Best transfers in one season for a manager world wide

[IAmAWinner]

Always thought Chelsea 14/15 was pretty great. Costa and Fabregas were exactly the players they needed at the time and that duo with Hazard basically won them the league. Even Drogba chipped in with a couple of goals. Luis didn't get a proper chance, never thought Azpi would turn out such a fantastic left back.

 

[padzilla]

I would have to say AC Milan's summer of 1987 would be hard to beat when they signed Carlo Ancelloti and a couple of Dutch fellas called Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten.

 

[robinamicrowave]

2 great transfers out of 5 is not a great output. Even though Milner, Kolarov and Dzeko all contributed, not one of them justified the sum paid for them.

Milner cost £18m, Kolarov cost £17m, Dzeko cost £27m. Each of them won two Premier League titles, two League Cups, an FA Cup, and were part of the team that lifted us from being on the fringes of the top six/eight to one of the best in the country. They were all worth the money we paid and to have such a successful hit rate of transfers in one summer definitely justifies Mancini's inclusion on this list.

 

[harms]

I'd rather have Suarez than Lovren, Balotelli, Lambert, Markovic and Origi all together. Lallana and Moreno I rate as OK, but not even close to other transfers listed in this thread. Emre Can would be great, if he resigned a new contract or got sold for a proper fee to Juventus. Now I don't feel he stands out as a better transfer than Suarez or Torres alone.

It was a joke.

 

[Kapardin]

I dunno about worldwide, but I'd have Mancini on top just for the sheer impact of his buys, which City have enjoyed till today.

 

[Gio]

Inter signing both Matthäus and Brehme in 1988, plus Nicola Berti (surprisingly he was worth almost as much as two Germans combined) had an amazing transfer window. They won the next league title as well, thanks to them.

Milan signing both Van Basten and Gullit a season before can say that they've had an even better transfer window, plus they've signed Arrigo Sacchi as well.
edit: they've also returned Costacurta from a loan that season, who now has more than 450 league games for them. A clear winner here, AC Milan 1987/88.

Yeah those are the ones which stand out.

At a different level, Celtic signing Henrik Larsson (£650k), Craig Burley (£2.5m) and Paul Lambert (£2m) in the summer of 1997 was superb business.

 

[Blind]

Spurs 2015/16, Alderweireld, Trippier and Son for under £40m combined. Also got Dier for £4m and Alli for £5m the previous season.

 

[BigDunc9]

Everton 08 09 was a good one for us.

Fellaini 15m
Saha Free
Coleman 60k
Pienaar 2m
Jacobson Free

I miss Moyes

 

[BobbyManc]

2 great transfers out of 5 is not a great output. Even though Milner, Kolarov and Dzeko all contributed, not one of them justified the sum paid for them.

Dzeko 100% did. Scored some incredibly important goals in both our league title victories. We signed him for £27m and sold him for just over half that. To say he didn't justify his fee is ludicrous. There's no way you can deny that was a great transfer window for City, Silva and Toure alone guaranteed that.

 

[harms]

Dzeko 100% did. Scored some incredibly important goals in both our league title victories. We signed him for £27m and sold him for just over half that. To say he didn't justify his fee is ludicrous. There's no way you can deny that was a great transfer window for City, Silva and Toure alone guaranteed that.

1. No, it's not ludicrous. A good player, but nothing more — and at that time for that fee you expected something bigger.
2. Silva and Toure don't guarantee anything when the comparison for them are van Basten, Gullit, Matthäus etc. Especially since other transfers affect that window's status negatively.

 

[SuperiorXI]

Liverpool 2014-15 should be up there too.

Sold Suarez and signed Lovren, Balotelli, Lambert, Origi, Moreno, Markovic, Lallana, Can.

Will this ever be beaten in terms of pure shiteness?

 

[SuperiorXI]

1. No, it's not ludicrous. A good player, but nothing more — and at that time for that fee you expected something bigger.
2. Silva and Toure don't guarantee anything when the comparison for them are van Basten, Gullit, Matthäus etc. Especially since other transfers affect that window's status negatively.

Dzeko was a catalyst to them winning the league that season IMO. Scored so many important late late goals.

 

[Camara]

FC Porto

In terms of shock awe with almost no return for our scale, it's insane the quality and how it failed:

2004/05
Postiga (7.5 M€, failed at Tottenham but still very young and we got him back with a 2 M€ profit hey)
Diego (7 M€, Santos super star)
Quaresma (part of Deco deal, failed in Barça but huge talent)
Anderson (5.5 M€, zomg amazing player, too bad Sir Alex ruined him :P)
Luís Fabiano (3.5 M€, São Paulo super star)
Seitaridis (3 M€, greek european champion super right back)
Thiago Silva (2.5 M€, a nobody back then heh)
Paulo Assunção (2 M€, instrumental in the following years)
Pepe (2 M€, that Real fellow)
Ibson (1.8 M€, was amazing when he came)
Raul Meireles (free, instrumental in the following years)
Leandro Bonfim (free, was very promising back then)
Bruno Alves (returning from loan, a nobody too, instrumental in the following years)

 

[Massive Spanner]

Everton 08 09 was a good one for us.

