Worst value for money Albion players

[Icy Gull]

Sigh...why does this come up over and over again. He didn't cost £100,000 - he cost £60,000 - it could have risen to £100,000 if he'd made a certain number of appearances but it didn't.

Farrington's trouble was that he was plagued by injuries and seemed never to be fully fit but he scored four times in just over 30 appearances - not great but too much of a shocker for someone who was not fully fit and playing in the second tier of English football. It was a gamble that didn't come off but at £60k it wasn't an expensive gamble. Fashanu, for example, cost a lot more and had worst strike rate.

He was bargain of the month compared to the likes of Peake, Turienzo and my particular pet waste-of-money Micky Bloody Thomas.

I'm with you on Farrington. His misfortune was a spate of injuries and once fit the club didn't pick him because it would have triggered additional payments as he was just short of the games where it cut in. He also followed the Small and Byrne pairing, not many of our strikers of the last 20 years would have come close to either of them in quality so hefailed when judged against them. The myth of how shit he was has grown ever since and he's always close to the top of a waste of money discussion.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Sigh...why does this come up over and over again. He didn't cost £100,000 - he cost £60,000 - it could have risen to £100,000 if he'd made a certain number of appearances but it didn't.

Farrington's trouble was that he was plagued by injuries and seemed never to be fully fit but he scored four times in just over 30 appearances - not great but too much of a shocker for someone who was not fully fit and playing in the second tier of English football. It was a gamble that didn't come off but at £60k it wasn't an expensive gamble. Fashanu, for example, cost a lot more and had worst strike rate.

He was bargain of the month compared to the likes of Peake, Turienzo and my particular pet waste-of-money Micky Bloody Thomas.

I always thought he cost 100 grand and the extra money would have been on top of that.

His main trouble was that he just wasn't very good. A problem that was exacerbated by the fact that he was replacing Mike Small and Garry Nelson, and that he joined us from Feyenoord so everyone assumed he was going to be quality.

 

[Seagullible]

definately Peake. we paid quite a lot for him at a time when money was tight

 

[gruntage]

Adam el Abd.

 

[folkestonesgull]

if only we had kept Dodd on as a coach.

Turienzo for me. Kitson was unlucky and started to score at the end of the season if I remember, if he had been firing we could have stayed up that year...

 

[Gwylan]

I always thought he cost 100 grand and the extra money would have been on top of that.

His main trouble was that he just wasn't very good. A problem that was exacerbated by the fact that he was replacing Mike Small and Garry Nelson, and that he joined us from Feyenoord so everyone assumed he was going to be quality.

My memory was that he cost about £50k but Tim Carder's books have him at £60k and I won't argue with Mr Carder's research.

You're right that he suffers in being compared to Small and Nelson (and Byrne) - if he'd been brought in to replace, say, Jason Moralee and Andy Ansah, no-one would mention him.

I've had more than 40 years of watching the Albion and Farrington wouldn't be in my top 20 of biggest waste of money players. As I said previously, he was a gamble that didn't come off but quite a low cost one.

 

[Austrian Gull]

Stefan Iovan must have cost quite a bit in terms of wages/signing on fee when you think of how few games he played.

 

[Barrow Boy]

Teddy Maybank

Seconded, a big blond poser made to look at best mediocre by playing alongside some of Albions best ever players, Ward, Lawrenson, Mellor, Horton etc. His transfer was, allegedly, an old pals act between Mullery and his old club Fulham to pay for their new stand.

 

[Mendoza]

 

[Icy Gull]

Seconded, a big blond poser made to look at best mediocre by playing alongside some of Albions best ever players, Ward, Lawrenson, Mellor, Horton etc. His transfer was, allegedly, an old pals act between Mullery and his old club Fulham to pay for their new stand.

My old man, who had no interest in football, had business dealings with Tommy Trinder who was Fulham chairman at the time (or had been in the recent past) and was told that the disclosed figure was nowhere near what we actually paid, it was in fact much less (half from memory) and it was just good publicity for both us and Fulham to up the alleged transfer fee .

He was a shit buy even at half the figure I agree, great football brain (i.e. he knew what he wanted to do with the ball) not matched by his abilities.

 

[perth seagull]

My memory escapes me, but wasn't there a player that Slade signed in the preseason and then got rid of him six weeks later?

I guess that isn't really too much of a waste of money though.

 

[Ian Bairds Fist]

Glenn Murray - £300k for a moaning northern tw@t.. nice!

 

[Cullip4]

Talking of Turienzo, looking at his record whilst he was here according to the Cavese website I am suprised we let him go??

 

[Box of Frogs]

My memory escapes me, but wasn't there a player that Slade signed in the preseason and then got rid of him six weeks later?

I guess that isn't really too much of a waste of money though.

Mark Wright - Not a waste when we signed him for nothing and sold him for a fee! The exact opposite in fact.

 

[TonyBloomsPokerFace]

Maheta Molango

Dont know if he cost much, but we never saw much of him.

 

[Langley]

Barry Bridges springs to my mind, every time I saw him play,if it wasnt to his feet he stayed rooted, only Brighton player I have barracked.

 

[KneeOn]

So your saying Llyod Owusu was a waste ??...if i remember he helped us stayed up!!..same with Gary Borrowdale, and not just them two...over the last two seasons the loans havent been that bad...yeah MA went over the top with his but you cant say all of them were a waste and are main one his name was ummm...GARY DICKER

I also fancied Anyinsah... shame he went to Carslile, him and Owusu... what a combination that could have been

Spot on with those names too by the way (thus my quoting)

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Weird how the televised Albion games of the late 1970s make peter sayer look brilliant. Was he really that bad?

 

[Notters' Dad]

Maybank gets my vote.

Mind you, he was almost entertaining on Weakest Link (what an appropriate programme name) a year or two ago!

 

[Bromley shrimp]

Maybank gets my vote.

Mind you, he was almost entertaining on Weakest Link (what an appropriate programme name) a year or two ago!

Thought it was Blind Date, but what a hoo haa when he signed for £240k! So many rumours as to why he cost that much, but couldn't hold a candle to Wardy who he played alongside.