Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.

[Mister E]

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!)

And, again, Habib was the Barvcodes' player of the year the previous season. So, he probably goes down as a victim of MON's legendary man-management capabilities.

[SoccerHQ]

joey g wasn't too bad in the early games...didn't he score a great free kick at boro?

03/03/03 was a little bit too much for him though and he wasn't seen much after that.

edit: he made more impact here than michael bradley did anyway. now that was i thought a really good signing and he played one cup game and that was it and then went and had a good career in italy.

[Rigadon]

What a depressing thread. 

Because no other club  has ever bought a bad player.

Well, quite. 

[brian green]

Colin Gibson was pretty rubbish.  The first one not Gibbo.  Did not cost millions but back then you could get five pints, see the game, fish supper, go to the pictures and have a jolly time in Steelhouse Lane and get change out of a ten bob note.  It's all relative.

[peter w]

Isn't this just a list of signings we've made? All sides sign players that don't work out.

[Villafirst]

For me, McCormack is our worst ever signing.

You obviously didn't see Bosko Balaban play? Or not in his situation!

[PaulWinch again]

Bent more than paid us back and lots of these weren't massive wastes of money.

[N'Zimidy]

Habib Beye anybody?

[AGRIPPA]

Tommy Craig

This....not sure what £275,000 would be equivalent to now...he was shite

[Deano's Mullet]

Guy Whittingham. Liked him but it obviously didn't work out.

[Tayls_7]

He's already had a brief mention but I was terribly excited about the signing of Sasa Curcic. Oh well.

[Ian.]

It is wasted, but that's life.  I haven't seen any stats to say we are any worse than anyone else for that type of thing.  In any case, for every three crap players the low fees we paid for the likes of Platt, McGrath, Yorke, Benteke etc should balance out in the end.

Bloody right it's life. I bought two tins of paint last week to decorate a room. I only used one and now I can't find the damn receipt.

[kippaxvilla2]

The thread came about as a result of a conversation with by SHA supporting very best mate (okay okay).  We both just started reeling off names of complete wastes of money.  In their case, they were mostly shit has beens that cost them money but only in their small time context.  My list started and just kept going on and on and all were costing us millions.  It really is scandalous - I was referring mostly to the modern Lerner era in particular.  I never implied we were the only club who have wasted money.  However, I only care about our club and when you look at the figures, it really is quite astonishing and frightening.  And bought particularly into light given that once again, we have replaced almost an entire starting 11 within 6 months of the last wholesale recruitment.

[Steve67]

Warren Aspinall, Bosco, Gary Penrice, John Fashanu, Marlon Harewood, Curtis Davies, Zat Knight, Steve Sidwell, Gollini, Nigel Callaghan, Stan Collymore.

[kippaxvilla2]

How the hell is this Villa memories - it is still happening now.