Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

For the most part I thought Young and Collins were fine and we actually got money back when we sold them. Although Young was typical MON, sign him for £6m a year after he was available for £2.5m.

From memory i think we lost 3.5 million on collins

[dave.woodhall]

If you just want to deal in balance sheet worth Ashley Westwood is one of the best signings we ever made.

[brian green]

Milan Baros

The goalie in trousers whose name escapes me.

[cdbearsfan]

He was on loan from a second tier team. I doubt that we "wasted millions" on him.

He's unfairly maligned anyway, he was pretty reasonable for us apart from one cock-up in his final appearance.

Eta: I can't remember his name either! He was Hungarian, I think.

[ChicagoLion]

I think you would find it difficult to find a club with a worse record of dodgy transfers.
Leeds under Risdale, Citeh had some shockers, I think we win for consistency.

[garyshawsknee]

I'd argue against Bent, I know we lost a lot when he left, but I think we would have gone down if we hadn't signed him.

[brian green]

K Riley was the trousered goalie.  Probably Irish.

[Gareth]

Emile Heskey

(If that bloke can play for England, then you know what? I can as well)

Can't agree with that one, Heskey was a very good player, it wasn't his fault that we needed a goal scoring forward not one that was excellent at holding up the ball and bringing team mates into the game...it was Quittys fault that he could see the requirement and took his usual lazy option signing.

Heskey nowadays would be excellent in this England side with likes of Alli, Lallana & Sterling bombing through and needing a player who holds it up, controls the ball, passes it properly and brings them into play....unfortunately we have Sturridge who thinks he's a superstar

[Dave]

Joey Gudjohnsen

A three month loan period that cost us the thin end of bugger all?

Has this just turned into "write down a load of players wot Villa signed"

[dave shelley]

I'm too lazy to do the comparisons but whilst agreeing that we've wasted a shit load of money on some terrible signings I would imagine Liverpool would stack up pretty high on the turd table.

[KevinGage]

The wasted fees on players are grand (well they aren't, but...)

We must shirley lead the way in management pay-off's though.

Since O'Neill's departure, we've effectively been paying two managers per year.

[SoccerHQ]

beye must be one of our worst financial transfers surely. not a huge fee but paying him 40k and he hardly ever played when mon suddenly decided he was going to play cuellar at rb all season.

at least with some of the others we got some games out of them, beye must've played less than 10?!

(apologies for lack of capitals as laptop is knackered so temporarily been loaned a chromebook and no idea where the caps lock on it is!)

[The Laughing Policeman]

Milan Baros

The goalie in trousers whose name escapes me.

Gabor Kiraly was the trousered goalie. We had him on loan, I think from Palace and he hardly got a game.

[SoccerHQ]

kiraly wasn't that bad imo....just had that awful error in his last game that everyone remembers. he came in at short notice when sorensen and taylor were injured.

carson was worse.

[villabear]

Joey Gudjohnsen

A three month loan period that cost us the thin end of bugger all?

Has this just turned into "write down a load of players wot Villa signed"

No it's a list of players I remembered who we'd signed and turned out to be pretty awful. Regardless of how much we payed them or payed for them it's wasted money. If you want to look at totals it might not amount to a lot but it's still poor decisions costing us money.