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Drew
Sigh... not this old chestnut again.
For a start, he cost £60,000, not expensive considering that we were in 2nd division at the time (the £100,000 would have been the maximum possible, depending on number of appearances). He didn't work out, mainly because he had some injury problems but he scored 4 goals in 15 starts for the Albion, which isn't too dreadful.
I don't know why there's such a myth about Farrington. There have been strikers with worse records: Justin Fashanu cost nearly twice as much and scored two goals in 16 appearances for example. Alan Biley cost a similar amount to Farrington and had a worse record, 8 goals in 34 starts, the same record as Alan Duffy who cost £10,000 (at a time when that was a lot of money) and scored his goals in a lower division.
I wouldn't have Farrington in my top 20 worse signings. As WW points out £150k for Turienzo was a shocker, Jason Peake was a shocker but I'd plump for Mickey Thomas as the worst,he cost £350,000 and just took the piss.
Even before your post, for Mickey Thomas. It wasn't that he was crap player but just the fact that most Albion fans at the time hated his cheating antics, when he was originally at Wrexham, then Manure and then Everton. It would be like the Albion signing Scott McGleish only it was 10 times worse.
Mateha Molango.
Not sure he ever played or signed for us. Check your spelling!!!!!