KDH at Chelsea just pisses me off as a Leicester fan. We were forced to sell to avoid a PSR breach. He didn’t want to leave, the club didn’t want to lose him, the fans loved him, Chelsea didn’t need him, and you could argue they don’t even want him. It’s the most damning indictment on our mistakes over the last 5 years that we had to sell our best player when he didn’t want to leave, ruining his career in the process, just so we didn’t break the rules.
It was a personal signing for Maresca, a bit of assurance to have a midfielder he knew and trusted. Problem is as soon as he came to Chelsea he realised that every midfielder we have is better than him. Hindsight is great but I wish we never bought him, lose lose for every party involved.
@@deadscope90Alfie and a lot of people from the UK struggle to pronounce spanish names finishing in a. He used to say Matter instead of Mata, he says Iniestter instead of Iniesta, etc
Not sure if you’ve done this video but “7 most unfortunate signings” Like Nathaniel Clyne, who joined Liverpool as a destined starter but was pushed out the team by a generational acadamy graduate in TAA, or Nicholas Pepe, who had a pretty decent second season at Arsenal before being dropped for Bukayo Saka, another generational graduate
Clyne was good but what happened was he played with an injury towards the end of 16-17 season which ensured our first UCL qualification under Jurgen but playing with an injury made his injury worse to the point he could barely play for the next 3 seasons and Trent emerged so he couldn't even displace him if he wanted to
Perhaps Shevchenko to Chelsea would feature in this one. Being signed only to be benched for Drogba, because Mourinho didn’t really want or need him in his team at all, plus injuries started to accumulate and get worse exactly at the time of this transfer.
I'm sorry, but we need to talk about Leroy Lita enraging an entire town by playing Knock and Run on a granny's house in his Barwell FC kit after a training session.
Still no video about Ghana's downfall in football. The country had just missed out the AFCON for the first time in 21 years. People said that the corrupt FA President was the main reason they flopped a lot in an international stages.
Recommended video on the San Marino 🇸🇲 national team. They have just won their first ever away game (3-1 vs Lietchenstien) and only the third win in their history, and their second in 2024 (having previously not won a match in 20 years) to win promotion to League C of the UEFA Nations League. As remarkable as it sounds, by virtue of this, they are actually still in with an outside chance of reaching the play offs for the 2026 World Cup. Their vast improvement definitely deserves a review.
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 699) Alternativly you could do "Best German players who played outside the Bundesliga" or something like that if you prefer. I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
Chelsea signing Abdul Rahman Baba for 22 million, only to keep him one year at the club as a substitute and send him out on loan for 7 seasons with several contract extensions.
Carlos Kaiser is such a brilliant story and the film/documentary about his career was absolutely incredible. Sadly tales that wild will never happen again.
You could’ve featured Arthur Vermeeren to Atletico Signed last January from Antwerp, he wasn’t a player profile that Simeone wanted but the board signed anyways, and Simeone consequently benched him citing the reason that Vermeeren doesn’t know Spanish This season he’s been shipped on loan to Leipzig with an obligation to buy And Atleti are not even making a profit out of this
Yes! What a shock move that he choose atlético, he doesn't even suit on atlético style at all. Would love to watch him played on serie a before move to bigger league such as La Liga or Prem.
@ it’s not about style mate He very well fits laliga and atletico. Barrios who came from Atleti academy is similar to him but he starts for atleti every game. Simeone didn’t want Vermeeren and that profile was already at the club.
He was anonymous and pointless but furthermore, Facundo Ferreyra making a grand total of zero Premier League appearances on a season long loan at SJP must also rank as a spectacularly poorly thought out piece of business
@@bens4602 Weirdly on FM15 he would be brilliant. Think he must've been OP based on a season at Shakthar where he did the business. But yeah, given our other options that year included a hopeless Emmanuel Riviere, to not get a game ahead of him is an achievement
Seem to recall he had a large option to buy fee that we were desperate not to trigger so refused to play him. Probably upset Doumbia and it's probably likely we didn't have a decent manager to utilise him.
No idea why you included Clyne. He was a great signing for Liverpool. Played over 100 games for us, solved a problem at RB for 2yrs and for £12.5m, we got a very decent innings from him.
Luciano Figueroa signed for Birmingham City for 2.5 million to only play 1 game and be released not even 12 months after signing. This was in 2003, when this was a relative big money transfer and he was brought by a manager who then branded that he didn’t have the physique to play in the prem. Brilliant
@@soundscape26I watched the documentary about him right after this. It’s well worth the watch. Alfie left out why he managed to stay at Bonfogo for so long without ever playing, the owner was old and had a penile implant and Kaiser managed to supply him with women constantly.
Only reason would be money, could be the human rights, female safety or free speech, oh wait.... No Muslim country has that, definitely money 😂 everyone has a price eh
From a footballing point of view? Maybe. But the fact is the only reason anyone knows wtf an "Al-Hilal" is is because of Netmar. So not pointless at all.
@@earthstar393true, he brought a lot of eyes to the club, but be real for a second man 😂 let’s focus on the pitch, Neymar went there for an eye watering fee, even for Saudi standards. Played a couple of games and got injured for an entire season. Came back, and got injured immediately in his first game. This is all when they ALREADY had Salem Al-Dawsari and Mitrovic as decent forwards and probably didn’t even need Neymar at all in the first place. In short, completely pointless and useless signing, when not considering the attention he brought to the club. Even with that aspect, nobody really watches the Saudi League outside of the Middle East and North Africa.
