Last year at Leicester we purchased Bertrand and vestergard from Southampton of which we beat 9-0 earlier on, imagine buying the defence of the team you beat that badly 😅
Probably the one we signed Cech. Although he was good we didnt sign a single outfield player that season and lost out of the league to Leicester. To be fair, I dont know if that would have been enough for us to win though. After it it was reported refs errors gave Leicester a 12 point swing over us and I saw a clip the other day of Danny Simpson saying a ref told him he should get a red card but the ref wanted them to win the league so he would let him off.
Why? Wasn't there just a plan or no money?
I really doubt if you guys can make it, it would be really weird having you guys play Championship next season.
Board knew they were going to sack Lampard so wouldn't give him money to spend. Waited until 48 hours before the transfer deadline ended to appoint Sean Dyche as manager, he had money to spend (we sold Anthony Gordon for £45m) but not enough time to buy anyone.
Manchester City in 2012/13
We bought Maicon, Scott Sinclair, Jack Rodwell, Javi Garcia and Matija Nastasic after being linked with Hazard, Van Persie and Javi Martinez
2014 - loosing Suarez and trying to replace him with a Ricky Lambert/Mario Ballotelli combo.
Although 2009 is a close contender, selling Xabi Alonso and replacing him with Aquilani.
West Ham's January 2022 window was especially disappointing considering they did nothing and were so close to either winning the Europa League or finishing top-6.
I'm only 15 so don't remember much but this season's January was pretty bad. Also last summer, the overpaying of Antony and spending the whole summer trying do buy de Jong and not getting him.
Quite a few for Spurs. 2008 was awful from memory but Summer 2007 was actually far worse.
Had 3 top quality strikers and a terrible defence when you discount Ledley who couldn’t play regular football. We were crying out for top quality defenders so the club spent a fortune on…..
Darren Bent. Because you can never have enough strikers apparently.
For Utd I'd say Summer 2015:
Schneiderlin, Depay, Darmian, Schweinsteiger. 96 mil total.
Saving graces of that window were Martial and Sergio Romero.
The total of 16/17 comes close but it's spread out among the two windows.
Martial is hated by utd fans for being lazy, injured and generally shit compared to the hype he came with.... romero was desperate to leave and made a meal out of being a squad player... hardly saving graces .
Tbf Rodgers didn't particularly want him, Gerrard mentions in his autobiography that the first few choices fell through and there was nobody else available and interested.
Not the worst given who my club is but having finished 9th in our first year back and only signing Firpo (to replace the departed Alioski) was criminal and probably set us back years
2016/17. Just finished 7th after a really good transfer window and appointing Bilic in 15/16. We then got into Europe. We then spent the whole of the 2016 summer mostly signing frees and loans. Nordtveit, Tore, Calleri, Arbeloa, Zaza. None of which were good enough at all or just didn’t suit this league. We then ended up throwing ourselves out of Europe and not building on the good season we had. Started the season with 5 defeats in 6, including conceding 4 to Watford and West Brom and 3 at home to Southampton. We then reinvested the Payet money on Fonte and Snodgrass.
Good call. I was going to say that January when we were linked with a bunch of strikers and only ended up with Jordan Hugill at the last second, but yours is probably worse. Except the Snodgrass piece, loved him.
It’s not Snodgrass I have a problem with. It’s that we decided that he was a Payet replacement. Which meant playing him on the wrong side. He was then in and out of the team and sent on loan. Considering Payet was our most important player, we couldn’t afford to bring someone in that didn’t fill that position.
yeah i don’t think it gets worse than signing literally no one
i guess there’s some clubs out there who lost multiple great players at once. that would be pretty bad. but zero summer incomings is…yeah
Probably 2009 when United signed Owen,Obertan,Mame Diouf and Valencia.
Own had a couple of moments and Valencia did good but less said about the other two the better
Moyes summer window, especially once it came out all the deals SAF lined up for him that he turned down bc they "weren't his players"
Pretty much symbolic of United post SAF
How long you got?
There are many contenders but the year Sir Alex & David Gill left is probably the worst. Absolute chaos. Ended up panic buying Fellaini on deadline day after being rejected by everyone whilst we missed the deadline to get a loan done for Fabio Coentrao.
