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I’ve got Kieran Dyer.

Who you got?

Billy Blagg" wrote: ↑29 Oct 2025, 09:46 God, I remember doing a Blagg column on this back in the days when WHO was the Ironworks - yea, it's been that long smartarse - my winner was Derek Hales. His only claim to fame was his astonishing ability with facial hair. I once saw him turn out at v Coventry at Highfield Road clean-shaven before the match. By the time 90 minutes came around, he had a full beard. 

God, I remember doing a Blagg column on this back in the days when WHO was the Ironworks - yea, it's been that long smartarse - my winner was Derek Hales. His only claim to fame was his astonishing ability with facial hair. I once saw him turn out at v Coventry at Highfield Road clean-shaven before the match. By the time 90 minutes came around, he had a full beard. 

goose wrote: ↑29 Oct 2025, 09:30 Savio was nowhere near £10m. From memory we only ever paid a couple of million for him.
Granted he was shit but the fee was all smoke & mirrors.

Paulo Futre.

Savio was nowhere near £10m. From memory we only ever paid a couple of million for him.
Granted he was shit but the fee was all smoke & mirrors.

Not the worst but another disaster currently on the books is Cornet.

Rob Jones 

I’m not sure how to think about Savio in this context. Yes he was shit but I don’t think buying him was a ‘mistake’ per se at all in that our DOF or whatever his title was, that Italian bloke Nani did it on purpose knowing he was shit, to funnel money to his father in law or something at Ascoli? 

Danny Ings.........but it could be anyone of the ones mentioned. A shocking and frightening thread!

clown world

Zaza famously took a shot at the goal that went out for a throw in.

For me its Savio, £10m was a decent wedge at the time and he was as bad if not worse than Roberto 

Kilman and Haller are also up there for wastes of money.  Felipe Anderson also deserves a mention 

Wilshere has to be in the discussion also

there were quite a few when we moved to the LS that could have their own chapter, Nordveit, Tore, Calleri, Zaza 

Benni McCarthy called Karren Brady" the devil with a set of tits". This comment was a retort after Brady had heavily criticized him in her newspaper column for his performance at the club. The public argument continued with each of them trading insults, with Brady famously responding to his sexist jibe by saying, "At least I'm supposed to have tits".

Hahaha

My god, I'm getting flashbacks reading through this thread. Watched far too many of the absolute bilge mentioned on here. The price tags on many of them bordered on criminal.

goose wrote: ↑28 Oct 2025, 22:15 Todibo is giving Kilman a run for his money.

F 129 Row66" wrote: ↑29 Oct 2025, 03:04 Because of how much he cost, Max Kilman is the most disastrous signing we have ever made.
Roberto the goalkeeper.
The black teenager we paid a fortune for. Can't remember hs name

Freddie Ljungberg was finished when signed on massive wages and a waste of space.

Because of how much he cost, Max Kilman is the most disastrous signing we have ever made.
Roberto the goalkeeper.
The black teenager we paid a fortune for. Can't remember hs name

Fucking hell weve had some candidates.  Glad someone mentioned benni Mccarthy.  If the fat cսnt could t be arsed to get motivated to play in the world cup
in his own country he was hardly gonna bother doing it for us was he

Robbie Keane was dogshit too and cost us points missing sitters

titi fuckign camara 
Boogers

Nigel quashie

Calvin phillips was one of the worst players l've ever seen in my life

Roberto was worse than allen mcknight and that hermanson doesn't look much better.  But hes stuck behind an abysmal defence.

90%.of our current squad are beyond shit. Especily that cսnt kilman

Fuck me its fun being a west ham fan

Davor Suker?

All that talent and we got none of it. 

Boogers.
Kelly.
Mido.(Then again. All striker’s bought under the current regime could be put in here.)
DEADLY DON. The Return. 
Dicks 2nd time around.

Let’s face it. We are a hot bed for.”Has Beens.” And “Never Will Be’s”!

Todibo 
He is shit and doesn't want to be at the club, the same  with 
Rodríguez

Todibo is giving Kilman a run for his money.

Roberto is the worst ever player to step on the field for this football club. But the context there is he was a free transfer, and brought in as a back up keeper, even though he was literally throwing the ball into our net. It's incredible just how bad he was.

But the worst signing, pound for pound, given the situation at the time, is Benni McCarthy.

Said it recently on another thread, but he had played against us that season, and he was the size of a fucking whale in that game and couldn't move. We were bang in relegation trouble, we were lacking a striker, lacking pace, and Victor Moses was available from Palace for £2.5mil and had been playing up front. It was the only cash we had, and we signed that finished fat cսnt with our last bit of cash when we were genuinely skint. He waddled through a few games, never scored, he literally couldn't run, which we knew BEFORE he signed. At least most of the players being mentioned on this thread tried, even if they were shit. He didn't try a leg.

Kilman is getting close, even though he was only part of a big spending spree unlike the cսnt above, but given he was £40mil, and in my eyes is the biggest weakness in a team that is going to get relegated, he is firmly in the conversation.

The Kalvin Phillips thing was bizarre. £7mil he cost us, even though it was only on loan. Had previously been very good for England, signed for big money from Man City, and he looked like he'd been plucked out of the women's 4th division to play in the Prem. I reckon he was probably the one player where the difference between what was expected and what we got was the most stark.

 

Pellegrini and husillos definitely unearthed some treasures

Carlos sanchez 

Obvs we are complaining now about kilman and todibo, but the big disasters and financial losses started with pellegrini and we still havent recovered. The Rice money and the european run probably kept the club from collapsing. 

I think someone who isnt me should do a few sums and stats to properly crown the "worst ever signing"