child, and he was convicted, but his conviction was annulled on appeal. I have seen elsewhere that the conviction was overturned because of territorial jurisdictional issues. It doesn't seem that any retrial proceeded.
Certainly puts the importance of the Lazio friendlies into perspective, regardless of the true facts of the matter.
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Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 16:31 - Sep 29 with 876 views
Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 16:06 - Sep 29 by PhilTWTD
Finidi George? I don't think we had to pay off Sereni, which we did with Finidi.
I think the main problem with serenifinidi was that after coming 5th we got relegated with them as our big signings. The loss of income from all that might make them the worst.
The Ogbene thing is skewed because of inflation so not a fair comparison.
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Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 17:11 - Sep 29 with 812 views
Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 15:30 - Sep 29 by Whos_blue
I've no idea what we paid for Chopra, but given we bailed him out financially (I'm adding allegedly as a precaution), I can't think of many worse value than that charlatan. Quite easily tops my least favourite player list.
Presumably this is just a personal dislike, because you can't be putting him in there based on ability/performance.
Scored 14 goals in his first season. Not earth shattering obviously, but respectable.
Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 16:21 - Sep 29 by WeWereZombies
Twenty eight, on the way back from serious injury, played the entire game for Sheffield United on Saturday. The loan spell is probably either going to bring him up to a fitness level that makes him a contender for a place in our squad in January or seals him a permanent move with a fee from the Blades. I don't think we can take a view on how much that eight million transfer fee will really cost Town yet.
don't think we can get him back in january, but you're right that a good season, will bump his fee up at the very least
Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 15:30 - Sep 29 by Whos_blue
I've no idea what we paid for Chopra, but given we bailed him out financially (I'm adding allegedly as a precaution), I can't think of many worse value than that charlatan. Quite easily tops my least favourite player list.
He gets a podium place on mine.
Lee Bowyer's conviction for a racist attack in a fast food shop before he signed for us (as well as "being nearby on the night a couple of Leeds Youth Team players nearly kicked an Asian student to death") make him by far the signing that nearly made me walk away from ITFC permanently.
I wasn't impressed with us signing Ben Thatcher after his on pitch violence against Pedro Mendes, either.
Obviously neither of them were terrible players for us, but both people who I am sad are associated with our club.
Edit: Mendes had been autocorrected to Mendes, wrongly.
[Post edited 29 Sep 18:05]
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Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 18:03 - Sep 29 with 737 views
Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 16:38 - Sep 29 by DinnernotTea
We're on the brink of Greaves taking no.1 spot at £15m for a Championship defender.
Fifteen Million.
Mind blowing.
Before you start crying, I'll give him until May but here and now I think he takes this award.
that's ridiculous, he's a 25 year old centre back who's already been in a championship team of the season, nobody serious would be writing him off at his age!
Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 18:03 - Sep 29 by positivity
that's ridiculous, he's a 25 year old centre back who's already been in a championship team of the season, nobody serious would be writing him off at his age!
Fifteen Million Pounds.
I promise you and I'm sure you already know this having watched him for 13 months, he's crap.
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Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 18:11 - Sep 29 with 706 views
Pound for pound, Town’s worst value signing? on 14:10 - Sep 29 by ArnoldMoorhen
I just saw Lee Martin walking down the road, wearing a big coat with the collar up, a flat cap on his head and one of those plastic Groucho Marx glasses/nose/moustache disguise sets, desperately hoping nobody recognises him and mentions him in this thread.
But he was good in the Pre season friendly at Newmarket Town !
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