@@bababababababa6124 Yeah but he was never really bought for the club to do well. He was bought mostly to bring eyes in the club. Him playing obviously would've done more in that regards, but he still brought it a lot of attention. That was always the primary goal.
As a Liverpool fan Alberto Aquilani is the most pointless signing I've seen come to us. He was a 20 million pound replacement for Xabi Alonso and was supposed to be a ready to go world class midfielder. He arrived injured and only actually played 18 games for us in his first season. His second season he went out on loan. His third season he went out on loan and then he was released after three seasons in spite of signing a five year contract on arrival. An absolute waste of time if I've ever seen one.
@@nedimkaraman5673 He cost peanuts, we didn't need him, and then we sold him for more peanuts. The Aquilani signing set us back years. We finished 2nd the year before he arrived and after replacing Alonso with that bum we finished 7th, 8th, 6th and 7th in the next 4 years.
Iván Gabrich to Ajax. Ajax was in need of a physically strong striker, but couldn't fine one. In desperation they signed Gabrich from Newell's Old Boys for a club record €5M, based solely on VHS video tapes. Apparently right after the first practice session, substitute keeper Fred Grim has said: "This guy can't play football." He made 0 goals in 10 appearances, missing a few chances for open goal of the type you get if you are Ajax's striker in the Eredivisie, if I remember well. He then went to Merida (1 goal in 36 matches) and Extremadura (1 goal in 28 matches).
As an Evertonian, Allardyce's first signing was Cenk Tosun for 25M on a five year deal and then our worst loan was El Ghazi from Villa. Didn't play one minute and I don't even think he made the bench.
Thanks for this video. I never knew of Kaiser and after watching this I watched the documentary about him. Pure entertainment, dude is an absolute legend
Oh dear 🤦♂️as a Newcastle fan I could give you loads.....Siem and Luk De Jong, Henri saveit, Cacapa, Oguci Oneywu, David Rozenhal, Facundo Ferrayra, Xisco, Michael Bridges, Guissepi Rossi, Habib Beye, Stephan Ireland, sol Campbell, Yoshi Muto, antione Sibierski, Damien Duff😑, Emmanul Rivere, Marlon Harewood,........I mean I can carry on 🤣🤣
Even as a Newcastle fan some of those players did so little I forgot they existed😅. However I think you’re being too harsh on duff & sibierski neither lived up to their potential but they weren’t useless on the pitch either like most of the others.
Many of the players you have listed had great reputation or was heralded as big prospects when we signed them. De Jongs was highly regarded in the Dutch league, Saivet was wonderkid turned regular in the French league, Cacapa was a regular for Lyon, Onyewu was a highly touted prospect in Liege, Rozenhal was a Czech international and regular at PSG, Fereyra tore it up in Shakthar before jonging us etc. The only one really fitting the bill here is Sol Campbell. And it’s a bloody shame to see you name Habib Beye. He’s the best right back we’ve had in modern times together with Tripps.
As a Swede, i have to say that Källström have never been close to arsenal lvl and was just a waste of a signing. Nice job on the swedish pronounciation on Källström, the Kä is very similar in sound to the She in shell
I thought we agreed that C would be the "weird" letter with varying sounds and we'd leave K as the "normal" one, but then I learned about Scandinavian languages... lol
Mason Mount to united. £50 million for an injured number 10 when we already have Bruno. has played bugger all, and has been rubbish when he has played.
Video idea : the rise and fall of the south African football team. Our corrupt FA leader was FINALLY arrested recently after nothing happened when he was found guilty of bribing fifa for the 2010 world cup.
Alfie, please to a full length video on Carols Kaiser!! That is one of the best football stories going around. My favourite story of his (whether it’s true or not is another question) is when he signed for Gazélec Ajaccio, brought some balls out for him to show off his skills. Carlos, who hadn’t kicked a ball in years, didn’t want to embarrass himself and blow his covers starts throwing the balls into the crowd and says “free souvenirs for everyone”.
Donny was meant as a replacement for Pogba at 8, there is a whole Tifo video about it. And he originally was a 6 so he is defensively strong enough as an 8. When Pogba finally left the non stop injuries happened. The injuries and lacking the physicality for the prem is what did him in. I wouldn't have him in a top 7 especially if reduce prem bias.
I feel that Luis Hernández to Boca Juniors in 1997 should have been at least 3rd in the list. They signed him due to a recommendation from Maradona but Hérnandez's incorporación to the team exceeded the argentinian league's foreigner limit, so he only played 3 games in the Supercopa Sudamericana (although he at least scored once there against Colo Colo), got sidelined for a whole semester and then returned to Necaxa on January 1998. A truly pointless ordeal
Great video! Excellent and compelling list of case studies good images and a hilarious script. With slightly more fluent, natural narrative this would be amongst the finest and funniest footie videos around. Bravo.
I reckon that Brett Angell at Everton could be a worthy shout, considering that he was injured and didn't score whilst on loan at the club, but Everton signed him anyway.
Imagine sell Conor Gallagher who is literally Chelsea's second best player last season and replacing him with Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall just to rot on the bench. Regarding Marcus Bent, he even failed to score in Mitra Kukar which was one of the most mid clubs in Indonesia. 😂🤣
Not to forget that Connor was THE chelsea boy. Came through the academy and was loved by the fans as a home grown lad. And then having that issue with his transfer that delayed it after already announcing him leaving
I saw that thumbnail and I thought: When did Christoph Kramer sign for Chelsea? Have I missed something? New suggestion for 7er-list: Players who look like each other's spitting image.