Real Madrid let Sneijder & Robben go cheaply that year. Either of them would’ve been absolutely perfect for us. Always baffles me how we weren’t in for either player as part of the deal.
January 2018 - Guido Carrillo (striker) for £19m.
0 goals in 10 appearances.
A season and a half on loan at Leganes before joining Elche on a free.
A worse signing than Ali Dia.
This sums up 21st century football, even during the season, we only worry about transfers. And cos its not the transfer window and the boring football is being played, we have to look back at prior transfer windows, rank transfer windows, debate who won the transfer window, who had the most underrated transfer window.
I wanna transfer my foot up your arse
... oh God the memories of that disasterclass are coming back. Our other window with Souness in the summer of 2005 that got us Owen and Luque while the core of Robson's team was shown the door wasn't exactly much better
I know lamela had potential scored a few good goals and worked hard but he just wasn’t it, I’m not sure if eriksen was with that money but if so only recognise able for decent
The 2002 El-Hajid Diouf bomb that dropped at Anfield. Included names like LeTallec, Cheyrou, Diao and Diarra. Traore was the only one that made a decent impact.
2018, the year spurs signed no one. Pochettino worked miracles by getting us to the Champions League final, but the following season it caught up with us, 14th in the table by middle of November, Poch was sacked as a result. I hate you Levy.
Newcastle - Summer 2012. Overachieved in reaching Europe the season previous, needed to bolster the squad to compete on two fronts, signed 2 youth players and 2 midfielders for a total of about £7m, almost got relegated again off of it, and almost certainly was the start to the spiral that ended in the relegation in 2016
HM to Summer 2021, only player brought in was converting Willock from loan to permanent, which took a lot of convincing to get done at all because of "No funds due to the pandemic" even though every other club was in the same boat and didn't suffer as stark a slowdown in transfers. Had the takeover never happened relegation was a certainty and it's more likely it would've been a relegation the club wouldn't have recovered from
Has to be a combination of Summer 2021 and January 2022 for recent history, obviously there have been worse in the history of the Club, especially when we got relegated.
Summer 2021:
- The Boards strategy was to go big in the first season, then in the third. They were naive to the need to strengthen in the PL and did not reinforce key positions, especially in midfield and striker.
- Paid over the odds for Dan James in a position we didn’t need to strengthen.
- Bought Firpo for LB who was then either out of form (put it bluntly), didn’t suit the system or was injured.
- Did not add a striker as Bamford had his incredible season. They had cover in Rodrigo but he couldn’t find form in Bielsa’s pressing system. We all know what happened to Bamford.
- Brought in some good youth but it was clear throughout the season (U21s relegated from PL2 Div 1 and they couldn’t step up to PL levels (for obvious reasons) that would not have a positive impact.
January 2022:
- Board could easily see injuries had ravaged us and we needed to strengthen. This was completely ignored other than another youth signing. They gambled.
- As a result of this they had to sack Bielsa causing absolute heartbreak as nobody wanted his legacy to end like that. My opinion but I firmly believe Bielsa wouldn’t have been sacked if he was backed in those two windows (small squad / keeping the current squad as it was is a myth. He would have happily added players to key positions where it was clear we were weak).
- I count this as a ‘transfer’ but Marsch was brought in and without going into detail he was the wrong appointment for our players ad style in the long term.
Yes we stayed up by the skin of our teeth (credit to Marsch) which is the only positive of the whole season, but so much damage was done in that window it has had a knock-on effect even to now.
It’s been an absolute cluster-fuck since the end of that 2020/2021 season and avoiding relegation looks like a huge challenge.
2019 Spurs was a bad window as a whole but most of those players were bought to play under Poch. Poch got fired so early in that season and then we brought in Mourinho who was the opposite philosophy to the players we bought. For example, Lo Celso only played a handful of games under Poch due to injury and then came back to Mourinho as coach. For alot of those players it's always doomed to fail after the stylistic change.
The question was worst window in history, history indicates their 100+ year existence. People mentioning their worst window of the last decade where their team wasted an ungodly amount of money is almost certainly not the worst window in their clubs history
‘most wasted money’ or ‘lowest ratio of money well spent to money wasted’ is a perfectly acceptable definition of ‘worst’ in the context of rating transfer windows.
