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

Mendonca In Asdas
Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,716
edited July 2022 in General Charlton
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).
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  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 5,022
    Djimi Traore
    Simon Walton
    Izale McLeod

  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,778
    Faye and Traore have to be up there, signed on the same day for a combined £4m I think.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,763
    Andy Jones
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,204
    edited July 2022
    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
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,341
    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
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,601
    Where to start??

    Jeffers?
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,156
    grumpyaddick said:
    Where to start??

    Jeffers?
    My first thought too. 
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,431
    Viggo Jacobsen  
    Johnny Ostergaard
    Barry Endean 
  • Addickhead86
    Addickhead86 Posts: 1,155
    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
    Slartibartfast Posts: 1,128
    Tony Towner

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  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,724
    edited July 2022
    Bradley Allen signed for quite a big fee (by our standards) and did very little.
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,341
    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
    charltonnick Posts: 3,088
    edited July 2022
    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
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    McLeod, Rowett, Jones, Traore, Hasselbaink to name but a few
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,287
    edited July 2022
    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
    Rothko Posts: 18,876
    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
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,964
    I’m too depressed thinking about them to write anything here.
  • Nicholas
    Nicholas Posts: 7,677
    Karim Bagheri
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,103
    Faye
    Traore 
    McLeod
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,907
    Dorian Smith

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  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,778
    Pedro45 said:
    Dorian Smith
    Did we pay a fee?
  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,192
    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
    killerandflash Posts: 70,467
    Luke Varney and Nicky Ajose were further striker flops
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    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
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,131
    edited July 2022
    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
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    didn't we pay £500k for Omar Puso to play 45 minutes?
  • CL_Phantom
    CL_Phantom Posts: 5,715
    Martin Christensen - Peak Pardew signing
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,610
    Ronnie Schwartz
  • Taxi_Lad
    Taxi_Lad Posts: 3,806
    1.5m for Andy Gray from Barnsley I think
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,984
    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.

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