Bogarde doesn't count because Chelsea signed him for a reason initially (i.e. they wanted more options in defence). The problem was that three weeks later they sacked Gianluca Vialli and brought in Claudio Ranieri, who decided he didn't need or want Bogarde and froze him out.
@@F1Krazy Then Donny definitely shouldn't be in the top 7 either. As he was brought as the eventual Pogba replacement and midfield depth. Plus to facilitate more front foot football. So there was an idea behind it, even more then Bogarde. Just didn't work out.
I sat here at the start thinking "we've had some stinkers... I'd like to think we appear on here" Saw number 2 and thought "nope, never mind, no Pompey players on here..." I was mistaken. And I resent you for reminding me of Ben Haim.
Drinkwaters demise was a strange thing. He and Kante at Leicester were a brilliant midfield pairing. God knows why he went downhill quicker than Fanny Schmeller..
As someone who lives in Dewsbury, I can't help but imagine our local Town hall in a Football kit whenever Dewsbury-Hall's name is mentioned. Also VDB was not originally meant to be a pointless singing, he was meant to be the backup for Bruno as it was obvious Mata not going to be around for much longer and Pereira was known as the pre-season Perlo for a reason, he's come good now, but at United he'd be amazing in Pre-season, and come the new season he struggled. Sadly VDB never worked either, he was tried in different positions, but nothing worked, shame as you could see he had so much talent.
Please do a video on the rise of Northern Irish football - covering our very young national team, and the success of Larne town getting into the europa conference league. In a country with a population 1/4 of that of London alone, I think we're doing OK for producing footballers history wise.
Money lol. In the form of US sponsors/ tv money/ attention. Hell my club had a Vietnamese player that made them a lot of cash for them for one season and he didn't play a second.
Bosko Balaban surely no.1. Record signing for Villa at the time (2001). £6 million was a big fee back then. Only 2 starts in 2.5 years and I think they were both cup games. I think I remember 1 thing he did that whole time. Came on a sub vs Southampton away I think. Was put clean through, 1v1 and of course he fluffed it 😂
@@twoddgames Hhaha I actually thought of that after I posted that message. I remember he signed, pic holding the shirt etc, then a couple of weeks later Everton re-signed him. Agreed that's a clear winner :) Balaban no. 2 then
You missed Arthur Melo’s pointless loan spell at Liverpool. A grand total of 13 minutes of game time in a 4-1 defeat to Napoli. He was injured for the rest of the season. Complete disaster, one of the worst panic moves football has ever seen.
it was not pointless, it was not working. He came at loan becasue we had a lot of injuries in the midfield. buying new midfileder was pointless so finding someone short term was fine. However, he suffered injury shortly after arrival and when he came back, injury crisis in midfield was over. And despite that (even it it pointeless in the context), he worked behind the scene with the young players etc. So the most important difference between him and kallstrom was that kallstrom came injured to solve injury crisis. melo came to solve it but was injured after arrival
Can't remember who proposed there are mini-cartels appearing in the Prem clubs that might struggle meeting financials so they're selling each other academy graduates that count as 100% profit while spreading the payments. Dewsbury-Hall could be in that circle.
I'll do you one better. Atletico Madrid might have outdone them all, and it's a cracking one. In 2019, they signed Serbian international Ivan Saponjic from SL Benfica B for €500k. Yes, Benfica B. In his 4 years at Benfica, Saponjic never managed a first team appearance, playing exclusively for their B side. Upon joining Atletico, he amassed a whole of 4 minutes of La Liga gametime in his 3 seasons at the club, despite being fit to play during his entire stay. He was an unused substitute in a mind-boggling *49* games, sitting out even when he was the only fit striker in the team, with Simeone preferring to play with a false 9 rather than give Saponjic even a minute of playing time.
More of a localized pointless signing, but I would like to point out 2 recent stories that happened to my club, Santos FC. 1) After our 1st GK torn his achilles, we signed a 37 y.o vet named Renan, in a loan, from Sport Recife. I believe the idea was that he would eventually replace our current GK Gabriel Brazão, but then he got hurt too. So we essentially signed a GK who couldn't even be on the bench, while paying his wages, if I'm not mistaken, but there's another, much worse, story 2) In the middle of the year, we signed CAM/CM Patrick, from Clube Atlético Mineiro, on loan, with an obligation to buy, paying him a massive monthly wage of R$ 430.000,00 or € 70.000,00. He came overweight, has struggled to even be on the bench come playing time, the fans boo him relentlessly and he never played on a home game for Santos FC, neither has he started a game. On the 2nd division of Campeonato Brasileiro, he played 10 matches, and has a single assist, on a 3x1 defeat against Novorizontino. On the last 19 games, he has played a combined 30 minutes, with nothing to show for. It is one of the weirdest and most baffling transfers I've seen from this club, and we could have an entire video series about bad transfers from Santos FC
Please do a vid on the 7 biggest teams that flopped. Teams that were expected to dominate and yet completely and utterly failed. I think of the galacticos and psg when I imagine this.
Arsenal dropped so many title chances during Wenger's final years. It was super frustrating for a fan. Was so glad to see a new coach in Arteta who is not afraid to spend money when needed.
The most pointless signing for me has to be Kim Kallstrom to Arsenal on loan. He signed with a broken back. edit: wasnt expecting him to be listed! I think AW was actively trying to troll the arsenal fans at that point.
If I remember correctly Klaassen was bought earlier. But yeah they signed 3/4 number 10s that season when only needing one. And not replacing Lukaku. They could have had Giroud and Koeman wanted him as well but the club said no.