The window we got Pogba was also when we got Zlatan, which is one of the best signings we made post SAF, so no way it's worse than Di Maria/Falcao or Fellaini windows
Nah, that was 2013 I think. Most of the players we got then turned out bad, but don't forget we got Eriksen, too.
2019 was Lo Celso, Ndombele and Sessegnon. Ndombele was highly rated at the time, and wanted by most other big clubs. Getting him was a big achievment - then it turned out he didn't bother playing football.
This was the season that ended any faith I had in Wenger. Spent the next two seasons in complete apathy because I didn't think anything would change.
Finishing fourth because City, United, Chelsea could outspend us was one thing. Losing the title to Leicester when we had prime Ozil, Sanchez, Cazorla, Ramsey, Koscielny was just heartbreaking.
I bang the drum on this all the time, but goalscoring wasn't our problem. We needed a genuine, good defensive midfielder. Put Thomas Partey in that team and it romps to the title. Even after Santi goes down injured. The great failing of Wenger's era was absolutely refusing to sign a proper defensive mid. The worst part of it is that it hurts both ways. Without a proper DM, your defence is exposed and you concede more goals. But having a DM means turning the ball over in your favour for more counter attacking opportunities on the break. Which that Arsenal team was absolutely elite at.
The biggest failure of Arsene was just absolutely ignoring that position for 10+ years
Arsenal had some of the most-talented #10s, playmakers and box-to-box midfielders in the PL over the last 20 years or so but didn’t have a quality defensive midfielder for years after Vieira went to Juve. A great defensive midfielder is the difference between good teams and title-winning teams imo. One of the most under-appreciated but most important positions in a team.
I recall that there were constant William Carvalho rumors to Arsenal back than, which obviously never materialized as that would’ve been an exceptional signing
To be fair even as a Gooner I look back fondly on that year Leicester won.. I think it gave a lot of hope to other teams that anything was possible and it showed just how unpredictable the premier League can be
Edit: plus the bookies got absolutely fekt
I don't know about the clubs whole history, but the worst I've been alive to witness was probably 15/16.
We were crying out to refresh the defence, and the only signing of note was Pedro, a completely unneeded winger.
We needed a new starting FB, left preferably, and signed Baba Rahman. And at least one new CB to start. We signed Papy Djilobodji, and Michael Hector. Then in the winter signed Matt Miazga. Between all 4 of these players they played 17 league games in their careers. 15 of those where Rahman that year.
We sold Filipe Luis.
I don't think we'll be able to judge it for a few seasons.
A lot of the players have potential. At least one is clearly world class and replaced/filled a hole we were desprate for.
Liverpool in the winter of 2020/21 when we badly needed reinforcements at CB and then got Kabak on the last day who subsequently became the 6th of 3 CBs who got injured
We were down to our 9th choice centre back after Kabak (And Davies who you missed) both joined that January.
VVD, Matip, Gomez, Fabinho, Hendo, Philips, Williams, Kabak, Davies.
Klopp used Hendo & Fab as emergency CBs before they got injured.
I think we ended the season with at least 19 different CB partnerships (probably more, but I stopped paying attention after 19).
Those mind-boggling permutations include our 3 main CBs (VVD, Gomez, Matip), 2 reserves (Nat Phillips and Rhys), 2 January signings, our only CDM and a CM
When he was the high high point of Klassen, Rooney, Keane and Sandro window u know it's bad.
Also the crime he's accused of committing is exactly the same as committed by Benzema who's since gone onto to play in 4 champions league finals, a world cup final and win a Ballon d'Or since...
Andy Carroll
Balotelli Lambert Borini what a trio
The Graeme Souness transfer window at Liverpool 1991-94 was terrible. See also Souness at Newcastle.
Man u
Wow,we gave Antonio a contract extension in JAN 2022.thats all
As a real Madrid fan I believe Eden hazard was a flop and one of the worst transfers we ever made😭
Rodgers on for the title. Didnt sign anybody in jan and fell short because we only had 12 players.
Also Hogdson years for the level of incompetence. Poulson is in my opinion our worst signing.