Fellaini 15m
Saha Free
Coleman 60k
Pienaar 2m
Jacobson Free

I miss Moyes

Moyes was pretty damn good on a small budget to be fair to him. No wonder when he got to Utd he was like a homeless man in a Ferrari dealer. "Wait, I have how much? Holy feck, ok... Bale, Fabregas... hmm.. who else is good. Ronaldo?"

 

[anant]

Real Madrid in 2009-10
Cristiano Ronaldo
Xabi Alonso
Benzema
Kaka
Garay
..

 

[Vialli_92]

Ac Milan and Everton 2017 Summer transfer window...... Oh wait never mind

 

[Dancfc]

Inter 2009
Sneijder (18m)
Diego Milito (player swap+13.5m)
Eto'o (for Ibra)
Thiago Motta (player swap, including Bonucci+4.2m)
Lucio (7.85m)
Goran Pandev (Free)

Listed the most important ones. The two biggest core players in the treble was acquired in the same window (Milito and Sneijder). Eto'o, and Lucio were starters (i think) and Eto'o had a monster year the following season. Pandev was an important role player in the squad and Motta played in 40 games that season. The got so much money from player sales that they even made a profit while winning the treble with their transfers. Hard to beat that.

Losing Bonucci considering how he turned out for me prevents that being up there with the Chelsea, Real and United windows above. Still bloody good though.

 

[BobbyManc]

1. No, it's not ludicrous. A good player, but nothing more — and at that time for that fee you expected something bigger.
2. Silva and Toure don't guarantee anything when the comparison for them are van Basten, Gullit, Matthäus etc. Especially since other transfers affect that window's status negatively.

For £27m any club would be delighted with a striker who scores important goals in two title winning seasons, you're just being silly if you're genuinely trying to argue Dzeko did not justify £27m. His goal against QPR alone was worth it As for Silva and Toure, I have no clue what van Basten or Gullit have to do with them. Silva and Toure were incredible signings, doesn't matter who you compare them against.

 

[Jim Beam]

Napoli 2013/14 was pretty good also

Dries Martens €9.5 million
Gonzalo Higuan €39 million
Jose Callejon €9.5 million
Raul Albiol €12 million
Jorginho €9.5 million
Faouzi Ghoulam €5 million

 

[Raees]

Some cracking Serie A ones from back in the day.. Juve signed Buffon, Thuram and Nedved in one window

 

[roonster09]

Checking Milan's transfer history, it's just amazing how many great/Good players they signed in same window.

87-88: Gullit, Van Basten, Ancelotti
93-94: Desailly, Panucci, Brain Laudrup
95-96: Baggio, Weah, Vieira (didn't work out well though)
99-00: Gattuso, Shevchenko, Serginho, Dida
01-02: Rui Costa, Pirlo, Inzaghi
02-03: Nesta, Seedorf
03-04: Kaka, Cafu

Juventus:
04-05: Emerson, Ibrahimovic, Cannavaro
01-02: Buffon, Thuram, Nedved, Salas

 

[bebeanderson]

Milan 2003 : Nesta, Cafu, Kaka, Seedorf, Rivaldo.

They were in two seperate windows, but still..

 

[roonster09]

Milan 2003 : Nesta, Cafu, Kaka, Seedorf, Rivaldo.

They were in two seperate windows, but still..

In 3 years they signed Kaka, Cafu, Seedorf, Nesta, Rui Costa, Pirlo, Inzaghi. That's just awesome.

 

[Schneckerl]

Slightly off tangent: Not that they actually contributed much (Tevez kinda did, but it was just 30 games though) to the club, but West Ham signing both Tevez and Mascherano is the same window was an amazing feat.

 

[Eire Red United]

That Ferguson window is hard to beat. 3 players who became the best in the world or thereabouts in their postions and another who was a superb servant to the club and all 4 played a vital role in on of our most successful periods ever and were bought for less than Andy Carroll.

 

[Nedved]

Napoli 2013/14 was pretty good also

Dries Martens €9.5 million
Gonzalo Higuan €39 million
Jose Callejon €9.5 million
Raul Albiol €12 million
Jorginho €9.5 million
Faouzi Ghoulam €5 million

Good shout. That is a superb market.