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21 minutes ago, Turnbull2000 said:

Mbappe gets a 1 game ban for that atrocious foul, meaning he's available for the Copa del Rey against Barca.

Yet according to Tebas state owned clubs are the problem :lol:

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6 hours ago, kingxlnc said:

I’m glad they didn’t put Guiv’arch in there like a lot of these lists do. 
 

always felt he was hard done by. He only played 4 games and even scored once. We’ve had much worse strikers. 
 

he had a decent pedigree too not sure why he wasn’t allowed to settle. 

 

Gullit spent the summer as a World Cup pundit criticising his performances. Two months later he was his manager. Was never getting a chance, whether he deserved one or not. 

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Always find Afonso Alves a weird one on these lists. I do remember him being largely crap, but 10 goals in 42... there's got to be big money buys with worse records than that surely?

 

Straight away I think of Ricky van Wolfswinkel - similar fee to Alves, 1 goal in 25 appearances.

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I think 12 mill at that time was a huge fee, particularly for Boro, and ultimately they ended a lengthy stay in the Prem 18 months after he signed.

 

I'm sure most of his goals came in only a handful of games too - remember a hat trick in that weird 8-1 win against City.

 

 

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41 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:

I think 12 mill at that time was a huge fee, particularly for Boro, and ultimately they ended a lengthy stay in the Prem 18 months after he signed.

 

I'm sure most of his goals came in only a handful of games too - remember a hat trick in that weird 8-1 win against City.

 

 

 

 

All I can remember is the ridiculous Brazilian style fanfare they had at the stadium when he signed, and him bagging a couple in a big win over Man U.

 

Agree he was expensive and overall a bad buy, I just think there's probably worse strikers with far poorer goal records to squeeze into a top 25.

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3 hours ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Gullit spent the summer as a World Cup pundit criticising his performances. Two months later he was his manager. Was never getting a chance, whether he deserved one or not. 

That’s a shame, he was a World Cup winner and had been top scorer in France two years running. Was looking forward to seeing him alongside Shearer. The equivalent today with that track record would cost a bomb. 

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1 hour ago, Pilko said:

Straight away I think of Ricky van Wolfswinkel - similar fee to Alves, 1 goal in 25 appearances.

Personally I don't think you could ever say signing someone with such a great name was a bad thing, regardless of performance.

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