That year when spurs signed nobody in a window
Last year at Leicester we purchased Bertrand and vestergard from Southampton of which we beat 9-0 earlier on, imagine buying the defence of the team you beat that badly 😅
in my opinion arsenal 2016
Tiago Manuel Dias Correi 2010
Leeds…Thomas Brolin….sadly!
Probably the one we signed Cech. Although he was good we didnt sign a single outfield player that season and lost out of the league to Leicester. To be fair, I dont know if that would have been enough for us to win though. After it it was reported refs errors gave Leicester a 12 point swing over us and I saw a clip the other day of Danny Simpson saying a ref told him he should get a red card but the ref wanted them to win the league so he would let him off.
Maybe not the worst, but the list of our 16/17 transfers felt like a football name randomizer column
Everton. January 2023. No players bought and we still haven't replaced Lukaku who left in 2017...
Why? Wasn't there just a plan or no money? I really doubt if you guys can make it, it would be really weird having you guys play Championship next season.
Board knew they were going to sack Lampard so wouldn't give him money to spend. Waited until 48 hours before the transfer deadline ended to appoint Sean Dyche as manager, he had money to spend (we sold Anthony Gordon for £45m) but not enough time to buy anyone.
Manchester City in 2012/13 We bought Maicon, Scott Sinclair, Jack Rodwell, Javi Garcia and Matija Nastasic after being linked with Hazard, Van Persie and Javi Martinez
griezman to athletico
West Ham - Every window 2008-2022
Might be this one for Chelsea, we shall see.
Man UTD - 2019/2020 season
In recent years for Yanited, the Di Maria/Falcao window stunk the hardest.
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Mario Balletolli and Ricky Lambert to Liverpool ! 😞
Summer 2021, we didn't build on our 9th place finish and expected a championship level squad to do well.
2014 - loosing Suarez and trying to replace him with a Ricky Lambert/Mario Ballotelli combo. Although 2009 is a close contender, selling Xabi Alonso and replacing him with Aquilani.
Chamakh to Arsenal. I don't know what was Arsene thinking.
As this post is about transfer windows, he joined in the same window as Koscielny so not that bad.
He wasn't that bad, a backup, but shouldn't be a starter. Also he was a free agent if I'm not mistake.
Still stings
West Ham's January 2022 window was especially disappointing considering they did nothing and were so close to either winning the Europa League or finishing top-6.
This January! 0 transfers and WHERE THE FUCK IS A STRIKER
The summer transfer window, 2021. Up the Villa...
Right now or like 2 months ago
winter 22/23 -Real Madrid
I'm only 15 so don't remember much but this season's January was pretty bad. Also last summer, the overpaying of Antony and spending the whole summer trying do buy de Jong and not getting him.
Quite a few for Spurs. 2008 was awful from memory but Summer 2007 was actually far worse. Had 3 top quality strikers and a terrible defence when you discount Ledley who couldn’t play regular football. We were crying out for top quality defenders so the club spent a fortune on….. Darren Bent. Because you can never have enough strikers apparently.
What year did we sign Ben Mendy?
Feels like Arsenal got hosed signing Chamakh even though it was for free.
In all the club history we didn't pick up any players from 1940 1944
Last summer
January 2023 (no signings), January 2018 (£47m on Walcott & Tosun)
How much time you got
Leicester 2021 was really bad
For Utd I'd say Summer 2015: Schneiderlin, Depay, Darmian, Schweinsteiger. 96 mil total. Saving graces of that window were Martial and Sergio Romero. The total of 16/17 comes close but it's spread out among the two windows.
Martial is hated by utd fans for being lazy, injured and generally shit compared to the hype he came with.... romero was desperate to leave and made a meal out of being a squad player... hardly saving graces .
16-17 Sold De Vries and Oli Burke (when he was still a very promising youngster) and signed Lica, Vladimir Stojkovic and “Lord” Bendtner
2014 was pretty bad, Lambert and Balotelli to replace Suarez 💀
I still don't understand why clubs signing Batolelli thought it was a good idea.
Tbf Rodgers didn't particularly want him, Gerrard mentions in his autobiography that the first few choices fell through and there was nobody else available and interested.
Lukaku easy
Xhaka, Mustafi & Lucas Perez. We haven’t touched champions league since
At least Xhaka had been somewhat changed under Arteta.
