by Snowflake Royal »
28 May 2021 11:53
Ilori - the right sort of signing and not as bad as people like to make out, but not exactly a clear success
Popa - utter waste of time and money, seemingly a bad attitude too
Oxford - rather pointless, but we've done ok with loanee PL defenders so ok cover
Grabban - mindless signing, woefully out of form and not played where actually suited
Mutch - oh look, it's a name we recognise from the PL must be good. Part of an appalling transfer strategy to recruit based on name and reputation.
Mannone - absolutely woeful signing. Average keeper, not in any sort of form at a huge cost. See above
Edwards - again, not as bad as people like to make out, but one of the reputation crowd
Bodvarsson - distinctly average, but did a job. The sort of striker you sign as back up or to fill a gap until your first/second/third choice is available. Shame we didn't have a plan to do that.
Bacuna - did ok, but attitude stank and hugely overpriced. Another big money failure from the policy of signing names on a downward spiral who weren't great on big money
Clement - reasonable punt should probably have got more chances
Aluko - the absolute epitome of our transfer policy at the time. Sign players with no idea how to use them, because of their name, towards the end of their career when they're in decline, pay massively over the odds and watch them be dog shit
Barrow - partial success, but another poorly scouted player bought on potential with no thought to attitude or application.
There's only really one huge flop in there, with the main issue with a lot of the rest cost vs value. But there's also at best only a few partial successes.
We've had worse signings than a lot of them, but we've very rarely had such a long list of signings with no one who excelled.