by Jaime Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:36 pm
Best signing: Hard to say really. This has been a decade of inflated transfer fees (even for the good players). I guess for me it's probably Gonzalo Higuain. The one piece of decent business (only paid 13m for him) that Calderon did and he's gone from being a good footballer with a lot of potential to a real top goalscorer. Scores big, big goals. Has tremendous self-belief and a will to win.
Worst signing: So many to choose from. Woodgate deserves a shout - 20m euro for a player who only made 9 appearances for the club. Paying 16m euro for Emerson who is the post child for anti-footballing thugs, even Capello lost faith in him eventually. Or what about 14m for the Dutch Roberto Carlos, aka Royston 'Double R' Drenthe. Flavio Conceicao - 20m for a one-season wonder (Deportivo) who went on to be complete and utter sh!t for us. Still, I am going to go with Cicinho and I will explain why. In the first place, whilst a pretty good footballer he was an absolutely sh!t defender. And at the time we bought him there were already 4 other right backs in the squad meanwhile just the one left back. He was the epitome of the f*cked up transfer policy just before Florentino's resignation in 2006. Add to the fact he was a little whinging bitch, he was the worst.
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