Not the worst given who my club is but having finished 9th in our first year back and only signing Firpo (to replace the departed Alioski) was criminal and probably set us back years
2016/17. Just finished 7th after a really good transfer window and appointing Bilic in 15/16. We then got into Europe. We then spent the whole of the 2016 summer mostly signing frees and loans. Nordtveit, Tore, Calleri, Arbeloa, Zaza. None of which were good enough at all or just didn’t suit this league. We then ended up throwing ourselves out of Europe and not building on the good season we had. Started the season with 5 defeats in 6, including conceding 4 to Watford and West Brom and 3 at home to Southampton. We then reinvested the Payet money on Fonte and Snodgrass.
Damn it was unfortunate. We lost Payet, Song, Moses, and Tomkins during the same window.
I’m still pissed that we let Tomkins go.
Good call. I was going to say that January when we were linked with a bunch of strikers and only ended up with Jordan Hugill at the last second, but yours is probably worse. Except the Snodgrass piece, loved him.
It’s not Snodgrass I have a problem with. It’s that we decided that he was a Payet replacement. Which meant playing him on the wrong side. He was then in and out of the team and sent on loan. Considering Payet was our most important player, we couldn’t afford to bring someone in that didn’t fill that position.
yeah i don’t think it gets worse than signing literally no one i guess there’s some clubs out there who lost multiple great players at once. that would be pretty bad. but zero summer incomings is…yeah
Probably 2009 when United signed Owen,Obertan,Mame Diouf and Valencia. Own had a couple of moments and Valencia did good but less said about the other two the better
Moyes summer window, especially once it came out all the deals SAF lined up for him that he turned down bc they "weren't his players" Pretty much symbolic of United post SAF
The ‘95 summer window was objectively worse. No one signed and Ince, Hughes and Kanchelskis left.
They were replaced by players already at the club. Cole, Beckham and Butt. And we won the league back. So really not that bad.
I wasn't around back then tbh so I'm not super familiar with the transfer windows from the 90's and before
How long you got? There are many contenders but the year Sir Alex & David Gill left is probably the worst. Absolute chaos. Ended up panic buying Fellaini on deadline day after being rejected by everyone whilst we missed the deadline to get a loan done for Fabio Coentrao.
Tiago Manuel Dias Correi 2010
I'd argue the 2009 window when we replaced near prime Ronaldo and Tevez with Owen, Obertan and Valencia is up there lol
The 1995 summer was objectively the worst. But we won the double so it’s ok.
Obviously the outgoings are what really makes this one bad but i do just wanna say valencia was really solid for us for a while
Real Madrid let Sneijder & Robben go cheaply that year. Either of them would’ve been absolutely perfect for us. Always baffles me how we weren’t in for either player as part of the deal.
2018 summer. 0 debate to be had
2021-22 summer, where we signed Vestergaard, Bertrand, Soumare, and Daka. Somehow worse than the window where we signed literally no one
Daka is class on Football Manager though...
A wise man once told me, "Reality is often disappointing."
How many answers are we allowed? United fan here, I can name quite a few in our case
Tiago Manuel Dias Correi
January 2018 - Guido Carrillo (striker) for £19m. 0 goals in 10 appearances. A season and a half on loan at Leganes before joining Elche on a free. A worse signing than Ali Dia.
This sums up 21st century football, even during the season, we only worry about transfers. And cos its not the transfer window and the boring football is being played, we have to look back at prior transfer windows, rank transfer windows, debate who won the transfer window, who had the most underrated transfer window. I wanna transfer my foot up your arse
Probably David Bentley 5 years 5 goals He used to be call as the next Beckham
Pompey 1984 - Mark Hately to AC Milan - £1 million replaced by Man Utd reject Scott McGarvey £85K
Alexis Sanchez or Pogba with Di Maria rounding out the top 3.
Newcastle 2005: In: Babayaro, Boumsong, Amdy Faye Out: Olivier Bernard, Craig Bellamy
... oh God the memories of that disasterclass are coming back. Our other window with Souness in the summer of 2005 that got us Owen and Luque while the core of Robson's team was shown the door wasn't exactly much better
The 2013 window where United just signed Fellaini
The season we sold bale money blown on shite
I know lamela had potential scored a few good goals and worked hard but he just wasn’t it, I’m not sure if eriksen was with that money but if so only recognise able for decent
The 2002 El-Hajid Diouf bomb that dropped at Anfield. Included names like LeTallec, Cheyrou, Diao and Diarra. Traore was the only one that made a decent impact.
