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Post by wakefieldstokie on Jun 6, 2018 15:26:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 15:28:13 GMT
Him
Winner
Palacios
All up there! We have form!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 17:51:45 GMT
Him Winner Palacios All up there! We have form! Ere, Palacious was simply misunderstood. |
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Post by cheadlestokie on Jun 6, 2018 18:28:23 GMT
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Post by wakefieldstokie on Jun 6, 2018 18:47:08 GMT
Regarding players, new manager, new start etc |
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Post by cheadlestokie on Jun 6, 2018 18:52:37 GMT
Regarding players, new manager, new start etc Thought for a moment you meant about Berahino Should have known better-lost cause |
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Post by tony1234 on Jun 6, 2018 19:38:46 GMT
I look at some of these and think "Not a patch on our Saido".
Take Steve Marlet for instance, Fulham bought him for 11.5m - scored 11 in 54 - "so bad Al Fayed tried to sue the manager for signing him"..
Saido has scored precisely 11 less
Or people that were good players and lost some value, but clearly were overpriced and/or not in a team that fitted them, so a team lost a % of the money and they went on to other things - like Veron and Torres.
Not great, but hardly lost 100% of their value and every shred of their credibility!
Even Albert Luque scored once.
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Jun 6, 2018 19:55:53 GMT
I can't be bothered with clicking through picture galleries, but I'd rate Wimmer as a worse signing than Berahino.
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Post by crapslinger on Jun 6, 2018 22:01:00 GMT
I can't be bothered with clicking through picture galleries, but I'd rate Wimmer as a worse signing than Berahino. On a scale of shitness both would be in the top three of all time SCFC fuck up mega expensive shit signings, Imbula in the top one  |
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Post by jzime on Jun 7, 2018 1:58:20 GMT
I don't know about the singular worst in the history of the Premier League. But as it stands I really think that Berahino is the worst signing in the modern history of the club. Wimmer and Imbula both cost more, but if you look at the wider situation, neither had hurt us as much. -We could drop Wimmer last season because we had three other centre halves who could do more than a job (we should never have signed Wimmer directly because of this, but still). We've also been able to get somebody to take Wimmer off us; they might even buy him if he isn't totally crap for them. -We have been able to loan Imbula out, we probably will be able to cut our loses if Rowett doesn't want to use him. Imbula actually scored two goals and put in a man-of-the-match performance once away at Chelsea: it's not much but it automatically means he contributed more than Berahino. But there was also a degree of logic to those signings, even if the costs were stupid. Imbula was a Porto reject but had shown loads of promise in France. Wimmer had done well in the Bundisliga and was an Austrian international, but had simply been unable to establish a place in a side that played Vertonghen and Alderweireld (arguably the best defensive partnership in the league) in his position. Berahino wasn't anything like that, really. He was just some dumb kid who had one good season in his entire career, and then threw his toys out of the pram the second WBA didn't sell him for £20m. Some dumb kid who had barely played in two years, was overweight by all accounts, and had served a drugs ban literally weeks before we signed him. He was out of contract in the summer and would have been available for a tribunal fee. Despite all of that we spent £12m on him and Hughes hailed him as a potential 15-goal-a-season striker ( uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-england-stk-hughes-idUKKBN1861LH). We put this absurd amount of faith in a man who hadn't scored regularly since 2015, and was already on a year-long goal drought when we signed him. We played him throughout the entirety of the second half of 2016/17, presumably in an attempt to play him into fitness. We neglected to sign another striker in the summer (despite losing our best forward), because the manager still backed this waster to start scoring. And then he didn't score. Not once. Not even a fucking penalty that he sort of demanded to take. And it left us with a strike-force that consisted of a 37-year-old, a teenager, and a Diouf who had no confidence (after being played at full-back to accommodate Berahino!) And in the meantime Berahino has still not actually lost any weight, is/was reportedly earning £70k a week (although I presume he has a relegation wage-cut clause), and regularly turned up late for training. I guess there is still a glimmer of hope that Rowett could get something out of him. I anticipate he might have to try to get him to perform, because I cannot envision many clubs outside of Scotland/League One wanting to take him on loan and we wouldn't get them to pay us any substantial wages for him. But as it stands I really think Berhaino is the worst signing in the club's entire history; he is a striker who doesn't score goals and we've just been relegated because we scored 35 goals in 38 games. |
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Post by djduncanjames on Jun 7, 2018 3:30:20 GMT
Post of the entire Prem decade right here ^^
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Post by wapiti on Jun 7, 2018 4:10:32 GMT
Excellent post.
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Post by senojbor on Jun 8, 2018 0:53:02 GMT
Excellent post. Bob on.
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Post by ed5993 on Jun 8, 2018 5:29:49 GMT
Excellent post - sums it up perfectly.
An extra level of hurt also given Hughes obviously chased him for so many transfer windows.
I always thought Imbula looked really promising for the half a season after he joined in the January - great ability with the ball at his feet, but not aclimatised to Premier league football.... he then seemingly regressed over the summer. I have the feeling he could give us something to offer still in the Championship under new leadership.
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Post by cheekymatt71 on Jun 8, 2018 7:04:39 GMT
Berahino is a shit stain on stoke, football, and the wider world in general.
His next professional game will be at League 2 level in 4 years time when his contract finally runs out.
So yeah surely worst signing in prem history
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Post by realstokebloke on Jun 8, 2018 7:59:55 GMT
That looks like an old rogue's gallery surely, otherwise SB would be right up there.
He is a effing disgrace and surely the blackest mark on the club's transfer dealings to date.
Albeit with 20/20 hindsight, that list also tells us that we should have known better.
I'd forgotten that LMH signed that twonk Jo for the mancs and wasted even more money than he did here.
Can't wait to see what superflop he comes up with at Southampton this time around although, sadly, even he might have learned his lesson by now.
Either that or, unlike us, the Southampton board might actually have done their due diligence and won't let him near the chequebook.
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