Everton’s worst ever signing

[evertony]

My question was about value for money, as clearly stated.

But what has that to do with £20M+ signings....even at £8M they can be great value for money or shocking value for money.

 

[Carloblues]

Just seen docuoure on the list hahahaha what a terrible shout that is mate, he's been very decent over all

 

[mightymoyes]

For the outlay it’s quite obviously Sigurdsson. Really no question.

It worries me that some people don't think it's sigurdsson, surely only doing it to be contrary.
Bolasie only one should be even close and he at least has the mitigating factor of a brutal injury

 

[optatom154]

Ashley Williams just for that red card away at Burnley

 

[Zatara]

Just seen docuoure on the list hahahaha what a terrible shout that is mate, he's been very decent over all

Very peculiar to include him.

Peculiar being a kind word...

 

[Zatara]

For me...

Bolasie: £23-28mil for an utter showpony/donkey

Sigurdsson: £44mil for what?

Bilic: £4.5mil for him to retire then play again in Croatia. Happily played internationals while 'injured' for us.


Those three are head and shoulders the worst. The others werent record fees and/or we got money back for them.


Imagine calling Doucoure a 'worst ever signing' lol mad.

 

[artetas_biggest_fan]

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.

Siggy has at least contributed (24 goals in 125 games, 1 in 5). He’s only mentioned ahead of others due to the higher fee. Overall success? Probably not, but he’s nowhere near the worst value for money.

Bolasie has to be right up there, but he at least could argue what might have been (as weak as that argument would be). Schneiderlin, Niasse, Tosun, Klaasen, big outlay, little to nothing back.

 

[Rook]

Its Sandro guys.

Niasse walked into a club on the verge of mutiny and scored a few goals. Bolasie tore his knees to shreds but before that there were signs of a decent connection being made w/ rom. Siggy while a collasal waste of money scores a few. VanDerMyde had an assist once (I think). Beattie had a nice little stretch to help get out of a hole. Scheiderlein moped but was pretty accurate on his 5 yard sideways passes. Kone broke his leg but had a couple decent stretches. Gomes, you'll get that 1 match every 2-3 months. Williams had a good 1st season. Klassen and Krodlup were never suited for the prem, given that both did decent outside of it suggests that you have an OK player after say 2-3 years getting used to it.

Sandro, there is absolutely nothing. I don't even believed he ever scored in spain, it was some look alike imposter Malaga sent us.

 

[MikeH72]

Siggy has at least contributed (24 goals in 125 games, 1 in 5). He’s only mentioned ahead of others due to the higher fee. Overall success? Probably not, but he’s nowhere near the worst value for money.

Bolasie has to be right up there, but he at least could argue what might have been (as weak as that argument would be). Schneiderlin, Niasse, Tosun, Klaasen, big outlay, little to nothing back.

Niasse had a 1 in 3.5 scoring record for us, if you’re using goals as justification for Sigurdsson.

 

[TheBigIguana]

This is a tough one which says a lot. I voted Klaassen as he was not a punt or one for the future but someone who was supposed to come in and contribute to the first team straight away and was dropped more or less for good by the end of October of his first season. That's an amazingly poor impact. However we somehow got money in selling him which makes it maybe redeemable and also great evidence of why buying players under 26 or 27 years old is sensible.

Purely money wise it is currently Bolasie I think, which stinks as I don't think it is anything he should personally be held accountable for as injuries happen, but people do take it personally with him. Gbamin will take the crown if he doesn't make it back though.

 

[LABlue2]

Bolasie

 

[Dr Baxter]

Bill Kenwright signing for all of those shares over the years was easily the worst signing.

 

[everton1953]

Amazing that we only have to look at the last few years to find a long list of appalling signings.

 

[PaddyJames]

Bilyaletdinov broke my heart. I thought he was going to be superb.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

I still don't think Sigurdsson was our 'worst' signing by a long shot personally. Overpriced? yes, but even looking at purely 'value for money' terms I'd put the likes of Bolasie and Davy Klaassen over him (although Bolasie's injury was unfortunate). Klaassen even admitted recently that he knew pretty quickly that he just wasn't the right fit here.. so overall a colossal waste of time by Koeman & Walsh that one.