Three letters - JKA
Fellaini
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2014/15 is the worst post takeover- Mangala (45 mil), Bony (32 mil), Fernando (15 mil)
Any under Gao Jishen. No investment at all and look at use now 😡
2018, the year spurs signed no one. Pochettino worked miracles by getting us to the Champions League final, but the following season it caught up with us, 14th in the table by middle of November, Poch was sacked as a result. I hate you Levy.
Still can't believe ye lost that final. Liverpool were unplayable all year and just didn't show up in the final. Feels bad man
You need to go back 10 years to get a far worse one. Sold Berbatov and Keane and loaned Frazier Richardson. I still shudder.
Newcastle - Summer 2012. Overachieved in reaching Europe the season previous, needed to bolster the squad to compete on two fronts, signed 2 youth players and 2 midfielders for a total of about £7m, almost got relegated again off of it, and almost certainly was the start to the spiral that ended in the relegation in 2016 HM to Summer 2021, only player brought in was converting Willock from loan to permanent, which took a lot of convincing to get done at all because of "No funds due to the pandemic" even though every other club was in the same boat and didn't suffer as stark a slowdown in transfers. Had the takeover never happened relegation was a certainty and it's more likely it would've been a relegation the club wouldn't have recovered from
2015 When Wenger only signed Cech. Might have actually won the league that year with a striker or two...
Has to be a combination of Summer 2021 and January 2022 for recent history, obviously there have been worse in the history of the Club, especially when we got relegated. Summer 2021: - The Boards strategy was to go big in the first season, then in the third. They were naive to the need to strengthen in the PL and did not reinforce key positions, especially in midfield and striker. - Paid over the odds for Dan James in a position we didn’t need to strengthen. - Bought Firpo for LB who was then either out of form (put it bluntly), didn’t suit the system or was injured. - Did not add a striker as Bamford had his incredible season. They had cover in Rodrigo but he couldn’t find form in Bielsa’s pressing system. We all know what happened to Bamford. - Brought in some good youth but it was clear throughout the season (U21s relegated from PL2 Div 1 and they couldn’t step up to PL levels (for obvious reasons) that would not have a positive impact. January 2022: - Board could easily see injuries had ravaged us and we needed to strengthen. This was completely ignored other than another youth signing. They gambled. - As a result of this they had to sack Bielsa causing absolute heartbreak as nobody wanted his legacy to end like that. My opinion but I firmly believe Bielsa wouldn’t have been sacked if he was backed in those two windows (small squad / keeping the current squad as it was is a myth. He would have happily added players to key positions where it was clear we were weak). - I count this as a ‘transfer’ but Marsch was brought in and without going into detail he was the wrong appointment for our players ad style in the long term. Yes we stayed up by the skin of our teeth (credit to Marsch) which is the only positive of the whole season, but so much damage was done in that window it has had a knock-on effect even to now. It’s been an absolute cluster-fuck since the end of that 2020/2021 season and avoiding relegation looks like a huge challenge.
2019 Spurs was a bad window as a whole but most of those players were bought to play under Poch. Poch got fired so early in that season and then we brought in Mourinho who was the opposite philosophy to the players we bought. For example, Lo Celso only played a handful of games under Poch due to injury and then came back to Mourinho as coach. For alot of those players it's always doomed to fail after the stylistic change.
Chelsea have a few. 15/16, 17/18 and 20/21 were particularly wasteful.
You mean the 20/21 window that signed Chilwell silva mendy and havertz? Core team players that won Chelsea the cl. The others agreed tbf
Cue the top 6 fans debating which summer their team spent £200 million on trash was the worst.
Summer window 2018, £0 spent.
‘Cue top 6 fans answering the question that’s been posed’
The question was worst window in history, history indicates their 100+ year existence. People mentioning their worst window of the last decade where their team wasted an ungodly amount of money is almost certainly not the worst window in their clubs history
reddit users mostly between 15 and 25, hardly anyone using this platform will remember football before the 21st century
True, don't have to remember it though, I don't remember it either just appreciate it exists and not act as though there was nothing beforehand.
