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What a waste of money!
shirty5
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What past Charlton players do you view as the biggest waste of money spent by the club. It has to be based on a transfer fee, not on what wages the player was earning and not a player in on loan.
Francis Jeffers: 2.6m from Arsenal. Summer of 2004. Played 24 times, scored 5 goals. Let go on a free transfer to Blackburn at the end of the 2005/2006 season. Bar 2 goals in an early league game against Aston Villa, Jeffers flattered to deceive.
Andy Gray: 1.5m from Burnley. January 2008. Played 47 times, scored 9 goals before being sold to Barnsley in August 2009 for an undisclosed fee. Bought by Pardew during the transfer window to push us on back to the Premier League. Ended up relegated to League One 15 months later
Dennis Rommedahl: 2m from PSV Eindhoven. July 2004. Played 84 times, scored 6 goals before being sold to Ajax for £680,000 three years later (July 2007). Bar his goal against Palace and the occasional decent game, it was fair to say that English football did not suit his game.
Amdy Faye: 1.67m from Newcastle United. August 2006. 34 appearances in a Charlton shirt with the one goal away at Portsmouth during the 2006/2007 relegation season. Loaned out to Glasgow Rangers a year later for the season before they had enough of him and sent him back to us after 5 months. Signed for Stoke in August 2008.
That will do for starters. I can think of another dozen that would fall in that bracket, so over to you.
Francis Jeffers: 2.6m from Arsenal. Summer of 2004. Played 24 times, scored 5 goals. Let go on a free transfer to Blackburn at the end of the 2005/2006 season. Bar 2 goals in an early league game against Aston Villa, Jeffers flattered to deceive.
Andy Gray: 1.5m from Burnley. January 2008. Played 47 times, scored 9 goals before being sold to Barnsley in August 2009 for an undisclosed fee. Bought by Pardew during the transfer window to push us on back to the Premier League. Ended up relegated to League One 15 months later
Dennis Rommedahl: 2m from PSV Eindhoven. July 2004. Played 84 times, scored 6 goals before being sold to Ajax for £680,000 three years later (July 2007). Bar his goal against Palace and the occasional decent game, it was fair to say that English football did not suit his game.
Amdy Faye: 1.67m from Newcastle United. August 2006. 34 appearances in a Charlton shirt with the one goal away at Portsmouth during the 2006/2007 relegation season. Loaned out to Glasgow Rangers a year later for the season before they had enough of him and sent him back to us after 5 months. Signed for Stoke in August 2008.
That will do for starters. I can think of another dozen that would fall in that bracket, so over to you.
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Am sorry but Dennis Rommedahl wasnt a waste of money... that goal alone makes the £2m fee worth it
I partly think the issue was that he wasnt played correctly, the ball would always go to his feet rather than pinging a ball just behind the defender and letting him use his pace to run on to it27 -
It's a long list but for me, Izale McClown was the biggest waste of money.8
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£2mn for Djimi Traore must be near the top of the list surely?7
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Gary Rowett, £3.5m and his knee lasted about a month.
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Gary Rowett was insured, hence we didn't lose a great deal of money
Traore and Faye, hands down. Prior to that, Ralph Milne2 -
Rommers being on this list is a travesty, one of Denmark's best players, probably the fastest player in the Premier League at the time and scored a no-look goal against Palace (he literally shut his eyes before striking the ball) the fact that he used to make runs down the wing only for one of our midfielders to fanny around and pass it sideways leaving him 15 yards offside really pissed me off.
Traore, Faye, Jeffers, Gray, McLeod, Hasselbaink (wages) and Dowie (for spending all that money) for me7 -
Andy Gray is a bit of a special case as I believe his wife was very, very ill during his time at Charlton.2
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Izale McLeod
Andy Gray
Luke Varney
All totally uselss and too much money for championship, big nose prick pardew pattern of shit striker signing.
Traore I though was crap before he came to us but at least he had some credentials when he came.
Faye is probably the worst professional footballer I've seen, awful, awful player and for that resin I'll go for him
I would have stuck with Jeffers for some reason, don't know why but cutbs gave up on him and saved the club some money by not playing himif memory serves correct0 -
Traore, Faye and McLeod.1
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Barry Endean: 11,111 from Watford. February 1971. 2 goals in 29 games. Sold to Blackburn in October 1971. Charlton bought Eamonn Rogers for 7,777 with Endean going up north.1
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Andy Gray is one I feel a bit sorry for as he came to us from Burnley, saying "I want to get promoted." The following season, Charlton were relegated and Burnley were promoted.
Obviously he played his part in that, but I always imagine that must have felt really rubbish for him.
Am I empathising too much?0 -
Amdy Faye without a doubt. That man was never meant to be a footballer.1
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Djimi Traore0
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I thought it was 3m for Jeffers? Unbelievable.1
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Oh God, you've committed the Jeffers fee sin. The Jeffers fee sin! You may as well have started a thread about how you were going to meet an old flame in Blackpool who used to do your highlights for youshirty5 said:What past Charlton players do you view as the biggest waste of money spent by the club. It has to be based on a transfer fee, not on what wages the player was earning and not a player in on loan.
