The Boy
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This quote about Phil Jones being compared to Duncan Edwards made me think that I've seen quite a few posts here talking about how good Fergie's transfer record was and how he rarely bought a dud. (Sorry I don't mean to pick on you @redmanx, your post just sparked the thought)Usually Fergie was spot on with his player assessments
Everyone remembers the famous duds, Bebe, Veron etc but when you start looking through his transfers, there are far more that failed than succeeded. To be fair on SAF apart from Veron, the really expensive transfers pretty much all worked out really well, I'm thinking Ferdinand, Rooney, etc
So what think the caf?
GREAT IMPACT | cost | AVERAGE IMPACT | cost | BAD | cost |
Brian McClair | 850,000 | Viv Anderson | 250,000 | Jim Leighton | 500,000 |
Mark Hughes | 1.8M | Dion Dublin | 1M | Mal Donaghy | 650,000 |
Lee Sharpe | 200,000 | David May | 1.4M | Ralph Milne | 170,000 |
Gary Pallister | 2.3M | Jesper Blomqvist | 4.4M | Giunliano Maiorana | 30,000 |
Paul Ince | 1M | Les Sealey | Free | Mike Phelan | 750,000 |
Denis Irwin | 625,000 | Quinton Fortune | 1.5M | Neil Webb | 1.5M |
Andrei Kanchelskis | 650,000 | Roy Carroll | 2.5M | Danny Wallace | 1.2M |
Peter Schmeichel | 500,000 | Diego Forlan | 6.9M | Neil Whitworth | 45,000 |
Paul Parker | 2M | Tim Howard | 2.3M | Pat McGibbon | 10,000 |
Eric Cantona | 1.2M | Alan Smith | 7M | Graeme Tomlinson | 100,000 |
Roy Keane | 3.7M | Gabriel Heinze | 6.9M | Nick Culkin | 250,000 |
Andy Cole | 7M | Owen Hargreaves | 17M | William Prunier | Free |
Raimond van der Gouw | Free | Kieron Richardson | Free | Tony Coton | 500,000 |
Ronny Johnsen | 1.2M | Anders Lindegaard | 3.5M | Karel Poborsky | 3.5M |
Ole | 1.5M | Michael Owen | Free | Jordi Cruyff | 1.3M |
Teddy Sheringham | 3.5M | Erik Nevland | Undisclosed | ||
Henning Berg | 5M | Jonathan Greening | 500,000 | ||
Jaap Stam | 10.7M | Mark Bosnich | Free | ||
Dwight Yorke | 12.6M | Massimo Taibi | 4.5M | ||
Mikael Silvestre | 4M | Bojan Djordjic | 1.5M | ||
RVN | 19M | Fabien Barthez | 7.8M | ||
Laurent Blanc | Free | Juan Veron | 28M | ||
Rio Ferdinand | 27M | Luke Steele | 500,000 | ||
C.Ronaldo | 12.3M | Ricardo Lopez | 1.5M | ||
Louis Saha | 12.8M | David Bellion | 2M | ||
Wayne Rooney | 25.6M | Eric Djembax2 | 3.5M | ||
Nemanja Vidic | 7M | Kleberson | 6.5M | ||
Patrice Evra | 5.5M | Lee Martin | 200,000 | ||
Edwin van der Sar | 2M | Dong | 500,000 | ||
Park Ji-Sung | 4M | Liam Miller | Free | ||
Michael Carrick | 18.6M | Ben Foster | 1M | ||
Nani | 21M | Anderson | 20M | ||
Carlos Tevez | 20M | Thomas Kuszczak | 4.3M | ||
Rafael | 3M | Manucho | 1M | ||
Dimitar Berbatov | 30.75M | Fabio | 3M | ||
Antonio Valencia | 16M | Rodrigo Possebon | 3.5M | ||
Chris Smalling | 10M | Zoran Tosic | 6M | ||
Chicarito | 7M | Ritchie De Laet | 200,000 | ||
Ashley Young | 17M | Gabriel Obertan | 3.5M | ||
DDG | 19M | Mame Diouf | 4.0M | ||
RVP | 24M | Bebe | 7.4M | ||
Phil Jones | 16.5M | ||||
Nick Powell | 6M | ||||
Shinji Kagawa | 12M | ||||
Angelo Henriquez | 5M | ||||
Alexander Buttner | 4.5M | ||||
Wilfred Zaha | 15M |
I've probably missed out a few and have tried to focus on players bought expecting first team action rather than just pure youth, which is why Pogba doesn't make the list for example. The good/bad columns are also subjective and are just my rough ratings.
tl:dr Was SAF's transfer record really as good as many now seem to think it was?
EDIT List updated due to general outrage
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