THE WORST
5. Jo (Man City/Everton)
Jo had no problem scoring goals in Russia, in the Premier League however he was a complete flop.
Man City paid a whopping £19m for the CSKA Moscow man, a club record at the time, Jo went on to score one goals in 21 Premier League appearances. Did slightly better with Everton during a loan spell before he moved back to Brazil.
4. Kleberson (Man United)
When Man United fans are asked to consider the worse signings Sir Alex Ferguson has made in his Old Trafford tenure Kleberson usually makes the grade.
Cost the club £6.5m and was supposedly a replacement for Juan Sebastian Veron, it’s safe to say he was a complete disaster of a signing.
3. Heurelho Gomes (Tottenham)
Brazilian keepers are not usually all that sound and Heurelho Gomes has proved that this is not just a stereotypical assessment.
The former PSV Eindhoven man was hard to beat in the Dutch Eredivisie but in the Premier League he has been found wanting again and again. Currently on loan at Hoffenheim who are of course now doomed for the drop.
2. Afonso Alves (Middlesbrough)
It’s only fitting that having brought in one of the big Brazilian success stories to the Premier League that Middlesbrough should look to counteract this with the signing of a player who was never going to cut it in the English top tier.
Boro owner Steve Gibson elected to spent around £12m for Alves on the back of 18 months of non-stop scoring in the Eredivisie but that was always going to be money wasted.
On paper Alves goal-scoring record does’t look all that bad but he was part of the Boro side that got relegated and his tally of 10 goals in 41 matches covers a multitude of sins.
1. Andre Santos (Arsenal)
Piers Morgan has dubbed the Brazilian wide-man as the worst player to have ever played for Arsenal but whilst that may be a tad over the top there is no denying he is the worst Brazilian to play in the Premier League.
It’s something of a major failing for a professional footballer to be unable to tackle, unable to cross and to be woefully short of any positional sense but Santos manages to possess these attributes. The signing of Nacho Monreal on transfer deadline-day may well prove to be the death knell for the former Fenerbahce man’s Arsenal career.