Worst Signing of the Season

Sgoater1 wrote:Oh yeah i forgot about Smith. WIthout doubt the biggest flop, £7m and he couldnt score in a brothel.

£6m.

Kimbo wrote:

Sgoater1 wrote:Oh yeah i forgot about Smith. WIthout doubt the biggest flop, £7m and he couldnt score in a brothel.

£6m.

Ok tbh he could have cost £3m.....he is still $h!t and a massive flop.

debaser wrote:
Nugent at £6m was pretty horrendous, considering they wanted to sell him within a month of signing him.

Good shout

Ade Mascherano wrote:

debaser wrote:
Nugent at £6m was pretty horrendous, considering they wanted to sell him within a month of signing him.

Good shout

Yeah but at least he scored for Pompey, Smith has gone a whole season without scoring. Lescott shits all over him in from of goal and he is a defender.

Sgoater1 wrote:

Ade Mascherano wrote:

debaser wrote:
Nugent at £6m was pretty horrendous, considering they wanted to sell him within a month of signing him.

Good shout

Yeah but at least he scored for Pompey, Smith has gone a whole season without scoring. Lescott shits all over him in from of goal and he is a defender.

Lescott shits over D.Bent, Smith and Nugent I think mate

I don't think naming players who have been injured can really be classed as bad signings tbh. Maybe players like Litmanen etc who have a different injury every week. But for someone like Kieron Dyer who had a double leg fracture, it's a bit different.

Darren Bent has to be up there for sure, along with David Nugent.

I still don't like him, but D.Bent has 2 more league goals than Kuyt

Pizzaro is a good one.

Havent been too imprsesed with Malouda.
Mido has so far been a flop.

Has to be Smith though overall.

Can only really be Bent, when you look at the money spent on him compared to what he's produced then no-one is even close.

borocooper wrote:Pizzaro is a good one.

Superstar in the Bundesliga, so he can't possibly be a failure : just ask Otto

Pizarro would make my top 10. He's not good enough for the premiership IMO.

Jon Stewart wrote:I still don't like him, but D.Bent has 2 more league goals than Kuyt

Ah but see, Kuyt scores againist the big teams such as Inter and Aresnal

Plus in fairness to Kuyt he has been played out of position though admittedly with some of the chances he has had he should have scored a good few more. Yesterday fo example he should have had 2 goals.

Baird

This waste of time. What an utter dickhead he is.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/07/tottenhamhotspur.portsmouth

Tottenham confident of claiming Diarra at second time of askingDavid Hytner The Guardian, Wednesday May 7 2008

Tottenham hope to sign Pompey's Lassana Diarra at the second time of asking. Photograph: Paul Currie/Action Images

Tottenham Hotspur will make another attempt to sign Lassana Diarra during the summer transfer window, having missed out in January when the France midfielder chose to leave Arsenal for Portsmouth.

Damien Comolli, the Tottenham sporting director, is an admirer of Diarra, and was disappointed when Arsenal made it clear they would not sell to their north London rivals after the player had agitated for a move.

Comolli, though, believes that he can do business with Portsmouth, having opened a line of communication with them at the end of January, when he oversaw the deal that took the striker Jermain Defoe from White Hart Lane to the south coast. Diarra's name was mentioned in those discussions.

The 23-year-old, who moved to Arsenal from Chelsea on the final day of last summer's window, made it clear upon his arrival at Fratton Park that Portsmouth were merely a stepping stone to another big club. Diarra needed regular first-team football in the countdown to Euro 2008, and had grown concerned that his peripheral role at Arsenal could undermine his prospects of making Raymond Domenech's France team. Diarra has been a virtual ever present for Portsmouth.

"The people at Portsmouth know that I will not spend my life at the club," said Diarra after completing his £5.5m move in January. "I was able to add a clause to my contract. If I shine, if a really big club wants me, I already know that everything will go well. I don't want any more battles."

Tottenham have already pulled off the coup of signing Luka Modric, the Croatia playmaker, for €21m (£16.5m) from Dinamo Zagreb and Juande Ramos, the manager, appears intent on overhauling the team. It remains to be seen where he will play Modric - the No10's position is in the hole behind a lone striker, which would not appear to fit with Ramos' preference for twin strikers - but with Diarra on the agenda, several of the club's existing midfielders are becoming edgy.

