Your top 5  CFC transfer nightmares.

Use your own criteria.

Any era.

List in reverse order.

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Veron - One mediocre season and then impossible to get rid of.
Torres - A few important goals, but otherwise absolutely awful
Bakayoko - The less said the better
Drinkwater - What were we thinking? (Or drinking)
Lukaku - 100m down the drain to make us a worse team

Special shoutout for the OG of terrible transfers: Winston Bogarde
 

1. Kepa.

2. Bakayoko

3. Drinkwater

4. Veron

5. Lukaku

Kepas transfer will never make sense to me, he wasn't good enough when we bought him, the fee was ridiculous, the contract (7 years) obscene. 

From a purely business pov it just makes no sense. 

I can't hate on Torres, and Lukaku made at least sense at the time we bought him. I don't like calling a transfer bad in hindsight.

Just going to throw out some names others likely won't mention. 

Chris Sutton. Bought for a club record £10m, which was a huge sum of money for the club at the time. Scored just 1 league goal, was so terrible up front we resorted to playing him a makeshift defender. Was quickly sold for £6m.

Adrian Mutu. Signed for about £16m and was playing okay but then he decided to put a load of Bolivian marching powder up his nose. So we sacked him. Juventus then signed him on a free transfer as he was out of contract but then sold him for a profit 12 months later. To this day Mutu still owes Chelsea £15m compensation for his breach of contract. 

Mark Bosnich. Not only did we sign a former Manchester United goalkeeper but turns out he was on the Devil's dandruff and we promptly sacked him. 

Gabriele Ambrosetti. Arrived from Vicenza and Vialli dubbed him "the Italian Ryan Giggs". Made all of 16 appearances for Chelsea and then was farmed out on loan for the remainder of his contract. 

Juan Cuadrado. We sold Andre Schurrle for this pile of crap. One of the worst players to ever pull on a Chelsea shirt. 

Yossi Benayoun. No idea the thinking behind signing him. No one wanted him here then we loaned him to Arsenal and West Ham. 

 

Drinkwater

Benayoun

Cuadrado

Bakayoko

All 4 made zero sense at the time and at a time where we needed actual quality in those key areas. 

The last one is Bogarde because it was a waste of money, time and space.

TBD is Lukaku, absolutely dreadful signing for the amount but I can only judge it at the end of his career with Chelsea. 

Depends on what basis you use.

Based on solely on performances on the pitch there's been a lot worse but factoring in the whole package I don't think anyone gets close to the sheer net negative that Lukaku is bringing to the table so far.

5. Fleck - The Timo Werner of the early 90's.

4. Sutton - He was to us, what Andy Carroll was to Liverpool, a laughing stock.

3. Bakayoko - Not even a football player, was just a groundsman at Monaco, but we still bought him.

2. Drinklwater - Should be doing prison time for fraud.

1. Lukaku - On so many levels this is by far our worst transfer, we paid a World class fee, made him our top earner, broke up an evolving front line that beat City x3 and 3 of the top 4 in Spain, and all he wants is to go back to Inter,  unf***ingbelievable. 

Kepa cannot make my list, purely because we wouldn't have Mendy if we didn't first buy Kepa.

5 minutes ago, coco said:

Kepa cannot make my list, purely because we wouldn't have Mendy if we didn't first buy Kepa.

And he looks half decent this season, ok we overpaid yet not the first by any means.

5. Bakayoko

4. Drinkwater

3. Cuadrado

2. Kepa

1. Lukaku

5. Sutton

4. Cuadrado

3. Bakayoko

2. Lukaku

1. Drinkwater

Honourable mentions: Morata: didn't make the list because we made our money back on him. Veron: Didn't have the expected impact and lost about £12m on him. Zappacosta: So incredibly bang average. Batshuayo: Also very bang average but won us a league title with his goal so stays off the list with Torres. Shavchenko: Failed to get close to what he was signed for.

Fernando Torres would definitely be the first name here for me. English transfer record at the time. Of course, the expectations were extremely high, but what we got was 3 and a half seasons of playing with 10 men when he was on the pitch, tons of missed sitters, and Rafa Benitez desperately brought in to try and bring the best out of him.

1. Bogarde. 

2. Bakayoko

3. Boulahrouz

4. Big Rom

5. Bloody Drinkwater

Might have got obsessed with players beginning with…

I think it's a bit of a knee jerk reaction to put Lukaku on the list though seeing that the season didn't end. Not that it's objectively not true but in order for it to be officially viable the season needs to end.

Still, to see that at the very least 3/5 worst signings are from the last 5 years is a scary realization.

