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CFC Top 5 Worst transfers

  1. Lukaku
  2. Kepa
  3. Wesley Fofana
  4. Garnacho
  5. Sutton
All grade A a$$h*les who don't/didn't give any respect to the club.
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I'd have Sterling ahead of Garnacho and Sutton. Nothing personal, but just a very bad signing at crazy wages. Agree with your top two.

 
I'd have Sterling ahead of Garnacho and Sutton. Nothing personal, but just a very bad signing at crazy wages. Agree with your top two.
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I'd have Sterling ahead of Garnacho and Sutton. Nothing personal, but just a very bad signing at crazy wages. Agree with your top two.
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Fair. Though Sterling has not seemed to cause any issues, or been a jacka$$

 
Fair. Though Sterling has not seemed to cause any issues, or been a jacka$$
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He hasn't, which is why I said there's nothing personal in my ranking him so high on my list of all-time bad buys, but he was a terrible signing on account of the fee, his wages and his contribution.

 
Kepa, world record fee? How the f**k did that happen.
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We dicked around with Courtois at the end of 2017/18, instead of moving to secure Alisson in Jan 2018. Then instead of punting him at the start of the transfer window, we held out until the end and had to sign Kepa at his release clause.

 
I'd have Sterling ahead of Garnacho and Sutton. Nothing personal, but just a very bad signing at crazy wages. Agree with your top two.
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Still think it's just too soon on Garnacho given his age. The crazy wages are an issue, but at least we did not sign Sancho from them. in football, what looks like crazy wages today may not seem that crazy tomorrow. 😅

 
  1. Lukaku
  2. Kepa
  3. Sheva
  4. Torres
  5. Bakayoko
  6. Kk
  7. Sterling
  8. Mudryk
  9. Nkunku
  10. Morata
  11. Cudrado
  12. Disasi
  13. AvB (though a coach deserves to be here)
  14. Pulisic
 
Bogarde

Bolareouz

Bakayoko

Sutton

Marin

Pre prem

Mitchell

Mayes

Liningstone

Docherty

Fleck

 
I'd say Kepa but it has been slightly mitigated by later inflicting him upon Arsenal. Makes Bobby Sánchez look like Lev Yashin.
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This and it is not even close. Some mention Lukaku n Sterling, these two didn't workout but they were clearly good players.

Kepa on the other hand feel more like a scam.

 
I’ll admit when we signed Brian Laudrup in the summer of 1998. He’d be a brilliant player for us.

And when we bought Lukaku the second time. I thought he’d be a great signing and score a lot goals.

 
The lack of Torres and Shevchenko high up on these lists is so surprising. I can't decide whether it's because time heals all wounds, or whether it's because our transfer business somehow got worse after they left!

My top 5:

  1. Torres - Firstly, it derailed the Ancelotti years after we had fought hard to be a force again, and secondly the fallout clearly led Abramovich to reduce spending and investment. The biggest issue, however, was the opportunity cost - by signing Torres we missed on on Sergio Aguero, who we were also in for at the time and could have easily beaten City to.
  2. Shevchenko - our first 'reality check' under Roman. Shevchenko's failure was seismic because it made us look vulnerable again as a club and it made Jose Mourinho look like he'd lost his magic touch. Shevchenko's transfer was the catalyst behind a lot of things that eroded the club: the rift with Mourinho, the departure of Robben, the introduction of the 'death of football' midfield and the struggle between boardroom, manager and players that never really healed until Sarri/Lampard/Tuchel. It was a cultural mess that the club hadn't really seen since Vialli had the rug pulled out from under him.
  3. Shaun Wright-Phillips - a high-profile vanity project that fanned the flames of media resentment even more. The money spent on him was massive at the time (equivalent to a 80m+ signing now). He added nothing to the team and couldn't handle the pressure of such an environment.
  4. Tiemoue Bakoyoko - Reading the thread at the time, I remember thinking that Monaco's golden generation was similar to the 1995 A**x team; we could pay top money for a world-beater (Mbappe, Fabinho, Silva) or try be clever and sign the Jari Litmanen of that bunch for cheap. The club outdid all my expectations by paying top dollar for the worst player in that team. Again, it wasn't just the money but the fact that his failures left Conte's plans in a heap after Matic's loss of form and eventual departure, and arguably contributed to Kante's burnout and recurrent injury. Just never looked nor acted like a top-flight footballer from day 1.
  5. Bogarde - but not for the money. It was the damage to the club and to its reputation that followed that hurt more. Vialli later claimed he had no knowledge of the transfer and it was entirely done by Colin Hutchinson. It's possible that he had already lost the dressing room by that pre-season. Bogarde became synonymous with Chelsea waste, but I think history has been harsher on him than it has on the club.
 
You’ve all forgotten about the legendary Mineiro who’s now plying his skills in an amateur Australian league playing against former socceram gold years and What Did You Do Yesterday? presenter Max Rushden.

 
You’ve all forgotten about the legendary Mineiro who’s now plying his skills in an amateur Australian league playing against former socceram gold years and What Did You Do Yesterday? presenter Max Rushden.
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Actually, he's coaching

 
We dicked around with Courtois at the end of 2017/18, instead of moving to secure Alisson in Jan 2018. Then instead of punting him at the start of the transfer window, we held out until the end and had to sign Kepa at his release clause.
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Other keepers were available, surely.

 
That article is three years old & he’s only playing amateur football, he can do both.
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I forgot to mention that Max Rushden is considered some sort of top-tier sports presenter god over here, for some reason. Truly a meeting of the mediocre

Other keepers were available, surely.
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Donnarumma would surely have been the preferred option were it not for his agent at the time being Mino Raiola, whom the club basically banned in 2017 after the Lukaku saga.

Another problem was that most of the top-tier of keepers at the time had just completed their moves. IMO we should have gone for Jan Oblak as a straight swap, since we were never getting a huge fee for Courtois and he just wanted to move to Madrid so probably would have preferred returning to Atletico.

 
I forgot to mention that Max Rushden is considered some sort of top-tier sports presenter god over here, for some reason. Truly a meeting of the mediocre

Donnarumma would surely have been the preferred option were it not for his agent at the time being Mino Raiola, whom the club basically banned in 2017 after the Lukaku saga.

Another problem was that most of the top-tier of keepers at the time had just completed their moves. IMO we should have gone for Jan Oblak as a straight swap, since we were never getting a huge fee for Courtois and he just wanted to move to Madrid so probably would have preferred returning to Atletico.
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Kepa was basically sarri signing, he was recommended by Reina to sarri

 
I forgot to mention that Max Rushden is considered some sort of top-tier sports presenter god over here, for some reason. Truly a meeting of the mediocre
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Max is a broadcasting legend and I won’t hear a bad word against him.

 
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