Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[Monty]

Fucking hell, I'd totally forgotten Brett Holman.


This last ten years, we've had some truly fucking shit players. Absolute dross.

Paul Lambert did well to find Benteke, and it probably kept him in a job for two years longer than he deserved. Look at these these transfer windows from him otherwise though:


12/13
El Ahmadi
Holman
Tonev
Vlaar
Bennett
Lowton
Westwood
Sylla
Bowery


13/14
Helenius
Okore
Luna
Bacuna
Kozak


14/15
Senderos
Joe Cole
Kieran Richardson
Aly Cissokho
Scott Sinclair
Carles Gil
Carlos Sanchez


Now some of those did just about OK, and some went on to be better elsewhere, but bloody hell, what an assortment of absolute shite on the most part.

That's genuinely hard to read.

[N'ZMAV]

ESR will happen.

He'll sign a new deal on big terms at Arsenal surely.

whatever way it’s a win win for the lad.

[Risso]

Several of those would vie for a place in my all time list of worst players you've ever seen. Tonev being the pick of a bad bunch, but thankfully he didn't play much.

[London Villan]

Where is the joker in chief in that list? And his pocket texting twat of a mate?

Were they 15/16 once Delph and Benteke had bailed?

[kippaxvilla2]

You know you were in trouble when we signed Bowery who had scored 1 goal in about 83 games in the lower leagues.

[paul_e]

Slightly harsh on Lambert to include Holman who was a McLeish signing but didn't happen until he'd already been sacked.

Vlaar, Lowton, Westwood and Bacuna all did ok given what they cost and with Kozak and Okore injuries meant we never really got a chance to see if they could've been ok as well. Add Benteke as the only good signing and whilst that list is really poor the biggest problem is that we were spreading what money we had so thinly that it was never going to work. The 7 I named along with 3-4 5-10m players and we'd have been much better off.

[enigma]

You know you were in trouble when we signed Bowery who had scored 1 goal in about 83 games in the lower leagues.

That was such a weird signing. Even Chesterfield fans couldn't understand why we'd signed him. And to then play him out on the wing was truly baffling.

[Des Little]

I have it on very good authority that McLeish first spotted and scouted Benteke for us to pick up the thread. Lambert was lucky enough to claim the credit.

[john e]

 

Fucking hell, I'd totally forgotten Brett Holman.


This last ten years, we've had some truly fucking shit players. Absolute dross.

Paul Lambert did well to find Benteke, and it probably kept him in a job for two years longer than he deserved. Look at these these transfer windows from him otherwise though:


12/13
El Ahmadi
Holman
Tonev
Vlaar
Bennett
Lowton
Westwood
Sylla
Bowery


13/14
Helenius
Okore
Luna
Bacuna
Kozak


14/15
Senderos
Joe Cole
Kieran Richardson
Aly Cissokho
Scott Sinclair
Carles Gil
Carlos Sanchez


Now some of those did just about OK, and some went on to be better elsewhere, but bloody hell, what an assortment of absolute shite on the most part.

That's genuinely hard to read.

it does bring it home a bit

maybe Lambert wasn't that bad after all as he kept that lot in the Premier league

[ChicagoLion]

Several of those would vie for a place in my all time list of worst players you've ever seen. Tonev being the pick of a bad bunch, but thankfully he didn't play much.

surely not “there’s a good player in there somewhere Tonev”

[sickbeggar]

I think the figures need context really. Yes, lambert bought loads of crap and someone like DOL did far better on a budget, but then if Smith was given 100m to buy 22 players over 3 seasons, I doubt that would turn out well

[eamonn]

I don't think he would have bought 22 shit players though. 15 slightly better ones, you'd hope.

Lambert was an absolute charlatan.

[Dave]

I have it on very good authority that McLeish first spotted and scouted Benteke for us to pick up the thread. Lambert was lucky enough to claim the credit.

I thought the story was that we were scouting someone at a Belgian league game (Laurent Depoitre perhaps?). He was rubbish and Benteke was great - so we bought Benteke.

[kippaxvilla2]

The responses from the Arse fans about our possible third bid for ES-R are highly arrogant and yet amusing.  I’m glad we are pissing them off. 

[cdbearsfan]

Christ, what a shower of shit. 

Vlaar and Lowton were probably the only two who were ok for us and we go a few years out of Westwood (I know, I know...).  I thought Okore may come good but it was not to be. 

That list is unbelievable.

Even Vlaar used to piss me off, the big girl's fucking blouse. "Doubtful" for 25 games a season, never played in any of them. Seemingly never missed a game for the Dutch...