2 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

I think it's a bit of a knee jerk reaction to put Lukaku on the list though seeing that the season didn't end. Not that it's objectively not true but in order for it to be officially viable the season needs to end.

Still, to see that at the very least 3/5 worst signings are from the last 5 years is a scary realization.

Goes to show how crap he is that so many have already given up on him already, that's a lot of knee jerks.

4 hours ago, ForeverCarefree said:

Just going to throw out some names others likely won't mention. 

Chris Sutton. Bought for a club record £10m, which was a huge sum of money for the club at the time. Scored just 1 league goal, was so terrible up front we resorted to playing him a makeshift defender. Was quickly sold for £6m.

Adrian Mutu. Signed for about £16m and was playing okay but then he decided to put a load of Bolivian marching powder up his nose. So we sacked him. Juventus then signed him on a free transfer as he was out of contract but then sold him for a profit 12 months later. To this day Mutu still owes Chelsea £15m compensation for his breach of contract. 

Mark Bosnich. Not only did we sign a former Manchester United goalkeeper but turns out he was on the Devil's dandruff and we promptly sacked him. 

Gabriele Ambrosetti. Arrived from Vicenza and Vialli dubbed him "the Italian Ryan Giggs". Made all of 16 appearances for Chelsea and then was farmed out on loan for the remainder of his contract. 

Juan Cuadrado. We sold Andre Schurrle for this pile of crap. One of the worst players to ever pull on a Chelsea shirt. 

Yossi Benayoun. No idea the thinking behind signing him. No one wanted him here then we loaned him to Arsenal and West Ham. 

 

Del Horno and Khalid. Lord they were useless.

5. Lukaku

4. Sidwell

3. Baba Rahman

2. Sutton

1. Veron

Blimey there have been a few, some of the responses so far are right off the mark for me though. None of the current team, whatever you think of them don't come close. My top 5 

1. Bogarde - no need to explain a complete See you next Tuesday 

2. Fleck - eh ? 

3. Veron -  I am clueless as to where his reputation came from, I seriously think I am a better player at 52, playing walking football, which is ironic  

4.  Sutton - another one from Norwich (like fleck) or did he come via Blackburn ?  I don't remember, and don't care,  he was crap and never stopped slagging us off since (thank him for the goal vs Utd mind)

5.  David Mitchell (not the comedian, but might as well have been, Aussie I think)  - he did produce the greatest magic trick of all time. The ball was hanging above the goal line about head height, a slight gust of wind would have taken it over, up pops David Mitchell, The Shed End were going mental, what a great team goal, tipped in by this amazing forward who would change football forever, Then it happened.. the ball disappeared through his forehead and came out the other side. Dynamo eat your heart out !  

Steve Livingstone springs to mind. Dave Webb took him in a cash+player deal for Graeme LeSaux, a few years before Gullit splashed out £5m to bring him back from Blackburn. Truly shocking bit of business, as Livingstone barely kicked a ball for us while Soxy won the League with them.

I'll save you the trouble @just

5. Cuadrado

4. Werner

3. David Luiz

2. Torres

1. Jorginho

1. Drinkwater is the worst by far!!!!!

2. 100% has to be Kepa in second. 70m for a GK who has been a flop

3. Werner the guy literally is one of the worst footballers I've ever seen at Chelsea

4. Torres. 50m when we could've signed Aguero instead 

5. I would've put Bakayoko but it has to be Lukaku purely on the fact of his recent outburst which nothing good came out of.

5. Djibulijbijilil (Djib) - wtf was the point of this

4. Drinkwater - I still have no clue what this was all about. Almost like Djib - no point in making this signing except to spend money. Might as well put some cash on the ground a light it on fire 

3. Bakayoko - I mean we sang that one song after those losers that where white and try and copy us and the man took it to heart that he didn't have to try anymore or something idk

2. Torres - fee was huge, besides Barca goal (which is worth 50 m in itself), he didn't do sh*t and missed several sitters that my gram could've got over the line (probably, well maybe)

1. Lukaku - 100 million and he's done what he has done... just shambolic so far. The interview, the attitude, the body language, his desire to be back in Italy only for the fans there to say "f**k OFF" I mean all of it is just stupid silliness that he brought onto his self.

2 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Del Horno and Khalid. Lord they were useless.

I'd put Baba Rahman ahead of Del Horno if we're making a list of useless left back signings. 

£20m and looked completely out of his depth every time he played.

1 hour ago, Amputechture said:

I'll save you the trouble @just

5. Cuadrado

4. Werner

3. David Luiz

2. Torres

1. Jorginho

Hmm you think he dislikes Jorgi more than Luiz eh?

That 2017 transfer window (excluding Rudiger) was probably the worst one in history of football.