Quiz: Top 10 most expensive signings

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

Just a bit of fun and easily answered by Google, but nobody thinks that's big or clever. Who is missing? (all fees in Euros)

 

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11  Yanic Wildschutt   8.2m

12  Dimitrios Giannoulis  7.5m

13  Gary Hooper  6.3m

14  Dean Ashton  6m

15  Angus Gunn  5.85m

[Feedthewolf 4,861]

OMG I thought we were finally done with the ridiculous claims that we paid £7m for Yanic Wildschut...

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

1 minute ago, Feedthewolf said:

OMG I thought we were finally done with the ridiculous claims that we paid £7m for Yanic Wildschut...

A man is only as good as his internet cutting and pasting

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 3,825]

van Wolfswinkel, Naismith, Klose, Sargent, Tzolis, Rashica, Sara... possibly Gibson?

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

6 minutes ago, The Great Mass Debater said:

Just a bit of fun and easily answered by Google, but nobody thinks that's big or clever. Who is missing? (all fees in Euros)

 

1  Christos Tzolis  11m

2  Milot Rashica  11m

3  Steven Naismith 11m

4  Timm Klose 11m

5  Gabriel Sara  10.5

6  Ricky van Wolfswinkel 10m

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8  Josh Sargent  9.5m

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10  Ben Gibson  9.3m

11  Yanic Wildschutt   8.2m

12  Dimitrios Giannoulis  7.5m

13  Gary Hooper  6.3m

14  Dean Ashton  6m

15  Angus Gunn  5.85m

 

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

I wonder how many of these were record signings

[Faded Jaded Semi Plastic SOB 1,033]

Would Pritchard be in that list, I seem to remember we paid a few quid for him?..........

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

5 minutes ago, Faded Jaded Semi Plastic SOB said:

Would Pritchard be in that list, I seem to remember we paid a few quid for him?..........

 

1  Christos Tzolis  11m

2  Milot Rashica  11m

3  Steven Naismith 11m

4  Timm Klose 11m

5  Gabriel Sara  10.5

6  Ricky van Wolfswinkel 10m

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8  Josh Sargent  9.5m

9  Alex Pritchard  9.4m

10  Ben Gibson  9.3m

11  Yanic Wildschutt   8.2m

12  Dimitrios Giannoulis  7.5m

13  Gary Hooper  6.3m

14  Dean Ashton  6m

15  Angus Gunn  5.85m

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

Not a bad squad that. Though we'd need someone to play emergency Right Back (the right footed Wildschutt probably the best choice)

Edited February 23 by The Great Mass Debater

[......and Smith must score. 1,349]

We got around £13m from Burnley for Robbie Brady but I seem to remember we did well out of that deal so maybe he doesn’t make the list.

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

3 minutes ago, The Great Mass Debater said:

1  Christos Tzolis  11m

2  Milot Rashica  11m

3  Steven Naismith 11m

4  Timm Klose 11m

5  Gabriel Sara  10.5

6  Ricky van Wolfswinkel 10m

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8  Josh Sargent  9.5m

9  Alex Pritchard  9.4m

10  Ben Gibson  9.3m

11  Yanic Wildschutt   8.2m

12  Dimitrios Giannoulis  7.5m

13  Gary Hooper  6.3m

14  Dean Ashton  6m

15  Angus Gunn  5.85m

 

27 Ivo Pinto 3.7m 

 

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

1 minute ago, ......and Smith must score. said:

We got around £13m from Burnley for Robbie Brady but I seem to remember we did well out of that deal so maybe he doesn’t make the list.

1  Christos Tzolis  11m

2  Milot Rashica  11m

3  Steven Naismith 11m

4  Timm Klose 11m

5  Gabriel Sara  10.5

6  Ricky van Wolfswinkel 10m

7  Robbie Brady 9.9m

8  Josh Sargent  9.5m

9  Alex Pritchard  9.4m

10  Ben Gibson  9.3m

11  Yanic Wildschutt   8.2m

12  Dimitrios Giannoulis  7.5m

13  Gary Hooper  6.3m

14  Dean Ashton  6m

15  Angus Gunn  5.85m

 

27 Ivo Pinto 3.7m 

[......and Smith must score. 1,349]

If the top three cost a combined figure of £33m don’t forget the impact they had.

 ‘ P*ssing money up the wall ‘ seems a bit of an understatement.

[Don’t be Krul 399]

Wow there's some sh1te on that list

[astro 364]

Klose’s entire fee was repaid with that equaliser against the scum. 

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

I also found this interesting

29  Ozan Kabak  3.5m (loan fee)

35  Ralf Fahrmann  3m (loan fee)

 

So Kabak is our 29th most expensive signing, just to borrow him, and same deal with Fahrmann who didnt even play!

