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Following on from the worst signings thread, I thought I'd start a best signings thread.

So, ignoring the obviousness of McCoist, for me its between 2. Brian Laudrup, a snip at £2.3 million, and The Hammer, Jorg Albertz, also a snip at £4 million, though it was bigger money in those days.

It's got to be The Hammer IMO. The man oozed class, skill, power and determination freely scoring goals from midfield, nearly averaging a goal every other game. It was a sad, sad day when Advocaat forced him out the door, if every anybody should have had a testimonial it was him.
 
Dave Mackay for £5,000 from Spurs to Derby in the late 60s. I shouted to my Dad that we had signed Mac and he clipped me roundthe ear for lying. At the time Derby were a struggling div 2 side, with him in the team we won prompotion and the league within 3 years of Brian Clough signing him. 2 years later we won the leaguewith him as mnager.

5k very well spent and prolly Cloughies best ever deal.
 
That's easy. Lee Trundle on a free from Wrexham. Sad to see him go last summer; I haven't watched Soccer A.M. since!!
 
True Blue Jack said:
That's easy. Lee Trundle on a free from Wrexham. Sad to see him go last summer; I haven't watched Soccer A.M. since!!
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To be honest we haven't looked back since he left, I know the guy was a magician with a football, but we now have a far more stable strike force and league position speaks wonders.
 
What about King Kenny Dalglish, a snip at £440,000 from Celtic.
As a player:
6 x League Championships,
3 x European Cups,
1 x Super Cup,
1 x FA Cup,
4 x Leauge Cups
A couple of Charity shields,
172 goals in 355 games, 102 Jock caps and 30 goals.
Leauge/FA Cup double in first year as player manager
and best of all his Daughter KELLY :PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
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Sami Hyypia from FC Twenty I think it was, has to be one of the best defenders the prem has seen.
 
Laudrup for Rangers. One of the best players of his generation, nearly won the Golden Boot at France 98 and Denmark didnt make the later stages. Simply unbelievable.

Cant forget Gazza though or Giovanni Van Bronkhurst, bringing back Bazza, and countless others over the last half a century.
 
How much did Leeds sell Cantona to The Scum for?
 
The list at Rangers is endless:
Laudrup
Albertz
McCoist
Gascoigne
Wilkins
Prso
etc
etc
Had to add Marco Negri. Didn't last long but what a striker he was.
 
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Like I say on the other thread, Mr Wenger has made some fantastic signings, but Arsenal's greatest has to be Denis Bergkamp signed for a snip at £7.5M in 1995 by Bruce Rioch.

Gianfranco Zola was also a bargain for Chelski at £4.5M at around the same time; one of Ruud's I believe.
 
tommo9999 said:
Had to add Marco Negri. Didn't last long but what a striker he was.
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Hmmm I'd actually rate him as a really bad signing. 4 years of not playing collecting 18 grand a week. Pretty dismal really.
 
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Hmmm I'd actually rate him as a really bad signing. 4 years of not playing collecting 18 grand a week. Pretty dismal really.
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Have to agree. One of the papers worked out how much dosh he had earned per minute played and it was ridiculous.
Could have been a player for us had an amazing 6 months then the whole squash ball to the eye incident runied it.
 
For Liverpool id say:

Gary McAllister
Sami Hyppia
Stig Inge Bjornebye
and of course Ian Rush :PDT_Xtremez_28:

To name but a few
 
Read and weep

Read and weep

Douglas Bader's Bell End said:
How much did Leeds sell Cantona to The Scum for?
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Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona (born 24 May 1966 in Paris raised in Marseille) is a French former footballer of the late 1980s and 1990s. He ended his professional footballing career at Manchester United where he won four Premiership titles in five years, including two League and FA Cup "doubles". Cantona is often regarded as having played a major talismanic role in the revival of Manchester United as a footballing powerhouse and he enjoys iconic status at the club. In 2001 he was voted their player of the century, and to this day United fans refer to him as "Eric the King".

He however left Leeds before the end of the 1992-93 season, which saw them finishing 17th out of 22 in the newly formed Premier League, moving to Manchester United in November 1992 for the relatively small fee of £1.2 million, much to the disgust of the Leeds fans, although Howard Wilkinson, the Leeds United manager, was eager for him to leave


A real deal fnuking steal
 
Kevin Phillips at £650K from Watford was a snip. Not a bad deal for a guy who won the golden boot two years later in his debut season in the Premiership.

Shame we didnt sell him to Spurs for £15m when they wanted him in 2002.

Interesting to see you included Ally McCoist in your list Tommo. We adored him at Sunderland when he was with us, but in the cold light of day he was utter utter garbage for us.

Even so, it was widely touted that on our return to the top flight in 1999, Super Ally would be re-joining us from Rangers. Sadly that never happened and us Mackems were left with a taste of what might have been. Life's not fair - We give you McCoist. You gave us Flo!!!!

Still, Quinny & Supakev weren't a bad pair up front.
 
Rangers and Celtic best signings

Rangers and Celtic best signings

Jock Stein

Pat Stanton
Colin Stein

Kenny Miller

And from the past couple of seasons
Scot Brown
Steven Whittaker
Gary Caldwell
Chris Killen
Kevin Thompson
Derek Riordan
Ian Murray

Maybe that's why the Hibees aren't challenging as much these days.
 
Newcastle have made some p!ssawful signings but we've had some crackers as well:

Andy Cole from Bristol City £1,750,000
Peter Beardsley from Everton £1,500,000 (2nd time around - my all time fave)
David Ginola from PSG £2,500,000
Stuart Pearce from Nottingham Forest Free
Nolberto Solano from Boca Juniors £2,500,000
Kevin Gallacher from Blackburn £700,000 (a real workhorse player)
Olivier Bernard from Olympique Lyonnais Free
Andy O'Brien from Bradford City £2m
Titus Bramble from Ipswich Town £4.5m :PDT_Xtremez_09: Sorry, I was joking
James Milner from Leeds United £3.6m + £1.4m to follow
Charles N'Zogbia from Le Havre £500,000 compensation
Nicky Butt from Man Utd £2m (f*cking bargain!)
Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa £1.5m
Mark Viduka from Boro Free
Geremi from Chelsea Free
Cacapa - Free agent Free
Habib Beye from Marseille £2m
Abdoulaye Faye from Bolton £2m

But the best of all:

Shay Given from Blackburn Free!!!

:PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
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flintwich said:
Jock Stein

Pat Stanton
Colin Stein

Kenny Miller

And from the past couple of seasons
Scot Brown
Steven Whittaker
Gary Caldwell
Chris Killen
Kevin Thompson
Derek Riordan
Ian Murray

Maybe that's why the Hibees aren't challenging as much these days.
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Mibbees...... or mibbees they're just S@%T......?
 
fergo said:
Have to agree. One of the papers worked out how much dosh he had earned per minute played and it was ridiculous.
Could have been a player for us had an amazing 6 months then the whole squash ball to the eye incident runied it.
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Aye, maybe you're right. Fantastic striker, but probably a poor signing overall.
 
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