Peter Reid and John Beresford may have been older players when we signed them - but neither was expensive and both played pretty well for us. Don't see how they were bad signings
Never, ever disrespect the Don! As a side issue, the Echo said there never was a sell on clause in the Bale deal...we merely accepted a pay off for the second tranche of 5 million due on his purchase price.
Can't believe that nobody has mentioned any of the signings by the infamous Ian Branfoot....He managed to piss away almost £2m of the Alan Shearer windfall on David Speedie, Kerry Dixon and Perry Groves who managed to play barely 30 games for the club between them, producing only 6 goals at about £300,000 per goal.
Perry Groves has to get a mention ! we paid quite a lot of money for him if i remember rightly , he was rubbish.
Interesting the names that are coming out of the woodwork! I noticed the thread title is worst signing and not worst player so for me I'm looking for players that strike that nasty mix of high fee/wages and poor/lack of performances. Forren is an example of a bad signing for us for that reason... we paid £4m for him, paid his wages for 6 months and he never played a first team game! Other honourable mentions from me (don't know if some of these have come up before) - Mark Draper - 24 league appearances and one season for the £2M~ we paid for him.... over £80k a game! Neil McCann - £2M~ Jelle van Damme - £2.5M Nigel Quashie - £2.5M Wayne Thomas - £1.5M
McCann from memory did nothing and was injured more tahn he played. In terms of VFM we got none anfd how about David Hirst?
David Hurst is officially our worst value signing in history, I've done the research and it's actually fairly indisputable.
I still feel for Hurst. He was an excellent centre forward who was dogged by a bad injury. Am I right in saying that his final injury came from going over on a pebble during pre-season training?
Wayne I can only head the ball up into the sky Thomas. His heading was annoying as hell, most of the time it acted as a assist for the other team. Last I heard he was playing for Luton now.
At least those mentioned above actually wanted to be here. David Speedie was in my mind undoubtedly our worst ever signing.
I think it should be worst signing that HAS PLAYED for the club. In which case it wouldn't be Forren.
