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CFC Top 5 Worst transfers

There should be a space for Jamie Gittens

Kepa was expensive but has contributed.

 
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  1. Kepa. World record fee when that fee would have been enough to get any of the top tier keepers out of their club. We refused to go above 60 million for Alison the week before.
  2. Bakayoko. Monaco sold their whole midfield which was a very good midfield. We signed the imposter.
  3. Lukaku. A magnificently limited player who thought everyone owed him something.
  4. Shevchenko. Ballon winner and a magnificent finisher…… at Milan and Dynamo Kiev.
  5. Sutton. Looked completely out of his depth at Chelsea to the point where sometimes he didn’t even look like a footballer. Confusing as he did well for all his other clubs.
 
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  1. Lakaka. All the evidence was there before we spunked a ridiculous sum of money on him but we still did and then acted surprised that along with being a sh*t footballer he turned out to be a sh*t person as well
  2. Bakayoko - Pretty sure this was a social experiment and a different person entirely to who was at Monaco came over on his passport
  3. Fofana - The fee. The wages. The injuries. The attitude.
  4. Drinkwater - Fair play to the bloke in all fairness.
  5. Gittens - Epitomy of the BlueCo strategy, he’s never even looked like an academy player let alone a 60M+ PL baller.
 
In years to come Liam Delap might challenge for a place in this group. £30 million isnt much but nor has his contribution been. Totally out of his depth. Clueless.

 
Kepa

Lukaku

Bakayoko

Drinkwater

Bogarde
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It’s hard to top this. I might swap drinkwater for Mudryk, Mutu, Shevchenko, SWP, Datro Fofana, De Lucas, Di Santo, Fleck, Morata, Kezman, Veron, Bosnich, Sutton, but Drinkwater takes some beating

Top five signings? Has to include Frank, Drogs, Hazard, Zola and one open!

 
  1. Lukaku
  2. Kepa
  3. Wesley Fofana
  4. Garnacho
  5. Sutton
All grade A a$$h*les who don't/didn't give any respect to the club.

 
Pound for Pound

Mudryk - Waste of 60-80m. Drug cheat. Signed him because Arsenal wanted him, makes this transfer much worse

Kept- 70m worse keeping transfer in football history

Enzo Fernandez- Record 100m signing for a bang average footballer thats no better than Drinkwater or KDH. For his position and hype, he should at least be winning us a handful of games on his own and setting an example

Sanchez- 30m for a keeper dropped by Brighton to be our number one and prove our concerns right

Fofana - 70m for an injury crock defender. All that fuss with his medical and he still messed up.

There are so many others including Disasi, Badishile, Delap, Gittens (close to including him) and Lukaku (at least he starred on fire before that dumb interview) but these 5 are actual disasters.

 
It’s hard to top this. I might swap drinkwater for Mudryk, Mutu, Shevchenko, SWP, Datro Fofana, De Lucas, Di Santo, Fleck, Morata, Kezman, Veron, Bosnich, Sutton, but Drinkwater takes some beating

Top five signings? Has to include Frank, Drogs, Hazard, Zola and one open!
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Kante most definitely. I'll take out Zola and put in Cech just for what he did in 2012. He had no right to win us the CL on his end.

 
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I get why people bring up fees (which probably puts Mudryk right in the conversation... Lavia too), but I will ignore that here.

I really can’t put these two anywhere else—they’re in a league of their own (no particular order):

  1. Bakayoko
  2. Tal Ben Haim
Ben Haim came in when the club wasn’t exactly swimming in cash, but wow, he did not look like a professional footballer and certainly did not play like one. 😅

Bakayoko though… I’m not sure I’ve seen a midfielder at this level where the ball seemed so determined to escape him. Watching the football bounce off his shins made Lukaku’s first touch look WC.

 
I get why people bring up fees (which probably puts Mudryk right in the conversation... Lavia too), but I will ignore that here.

I really can’t put these two anywhere else—they’re in a league of their own (no particular order):

  1. Bakayoko
  2. Tal Ben Haim
Ben Haim came in when the club wasn’t exactly swimming in cash, but wow, he did not look like a professional footballer and certainly did not play like one. 😅

Bakayoko though… I’m not sure I’ve seen a midfielder at this level where the ball seemed so determined to escape him. Watching the football bounce off his shins made Lukaku’s first touch look WC.
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That was more that Abramovich and Mourinho threw their toys out of the pram. We spent plenty the season before, and we made the CL final in the same season.

Ben Haim is an interesting one. Terry said on Obi Mikel's podcast that he was just a 'weird' guy who never really fit in with the squad. Apparently he was really angry and aggressive in training, all the time, and often went way too hard in on Drogba & co in small sided games, and refused to back down. Being Israeli, we all assumed he was Avram Grant's guy (as DOF) but at the end of the season Ben Haim said that he wouldn't have come to Chelsea if he'd known Grant was to be the manager, not Mourinho!

 
  1. Pedro Lomba Neto
  2. Chris Sutton
  3. Kepa
  4. Bogarde
  5. Fofana
HM: Bakayoko, Lukaka

 
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Can’t really include the Blueco era, as it’s all bad really, aside from the flukes, like Palmer. The only non-fluke was Caicedo as he was Prem-ready, just a shame about his tackling, most likely will always be a liability.

Agree on Kepa as 1st, the background around the transfer, Alison etc, and the long-term ramifications of that decision really set us back, Lukaku return a close second.

 
Another 3 contenders.

Gazpacho, Mudryk, Ambrosetti.

A 9 year old school girl could slap the piss out of all of them. All at the same time.

 
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