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Everton’s worst ever signing
- Thread starter MikeH72
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He wasn’t very good really, was he? Aside from 3 nostalgic goals.
nikom court
Player Valuation: £20m
walsh and koeman have a lot to answer for!
....’worst ever’, yet the options are mainly recent times. i’m sure there’s a few in the 60s and 70s worth a mention.
Death
I'll take down dat coal powered MG, I tel u Hwat
Not good no. Not in the top 20/30 worse signings by a long way.
It’s value for money-based, not a question of who’s our worst player. Big John Johnson who cost £87.30 from Huddersfield in 1952 doesn’t count.
Lloydystark
Player Valuation: £35m
You’ve listed a certain player who won Everton’s player of the season award, surely for that alone he shouldn’t be on the list.....
Enough Lloydy.
StreetEndBlue
Player Valuation: £10m
I was going to vote for Siggy, but he did have a decent first season and scored around 14 goals before his form fell off the cliff since.
Bolasie is the one I'd gone for though. Three months of over hit crosses from him before he did his knee and barely been seen since. £28m for this turkey.
Going back further, Simon Davies was another terrible value for money signing. £4.5m may seem like loose change thesedays but back in 2005 that was a lot of money for this club and he was the invisible man in nearly every game he played before scuttling off to join his mate Chris Coleman at Fulham for half the price we paid just 18 months after we signed him.
Bolasie is the one I'd gone for though. Three months of over hit crosses from him before he did his knee and barely been seen since. £28m for this turkey.
Going back further, Simon Davies was another terrible value for money signing. £4.5m may seem like loose change thesedays but back in 2005 that was a lot of money for this club and he was the invisible man in nearly every game he played before scuttling off to join his mate Chris Coleman at Fulham for half the price we paid just 18 months after we signed him.
Bluebirdie
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Thanks to our professional pundits he had more names than goals!
...£87.30 was a lot of money when players used to get the to matches on a tram.
I remember us spending £1m for Mo Johnson when £1m was a lot of money for us, although he scored in a Derby he was clearly a spent force. Williamson and Bilic costly failures from West Ham, Henry Newton saw us go backwards after the departure of Alan Ball. Rod Belfitt coming in when we’d had a number of great strikers, Mick Ferguson & Walsh after his goal of the season other considerations.
I’m being pedantic but given the thread title, I suspect it was better not to give options and let posters from various generations have their view.
Death
I'll take down dat coal powered MG, I tel u Hwat
But 87 ponds was serious wedge back then for a player. I remember it well absolute disgrace. Worse than Billy in price comparison. What was he 8 million?
Johnny Barton
Player Valuation: £1m
What made it worse was they were replacing McKenzie and Rioch
You’ve got the old pictures thread ffs, let us youngsters slate players that have ruined our teen and adult years in peace.
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