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

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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,874
    cafcfan1990 said:
    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. 
    Pretty sure we lost £1m when we sold him. 
  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 916
    Joe McLaughlin from Chelsea.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,753
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    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

    Diawara was a cracking player - had an excellent career after leaving Charlton.
    He was way too good for us. Shouldn't be on a list like that. 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,436
    cafcdave123 said:
    didn't we pay £500k for Omar Puso to play 45 minutes?
    Thankfully only ever a loan deal
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,807
    Jeffers wins but didn't we pay the same (£2.5m) for Marcus Bent?
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,956
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    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

    Diawara was a cracking player - had an excellent career after leaving Charlton.
    We still wasted money on him by selling him at nearly a million less in a year.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,492
    We never actually paid £2.5m for Jeffers though did we? 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,384
    CL_Phantom said:
    Martin Christensen - Peak Pardew signing
    Dean Sinclair another classic Pardew signing. £125k on a lower league journeyman who fell back into non-league where we signed him from.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20070927175531/http://www.cafc.co.uk/newsview.ink?nid=31024


  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,640
    grumpyaddick said:
    Where to start??

    Jeffers?
    This. £ for £. 

    Some of the others mentioned the fee would have been less than £1m.
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  • Redhenry
    Redhenry Posts: 5,359
    Andy Gray
  • Redhenry
    Redhenry Posts: 5,359
    Taxi_Lad said:
    1.5m for Andy Gray from Barnsley I think
    From Burnley, I think they got promoted not long after...

  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,051
    Didn't Andy Gray have some pretty serious off the field things he was dealing with whilst he was with us? Remember him scoring a brace for Burnley at The Valley in I think the season before he signed? 
  • YTS1978
    YTS1978 Posts: 1,705
    Whenever I think of shit overpriced signings I think of Madjid "Magic" Boughera. Wiki says we paid 2.5m for him, but amazingly Rangers stumped up the same to take him off our hands!
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,956
    edited July 2022
    MarcusH26 said:
    Didn't Andy Gray have some pretty serious off the field things he was dealing with whilst he was with us? Remember him scoring a brace for Burnley at The Valley in I think the season before he signed? 
    He did.

    It didn't work out and so was a waste of money from our point of view, but think his wife was seriously ill I think so it was understandable.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,492
    Simon Walton, though not sure if we stumped up the full one million. 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,436
    YTS1978 said:
    Whenever I think of shit overpriced signings I think of Madjid "Magic" Boughera. Wiki says we paid 2.5m for him, but amazingly Rangers stumped up the same to take him off our hands!
    Still remember meeting Alan Pardew outside the Valley, the day Madjid went to Rangers

    Was at one of those training days open to the public - Asked him if there was an update on the transfer, Pardew was already walking away replied: "Madjid's Gone", and stomped off, didnt even look back as he answered... What a twat I thought!!
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,231
    MarcusH26 said:
    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. 

    Had that game in my mind when I saw your post. After that I can't remember him playing so he must have became a sly fox in the box in the shadows.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,175
    For me the worst signings are always linked to the damage they did. Traore was terrible but at last we could put Hermann there when we needed. McLeod was awful, awful value but he was shit amongst a river of shit. Bougherra was horrific value and managed to be just as bad in the Championship as he was in the Premier League so is a real contender. Faye though. Jesus Christ. £2m on him, 28 Premier League appearances. He once looked ok at centre back and other than that I don't think he ever looked like he could play football. He played more than Kish that season and made Bryan Hughes look like Andrea Pirlo. The worst part is Faye had been ok at Portsmouth but atrocious at Newcastle, lasting a season and a half and being terrible for the entire time. The fact we targeted him regardless and then let them make their money back on him was disgraceful, and he proceeded to allow teams to walk through us to help us get relegated. I don't think there's any signing that did more damage to us as a club than that one.
  • Bailey
    Bailey Posts: 3,268
    Worst collective midfield, against Chelsea I think, Denis Rommedahl, Puoso, Amdy Faye and Darren Ambrose, a pile of shit from left to right. 
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  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,231
    edited July 2022
    At 2.45 on match days at the Valley, let's show the players that have underperformed for Charlton, instead of showing us winning playoffs and the good players from years gone by in the premier, show the players mentioned above so we don't look at our mediocre Journeymen in such a bad light when it's KO time.

    On second thought start at 2pm or we won't have time to show all the underachievers that have put on the shirt.
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    killerandflash said:
    cafcfan1990 said:
    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. 
    Pretty sure we lost £1m when we sold him. 
    Possibly, I thought he was 1.2 plus add ons (appearances and promotion clause). I was under impression we ended up paying around 1.6 and got 1.1/1.2 back but could be wrong. 
  • Omurchu
    Omurchu Posts: 10
    Carl tiler
  • kodfish
    kodfish Posts: 631
    Paul Benson
  • 9goalswentpastperry
    9goalswentpastperry Posts: 1,109
    Garrymanilow said:
    For me the worst signings are always linked to the damage they did. Traore was terrible but at last we could put Hermann there when we needed. McLeod was awful, awful value but he was shit amongst a river of shit. Bougherra was horrific value and managed to be just as bad in the Championship as he was in the Premier League so is a real contender. Faye though. Jesus Christ. £2m on him, 28 Premier League appearances. He once looked ok at centre back and other than that I don't think he ever looked like he could play football. He played more than Kish that season and made Bryan Hughes look like Andrea Pirlo. The worst part is Faye had been ok at Portsmouth but atrocious at Newcastle, lasting a season and a half and being terrible for the entire time. The fact we targeted him regardless and then let them make their money back on him was disgraceful, and he proceeded to allow teams to walk through us to help us get relegated. I don't think there's any signing that did more damage to us as a club than that one.
    Faye and Dowie had the same agent in 2006...
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,956
    Omurchu said:
    Carl tiler
    Harsh.

    I wasn't a massive fan of his, but he did an alright ish job (and didn’t cost much) which is more than can be said for most others on here.
  • Fortune 82nd Minute
    Fortune 82nd Minute Posts: 8,353
    Scoham said:
    Faye and Traore have to be up there, signed on the same day for a combined £4m I think.
    Not only up there but undoubtedly in my opinion in the number one spot.

    After all the years when Curbs bought sensibly and sparingly, how on earth did Murray give Pardew the go-ahead to waste so much money on these two?
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Fortune 82nd Minute said:
    Scoham said:
    Faye and Traore have to be up there, signed on the same day for a combined £4m I think.
    Not only up there but undoubtedly in my opinion in the number one spot.

    After all the years when Curbs bought sensibly and sparingly, how on earth did Murray give Pardew the go-ahead to waste so much money on these two?
    didnt Dowie sign them?
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,384
    cafcdave123 said:
    Fortune 82nd Minute said:
    Scoham said:
    Faye and Traore have to be up there, signed on the same day for a combined £4m I think.
    Not only up there but undoubtedly in my opinion in the number one spot.

    After all the years when Curbs bought sensibly and sparingly, how on earth did Murray give Pardew the go-ahead to waste so much money on these two?
    didnt Dowie sign them?
    Yep they were Dowie signings.
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,280
    1. Amdy Faye
    2. Amdy Faye
    3. Amdy Faye

    Can't believe we paid for this useless pile of turd.  My least favorite player of all time by an absolute country mile.  Not only useless, not only on big money but against Wycombe in that debacle of a cup game he kicked a ball straight off the pitch and just shrugged his shoulders.  He could not give a shit.

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