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

2 minutes ago, ......and Smith must score. said:

If the top three cost a combined figure of £33m don’t forget the impact they had.

 ‘ P*ssing money up the wall ‘ seems a bit of an understatement.

 

I hope lessons have been learned

[canarydan23 4,060]

1 minute ago, ......and Smith must score. said:

If the top three cost a combined figure of £33m don’t forget the impact they had.

 ‘ P*ssing money up the wall ‘ seems a bit of an understatement.

These figures are almost certainly the max amount we could have paid for each, there's no way we have forked out the full fees for Tzolis and Wildschut, nor will we have paid anything like that for Sara yet.

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

Ah remember the days when a 3.5m player (Ashton) might have kept you up if only you'd had the vision to do it in summer and not wait til January

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1 minute ago, canarydan23 said:

These figures are almost certainly the max amount we could have paid for each, there's no way we have forked out the full fees for Tzolis and Wildschut, nor will we have paid anything like that for Sara yet.

Agree. Hardly anyone pays upfront and there’s a lot of ‘ ifs ‘ and ‘ buts ‘ in some cases.

A lot of them seem to be undisclosed as was the fee we paid for Robbie Brady. Presumably the fee quoted in TGMD’s list came to light later ?

[Mr Angry 1,570]

 Nah, this is from Transfermarkt and their figures will be a guesstimate if the fee wasn’t made public.

[chicken 2,638]

Dean Ashton was said to have been £3m at the time... and the Euro was weaker against the £ then.

[......and Smith must score. 1,349]

1 hour ago, ......and Smith must score. said:

We got around £13m from Burnley for Robbie Brady but I seem to remember we did well out of that deal so maybe he doesn’t make the list.

 

1 hour ago, The Great Mass Debater said:

I hope lessons have been learned

It doesn’t look too clever that our three most expensive signings were massive failures but it’s always a gamble.

[chicken 2,638]

1 hour ago, The Great Mass Debater said:

 

1  Christos Tzolis  11m

2  Milot Rashica  11m

3  Steven Naismith 11m

4  Timm Klose 11m

5  Gabriel Sara  10.5

6  Ricky van Wolfswinkel 10m

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8  Josh Sargent  9.5m

9  Alex Pritchard  9.4m

10  Ben Gibson  9.3m

11  Yanic Wildschutt   8.2m

12  Dimitrios Giannoulis  7.5m

13  Gary Hooper  6.3m

14  Dean Ashton  6m

15  Angus Gunn  5.85m

These are such wild figures.

Sara's fee isn't 10.5m up front, I think it's more like £6m with add ons from reports at the time. I think it could total something like £11m when those add ons occur. Klose was supposedly around the price we sold Grabban for so £8m, not sure if the rate was close to 1.5 euro's to the £ then or not. A good example is that Rashica is rumoured to have cost around £9.4m which works out at todays rate to be just a tad north of 11m Euros.

Could be wrong though. Equally, Hooper was almost certainly £5m and so 5.3m euros seems awfully low.

[Ulfotto 640]

Basically when we spent big money for us it rarely works. Compare those 15 signings to Krul. Pukki, Mcveigh, Wes, Bowen, Culverhouse, Holt, Russell Martin, Kenny, Trybull, Zimmerman, Godfrey. 
 

All picked up on free transfers or for below a million.

 

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

3 hours ago, Mr Angry said:

 Nah, this is from Transfermarkt and their figures will be a guesstimate if the fee wasn’t made public.

I used transfermarkt, but tried to cross reference with another site. But you are quite right, this is only a lazy Google  🙂

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

3 hours ago, ......and Smith must score. said:

 

It doesn’t look too clever that our three most expensive signings were massive failures but it’s always a gamble.

Just reflects the going rate doesnt it. We'll break it again in 5 years I imagine

[The Great Mass Debater 1,090]

3 minutes ago, Ulfotto said:

Basically when we spent big money for us it rarely works. Compare those 15 signings to Krul. Pukki, Mcveigh, Wes, Bowen, Culverhouse, Holt, Russell Martin, Kenny, Trybull, Zimmerman, Godfrey. 
 

All picked up on free transfers or for below a million.

 

If you look at our best players oveer the years we've rarely acquired them by outmuscling our rivals. The only teams we out-muscle are those who dont really want the player. We do better when we unearth a gem - ie Holt, Hoolahan, Buendia. In that category might be Godfrey and Aarons. Depends if you class them as academy products given they were with other clubs before we signed them

[Terminally Yellow 2,471]

You can make a fairly strong argument looking at that list that our best signings were also our least expensive. We're not a club with a good track record of spending money.

Is the last one Leroy Fer? 

[Terminally Yellow 2,471]

Robbie Brady was £8m wasn't he? In Euros that would be around the fee suggested?