Worst Charlton Transfers - ( Where We've paid a Transfer Fee)

Mendonca In Asdas

We've bought more than our fair share of duds down the years, players that have come with high hopes, big transfer fees , and have been absolutely awful for whatever reason.

Redfearn and Marcus Bent jump out for me who would you have in your top 3 worst transfers ( where we've paid a fee).

RedPanda

Djimi Traore

Simon Walton

Izale McLeod

Scoham

Faye and Traore have to be up there, signed on the same day for a combined £4m I think.

DaveMehmet

Andy Jones

ForeverAddickted

Across the last decade I'd say...

Ronnie Schwartz | Tamar Hemed | El-Hadji Ba | Zakarya Bergdich | Christophe Lepoint | Piotr Parzyszek

This is going off Wiki where it says the transfer was undisclosed.

I've ignored both Reza and Nego as both were Network transfers

MarcusH26

I'd go for

Izale McLeod 
Christophe Lepoint 
Zakarya Bergdich. 

There's probably some Roland era rubbish I'm forgetting that cost a fee of some kind. 

grumpyaddick

Where to start??

Jeffers?

Stu_of_Kunming

grumpyaddick said:

Where to start??

Jeffers?

My first thought too. 

shirty5

Viggo Jacobsen  
Johnny Ostergaard
Barry Endean 

Addickhead86

RedPanda said:

Djimi Traore

Simon Walton

Izale McLeod

For the amount spent, still a record LG2 transfer, to the return on the pitch... I think this is it for me.

Slartibartfast

Tony Towner

SantaClaus

Bradley Allen signed for quite a big fee (by our standards) and did very little.

MarcusH26

Remember seeing Jeffers debut at home to Aston Villa , scored a brace and looked like the player that broke through at Everton . That was a one off. 

charltonnick

Gary Rowett cost around £4 mill and only played a handful of games. Unlucky with injury so not a dud but not a good return for the money

TEL

McLeod, Rowett, Jones, Traore, Hasselbaink to name but a few

Chris_from_Sidcup

There have been many worse players, especially under Roland, but for me in terms of expectation when they signed the worst 2 for me are without doubt Jeffers and Redfearn.

Redfearn scored 19 & 14 the 2 years before he joined, then for us he scored 3. 

EDIT: thinking about it i'd also add Rommedahl to that. His late winner at Palace seems to give him a pass by many but for 3 years he was basically pretty shit. He scored more for Denmark than he did for us during those 3 seasons.

Rothko

Don't think you can go past Jeffers, hugely rated, big signing, and completely useless. Remember him missing a sitter at Carrow Road which summed him up completely at Charlton

AddicksAddict

I’m too depressed thinking about them to write anything here.

Nicholas

Karim Bagheri

bobmunro

Faye
Traore 
McLeod

Pedro45

Dorian Smith

Scoham

Pedro45 said:

Dorian Smith

Did we pay a fee?

Dizzle

Maybe loan fee, may not count.

but Dan Seabourne was absolutely terrible. I cannot remember the specific game, but I remember him being rinsed by the opposition and thinking this guy is terrible. Then a high looping ball which needed a simple control came to him and he couldn’t trap it and it ballooned off of the pitch. Professional footballer can’t control a football. Madness

killerandflash

Luke Varney and Nicky Ajose were further striker flops

cafcfan1990

killerandflash said:

Luke Varney and Nicky Ajose were further striker flops

Wash your mouth out. Varney forgiven for his Palace double. He actually did ok I thought and we recouped most of what we paid too. 

North Lower Neil

That two year period after Curbs left we wasted so much money (that sadly Curbs would have spent wisely):

Faye £2m
Traore £2m
Diawara £3.7m (and a £900k loss in a year)
Varney £2m (loaned out and lost £1m a year later)
McLeod £1.1m

cafcdave123

didn't we pay £500k for Omar Puso to play 45 minutes?

CL_Phantom

Martin Christensen - Peak Pardew signing

cafcsinger

Ronnie Schwartz

Taxi_Lad

1.5m for Andy Gray from Barnsley I think

Bedsaddick

Amdy Faye . Not only the worst player i've ever seen play for Charlton but we paid millions for him. I'm still convinced he and his agent were scammers and that he was never a pro footballer.