Everton’s worst ever signing

[Huyton Layne]

Voted other so I can agree with Fatty Agbonlahor and say James

 

[Efcjake]

Van Der Meyde not even making the shortlist?

 

[Efcjake]

I went for Bolasie because as much as I hate Sigurdsson he's been a body involved in the squad and Bolasie hasn't even played a full season for us after 27 million and how much on wages.

 

[MikeH72]

Van Der Meyde not even making the shortlist?

The only thing I remember about him is that I was at Alton Towers when we signed him.

 

[Efcjake]

The only thing I remember about him is that I was at Alton Towers when we signed him.

Surely you remember the "drink spiking" at the Albert dock. That was a classic.

 

[Efcjake]

Klaassen for me. The bloke did nothing and I mean absolutely nothing. Just the princely sum of £26m too.

At least he buggered off and didn't hold the club back by sitting on his wage and offering nothing.

Any of the players who moved on after being clearly not good enough I can't hold too much against them. The likes of Bolasie, Tosun, and Niasse who are content to suck a wage and offer us nothing are far worse than the likes of Klaassen or Kroldrup.

 

[Terrarian]

Pickford

 

[Jamalio Danubio DiCanio]

The likes of Bolasie, Tosun, and Niasse who are content to suck a wage and offer us nothing are far worse than the likes of Klaassen or Kroldrup.

I find it hard to blame the players. The club offers them a contract for a certain wage and for a certain length of time. They are entitled to those wages as long as they train hard and don't cause any disciplinary issues. Even if they aren't ultimately good enough.

It's easy to point a finger at these players and say why don't they leave. Would you leave your current job for 50% or 70% of the wages elsewhere? Or if you had a 4 year contract would you come into work every day, work hard and collect your cash?

The fact that there are so many poor signings over the last 5 years included in the opening post shows how poor the club's recruitment policy has been. It's not just the selection of players. It the miss mash of player's to suit various managers different styles. The squad needs a massive overhaul due to the scattergun approach over previous years. Issue for a lot of that sits with Moshiri and the people he put in charge to run recruitment. Fingers should be pointed at him rather than players who are getting wages they are entitled to.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

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

We weren’t far off a decent team then either if Moyes had spent the Lescott cash wisely. Unlike him to buy a big money dud (9 million) Really needed someone on the right.

 

[Efcjake]

I find it hard to blame the players. The club offers them a contract for a certain wage and for a certain length of time. They are entitled to those wages as long as they train hard and don't cause any disciplinary issues. Even if they aren't ultimately good enough.

It's easy to point a finger at these players and say why don't they leave. Would you leave your current job for 50% or 70% of the wages elsewhere? Or if you had a 4 year contract would you come into work every day, work hard and collect your cash?

The fact that there are so many poor signings over the last 5 years included in the opening post shows how poor the club's recruitment policy has been. It's not just the selection of players. It the miss mash of player's to suit various managers different styles. The squad needs a massive overhaul due to the scattergun approach over previous years. Issue for a lot of that sits with Moshiri and the people he put in charge to run recruitment. Fingers should be pointed at him rather than players who are getting wages they are entitled to.

They're entitled to it. The exchange for that wage is im going to call them everything under the sun until they finally do one.

 

[Tree13]

I wonder if the OP or the mods would be kind enough to edit the list of players to include the transfer fees paid for each of them?

 

[Jamalio Danubio DiCanio]

They're entitled to it. The exchange for that wage is im going to call them everything under the sun until they finally do one.

Why blame the individual players though? As long as they are trying their best I don't see they see any advantage in shouting the odds and screaming at them. Whether that be metaphorically on the internet or actually doing it in the ground. The only thing it potentially does is make you feel better for some sort of misplaced anger you may have.

The players aren't to blame to being bought and being given a massive contract even if they aren't good enough. Some of the blame resides with the people who bought them. But most of the blame resides with person who is responsible for shaping the strategic elements of the recruitment side of the football club and putting individuals in place to execute that strategy.

Maybe you should aim your vitriol at those individuals rather than players. Or potentially neither and hope Moshiri and others have learnt from the expensive mistakes of previous years (new manager, Brands and recent recruitment has been decent and at least looks like it's following some sort of strategic plan)

 

[MikeH72]

I wonder if the OP or the mods would be kind enough to edit the list of players to include the transfer fees paid for each of them?

I would rather not remind myself that we paid £45m for Gylfi Sigurdsson thank you.

 

[Efcjake]

Why blame the individual players though? As long as they are trying their best I don't see they see any advantage in shouting the odds and screaming at them. Whether that be metaphorically on the internet or actually doing it in the ground. The only thing it potentially does is make you feel better for some sort of misplaced anger you may have.

The players aren't to blame to being bought and being given a massive contract even if they aren't good enough. Some of the blame resides with the people who bought them. But most of the blame resides with person who is responsible for shaping the strategic elements of the recruitment side of the football club and putting individuals in place to execute that strategy.

Maybe you should aim your vitriol at those individuals rather than players. Or potentially neither and hope Moshiri and others have learnt from the expensive mistakes of previous years (new manager, Brands and recent recruitment has been decent and at least looks like it's following some sort of strategic plan)

Because its their choice to stay. Pretty simple.

I have respect for the likes of Klassen who just moved on. I've got no respect for Bolasie sucking up a wage to post on Twitter. He can do one.

 

[Jamalio Danubio DiCanio]

In terms of the original Q, I think Brett Angel is up there. £500k in 1994 wasn't a huge fee at the time but it wasn't small either (British record transfer fee was 5.5M at that point). It was a massive fee for a player who'd only really proven he could score regularly at Second and Third Division level at that point. His First Division scoring record wasn't that great for Southend.

Sandro Ramirez needs to be considered also. mainly due to his original potential and the wages we gave him.

David Burrows was a poor signing too. Giving up Tony Cottee was the bad bit. He ws always going to get 12-18 league goals a season. David Burrows was a poor player also. I think it was done to a degree to finance the Daniel Amokachi deal (who shouldn't be on this list but was an expensive mistake overall(