Why does EVERYONE think that Anthony is Ballon D'Or worthy? He is so trash to play for Manchester United and in the Premier League.... How is he not in the list? 😂
As an overseas Liverpool supporter its anazing to me that of all the horrendous signings the club have made in my lifetime...Paulsen, Koncesky, Carroll to name a few, somehow none of them made this list. Kinda impressive.
Lucas Tousart should have featured signing a player for 25 Million € who plays the exact same role like Ascacibar who you also just signed for 12 Million.
Ah yes Hertha's mismanagement is legendary. Should be one of the top clubs in the world being out of Berlin. Is a complete basket case and now overtaken by Union. Who by club culture don't actually want to become too big.
KDH at Chelsea just pisses me off as a Leicester fan. We were forced to sell to avoid a PSR breach. He didn’t want to leave, the club didn’t want to lose him, the fans loved him, Chelsea didn’t need him, and you could argue they don’t even want him. It’s the most damning indictment on our mistakes over the last 5 years that we had to sell our best player when he didn’t want to leave, ruining his career in the process, just so we didn’t break the rules.
It was a personal signing for Maresca, a bit of assurance to have a midfielder he knew and trusted. Problem is as soon as he came to Chelsea he realised that every midfielder we have is better than him. Hindsight is great but I wish we never bought him, lose lose for every party involved.
@@flyaway6671Would have made sense to just loan him back. You’re very correct upon seeing the squad there was no way KDH was starting
I guess only clubs like City are allowed to make squad depth signings. Damned if any other club tries to improve the collective.
it pisses me off as a Chelsea fan too brother
@@PlayerAyte chelsea's depth in the 10 or a mezzala is craaaayzy. Certainly much better than Leicester
This intro is how I find out Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall signed for Chelsea
Totally. I didn’t;t know either, until I saw this video.
I thought he was injured at Leicester lol
Same, I thought he was still there leicester...
Using “Mata” to replace “Matter” has to be a new thing
clearly a yank that wants to pronounce it as "maddurrr"
Wdym ?
@@deadscope90Alfie and a lot of people from the UK struggle to pronounce spanish names finishing in a. He used to say Matter instead of Mata, he says Iniestter instead of Iniesta, etc
@@Dre3010like the rock say: it doesn't matter what you think 😂
@@Dre3010 Don't forget Mata's now in Australia, and people pronounce "matter' as "mata" over there anyway.
Dewsbury-Hall's move to Chelsea just reminds me of them signing Danny Drinkwater the same way a few seasons ago
They needed English players, they knew they were selling Gallagher
Not sure if you’ve done this video but “7 most unfortunate signings”
Like Nathaniel Clyne, who joined Liverpool as a destined starter but was pushed out the team by a generational acadamy graduate in TAA, or Nicholas Pepe, who had a pretty decent second season at Arsenal before being dropped for Bukayo Saka, another generational graduate
Enough of mediocre players getting a bye just because fans hype them. Pepe was awful at Arsenal, stop excusing that rubbish.
clyne was injured
Clyne was good but injured way too often but good when he played so you have a point there. But Pepe was completely useless at Arsenal
Clyne was good but what happened was he played with an injury towards the end of 16-17 season which ensured our first UCL qualification under Jurgen but playing with an injury made his injury worse to the point he could barely play for the next 3 seasons and Trent emerged so he couldn't even displace him if he wanted to
Perhaps Shevchenko to Chelsea would feature in this one. Being signed only to be benched for Drogba, because Mourinho didn’t really want or need him in his team at all, plus injuries started to accumulate and get worse exactly at the time of this transfer.
I'm sorry, but we need to talk about Leroy Lita enraging an entire town by playing Knock and Run on a granny's house in his Barwell FC kit after a training session.
Why what happened
In full kit no less
@@danielgolding6934th comment explains all
Wasn't that the player who got injured while stretching on his bed, missing a month while at Reading?
you mean mr capital one cup winner with swansea
Still no video about Ghana's downfall in football.
The country had just missed out the AFCON for the first time in 21 years.
People said that the corrupt FA President was the main reason they flopped a lot in an international stages.
@@ezraezra2928 they’re in prime position to still qualify for the World Cup though
How dare he
You suspect after that recent AFCON failure, it's likely going to be on the list
oh no
No one cares
Dewsbury Hall signed to play in the UEFA Conference League and League Cup.
Also funny that Danny Drinkwater gave him his blessing on IG 😂😂
We could really use him rn, would be happy if he could come back on a free
damn not even the new year you do love taking shots at chelsea so weird
@@wkmalory Brighton fan here. Just happy we don’t have Sanchez either. Never know what you’re going to get
Plus Drinkwater-Hall was almost at Brighton but decided to be not even be on the bench in the Premier League for Chelsea
@@ropeisnotadink can we keep buonanotte?👉👈
I thought this list was just going to be 7 of Chelsea's 8 goalkeepers.
ah yes, that comment just made me remember that Marcus Bettinelli exists
Recommended video on the San Marino 🇸🇲 national team.
They have just won their first ever away game (3-1 vs Lietchenstien) and only the third win in their history, and their second in 2024 (having previously not won a match in 20 years) to win promotion to League C of the UEFA Nations League.
As remarkable as it sounds, by virtue of this, they are actually still in with an outside chance of reaching the play offs for the 2026 World Cup.
Their vast improvement definitely deserves a review.
That would be an epic madness to see HITC posting San Marino video before GTA 6.
And first time scoring 3 in any match
A historic night in Vaduz. I don't think San Marino will last long in tier C though.
