Small moves for small players that turned out well

[horsechoker]

Shinji Kagawa to Dortmund from Cezero Osaka

Patrice Evra to United

Roy Keane to Nottingham Forest

What are some other small moves for small players that turned out well?

 

[Renegade]

Small players? Roy Keane?
Probably missing the joke tbf

 

[VorZakone]

Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid

 

[tenpoless]

Shinji Kagawa to Dortmund from Cezero Osaka

Patrice Evra to United

Roy Keane to Nottingham Forest

What are some other small moves for small players that turned out well?

What is this? texts for ants?

Gerrard to Liverpool

 

[horsechoker]

Small players? Roy Keane?
Probably missing the joke tbf

I'm surprised he's 5'10, I thought he was like 5'6.

 

[The Cat]

Jimmy Krankie to Cowdenbeath U12s.

 

[horsechoker]

Kante to Leicester

 

[Based Adnan]

Park Ji Sung from Kyoto Purple Sanga to PSV

 

[tenpoless]

Drinkwater to Leicester
Karius to Besiktas
Old Moura to Tottenham
Old Dzeko to Roma
Old Evra to Juventus

 

[Tom Cato]

OGS to Manchester United

Erling Haaland to RB Salzburg

 

[Champagne Football]

Matt Doherty cost Wolves £75,000 from an Irish club.

 

[DWelbz19]

Mathieu Valbuena from Lilbourne to Marseille

 

[Grinner]

Juninho was a dinky little sod.

 

[Rasendori]

Lewandowski from Lech Poznan to Dortmund for just 4 million. Žigić went to Birmingham for 6 million in 2010, and Arsenal signed Eduardo at a cost in the 6 million bracket too. Further evidence of it being a small move is that he nearly signed for Blackburn.

In terms of "turned out well" ... in his debut season Dortmund won the Bundesliga, and he scored a hat trick against Bayern Munich in the DFB Pokal which earned Dortmund a historic double.

 

[GailSpaceWynand]

It's clear we are all missing our football when threads like these pop up.

 

[GailSpaceWynand]

Sanchez to Udinese?

 

[RUCK4444]

Sir Eric Cantona

 

[Black Adder]

Modrić to Tottenham.

 

[Fetshu]

Some of you have mentioned players moving to Leceister, but how about Vardy? It's not like he was an established striker when he went there. Plucked from the depths of lower leagues and a true underdog story, rest is history.

...hope I'm not shooting myself in the foot here and misremembering things.

 

[Fortitude]

Marc Overmars from Willem II to Ajax.

Raymond Kopa from Angers to Reims.

I wish I could add Maradona, but he was a god from the outset.

 

[GailSpaceWynand]

Some of you have mentioned players moving to Leceister, but how about Vardy? It's not like he was an established striker when he went there. Plucked from the depths of lower leagues and a true underdog story, rest is history.

...hope I'm not shooting myself in the foot here and misremembering things.

Yup. Same with Alli.

 

[Andersonson]

The Big dane....

 

[ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg]

Warwick Davis from Willow to Harry Potter.

 

[ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg]

Modrić to Tottenham.

Spurs’ record transfer at the time!

 

[Isotope]

Marcelo to Madrid from Fluminese.
Coutinho to Liverpool.
Sneijder from Madrid to Inter.

 

[Redcy]

Spurs’ record transfer at the time!

Went to a small club though

Shots fired

 

[Winrar]

Drogba: Guingamp to Marseille for 3.3m. Before that he sold for 80000 euros from Le Mans to Guingamp.

Of course, he's most famous for his time at Chelsea but he was bought for 24m then so it's not exactly a small move at that point.

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

Mahrez. First to Leicester (when they were scouting his teammate?) which led to City.

Paul McGrath .. twice. Some tiny fee to come to United (£60k?). Then another small fee to Villa because there were concerns about his knees/fitness... ended up winning PFA POTY.

 

[Aidan Azar]

Giovinco to Toronto FC.

 

[Steven7290]

Smalling to Roma

 

[Invictus]

Daniel Passarella from CA Sarmiento in the Argentine Primera C (third division) to River Plate. Small player as a centerback/sweeper (5'8"), bare minimum compensatory fee — one of River's all time greats as a player and captain (nicknamed El Gran Capitán) and then as a manager.

Berti Vogts from Büttgen to Borussia Mönchengladbach. Small player (5'6"), small fee — but ridiculous impact: club captain for the better part of a decade, consistently one of the best defenders around, 10 x Bundesliga Team of the Year nominations (highest after a certain Franz Beckenbauer), 5 Bundesliga titles, et cetara.

Dani Alves from Bahia to Sevilla. Small player (5'7"), small fee (roughly €1 million including loan obligation), and probably their best transfer for at least this century (peaking as Ballon D'Or 15th in 2007 and UEFA Cup MVP in 2006). Left for a club record fee, too — eclipsing Sergio Ramos.

P.S. Cheers, @harms!

 

[marukomu]

@horsechoker to Newbies.

 

[Web of Bissaka]

You guys are doing this wrong
Evra, Park and Buttner to United for cheap small prices.
C92 kids version joining United youth academy around late 1980s.

 

[Lelouch geass]

Chicharito only 7m bargain

 

[Number32]

Diego Forlan from United to Villareal

 

[strongwalker]

This small move always worked well for little Philipp (5ft7 in high heels)

 

[PogBruno]

chicharitho

 

[thepolice123]

This small move always worked well for little Philipp (5ft7 in high heels)

For this player too (5ft11 with the mohawk):

 

[GuybrushThreepwood]

Numerous signings made by Blackburn under Souness and Hughes:
Brad Friedel from Liverpool's bench
Tugay from Rangers
Steven Reid from Millwall
Morten Gamst Pedersen from Tromso
Ryan Nelsen from DC United
Christopher Samba from Hertha Berlin
Roque Santa Cruz from Bayern's B team

I wasn't old enough to enjoy us winning the title in 1995 in real-time, but 2001-2010 was another a golden era, with a promotion and numerous memorable wins along the way, League Cup win, 6 Premier League top 10 finishes within 9 seasons and 5 more cup semi-finals. We really overachieved for a small town club during that period, and with Jack Walker's money long-gone as well.

 

[horsechoker]

@horsechoker to Newbies.