Watto Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 RHODES a reported £8-10M was spent on a guy who scored around 10 goals in years, nothing else comes close apart from Almen Abdi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZicoSterland2 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Rhodes for transfer fee, Abdi for effort , both smashed out of the ball park by Jay Slothroyd (I know he was only a loan signing ) the worst signing I have seen in 47 years of following the Owls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosborough-owl Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Just for the amount alone, and it’s no fault of his but Rhodes. 10million. Wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sham67 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 See we’re still playing the game of wildly over inflating Rhodes’ transfer fee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickyTrev Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Almen Abdi. On paper he was an excellent signing but the guy had zero interest in playing football when he got here and used us as one last pay day before he danced off into the sunset. When you look at the money we spent on him in both transfer fee and wages, we could’ve bought in a top class Championship midfielder instead of that waste of a contract and that could’ve been the difference between us getting promoted or not. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 4 hours ago, vulva said: It’s easy to pick Rhodes but at the time everyone thought he was a great signing. We needed that final push to get us over the line and he ticked every box. Rhodes falls into the hindsight part of the Venn diagram. Jeffers is the worst signing ever. We spent money we didn’t have, every penny of it, at the last minute in a panic, on a player who had never done much, and was usually injured. And had a bad attitude. Not everyone thought he was a great signing. We already had Fletcher Forrestieri Hooper Joao Nuhiu and had just signed Winall. Every fan likes buying players but even without hindsight he was obviously overpriced and we didn't need him. Lots of fans including me just shrugged and thought well if he gets us promoted maybe its worth it. Turned out he was sh*te as well. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthefish2002 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 8 hours ago, HOOTIE AND THE poo TU said: Wim Yonk 3 Million for a 33 year old Was £2.5m and he was 31 when he signed for Wednesday. Still a waste of money though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollymae's Dad Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 id say Abdi, not for his transfer fee and lack of appearances but his medical bills alone id of loved him to do well en all.......:-( 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sternlad Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Abdi is one of those cowboys you’d love to meet and give them a pwoper talking to…in fact the follow up to Cowboy Builders should be Wage-stealing Footballers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyCraig Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 The biggest waste in my mind was Francis not signing Cantona. He turned out to be quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Rhodes was clearly a waste of money and was more than anything a bizarre piece of business. We had no real need for him, he didn’t fit into the way we played and his fees/ wages contributed to years and years of financial problems we still suffer from today. Crazy signing really. But to be fair he was at least available for selection and I don’t feel can really be personally blamed for the failure. Abdi was a total joke. For what we paid in fees and wages we could probably have sorted out hot water in the north stand bogs! FFS. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Rhodes Sibon Jeffers De Bilde Donnelly Sinton Abdi Olsen Hinchcliffe Jones To name but a few Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniele Giovanni Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 9 hours ago, New Maple Staple said: Haven't we signed players before and then never played them / they haven't even played a game for us? Darryl Lachmann? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elyowl1 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Bit harsh on Jonk to be fair 68/76 played in the Premier League for us, after relegation it was a total meltdown half the squad left on frees and we were in disarray. Not saying his attitude in his last season was acceptable but far worse signings over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOOTIE AND THE SHIT TU Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 9 hours ago, pat blondeau said: £2 million for a Dutch international who played at two world cups or £10 million for a striker who barely played above the 2nd tier of English football and you pick the Dutch international as the bigger waste of money? Sorry mate I didn't realise it was a test But just for comparison, and taking into account how inflated transfer fees are these days Back then you could sign a player who had played in world cups like Yonk for 3 million, or a Petrescu for 2 million, or a Di Canio for 4 million, or a Carbone for 3 million Paying 3 million out back then would be the equivilant of paying 50 million today, minimum So yeah, I still think Wim Yonk was our biggest waste of money 2 Just a bloke, who used up all his luck in one go when he met his wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bannofan Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 4 hours ago, vulva said: It’s easy to pick Rhodes but at the time everyone thought he was a great signing. We needed that final push to get us over the line and he ticked every box. Rhodes falls into the hindsight part of the Venn diagram. Jeffers is the worst signing ever. We spent money we didn’t have, every penny of it, at the last minute in a panic, on a player who had never done much, and was usually injured. And had a bad attitude. I completely disagree with this to be honest. I think everyone was blindsided when he signed as we filled all the striker positions. We simply didn't need him, and as such he totally ruined the balance of the squad. I also disagree with the early post that said he gave everything. I don't know what personal stuff Rhodes was going through, but I never witnessed a player that gave everything, and I don't think the numerous managers he had here did. That's why I believe he is the biggest waste of money in our history. He hamstrung us with regards to other transfers as he cost so much, we couldn't get rid of him either and he appeared to want to take a pay cut to restart his career. His prerogative not to do that though. Players like Jeffers and Bothroyd were a less expensive and less lengthy disappointment , but they were terrible signings. Abdi didn't do anything for us, and was also a player that we didn't need and seemed to affect the balance of the squad, but I can't get angry about him. I just think he had ' issues' that we will never know about, and I think the club didn't do their homework on him before signing him. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcmigo Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 I could see why we went for Rhodes . He was a goal machine until he went to Boro and we probably gambled that he wasn’t getting games or goals due to the very defensive set up of Karanka. I can also see why we went for abdi as he was a tough and technical player who was fantastic at watford. the one that I still can’t get past is van aken. I am no professional scout or ex player but within 5 minutes of his debut had my head in my hands. I still haven’t seen another professional centre back with such clear flaws on basic defensive footwork. I honestly think he was not scouted at all or something funny went on there. I knew we were in trouble that game as Loovens was past it and his replacement wasn’t even pub standard. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daleblue Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Lb for Lb, it's got to be Bannon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Yen Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 PAXO for me, he was responsible for us signing a load of sh!te. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat blondeau Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 37 minutes ago, HOOTIE AND THE poo TU said: Sorry mate I didn't realise it was a test But just for comparison, and taking into account how inflated transfer fees are these days Back then you could sign a player who had played in world cups like Yonk for 3 million, or a Petrescu for 2 million, or a Di Canio for 4 million, or a Carbone for 3 million Paying 3 million out back then would be the equivilant of paying 50 million today, minimum So yeah, I still think Wim Yonk was our biggest waste of money Cheers Hootie - didn’t mean it to sound like that. Rhodes takes it for me for spending £10 million on a championship striker when we already had Fletcher, Hooper, Forestieri, Joao, Atdhe and Winnall at the club but can see your logic with Jonk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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