@@FisherAthleticFan Also, first away win for San Marino. Pretty sure they won't repeat such this feat again.
enjoy the new San Marino video
Hold on, Kim Kallström scored a MAJOR penalty against Wigan, so he wasn’t totally pointless😂😂😂😂
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 699)
Alternativly you could do "Best German players who played outside the Bundesliga" or something like that if you prefer.
I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored.
If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
Day 699 is
Nice
We see you one day Alfie will pay attention
Let's goooo
grant this guy his wish its been almost two years lol
@@Johnlee-ix1ku don't forget that Alfie is not posting every day. Considering his upload schedule it could've been like almost 5 years.
Chelsea signing Abdul Rahman Baba for 22 million, only to keep him one year at the club as a substitute and send him out on loan for 7 seasons with several contract extensions.
He also got 2 ACL injuries during that time
Carlos Kaiser is such a brilliant story and the film/documentary about his career was absolutely incredible. Sadly tales that wild will never happen again.
You could’ve featured Arthur Vermeeren to Atletico
Signed last January from Antwerp, he wasn’t a player profile that Simeone wanted but the board signed anyways, and Simeone consequently benched him citing the reason that Vermeeren doesn’t know Spanish
This season he’s been shipped on loan to Leipzig with an obligation to buy
And Atleti are not even making a profit out of this
*citing
Yes! What a shock move that he choose atlético, he doesn't even suit on atlético style at all. Would love to watch him played on serie a before move to bigger league such as La Liga or Prem.
@ it’s not about style mate
He very well fits laliga and atletico. Barrios who came from Atleti academy is similar to him but he starts for atleti every game. Simeone didn’t want Vermeeren and that profile was already at the club.
@@jcxkzhgco3050 agreed, I hope he gained more minutes at Leipzig.
Newcastle United signed Seydou Doumbia in 2016 on loan. Think he played 5 minutes total.
He was anonymous and pointless but furthermore, Facundo Ferreyra making a grand total of zero Premier League appearances on a season long loan at SJP must also rank as a spectacularly poorly thought out piece of business
@@chlcrkwas he at least meant to have potential? Absolutely absurd transfer, even at the time.
@@bens4602 Weirdly on FM15 he would be brilliant. Think he must've been OP based on a season at Shakthar where he did the business. But yeah, given our other options that year included a hopeless Emmanuel Riviere, to not get a game ahead of him is an achievement
Seem to recall he had a large option to buy fee that we were desperate not to trigger so refused to play him. Probably upset Doumbia and it's probably likely we didn't have a decent manager to utilise him.
@@cameronknowles7630 Ladt part of hos loan was under Benitez.
No idea why you included Clyne. He was a great signing for Liverpool. Played over 100 games for us, solved a problem at RB for 2yrs and for £12.5m, we got a very decent innings from him.
He didnt
@CeemPlay he included a picture of him at the begining of the video, whilst talking about some signing just not working.
@@HCMCDrives you’re not supposed to read too much into whose on the screen unless he specifically makes a joke about it
@@TylerAven10 oh really? Was not aware of that :)
Luciano Figueroa signed for Birmingham City for 2.5 million to only play 1 game and be released not even 12 months after signing.
This was in 2003, when this was a relative big money transfer and he was brought by a manager who then branded that he didn’t have the physique to play in the prem.
Brilliant
Many players in modern day are signed by the board or football directors without the managers permission so basically buying players they don't want.
Freddie Adu the real mainstay of the channel
Looks like Carlos Kaiser has been editing his own Wikipedia page, it's currently saying he played over 300 times across his career
His story deserved a full video
@@soundscape26I want a Hollywood movie of this guy
@@thomasbrennan9912there’s already a film about him Alfie mentions
@@soundscape26I watched the documentary about him right after this. It’s well worth the watch. Alfie left out why he managed to stay at Bonfogo for so long without ever playing, the owner was old and had a penile implant and Kaiser managed to supply him with women constantly.
There's a documentary on him
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Literally as I was about to finish the transfer for Källström on 01/02, the segment started. Get out of my walls, Alfie.
Surely Neymar to Al Hilal must have inspired this video 😂
Only reason would be money, could be the human rights, female safety or free speech, oh wait.... No Muslim country has that, definitely money 😂 everyone has a price eh
From a footballing point of view? Maybe. But the fact is the only reason anyone knows wtf an "Al-Hilal" is is because of Netmar. So not pointless at all.
@@earthstar393true, he brought a lot of eyes to the club, but be real for a second man 😂 let’s focus on the pitch, Neymar went there for an eye watering fee, even for Saudi standards. Played a couple of games and got injured for an entire season. Came back, and got injured immediately in his first game. This is all when they ALREADY had Salem Al-Dawsari and Mitrovic as decent forwards and probably didn’t even need Neymar at all in the first place.
In short, completely pointless and useless signing, when not considering the attention he brought to the club. Even with that aspect, nobody really watches the Saudi League outside of the Middle East and North Africa.
@@bababababababa6124 Yeah but he was never really bought for the club to do well. He was bought mostly to bring eyes in the club. Him playing obviously would've done more in that regards, but he still brought it a lot of attention. That was always the primary goal.
As a Liverpool fan Alberto Aquilani is the most pointless signing I've seen come to us. He was a 20 million pound replacement for Xabi Alonso and was supposed to be a ready to go world class midfielder. He arrived injured and only actually played 18 games for us in his first season. His second season he went out on loan. His third season he went out on loan and then he was released after three seasons in spite of signing a five year contract on arrival. An absolute waste of time if I've ever seen one.
