| Biggest waste of money 13:37 - Jul 10 with 2071 views | Fenland_Blue |
Wes Burns must be one of the best value signings we’ve ever made.
But who would be the lowest return versus their transfer fee?
Stuart Slater?
Big Toto and Jon Nolan?
Adrian Paz? |  |
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| Biggest waste of money on 14:54 - Jul 10 with 409 views | lazyblue |
| Biggest waste of money on 13:40 - Jul 10 by farkenhell |
Got to be Sereni or Finidi George? Both signed for big fees, played for less than a season, then we had to give them away. |
Finidi? He was best player that season and had he not gone to African Nations cup we would have stayed up. |  | | |
| Biggest waste of money on 14:58 - Jul 10 with 395 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Biggest waste of money on 13:40 - Jul 10 by farkenhell |
Got to be Sereni or Finidi George? Both signed for big fees, played for less than a season, then we had to give them away. |
Finidi is a hard one to evaluate.
He was generally one of the better players in a poorly performing team. The team played better when he was in it.
We paid too much for someone at his stage of his career. Relegation and the football right deal falling apart made the amount worse.
He's not up there with Sereni, Le Pen, Paz, Taylor. Although, happy to concede, if I'm miss remembering some of these fees. |  |
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| Biggest waste of money on 15:15 - Jul 10 with 345 views | BlueBoots |
Just seeing if I can set up a second account so I can upvote this twice  |  |
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| Biggest waste of money on 15:17 - Jul 10 with 342 views | eirannach_gorm |
| Biggest waste of money on 13:52 - Jul 10 by Illinoisblue |
Ogbene 8million. Muric 15million. |
At least we weren't forced to buy them unlike 30 year old Akpom who cost €9.3M. | | | |
| Biggest waste of money on 15:22 - Jul 10 with 331 views | IndependentlyBlue |
| Biggest waste of money on 13:58 - Jul 10 by wkj |
I must admit I think this is another symptom of society's obsession with throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Just because you've seen a few dreadful posters over the years doesn't mean the medium itself is beyond saving. We managed perfectly well for decades with a carefully curated selection. A decent calendar, a map of the world, perhaps a Concorde cutaway if you were mechanically inclined, and if you were a young chap, Fiona Butler with the tennis racket or Cindy Crawford smiling back at you. Nobody came to any harm. In fact I'd argue it built character. Certainly gave you something to look at while pretending to revise.
Every generation produces its masterpieces and its disasters. That's life. We had lava lamps, brown carpets and avocado bathroom suites, but we also had proper posters. Nowadays everything's downloaded onto a phone and forgotten five minutes later. At least a good poster stayed on the wall long enough to become part of the furniture. You'd notice if it had slipped an inch.
The problem is people insist on remembering only the disasters. Mention posters and suddenly everyone acts as though the walls of Britain were plastered exclusively with motivational slogans about teamwork or, heaven forbid, the Liz Truss swimsuit calendar debacle. That's like dismissing all music because Mr Blobby once had a Christmas number one. Outliers shouldn't define an entire art form.
No, I shall continue to defend the humble poster. The classics more than compensated for the occasional lapse in judgement. Fiona Butler probably inspired half the nation's interest in tennis, Cindy Crawford undoubtedly improved the décor of countless teenage bedrooms, and even the odd naff one gave people something to laugh about. Frankly, if posters are now considered our biggest waste of money, we've lived remarkably fortunate lives. [Post edited 10 Jul 14:00]
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Excellent. Whimsy is so underrated.
Well done |  |
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| Biggest waste of money on 15:24 - Jul 10 with 325 views | bluesym |
| Biggest waste of money on 15:17 - Jul 10 by eirannach_gorm |
At least we weren't forced to buy them unlike 30 year old Akpom who cost €9.3M. |
Why does not being forced to buy them make it any better? Choosing to buy them makes it worse! |  |
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| Biggest waste of money on 15:28 - Jul 10 with 311 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Biggest waste of money on 15:24 - Jul 10 by bluesym |
Why does not being forced to buy them make it any better? Choosing to buy them makes it worse! |
I never get why clubs sign up to be obligated to buy
Option to buy or nothing imo. |  |
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| Biggest waste of money on 15:45 - Jul 10 with 298 views | Blue_In_Boston |
Muric.
You could make a reel of all his howlers for Burnley from the season before and then we went and spent a fortune on him. Unbelievable. | | | |
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| Biggest waste of money on 15:51 - Jul 10 with 281 views | Churchman |
| Biggest waste of money on 15:28 - Jul 10 by FrimleyBlue |
I never get why clubs sign up to be obligated to buy
Option to buy or nothing imo. |
That depends how much you want the player and who else offers/is after him. Supply and demand.
A player is worth what some odd wants to pay. No more, no less. Nobody says nah, I’ll give you more than that.