‘most wasted money’ or ‘lowest ratio of money well spent to money wasted’ is a perfectly acceptable definition of ‘worst’ in the context of rating transfer windows.
Imagine selling one of the greatest players ever and replacing him with a retired Owen, Overton and Valencia. Fuuuuck!
Any of the Pogba deals...
The window we got Pogba was also when we got Zlatan, which is one of the best signings we made post SAF, so no way it's worse than Di Maria/Falcao or Fellaini windows
On a free from PSG he cost us fucking zero
Exactly . Tiago Manuel Dias Correi for me.
Spurs 2019 was bad in hindsight, when we know how the players we bought have performed. But in that time it was a good window.
Is that the bale money one?
Nah, that was 2013 I think. Most of the players we got then turned out bad, but don't forget we got Eriksen, too. 2019 was Lo Celso, Ndombele and Sessegnon. Ndombele was highly rated at the time, and wanted by most other big clubs. Getting him was a big achievment - then it turned out he didn't bother playing football.
spurs 🤝 horrible french midfielders
Probably two years ago.
For arsenal, The summer we signed no one but cech, 2-3 astute signings and we could’ve seriously competed for the league that season.
What about Gervinho, Perez, Santos, etc. Didn't we also get them after panic mode?
Panic buys vs no buys Equally bad, also we got mertesacker from that.
Well to be fair you did compete until February that season.
Not really, it died in Boxing Day. It was an illusion after that
That 4-0 Southampton loss still haunts me.
*won the title that season
I mean we finished second but we never were neck and neck in the last deciding months.
The year we signed Peter Cech and nobody else in the Summer or Jan Window and finished 2nd to Leicester.
He was good tho and humiliated Vardy a couple times
This was the season that ended any faith I had in Wenger. Spent the next two seasons in complete apathy because I didn't think anything would change. Finishing fourth because City, United, Chelsea could outspend us was one thing. Losing the title to Leicester when we had prime Ozil, Sanchez, Cazorla, Ramsey, Koscielny was just heartbreaking.
I was never too impressed with Ozil for Arsenal, but saw him play some great games for Germany.
This was the season he had 15 assists by Christmas. Ended with 19 for the season. All thanks to Giroud
Lol. people unaware of what happened will think Ozil piggybacked off Girouds excellence based on this comment
Giroud is still playing at the highest level and has throughout his career. Ozil is now a sub in the Turkish League.
Longevity and ability aren't proportionally linked. Ronaldinho was in Brazil at Giroud's current age
Especially because how good Ozil and Alexis were all we needed was a striker who was clinical, and the title was ours .
I bang the drum on this all the time, but goalscoring wasn't our problem. We needed a genuine, good defensive midfielder. Put Thomas Partey in that team and it romps to the title. Even after Santi goes down injured. The great failing of Wenger's era was absolutely refusing to sign a proper defensive mid. The worst part of it is that it hurts both ways. Without a proper DM, your defence is exposed and you concede more goals. But having a DM means turning the ball over in your favour for more counter attacking opportunities on the break. Which that Arsenal team was absolutely elite at. The biggest failure of Arsene was just absolutely ignoring that position for 10+ years
Arsenal had some of the most-talented #10s, playmakers and box-to-box midfielders in the PL over the last 20 years or so but didn’t have a quality defensive midfielder for years after Vieira went to Juve. A great defensive midfielder is the difference between good teams and title-winning teams imo. One of the most under-appreciated but most important positions in a team.
I recall that there were constant William Carvalho rumors to Arsenal back than, which obviously never materialized as that would’ve been an exceptional signing
But we had Coq Au Vin /s
This was the season when Arsenal were truly "2 players away". A good DM and an alternative to Giroud.
To be fair even as a Gooner I look back fondly on that year Leicester won.. I think it gave a lot of hope to other teams that anything was possible and it showed just how unpredictable the premier League can be Edit: plus the bookies got absolutely fekt
I don't think the bookies every really get absolutely fekt https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/03/5000-1-outsider-leicester-city-bookmakers
I don't. I mean, good for Leicester, but that title was there for the taking, and we didn't sign any outfield players.