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@@nedimkaraman5673 He cost peanuts, we didn't need him, and then we sold him for more peanuts. The Aquilani signing set us back years. We finished 2nd the year before he arrived and after replacing Alonso with that bum we finished 7th, 8th, 6th and 7th in the next 4 years.
@@SonnyK248well he didn't play so it wasnt his fault 🤣
@@petesmart1983 It's not his fault we bought him. But he is the reason we were shite post buying him.
You could argue markovic was worse than Aquilani
Iván Gabrich to Ajax. Ajax was in need of a physically strong striker, but couldn't fine one. In desperation they signed Gabrich from Newell's Old Boys for a club record €5M, based solely on VHS video tapes. Apparently right after the first practice session, substitute keeper Fred Grim has said: "This guy can't play football." He made 0 goals in 10 appearances, missing a few chances for open goal of the type you get if you are Ajax's striker in the Eredivisie, if I remember well. He then went to Merida (1 goal in 36 matches) and Extremadura (1 goal in 28 matches).
Good shout. Ledezma another one around that time. Fighting over him with Feyenoord only to turn out he was utter dross.
As an Evertonian, Allardyce's first signing was Cenk Tosun for 25M on a five year deal and then our worst loan was El Ghazi from Villa. Didn't play one minute and I don't even think he made the bench.
I thought he was called keiran dewsbury hall until about 30 seconds ago
Thanks for this video. I never knew of Kaiser and after watching this I watched the documentary about him. Pure entertainment, dude is an absolute legend
Oh dear 🤦♂️as a Newcastle fan I could give you loads.....Siem and Luk De Jong, Henri saveit, Cacapa, Oguci Oneywu, David Rozenhal, Facundo Ferrayra, Xisco, Michael Bridges, Guissepi Rossi, Habib Beye, Stephan Ireland, sol Campbell, Yoshi Muto, antione Sibierski, Damien Duff😑, Emmanul Rivere, Marlon Harewood,........I mean I can carry on 🤣🤣
Andy Caroll comes to mind
To be fair bridges was onloan after massive Injuries which ruined his career so he didn't cost anything
Even as a Newcastle fan some of those players did so little I forgot they existed😅. However I think you’re being too harsh on duff & sibierski neither lived up to their potential but they weren’t useless on the pitch either like most of the others.
@@rashmikajayamahaNewcastle didn’t sign Carroll he was an academy graduate and a pretty good one for the time with a big sale to Liverpool
Many of the players you have listed had great reputation or was heralded as big prospects when we signed them. De Jongs was highly regarded in the Dutch league, Saivet was wonderkid turned regular in the French league, Cacapa was a regular for Lyon, Onyewu was a highly touted prospect in Liege, Rozenhal was a Czech international and regular at PSG, Fereyra tore it up in Shakthar before jonging us etc. The only one really fitting the bill here is Sol Campbell.
And it’s a bloody shame to see you name Habib Beye. He’s the best right back we’ve had in modern times together with Tripps.
7 managers who’ve managed the most teams in their career. Journeymanagers if you will
As a Swede, i have to say that Källström have never been close to arsenal lvl and was just a waste of a signing. Nice job on the swedish pronounciation on Källström, the Kä is very similar in sound to the She in shell
I thought we agreed that C would be the "weird" letter with varying sounds and we'd leave K as the "normal" one, but then I learned about Scandinavian languages... lol
Mason Mount to united. £50 million for an injured number 10 when we already have Bruno. has played bugger all, and has been rubbish when he has played.
There are lots & lots Kieron Dyer, at West Ham, this probably shows how corrupt football is.
Video idea : the rise and fall of the south African football team. Our corrupt FA leader was FINALLY arrested recently after nothing happened when he was found guilty of bribing fifa for the 2010 world cup.
Honestly I thought bribing fifa for the World Cup was expected behaviour
Alfie, please to a full length video on Carols Kaiser!! That is one of the best football stories going around. My favourite story of his (whether it’s true or not is another question) is when he signed for Gazélec Ajaccio, brought some balls out for him to show off his skills. Carlos, who hadn’t kicked a ball in years, didn’t want to embarrass himself and blow his covers starts throwing the balls into the crowd and says “free souvenirs for everyone”.
Donny was meant as a replacement for Pogba at 8, there is a whole Tifo video about it. And he originally was a 6 so he is defensively strong enough as an 8. When Pogba finally left the non stop injuries happened. The injuries and lacking the physicality for the prem is what did him in. I wouldn't have him in a top 7 especially if reduce prem bias.
Video idea: Does winning the UCL make you the best team in Europe or just the best team in the tournament?
Saw the twitter post 2..3 days back about this , now here for the full video
I feel that Luis Hernández to Boca Juniors in 1997 should have been at least 3rd in the list.
They signed him due to a recommendation from Maradona but Hérnandez's incorporación to the team exceeded the argentinian league's foreigner limit, so he only played 3 games in the Supercopa Sudamericana (although he at least scored once there against Colo Colo), got sidelined for a whole semester and then returned to Necaxa on January 1998. A truly pointless ordeal
21:27 - Carlos Kaiser - What a guy. 13 years as a pro, 0 appearances.
You would have thought clubs would catch on after 2/3 clubs!
Great video! Excellent and compelling list of case studies good images and a hilarious script. With slightly more fluent, natural narrative this would be amongst the finest and funniest footie videos around. Bravo.
Denis Suarez to Arsenal in a loan move during the Emery era.