There were no objections when Akpom signed. It looked like a relatively minimal lose gamble. If he got us or we got promoted, a fee is paid. If not bye bye.
Was he disappointing? I thought so. He didn’t contribute anything like I thought he would, but that’s the way it goes. The gift of hindsight is something we all are experts in. |  | | |
| Biggest waste of money on 16:01 - Jul 10 with 268 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Chopra has to be up there? £1.5m plus whatever he cost us in other ways. |  |
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| Biggest waste of money on 16:10 - Jul 10 with 263 views | Illinoisblue |
| Biggest waste of money on 15:45 - Jul 10 by Blue_In_Boston |
Muric.
You could make a reel of all his howlers for Burnley from the season before and then we went and spent a fortune on him. Unbelievable. |
Ashton getting sucked in by the supposes data experts at goalkeeper.com was a very expensive mistake. |  |
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| Biggest waste of money on 17:00 - Jul 10 with 243 views | ITFCSG |
| Biggest waste of money on 15:45 - Jul 10 by Blue_In_Boston |
Muric.
You could make a reel of all his howlers for Burnley from the season before and then we went and spent a fortune on him. Unbelievable. |
100%
Value-wise definitely the biggest waste of £££
Incredulous how some people here were defending Muric's signing back in 24/25 | | | |
| Biggest waste of money on 17:25 - Jul 10 with 226 views | jas0999 |
| Biggest waste of money on 14:01 - Jul 10 by ITFC_Essex |
In terms of wages vs output then recently Kalvin Phillips and Ben Godfrey probably outstrip the likes of Slater, Taylor and such by some margin. They were just flops, but the cost wasn't anywhere near the money we paid for those two. |
I also dread to think what we were paying Jimmy Bullard when he signed on a permanent.
But yes, those two were really poor value, considering large loan fees were also likely paid. | | | |
| Biggest waste of money on 17:58 - Jul 10 with 196 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| Biggest waste of money on 14:19 - Jul 10 by FrimleyBlue |
Egeli, not his fault mind you |
I have been pretty critical of Egeli and I think there are some red flags but it's far too early to say that. |  |
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| Biggest waste of money on 18:17 - Jul 10 with 176 views | lurcher |
Szmodics |  | | |
| Biggest waste of money on 18:32 - Jul 10 with 159 views | J2BLUE |
Cameron Stewart must have cost a fortune in wages over his contract.
Sam Parkin, bless him, was a shocker of a signing for a fee when we had so little money. |  | | |
| Biggest waste of money on 18:34 - Jul 10 with 157 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Biggest waste of money on 15:51 - Jul 10 by Churchman |
That depends how much you want the player and who else offers/is after him. Supply and demand.
A player is worth what some odd wants to pay. No more, no less. Nobody says nah, I’ll give you more than that.
There were no objections when Akpom signed. It looked like a relatively minimal lose gamble. If he got us or we got promoted, a fee is paid. If not bye bye.
Was he disappointing? I thought so. He didn’t contribute anything like I thought he would, but that’s the way it goes. The gift of hindsight is something we all are experts in. |
I get it but even then i wouldnt go down the obligated route. You never know how any transfer is going go even if you really want someone.
There were many objections when akpom signed. Many didnt understand what role he would play as he wasnt a chappers replacement and our team needed one. | |
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| Biggest waste of money on 20:44 - Jul 10 with 88 views | ringwoodblue |
Finidi George or Chuba Akpom |  |
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| Biggest waste of money on 20:55 - Jul 10 with 61 views | bluelagos |
Michael Clegg. Cost nothing which was about £100m too much. |  |
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| Biggest waste of money on 21:01 - Jul 10 with 54 views | RobTheMonk |
Egeli's pricetag definitely raises eyebrows, but statistically I think he was the player with the highest win percentage when playing last season...?!
Also chipped in with some crucial goals.
Has he warranted being the most expensive Championship signing ever? No. But I wouldn't say it's been a complete waste.
The wages for Phillips and Godfrey were much worse! |  | | |
| Biggest waste of money on 21:08 - Jul 10 with 48 views | BloomBlue |
Sereni,
Terrible attitude and terrible goal keeper.
Burley and Sheepshanks had let the money go to their heads, terrible recruiting. |  | | |
| Biggest waste of money on 21:17 - Jul 10 with 34 views | WeirdFishes |
Muric undoubtedly. The worst signing in our entire history. |  |
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| Biggest waste of money on 21:29 - Jul 10 with 21 views | Wakh |
| Biggest waste of money on 13:43 - Jul 10 by Churchman |
Sereni not just for the fee, but for the wages and general disruptiveness.
Paul Taylor. That odious little man must be in the running.
Ulrich Le Pen. £1.4m for 12 minutes of Championship football. |
Were we not in the premier league when we signed Le Pen? Not that it makes much difference | | | |
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