Tottenham may be on the move themselves, as they consider whether to relocate to a new stadium to satisfy their craving for increased capacity. They are exploring the possibility of building on the Wingate Trading Estate, which is adjacent to their current ground, as revealed by the Guardian last month. The club's other option is to expand White Hart Lane, which holds 36,310 fans, but the plans are complicated due to the ground being boxed in on all sides. There is a desire for at least another 15,000 seats.

If Tottenham made the short hop to Wingate, the team could continue to play at White Hart Lane while building took place, as Arsenal did at Highbury while the Emirates Stadium was constructed. Tottenham, though, would not benefit as Arsenal did by selling their old ground to property developers for a vast amount. Land prices are lower in N17 and the site would more likely become a leisure park or car parking for the new stadium.

Daniel Levy, the chairman, had promised to reveal which direction he would take by the end of next month but yesterday the club stated "it will now not be possible to make an announcement within that time frame". Levy said: "I am determined that we shall work towards a successful outcome and a project of this nature and importance cannot be hurried."

Tottenham's back-up goalkeeper Radek Cerny, who is out of contract at the end of the season, is poised to join QPR

So glad we got rid of Diarra. Half-a-dozen games in the Carling Cup for us was enough to make him believe he was a world class talent.

S4P wrote:So glad we got rid of Diarra. Half-a-dozen games in the Carling Cup for us was enough to make him believe he was a world class talent.

Don't forget that at the start of the season he had a couple of great games for Arsenal which led their fans to call him world class.

Of course, the majority of Arsenal fans don't know $h!t about how talented a player it. They just look at his age and if he's under 25, they hype him to high heaven.

Well he's getting into the France national team, so there must be something good in him.

Disloyal c**t, but I'll take him

kas wrote:Well he's getting into the France national team, so there must be something good in him.

Need I point out how many not particularly good players get into national teams of good repute?

He's not a bad player. But he is an absolute jerk.

Diarra always seemed like a bit of a pussy..in that video from Chelsea TV that once got posted on here. He seemed like the one the bigger boys liked to bully.

Kimbo wrote:Pizarro would make my top 10. He's not good enough for the premiership IMO.

Pizarro is better than Berbatov and Santa Cruz. I'm not saying that, the performances are screaming that in Germany. He showed that every season for 5 seasons plus in the Bundesliga. His sin is that he was Mourinho's own signing much like Malouda thus both of them are out. Anelka's got nothing on Pizarro as well. It's too bad Claudio lost Mourinho and with that any chance of getting 7 straight matches to find his goalscoring rhythm.

Puro wrote:

Kimbo wrote:Pizarro would make my top 10. He's not good enough for the premiership IMO.

Pizarro is better than Berbatov and Santa Cruz. I'm not saying that, the performances are screaming that in Germany. He showed that every season for 5 seasons plus in the Bundesliga. His sin is that he was Mourinho's own signing much like Malouda thus both of them are out. Anelka's got nothing on Pizarro as well. It's too bad Claudio lost Mourinho and with that any chance of getting 7 straight matches to find his goalscoring rhythm.

Kimbo wrote:

Puro wrote:

Kimbo wrote:Pizarro would make my top 10. He's not good enough for the premiership IMO.

Pizarro is better than Berbatov and Santa Cruz. I'm not saying that, the performances are screaming that in Germany. He showed that every season for 5 seasons plus in the Bundesliga. His sin is that he was Mourinho's own signing much like Malouda thus both of them are out. Anelka's got nothing on Pizarro as well. It's too bad Claudio lost Mourinho and with that any chance of getting 7 straight matches to find his goalscoring rhythm.

True story Kimbo! I'm not the one saying that. Just look at the performances in the Bundesliga. Pizarro was head and shoulders above Berbatov. Santa Cruz couldn't even make the starting 11 at Bayern. It's all there Kimbo! Claudio was fucked as soon as Mourinho was gone. Malouda was fucked too. True story...as always.