I had genuinely forgotten about him.
I reckon that Brett Angell at Everton could be a worthy shout, considering that he was injured and didn't score whilst on loan at the club, but Everton signed him anyway.
The intro for Hatem Ben Arfa… Holy shit, Alfie!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks Alfie, I totally needed the reminder of Tal Ben Haim… It was bad enough subjecting my eyes to watching him at Loftus Road…
5:30 Dutch Van der Linde would be proud🤣🤣
We need Money!
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You need to trust me Arthur
The fact Arthur to Liverpool with 13 minutes of football isn’t on here is wild to me
Hey from Las Vegas!!!! Can’t wait to watch ALFIE xxxxx
Fun fact: when Hull City went 2-0 up within the first 10 minutes were the first ever time I cried at a football match
Andy Kellett from Bolton to Manchester United on loan in 2015 should have topped this list!
Fiete Arp to Bayern is one that immediately came to mind for me
Imagine sell Conor Gallagher who is literally Chelsea's second best player last season and replacing him with Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall just to rot on the bench.
Regarding Marcus Bent, he even failed to score in Mitra Kukar which was one of the most mid clubs in Indonesia. 😂🤣
Not to forget that Connor was THE chelsea boy. Came through the academy and was loved by the fans as a home grown lad. And then having that issue with his transfer that delayed it after already announcing him leaving
Nailed the Källström pronunciation, nice!
Kim Kallstrom was signed to attract Championship manager fans to support Arsenal, so not a pointless signing
I saw that thumbnail and I thought: When did Christoph Kramer sign for Chelsea? Have I missed something?
New suggestion for 7er-list: Players who look like each other's spitting image.
I'm one of those who forgot Chelsea even signed Kienan Dewsbury-Hall and thought Alfie was bringing up Danny Drinkwater again
If Winston Bogarde isn't in this list...
Bogarde doesn't count because Chelsea signed him for a reason initially (i.e. they wanted more options in defence). The problem was that three weeks later they sacked Gianluca Vialli and brought in Claudio Ranieri, who decided he didn't need or want Bogarde and froze him out.
@F1Krazy Yeah I guess. Just his situation was so rare and interesting!
@@F1Krazy Then Donny definitely shouldn't be in the top 7 either. As he was brought as the eventual Pogba replacement and midfield depth. Plus to facilitate more front foot football. So there was an idea behind it, even more then Bogarde. Just didn't work out.
Bogarde didn't care, he made a lot of money. That's probably what drove many of the "pointless transfers" listed...
Love your content well done.
Apparently Carlos Kaiser's wikipedia profile recording his club appearances and goals has been edited since this video.
'Sven Kums - I bet he does' You are still the king of puns!
I sat here at the start thinking "we've had some stinkers... I'd like to think we appear on here"
Saw number 2 and thought "nope, never mind, no Pompey players on here..."
I was mistaken. And I resent you for reminding me of Ben Haim.
Marko Marin to Chelsea has to be up there!
Drinkwaters demise was a strange thing. He and Kante at Leicester were a brilliant midfield pairing. God knows why he went downhill quicker than Fanny Schmeller..
The video is so skewed towards English football, which I kinda understand, that Carlos Kaiser looks completely out of place
Your Källström pronnounciation was very good/swede.
It’s funny you mention us signing Santiago Munoz because he was actually good for the under 21s he just never played for the first team 😂
As someone who lives in Dewsbury, I can't help but imagine our local Town hall in a Football kit whenever Dewsbury-Hall's name is mentioned.
Also VDB was not originally meant to be a pointless singing, he was meant to be the backup for Bruno as it was obvious Mata not going to be around for much longer and Pereira was known as the pre-season Perlo for a reason, he's come good now, but at United he'd be amazing in Pre-season, and come the new season he struggled. Sadly VDB never worked either, he was tried in different positions, but nothing worked, shame as you could see he had so much talent.
Please do a video on the rise of Northern Irish football - covering our very young national team, and the success of Larne town getting into the europa conference league.
In a country with a population 1/4 of that of London alone, I think we're doing OK for producing footballers history wise.
We just failed to beat Luxembourg
29:42 this meme always catches me off guard 😂😂😂
Landon Donovan to Bayern Munich. That was one of the most pointless signings in Bayern history
Money lol. In the form of US sponsors/ tv money/ attention. Hell my club had a Vietnamese player that made them a lot of cash for them for one season and he didn't play a second.
As a Leicester fan, seeing KDH become a 3rd string player at Chelsea just to settle FFP is just depressing. Money just ruins football.
yeah I can see why it'd be depressing. At least have him go to a team that actually needs him
Bosko Balaban surely no.1. Record signing for Villa at the time (2001). £6 million was a big fee back then. Only 2 starts in 2.5 years and I think they were both cup games. I think I remember 1 thing he did that whole time. Came on a sub vs Southampton away I think. Was put clean through, 1v1 and of course he fluffed it 😂
He's still only second in Villa's list to David Unsworth.
@@twoddgames Hhaha I actually thought of that after I posted that message. I remember he signed, pic holding the shirt etc, then a couple of weeks later Everton re-signed him. Agreed that's a clear winner :) Balaban no. 2 then
I loved reading about how Kallstrom came to arsenal and how much it meant to him, especially scoring a goal for us. I love it
no way crunchyroll actually thought it was a good idea to post this dia show
You missed Arthur Melo’s pointless loan spell at Liverpool. A grand total of 13 minutes of game time in a 4-1 defeat to Napoli. He was injured for the rest of the season. Complete disaster, one of the worst panic moves football has ever seen.
he mentioned him briefly. Arthur was pretty highly rated at least a couple years before and was a low-risk loan anyway
it was not pointless, it was not working. He came at loan becasue we had a lot of injuries in the midfield. buying new midfileder was pointless so finding someone short term was fine. However, he suffered injury shortly after arrival and when he came back, injury crisis in midfield was over. And despite that (even it it pointeless in the context), he worked behind the scene with the young players etc.
