TOP 10 Premier League BARGAINS: Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs, Manchester United, Man City, Chelsea, Everton, West Ham have your say!
by Mr Comfort on October 29th, 2008
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Yesterday, we opened the discussion as to which Premier League players were the biggest waste of money. Well today, we thought we’d go the other way and try to draw up a list of the best value signings ever!
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Anyone can fork out millions on the next big thing; it takes knowledge and guts to find a talent without breaking the bank. There are some great bargain players currently plying their trade in the Premier League, names that jump to mind are Kolo Toure, Sami Hyypia, Roque Santa Cruz, Richard Dunne and Geovanni, but obviously there are loads to consider.
Of course, in the recent past there are a great many other players to fill your top ten from Ole Gunnar Solsjaker to Ian Wright, so feel free to scour the history books to compile your top ten.
By all means try to find bargains from the past or present to come up with a list that will have your fellow fans nodding in approval.
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Good Luck!
Bryan - October 29th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
TOP TEN PREMIER LEAGUE BARGAINS
1. Sagna
2. Santa Cruz
3. Tevez (they have barely had to pay for him yet!)
Edward - October 29th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
1. Torres (yes i am serious) he is proving very good value for money!
Anonymous - October 29th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
1, Sami Hypia £2.6mil was a steal
Scooby Dooby Doo - October 29th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Nicolas Anelka
Bought from PSG for £500,000
Sold to Real Madrid for £23.5 Million.
Superb piece of business.
Well done Arsene Wenger
Scooby Dooby Doo - October 29th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Marc Overmars
Bought from Ajax Amsterdam for £4.5 Million
Sold to Barcelona for @25 Million.
Arsene Wenger does it again.
Pants1972 - October 29th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Gerrard - Free
Carragher - Free
Owen - Free
Fowler (1st time round) - Free
Say no more!
Neal - October 29th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
1. Kolo Touré £150,000
2. Gael Clichy £220,000
3. Sol Campbell £0
4. Cesc Fabregas £2m
5. Mathieu Flamini £200,000
6. Dennis Bergkamp £6m
7. Emmanuel Adebayor £2m
8. Robin van Persie £3.5m
9. Jens Lehmann £1.5m
10. Gilberto Silva £4.5m
EVERTON - October 29th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
1.tevez(free due to loan and already help man u win the league last season)
2.santa cruz(score a lot of goal when blackburn pay for a small sum of money only)
3.jagielka(for 4 mil he is a good hardworking defender)
4.torres(despite his price but is a good bargain)
5.lazy dy…
Scooby Dooby Doo - October 29th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Oh dear Pants1972
As your name suggests you are quite PANTS and haven’t quite got the grasp of what ‘Top 10 Premier League Bargains’ actually suggests. Let me break it down for you… purchasing or aquiring a football player by means of spending as little as money as possible to show supporters and the general football supporting population that spending obscene amounts of money doesn’t guarantee successful players.
Is that all nice and clear Pants1972!
Alex - October 29th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
So far Albert Riera has been very good for the 6 million we paid for him
Rogz - October 29th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Flamini? The same one bought for 200,000 and that left for nothing? Bargain indeed. Arsene does it again…
Torres
Fabregas
Riera
Berbatov (Spurs made good money out of him)
Bergkamp
BringBackBananas - October 29th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
joe hart - 600k
andy morrison - 80k
city have had there pants pulled down so many times over the years, these are the only 2 bargains i can think of!
Riceyyy - October 29th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Tim Cahill’s one of the best bargains in the league, without doubt. Just over £2m and he’s probably the best in the league at what he does. Every team in the country would want Cahill in their squad, no question about it.
David Moyes has got a few actually, Pienaar and Arteta each cost less than £3m, Lescott was only £5m, and Howard for £2.5m, all of them excellent signings.
Glen Johnson only cost Pompey £4m and he’s probably the best English right back right now, and David James was only £1.2m!
John Carew’s another excellent one, he didn’t cost anything, it was just an exchange with Lyon for Milan Baros, and Carew’s lightyears ahead of him!
Sean - October 29th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Robinho £32.5M Absolute bargain!!!
Legend - October 29th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Oh dear scooby dooby doo. It seems you are also lacking in the knowledge of what a bargain is also. It is not just about cheap purchases, but merely Value for money. Such as buying Torres right now for £30 Million would be a bargain, and £30m isn’t exactly spending as little money as possible is it now? it seems you yourself appear to be also “Pants”
Neal - October 29th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Tevez is not free, no loans are ever free. He is costing £7m per year!
BringBackBananas - October 29th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
thanks sean, i stand corrected.
robinho - 5.5million a goal so far, and its falling fast!!
m9 - October 29th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Hey Bananas, what about Petrov (4.5) Kompany (6) , and if were going to delve, King Col from Bury for 16 quid, a Pendletons Twicer and a pump for Bernard Halfours bike.
BringBackBananas - October 29th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
well i was talkin real bargains at first, but after some of the mentions above i agree vinnie will be seen as a snip at 6million in a couple of years time.
only being 26 i cant comment on colin the king, although my old man said he was an half decent player…
lets throw kinky in the melting pot then. 2million quid
Alex - October 29th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
In no particular order
- Agger (4.5m)
- Pepe Reina (6m)
- Vidic (7ish million?)
- Skrtel (7m)
- Ronaldo (14m euros)
- Fabregas (and the majority of the arsenal team to be fair)
- Joe Cole (signed to chels for 6.6m)
- Deco (8m)
- Ballack (free)
Those in my eyes are the best value signings i can think of, but in terms of paying for themselves i reckon these guys are more than worth their price tags:
Torres
Mascherano
Essien
Anderson
Rio Ferdinand
Drogba
Tooly - October 29th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
SWP sold for 21mil and came back for 9mil bargin
moody - October 30th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
1 amr zaki ( zamalek - wigan )
2 geovanni ( city - hull )
3 valencia ( fuck knows where - wigan )
4 palacios (?????????????? - wigan )
5 james milner ( n’castle - villa )
Rik - October 31st, 2008 at 9:45 am
“Gerrard - Free
Carragher - Free
Owen - Free
Fowler (1st time round) - Free”
Good spot, totally agree…
Not sure about this but weren’t Scholes, Giggs, Beckham, Nelville also free coming through the Utd academy? I’m sure someone will confirm or otherwise.
Yes, Hyppia too, great piece of business. He’s like all those above, priceless really.