Best Premier League Signing Between 2010-2019?

[BusbyMalone]

So i just stole this from this tweet here:

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Thought it would be an interesting discussion to have. Kante for Leicester is a popular one. I think the fee was something like £5-6m, which is insane.

Mane to Liverpool also one that appeared a few times.

I'm sure there's many, many more. Would also be interested to see how many United players you could make an argument for during that time period.

 

[duffer]

Jamie Vardy to Leicester from Fleetwood town for £1.7 million.

 

[Samid]

Aguero. PL great. No brainer.

 

[SilentWitness]

Aguero or David Silva. Both are the heart of City along with Kompany. In terms of Aguero the consistency of his goals from season to season is absolute insane and David Silva is just a genius. Said it before in many threads but the reason United were so successful is because they had players like Scholes/Giggs/Ferdinand that hung around for ages and were the anchor of the squad while other players came and left. Thats what Aguero and Silva are to City. Not home grown but club legends.

Kante an arguable outsider as he has been crucial to two different teams in their title winning seasons.

 

[filibuster]

Both Kante transfers for sure!

 

[Mike Phelan's Former Tash]

Aguero.

 

[paulscholes18]

Aguero

 

[Klopper76]

Aguero for me. He's consistently scored goals for City and as a result has been influential in each of their four title wins. I don't think there's another player who has directly influenced where the title has gone as much as Aguero has in the last decade.

Here are his numbers in the league:

2011/12 = 34 games/23 goals
12/13 = 30 games/12 goals
13/14 = 23 games/17 goals
14/15 = 33 games/26 goals
15/16 = 30 games/24 goals
16/17 = 31 games/20 goals
17/18 = 25 games/21 goals
18/19 = 33 games/21 goals
19/20 (so far) = 8 games/8 goals

He has a total of 241 goals in 348 appearances for City.

 

[Damien]

Aguero.

 

[Trezeguet17]

Klopp

 

[BusbyMalone]

Yeah i would agree with the Aguero shouts here. £35m they bought him for which considering what he's done for them is an absolute steal. Always wondered how much they could get for him now. One of the best (maybe the best) strikers in the world.

Unsurprisingly, there's a few City players. David Silva, of corse. De Bruyne, as well.

 

[Lay]

Aguero. He’s one of the PL greats with the like of Henry, Cristiano etc.

 

[SadlerMUFC]

Kante to Leicester 5.6m (sold to CHelsea for 30m)
Mahrez to Leicester 750k (sold to City for 60m)
Schmeicel to Leicester free
Vardy to Leicester 1m
Maguire to Leicester 17m (sold to us for 80m)
Maddison to Leicester 22.5m

Leicester is definitely doing something right

Robertson to Liverpool 8m
Salah to Liverpool 34m
Mane to Liverpool 34m
Wijmaldum to Liverpool 25m
Firmino to Liverpool 29m
Milner to Liverpool free

James to United 15m
Romero free
Zlatan free
Zaha 15m (oops, never should have sold him)

 

[duffer]

Gary Cahill for Chelsea was a magnificent buy in the "under the radar" category.

£7 million from Bolton and within 3 years he had won the League, League cup, FA Cup, Europa League and Champions League.

 

[Tony Banta]

Jamie Vardy to Leicester from Fleetwood town for £1.7 million.

Vardy to Leicester was a Championship signing.

 

[duffer]

Vardy to Leicester was a Championship signing.

Good point!

 

[Tony Banta]

Mahrez to Leicester 750k (sold to City for 60m)
Schmeicel to Leicester free
Vardy to Leicester 1m

All 3 signed outside the PL.

 

[VorZakone]

Aguero.

 

[Gio]

Aguero in terms of overall contribution across the decade.

Kante in terms of hidden value relative to impact.

 

[giorno]

Virgil Van Dijk

 

[Andi Latte]

Aguero certainly wins this one. Other than the ones already brought up, I think Son to Spurs for 22m deserves to be mentioned.

 

[PickledRed]

Two strands to this:

- Getting incredible value
- Buying big and it working a dream

 

[reddevil702]

Eden Hazard or Aguero

 

[SadlerMUFC]

All 3 signed outside the PL.

If I remember right City released Schmiecel because they saw Joe Hart as their number 1. Guess you can't get them all right

 

[BusbyMalone]

In terms of pure business, Coutinho to Liverpool for £8m (i think it was) and then selling him for £140m was pretty extraordinary.