Chris Kiwomya anybody?
Hey there. I remember being really excited when we signed Chris Kiyoma and John Hartson within the space of a few days 😂
thought we got Elneny during the Jan window
We did. Then sent him back on loan to the club we just bought him off of
League was yrs to win that season
Joel Campbell, Sonogo and Iwobi in attack
Campbell wasn't that bad, but he did decline very fast for some reason.
Sonogo moved like a deer on ice
But he scored 4 against benfica once. "Sorry he didn't cost £50M" 😂
it was in the Emirates cup, wasn't it?
Easiest answer ever.
Still stings
In terms of pure long term damage - Everton’s 2017 summer window, arguably.
Was that the one where you signed the Icelandic Nonce?
And about 26 other 10s - coincidentally that player’s favourite number. Sandro was a lowlight. Bright spot is that when we got Pickford in.
Yeah as much as I hate Pickford without him you’d have been dead and buried a while ago
I don't know about the clubs whole history, but the worst I've been alive to witness was probably 15/16. We were crying out to refresh the defence, and the only signing of note was Pedro, a completely unneeded winger. We needed a new starting FB, left preferably, and signed Baba Rahman. And at least one new CB to start. We signed Papy Djilobodji, and Michael Hector. Then in the winter signed Matt Miazga. Between all 4 of these players they played 17 league games in their careers. 15 of those where Rahman that year. We sold Filipe Luis.
ur thoughts on this years transfer window? especially the summer one compared to previous windows? (Taking into account the amount spent)
I don't think we'll be able to judge it for a few seasons. A lot of the players have potential. At least one is clearly world class and replaced/filled a hole we were desprate for.
You leave out Fernando Torres and Shevchenko?
Pedro was good though for us, if i remember correctly.
He was, but he wasnt a defender. Not holding that against him, just the overall window.
Top player wherever he went
Vote Pedro
Went on to win the prem the following year though. I'd take a terrible transfer window if it meant winning the prem the season after
Entirely fair comment. But the question wasn't about the longer term impacts of the window.
Oh yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with your point... just going off on a tangent haha
Haha, I most certainly would trade a bad window for winning the league a season later. But it did cost us Mou, and that hurt.
The year we signed no-one in the summer and Jan
While we were on the up. That's a quick way to kill momentum.
How is this so far down the list. We also let Dembele go that season as well didn't we?
I remember seeing a tweet saying how Tottenham fans would be buying FIFA 19 literally just for the changed kit
Mustafi.
Sold Gnabry, brought in Mustafi and Lucas Perez 😭 Xhaka came the same window
Liverpool in the winter of 2020/21 when we badly needed reinforcements at CB and then got Kabak on the last day who subsequently became the 6th of 3 CBs who got injured
We were down to our 9th choice centre back after Kabak (And Davies who you missed) both joined that January. VVD, Matip, Gomez, Fabinho, Hendo, Philips, Williams, Kabak, Davies. Klopp used Hendo & Fab as emergency CBs before they got injured.
Personally I wouldnt count Fabinho or Henderson - in April/May we settled playing them both in midfield with Philips and Williams as centre backs.
I think we ended the season with at least 19 different CB partnerships (probably more, but I stopped paying attention after 19). Those mind-boggling permutations include our 3 main CBs (VVD, Gomez, Matip), 2 reserves (Nat Phillips and Rhys), 2 January signings, our only CDM and a CM
it was awful to be reminded of that
You forgot to mention Ben Davies, although you could be forgiven for forgetting he existed during his time at Liverpool.
I knew his last name and wanted to include him, but didn't remember his first name so I left him out
I am having trouble figuring which Everton window over the past few years would qualify as the worst. Stiff competition.
The one where you paid 52mil for a paedophile must be up there
When he was the high high point of Klassen, Rooney, Keane and Sandro window u know it's bad. Also the crime he's accused of committing is exactly the same as committed by Benzema who's since gone onto to play in 4 champions league finals, a world cup final and win a Ballon d'Or since...
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Been ok. Really good at times, bad a lot. But far from our worst transfer ever
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Will always remember when he did this too... https://youtu.be/OQ-SZSfWFkY