Obertan is another pacy player but often looks clueless with regards to what to do with the ball, and has almost no end product. 6) Lucas Hernandez (Bayern Munich) The move didn't work, but neither did Marlet, who scored 11 goals in 49 starts over his two seasons in West London. Taking over for injured Lukasz Fabianski, calamitous performances saw Roberto allow 14 goals (including an own goal) across his seven starts. Although it's easy to look back on Liverpool's first candidate to replace Suarez as a foolish bet, there was some logic behind their attempt. A right-back distinctly lacking in pace, Whittaker looks capable in the Championship but something of a liability against the increased tempo and ability of the Premier League. Souness brought Dia in on a trial. The Cameroonian cost only £4.1 million when he was signed by United in 2003, and as a 22-year-old, he was more of a prospect than a realistic replacement for Roy Keane. It's time for the 50 worst transfers in Premier League history. Eric Djemba-Djemba (Manchester United) is the patron saint of these sorts of lists, but I really think it's more about his name than anything else. Juventus will offer Cristiano Ronaldo to PSG as part of a £360million package for Kylian Mbappe... Bruno Fernandes and – first – Cristiano Ronaldo were put on similar regimes on arriving at Old Trafford. Doyley's contract was actually due to expire in 2015, but he has remained on the books at the club as he recovers from a long-term neck injury. With the days of Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton gone, you can understand why the recently promoted Rovers made their move to sign the 25-year-old Grabbi, who had finished second in Serie B after scoring 20 goals for lowly Ternana the prior season. Having looked over 28 years of transfer data for my list of the 100 best Premier League transfers -- 100-51 here and 50-1 here -- it is time to go in the opposite direction. It just never seemed to come together in West London for the World Cup winner, who scored just once in his first half-season and never topped eight Premier League goals in his time with the club. Signed from Parma (Italy) for £4.5 million, 1995. Signed from Blackburn for £19.8 million, 2008. You can criticize him for taking the money, I suppose, but Sunderland are the ones who handed him the contract. Signed from Porto (Portugal) for £40.5 million, 2014. Instead, Sanchez scored just three Premier League goals in one-and-a-half seasons. • Premier League Hall of Fame Sometimes, you mine the Eredivisie for its top scorer and come away with Ruud van Nistelrooy. There's something romantic about getting on your landline and convincing one of the most decorated players in Liverpool history that your friend is a Premier League-caliber footballer, let alone actually getting him onto the pitch for 52 minutes. That would have been one thing if Rodwell were a key member of the club, but he played just 105 minutes as Sunderland were relegated again. I am a young sports writer with a particular passion for soccer. A man calls Southampton manager Graeme Souness pretending to be World Player of the Year George Weah. After a second uninspiring season, he lost his place by dousing manager Harry Redknapp with a celebratory ice bucket. The only place he led them was down the same path. A slowed Sanchez doesn't fit in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's counter-attacking style of play, and an attempt to reduce the wage bill led United to loan him to Inter this season. The Canada-born midfielder would make just five more appearances in the Premier League, four of which came over his final three seasons with United. Bebe hadn't played at a level beyond the Portuguese third division, but on the recommendation of former assistant Carlos Queiroz, Ferguson shelled out £7.9m to sign a player who once suited up for Portugal in the Homeless World Cup. Torres scored 65 league goals in 7,856 minutes for Liverpool, or about once every 120.8 minutes; after signing for Chelsea, he netted a mere 20 league goals in 6,824 minutes, which was closer to once every 341 minutes. I promise this is the last Southampton attacker for a bit. Johnson never appeared for the club again. Cavani signed a 12-month deal, with the option to extend for a further year, at United on Monday. Delgado made just two starts and played a mere 303 minutes over his three years in England, scoring once. Here are the top 100 players and managers in men's soccer, as rated by our experts. He played just 65 minutes and trained five times in his first season after joining Southampton in 2002, only to then play all three matches for Ecuador in the World Cup. Ndong was a much better player than Djilobodji, but both of their Stadium of Light careers ended the same way. If he were named Eric Stevens and arrived from Bradford City, Djemba-Djemba would not get the same sort of attention he has since leaving United. Ian Darke delves into the story of Ali Dia, who was ranked as the Prem's worst transfer ever by Bill Barnwell. Mangala looked to be a rising superstar when City spent more than £40m to buy him from Porto, but Mangala was inconsistent under Manuel Pellegrini and frozen out under Pep Guardiola. 8) Paul Pogba (Man United) Here are the top 15 worst players in the Premier League today: Out-of-favor Newcastle United winger Yoan Gouffran currently finds himself on the bench at St. James' Park following some less than inspiring form in the North East. His failure contributed to Rodgers' sacking just over a year after nearly leading Liverpool to a Premier League title. While Hargreaves had battled injury issues before making his move to England in summer 2007, nobody could have anticipated just how badly the England international would fare in his struggle to stay healthy. He would return to Derby on a free transfer, in part because he was impressed with the club's training facilities. a brace in a 3-2 Honduras road win at RFK Stadium against the U.S. the star winger was scapegoated for Louis van Gaal's uninspiring debut season, even he admitted he couldn't cope with English football, his goal at Barcelona that sealed a place in the 2012 Champions League final, as Gary Neville said with the benefit of hindsight, that famous gaffe against Southampton's Matt Le Tissier, an attempt to saw off Gary Neville's leg at the knee, a misheard quote from West Ham's press officer, scored the opener in Birmingham's 2-1 Carling Cup final win over Arsenal, the worst training session I have ever come across, was impressed with the club's training facilities, compared Imbula to Patrick Vieira when he signed for the club in 2016, were able to convince Rodwell to cancel his contract, more surprised when Delgado showed up in 2003, threatening to block him from signing with another club until his contract expired, said he wished he had never signed for Liverpool in the first place, accused the Frenchman of deliberately overpaying for Marlet to try to pocket part of the fee, later described his time with the club as "hell", was fined after showing up drunk for training in March, dousing manager Harry Redknapp with a celebratory ice bucket, claiming he had made the move to beat Real Madrid to the punch, suggested he would have preferred to stay at his orphanage, reportedly worth £391,000-per-week with £75,000 appearance bonuses and a £1.1m annual bonus, more than £200,000-per-week to play in Italy, Balotelli was his last available choice to replace Suarez, refused to loan him unless the other club would pick up the entirety of his wages, a club-record £4.5m to sign him in summer 1995, John Hartson famously kicked Eyal Berkovic in the jaw while the two were at West Ham, Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer got into a mid-match fistfight while the pair were at Newcastle, head-butted defender Jose Fonte during training, ended up going directly to Balaban himself, eight months before he could complete a full 90-minute match, spend the remaining 30 months of his contract in the reserves, unsurprisingly blamed Villa for his failed tenure in England, had a clause obligating Sunderland to buy Alvarez at the end of the season, after allegedly trying to take home the girlfriend of League 2 defender Kgosi Ntlhe, responsible for two goals in a 6-1 loss against Manchester City, sent Dia on as a substitute in the 32nd minute. 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