Francis Jeffers: 2.6m from Arsenal. Summer of 2004. Played 24 times, scored 5 goals. Let go on a free transfer to Blackburn at the end of the 2005/2006 season. Bar 2 goals in an early league game against Aston Villa, Jeffers flattered to deceive.
Andy Gray: 1.5m from Burnley. January 2008. Played 47 times, scored 9 goals before being sold to Barnsley in August 2009 for an undisclosed fee. Bought by Pardew during the transfer window to push us on back to the Premier League. Ended up relegated to League One 15 months later
Dennis Rommedahl: 2m from PSV Eindhoven. July 2004. Played 84 times, scored 6 goals before being sold to Ajax for £680,000 three years later (July 2007). Bar his goal against Palace and the occasional decent game, it was fair to say that English football did not suit his game.
Amdy Faye: 1.67m from Newcastle United. August 2006. 34 appearances in a Charlton shirt with the one goal away at Portsmouth during the 2006/2007 relegation season. Loaned out to Glasgow Rangers a year later for the season before they had enough of him and sent him back to us after 5 months. Signed for Stoke in August 2008.
That will do for starters. I can think of another dozen that would fall in that bracket, so over to you.4 -
Jeffers only cost us £600k in the end, the £2.6m was the potential fee including add-ons.
Traore I think we sold for £500k, 6 months after ugly Iain spent £2m on him. I remember looking on the Liverpool and Newcastle message boards when we signed Traore and Faye, similar comments in relation to both, along the lines of:
"£2m - is that what we've paid Charlton to take him off us?!"
"One of the worst players I've ever seen, can't believe we've got a fee for him"
There are unlucky transfers, such as McLeod and Gray, where players arrive with a decent pedigree but don't live up to expectations. Faye and Traore, everyone in football knew they were useless. Absolutely no excuse for spending that sort of money on them. We can only dream of what might have happened if Curbs had been given £12m to spend instead of letting Dowie squander it.4 -
Spent big on Diawara, looked ok but never got that many chances, not sure what we got for him when sold.
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Simon Walton was another rubbish Dowie one in that (according to Wiki) we signed him for £500k, then sold him a year later for £200k after he never played a game for us...
Zheng Zhi did OK for us, but financially was another terrible bit of business, sign a guy for £2m, then he leaves on a Bosman 2 years later for nothing0 -
You beat me too it ,when it cost 2bob to get into amatch 10pence and overall he cost us just under 19000 pounds his return was very limited.One league goal against his old club Watford in The Goaden Jubilee Match was his sad return.shirty5 said:Barry Endean: 11,111 from Watford. February 1971. 2 goals in 29 games. Sold to Blackburn in October 1971. Charlton bought Eamonn Rogers for 7,777 with Endean going up north.
On the other hand his goal for Watford against Liverpool quarter final fa cup 1-0 win was worth a seasons gate to Watford,did not help in half final against Chelsea losing 1-5.But the goal against Liverpool i will Always remember.0 -
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Marcus Bent!!15 -
Neil Redfearn for £1m. A (non) goal scoring midfielder whose legs had completely gone.3
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Patrick Bauer. Done fuck all since we signed him...........17
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In the context of our wealth (or lack thereof) at the time Terry Bullivant.1
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Andy Jones from Port Vale. Was quite a lot of money for us at that time.3
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I remember talking to a Barnsley supporter about him at the time and we agreed that he was the sort of playing who looked good on the 2 minute round up our games would get on MOTD, as inevitably he'd have a couple of decent shots, as those short highlight reels miss out the large periods of the game in which he would contribute very little!SantaClaus said:Neil Redfearn for £1m. A (non) goal scoring midfielder whose legs had completely gone.
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Yassin Moutaouakil?0
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Just quickly looked Redfearn up on Wikipedia, as I remembered him scoring a lot of goals during Barnsley's relegation - turns out it was only 10, but he was their top scorer.killerandflash said:
I remember talking to a Barnsley supporter about him at the time and we agreed that he was the sort of playing who looked good on the 2 minute round up our games would get on MOTD, as inevitably he'd have a couple of decent shots, as those short highlight reels miss out the large periods of the game in which he would contribute very little!SantaClaus said:Neil Redfearn for £1m. A (non) goal scoring midfielder whose legs had completely gone.
What has fascinated me is the club-hopping in the latter stages of his career.
Between 2006-2008, he played for Scarborough, Bradford Park Avenue, Stocksbridge Park Steels, Frickley Athletic, Bridlington Town, Emley and Salford City. As well as managing Scarborough, Northwich Victoria and York City.
That is the busiest two years imaginable.0 -
I still find Yassin Moutaouakil one of the most confusing players in recent memory. When he started he was absolutely fantastic, I thought he was going to be something really special. He was apparently wanted by Premier League and top European clubs but we got him, he played well, got a bit injured and then was essentially never seen again. Add to that the rumours about his fondness for certain youth players' mothers and I remain completely in awe of his time at Charlton. What the hell happened?9