So the most important difference between him and kallstrom was that kallstrom came injured to solve injury crisis. melo came to solve it but was injured after arrival
Carlos Kaiser is my new hero. Incredible commitment to doing nothing.
Can't remember who proposed there are mini-cartels appearing in the Prem clubs that might struggle meeting financials so they're selling each other academy graduates that count as 100% profit while spreading the payments. Dewsbury-Hall could be in that circle.
the most important thing i took from this video is that alfie told me to try doing coke at chessington world of adventures.
Erik Ten Hag signing for Manchester United is the most pointless of all time
I'll do you one better. Atletico Madrid might have outdone them all, and it's a cracking one.
In 2019, they signed Serbian international Ivan Saponjic from SL Benfica B for €500k. Yes, Benfica B. In his 4 years at Benfica, Saponjic never managed a first team appearance, playing exclusively for their B side. Upon joining Atletico, he amassed a whole of 4 minutes of La Liga gametime in his 3 seasons at the club, despite being fit to play during his entire stay. He was an unused substitute in a mind-boggling *49* games, sitting out even when he was the only fit striker in the team, with Simeone preferring to play with a false 9 rather than give Saponjic even a minute of playing time.
The carlos kaiser story is one of my favorite stories in world football 😂
It would be cool to see a video about bad choices by players. Cristiano to Man Utd, Neymar to PSG, Mario Gomez to Fiorentina, etc.
Freddy Adu’s legend lives on through this channel
A random point, but the small segments on Freddy Adu in every video are absolutely golden 🤣
KDH didn’t want to leave Leicester but didn’t have much of a choice as Leicester where in financial crisis and had to sell him
Surprised there isn't a whole 40+ minute episode dedicated to the story of Carlos Kaiser
Glad to see my Van De Beek shout made it. You also missed the chance to emphasize the "to make Mata's worse"
Epic joke
More of a localized pointless signing, but I would like to point out 2 recent stories that happened to my club, Santos FC.
1) After our 1st GK torn his achilles, we signed a 37 y.o vet named Renan, in a loan, from Sport Recife. I believe the idea was that he would eventually replace our current GK Gabriel Brazão, but then he got hurt too. So we essentially signed a GK who couldn't even be on the bench, while paying his wages, if I'm not mistaken, but there's another, much worse, story
2) In the middle of the year, we signed CAM/CM Patrick, from Clube Atlético Mineiro, on loan, with an obligation to buy, paying him a massive monthly wage of R$ 430.000,00 or € 70.000,00. He came overweight, has struggled to even be on the bench come playing time, the fans boo him relentlessly and he never played on a home game for Santos FC, neither has he started a game. On the 2nd division of Campeonato Brasileiro, he played 10 matches, and has a single assist, on a 3x1 defeat against Novorizontino. On the last 19 games, he has played a combined 30 minutes, with nothing to show for. It is one of the weirdest and most baffling transfers I've seen from this club, and we could have an entire video series about bad transfers from Santos FC
The Ben Haim , Toronto FC link was a bloody good laugh😄
Please do a vid on the 7 biggest teams that flopped. Teams that were expected to dominate and yet completely and utterly failed. I think of the galacticos and psg when I imagine this.
There was a video on the worst pound-for-pound teams which is sort of similar to what you are suggesting
Arsenal dropped so many title chances during Wenger's final years. It was super frustrating for a fan. Was so glad to see a new coach in Arteta who is not afraid to spend money when needed.
Cuisance to Bayern Munich
The most pointless signing for me has to be Kim Kallstrom to Arsenal on loan. He signed with a broken back.
edit: wasnt expecting him to be listed! I think AW was actively trying to troll the arsenal fans at that point.
Just here for the Adu slander
Davy Klassen to Everton was pretty pointless, they bought Rooney and sigurdson the same season pretty sure
true, Everton's transfers were a huge shambles
If I remember correctly Klaassen was bought earlier. But yeah they signed 3/4 number 10s that season when only needing one. And not replacing Lukaku. They could have had Giroud and Koeman wanted him as well but the club said no.
Why does EVERYONE think that Anthony is Ballon D'Or worthy?
He is so trash to play for Manchester United and in the Premier League....
How is he not in the list? 😂
As an overseas Liverpool supporter its anazing to me that of all the horrendous signings the club have made in my lifetime...Paulsen, Koncesky, Carroll to name a few, somehow none of them made this list. Kinda impressive.
Ajax and Manchester united should never do business EVER especially after van der beek and anthony HORRENDOUS
Zirkzee is gaining momentum in this category
Lol literally going to sag zirkzee and u still my komment
I still mek sem koment above yua koment
Literally made same comment now
Lucas Tousart should have featured signing a player for 25 Million € who plays the exact same role like Ascacibar who you also just signed for 12 Million.
Ah yes Hertha's mismanagement is legendary. Should be one of the top clubs in the world being out of Berlin. Is a complete basket case and now overtaken by Union. Who by club culture don't actually want to become too big.
Where was Julien Faubert to Real Madrid on loan from West Ham? I thought that would be nailed on number 1