There’s been so many players of £70m or more who have 100% not lived up to the price tag, I was just wondering who you thing was the biggest flop? Is it Kepa or Lukaku? Anthony or Sancho? Has Grealish lived up to his price tag and did Pogba ever seem worth it for United? And then there’s Mudryk (and Harry Maguire…)

  • N_Ryan_@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    There’s talk of Antony being the biggest flop, and statistically he is behind Sancho. But I think of the two, Sancho’s worse. Pogba definitely deserves a mention too. Di Maria’s name isn’t too far from this list either. Equally, I don’t think Maguire deserves to be included at all.

    Chelsea are contenders for the list too. Mudryk and Lukaku both deserving a mention. Though, I do and have always thought Mudryk would come good (not £100m or whatever good, but good). Havertz and Arrizabalaga get an honourable mention too.

    Liverpool, the ever shrewd bunch have Naby Keita.

    Tottenham, you could argue Ndombele (though I think unfair).

    At Arsenal, we have Pepe who was phenomenally bad. You could argue Partey too.

    Continuing with the sex offenders we have Benjamin Mendy at city.

    Then we have Sigurdsson at Everton.

    Finally (moving on from sex offenders) you could argue Tonali belongs on this list. However great a player he is (although I don’t think he fits in that Newcastle team but that’s another discussion) imagine signing someone for your second highest fee ever, and within eight games them receiving a 10 month ban. It’s almost as if, Milan knew what was coming.

    I think the winner here has to be Lukaku. His transfer fees to Premierleague clubs amount to in the region of £220m. Despite him having a more than respectable return, the fact that about £115m of that was spent by Chelsea for him to have played 36 Premierleague games for them, scoring 8 means he surely has to be the winner.