Biggest waste of money?

[Buxtonblade]

Just been reading about Jack Rodwell at Sunderland and was shocked at his ridiculous wage of £70,000 a week on a 4 year contract after a £10m transfer fee. He has only played 67 games in nearly 4 years.

Got me thinking, what player has been our biggest waste of money for the blades?

 

[Tunstall Fred]

John Ebrell

 

[BushBlade]

Lee Hendrie

 

[Pierre's PC]

In before The Beard

 

[BerksBlade]

Lee Hendrie

He was a free transfer and we were still robbed!
Controversial suggestion ... someone who's still at the club

 

[bladesmanluke]

In terms of cost financially in a time where we haven’t been blessed with money, look no further than Dean Hammond. I don’t know the figure, but it’s not hard to imagine the club forked out over £1m in total for this incumbent. At a time immediately prior to one of our best ever managers needing a bit of extra dough to help us back to the premier league and the board being unable to provide it.

Thanks Dean

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Brian Deane. What a waste of £35k, Donny have never stopped laughing at that one.

 

[BushBlade]

He was a free transfer and we were still robbed!
Controversial suggestion ... someone who's still at the club

I think he cost us over £2m in wages.

 

[Kev Gee]

Geoff Horsfield?

 

[BerksBlade]

I think he cost us over £2m in wages.

He wan't nicknamed the Poisoned Dwarf for nothing!

 

[CecColdwell]

Chris Guthrie.

 

[Rufus Smalls]

Steve Finnieston - £100,00 down the pan.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Steve Finnieston - £100,00 down the pan.

Who's he pal?

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

Claude Davis

 

[davidblade]

Jordan Rhodes

 

[Foody]

Claude Davis

Ahh big Claude Davis, one of life's great enigmas. The only thing more shocking than the amount we paid for him, is the fact we managed to sell him on for the same money. So probably not much of a waste....... thanks to Derby, who love nothing more than wasting money!

 

[Tom Bott]

Brian The Blade.

 

[Harry's Game]

Bryan Robson.

 

[Nade]

Claude Davis

I thought he was alright in honesty.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Got to be Geoff Horsfield.

 

[Chali 2na]

Claude Davis

His transfer fee was a bit exorbitant but I thought he was a reasonable defender to be honest.

Considering we recieved more than we paid for him, I don't think he was really a waste of money.

 

[mancunianblade]

I thought he was alright in honesty.

And I’m sure Robson sold him for a profit

 

[Rufus Smalls]

Who's he pal?

Late 70’s mate. Decent scoring record for Chelsea then he signed for us for 1 season and was useless. Not sure if he ended up being injured and jacking in football after that season.

 

[Chali 2na]

Stretching back to the PL season, I can think of the following who didn't deserve their excessive transfer fee/wages while offering practically nothing:

Li Tie, Luton Shelton, David Sommeil, David Cotterill, Andy Taylor, Lyle Taylor, Florent Cuvelier, Michael Higdon, Dean Hammond and Martyn Woolford.

Some grim reading there.

 

[Chali 2na]

Nearly included Darius Henderson who we paid over £3m for. I know he scored a few goals, but it was a lot of money for what is essentially a battering ram.

Ched Evans cost a similar amount, and one fantastic season in League 1 probably doesn't represent value for money either.

 

[bladesmanluke]

Cotterill was a monster whilst he was on loan. As soon as his deal was made permanent he turned to shit. Expensive, gold plated shit.

 

[grafikhaus]

In terms of cost financially in a time where we haven’t been blessed with money, look no further than Dean Hammond. I don’t know the figure, but it’s not hard to imagine the club forked out over £1m in total for this incumbent. At a time immediately prior to one of our best ever managers needing a bit of extra dough to help us back to the premier league and the board being unable to provide it.

Thanks Dean

And thanks, Adkins. Hammond made a highly-suspicious exactly 30 starts for us, was never subbed - despite being appalling - and scored two goals. Or wasn't I seeing all the work he did? Then we played Man. United away in the 3rd round of the FA Cup. Over 74k in attendance. a replay looming and Hammond gifted a penalty to Rooney at the end. Still, it was estimated that we made £1m from this tie. Pity it all went into Adkins' pocket four months later.

Brian Deane. What a waste of £35k, Donny have never stopped laughing at that one.

Allowing for inflation, the Deane fee was a steal compared to the £27,500 Watford conned us out of for Anthony Currie in 1968...

Cotterill was a monster whilst he was on loan. As soon as his deal was made permanent he turned to shit. Expensive, gold plated shit.

Often happens. John Brayford, anyone?

 

[Yellarbellyblade]

John Ebrell

Have to disagree I thought he was excellent every minute he played for us

 

[The Crab]

Surprised nobody has mentioned Vinny Jones. I had high hopes for Brian Marwood too, they were never realised.

 

[Lil red rooster]

james wallace ,3year contract

how the f. did he even pass a medical. staggering.