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

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  • 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?
    Spot on. Can only put it down to my brain still being frazzled by the heat on Tuesday!
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,151
    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
    God, I forgot about them. Have the shivers just reading that post.
  • Redhenry
    Redhenry Posts: 5,359
    Pardew demanded that we signed Gray and that he would get us promoted
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,827
    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. 
    Did you see the Wycombe game ?

  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,661
    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. 
    The money received went to Pardew as payment for us sacking him.
  • Marriott110
    Marriott110 Posts: 1,528
    kodfish said:
    Paul Benson
    think this one's harsh, not his fault he got played as a target man under Parkinson and replaced by BWP by Jan of that season

  • Marcus Bent £2.3m and didn’t break sweat once. I’d be surprised if he even made the effort to break wind
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,879
    Redhenry said:
    Pardew demanded that we signed Gray and that he would get us promoted
    Pardew promised to get us out of the Championship, and was true to his word...
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    Allan Simonsen. Played a handful of games and cost us a fortune. Bloody rubbish 😎
  • Jac_52
    Jac_52 Posts: 1,460
    Marcus Bent £2.3m and didn’t break sweat once. I’d be surprised if he even made the effort to break wind

    We paid money for Marcus Bent?! Good lord.

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  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,001
    Varney, Gray and McLeod. All around the same time. What a dreadful waste. 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,386
    kodfish said:
    Paul Benson
    think this one's harsh, not his fault he got played as a target man under Parkinson and replaced by BWP by Jan of that season

    On ability one of the worst but far better value for money than many mentioned in here. Tried his best and got into double figures which is more than a various former strikers did.
  • YTS1978
    YTS1978 Posts: 1,705
    kodfish said:
    Paul Benson
    I quite liked Benson tbh!
  • YTS1978
    YTS1978 Posts: 1,705
    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.
    Christ. I didn't realise he played so many games for us! I do remember him scoring away at Pompey though. Our only away win of the season I think. He scuffed the ball at goal during a penalty box melee, it rebounded off david james and back off Fayes shin looping over the the keeper into the net. Glorious stuff!
  • Lepoint has to be the worst. There is no way that guy is a professional footballer, he chased the ball like he was on a primary school football pitch. 
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,252
    The Premier league side that we went down with had some absolute dossers of professionals in. Traore stands out for me as does Boughera, ma lot of people liked him but I had his number, a dirty bastard too. 

    Varney I cant have on this list, worked his bollocks off every single time he aged for us and so gle handedly ripped Palace apart.

    McCleod was and still is a wanker and the fact we paid what we did for him nearly made me and @northstandsteve combust utter wanker is McLeod. Youga can also eat a bag of dicks, bottle merchant. Moutakill I thought with his rabona cross in his home debut for Marcus Bent to open the scoring v Scunthorpe was going to be a future galactico, turns out that was as good as it got. Semedo should have stayed a centre half, the crab and Racon was a bottler too. 

    Diawara was a good defender but I will always hold resentment for in my opinion costing us the game v Wigan in the 07 season ducking under the ball. 

    Francis Jeffers, wanker, I think Curbs had his paws burned a bit with him and was so so reluctant to sign anyone with a bit of alleged pedigree since and moved away from his method of rightly signing people based on their character. 

    Since then the last decade I could write a book about the squad and it would be easier to pick out players I liked/rated/warmed to as opposed to the ocean of oily shite we signed and paid a wage to 
  • Jac_52
    Jac_52 Posts: 1,460
    Carter said:
    The Premier league side that we went down with had some absolute dossers of professionals in. Traore stands out for me as does Boughera, ma lot of people liked him but I had his number, a dirty bastard too. 

    Varney I cant have on this list, worked his bollocks off every single time he aged for us and so gle handedly ripped Palace apart.

    McCleod was and still is a wanker and the fact we paid what we did for him nearly made me and @northstandsteve combust utter wanker is McLeod. Youga can also eat a bag of dicks, bottle merchant. Moutakill I thought with his rabona cross in his home debut for Marcus Bent to open the scoring v Scunthorpe was going to be a future galactico, turns out that was as good as it got. Semedo should have stayed a centre half, the crab and Racon was a bottler too. 

    Diawara was a good defender but I will always hold resentment for in my opinion costing us the game v Wigan in the 07 season ducking under the ball. 

    Francis Jeffers, wanker, I think Curbs had his paws burned a bit with him and was so so reluctant to sign anyone with a bit of alleged pedigree since and moved away from his method of rightly signing people based on their character. 

    Since then the last decade I could write a book about the squad and it would be easier to pick out players I liked/rated/warmed to as opposed to the ocean of oily shite we signed and paid a wage to 

    I rated Youga.
  • Cory Gibbs hasn’t had a mention yet!!
  • Ross
    Ross Posts: 4,412
    Cory Gibbs hasn’t had a mention yet!!
    Because we didn’t pay a fee for him.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,483
    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
    Was a very good player though….a real shame.🥺

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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,483
    Joe McLaughlin from Chelsea.
    Really……that surprises me, OK he didn’t set the place on fire but I don’t remember him being what you’d call a disaster signing either.
  • Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
  • Forget my comment Hasselbaink was a free agent
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,386
    Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
    Came on a free
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    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...
    Faye was ment to come the previous January as well. 
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    edited July 2022
    Going back a good few years, Terry Bullivant was very expensive by our standards at the time (£80K) I think and from what I recall produced little for that sort of outlay.

    EDIT: £108K was the fee according to this: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/terry-bullivant/profil/trainer/15344
  • superclive98
    superclive98 Posts: 4,775
    Joe McLaughlin from Chelsea.
    Didn't we sign him from Chelsea to play alongside Colin Pates (former teammate) and then promptly sold Pates to Arsenal.
    Don't think that McLaughlin was a bad buy at all.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    edited July 2022
    Omurchu said:
    Carl tiler
    Are you a forest fan?  There is almost an entire chapter on him in Clough's autobiography, almost single handedly blamed signing for them getting relegated than saying it wasn't Carl's fault. 
  • superclive98
    superclive98 Posts: 4,775
    The Pardew era was a disaster with regard to the transfer market (and everything else), as he seemed determined to overpay for players.
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,810
    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

    You basically stole my post.

    The Holy Trinity of Shite: Faye, Traore & Diawara.