The best/worst buys ever

**Gary** · 08/05/2003, 6:23 PM

Riise to Liverpool from Monaco for �4m was a bargain.

Diomede, disaster.

Distin to man City was a great but

as was William Gallas for Chelsea.

Winston Bogarde was/is a disaster.

Elhadji Diouf and Salif Diao werent great buys for Liverpool

Steve Finnan from Notts County was a great buy for Fulham.

Im sure there are many more.

**Troy.McClure** · 09/05/2003, 10:39 AM

My point about Veron & Ferdinand is that Utd can waste the money and not much will happen to them (maybe their stockmarket price will go down!) but its not going to send them into liquidation if they dont preform (like Derby and Ravinelli, they splashed out, things didnt go as expected and now it wouldnt be too surprising if they were wound up). And RE Ferdinand, he is the most important part of the best defence in the Premiership (and thats with a dodgyish keeper behind him) and is still young and 'one for the future'. Saying that though, Campbell for free would have been a better move.

Macronni wasnt a very good buy for Boro last year
Angel for Villa was crap as well as was that Crouch fella (the big lanky one - The Hartigan of the Premiership

)
For all his class I think that Batigol was a rip off considering his age for Roma, but he did help them win the league so...
Redondo for AC Milan, another player who went for millions and got injured straight away (so frustrating).

Pat Morley for Shels was a crap buy seeing as he was injured for most of his time there, but was a class buy when City got him back (�12,000 I believe) and nearly won us the league but gave us plenty of class goals.

And then theres Jean Baptiste from Dream Team to Liverpool... well nearly

**Seanie** · 09/05/2003, 1:00 PM

What consititutes a good/bad buy? For me it is will a player fill the need for the purchase. So when United bought Bosnich (on a free but still) and Taibi they were attempting to fill a need - therefore as both buys were failures. However Veron was bought in an attempt to win the European Cup and this season was United's best performer in European games (with the exception of van Nistelrooy) and was sorely missing in the Nou Camp and rushed back for the return leg. Whether he justifies his price is another thing.

**gustavo** · 09/05/2003, 1:17 PM

the best bit of business i think was done by wenger when he bought anelka for half a million and then sold him for 23 million and bought in a better player( henry ) at half price to replace him
also selling overmars for 25 million and getting in pires for 7 was class.

Badweather Fan · 12/05/2003, 3:58 PM

Gustavo could be right.
In world terms best way to analyse it would be profit made.
So, how much did Juve pay for Zidane?

By the way, the Rio business was the best bit of business Ridsdale ever did.