Whether it be in terms of whether they didn’t play as well as you expected them to be, or if they were injured/unfit all the time during their career at your club or perhaps got on bad terms quickly into their career at your club (e.g. Di Maria at Man Utd).
As a Liverpool fan, I can think of names like Aquilani, Robbie Keane, Morientes, Andy Carroll, Kewell, Litmanen, Nuri Sahin etc.
But the one that has to take the cake is Naby Keita. I was very excited when it was announced he would be joining us. He was like the 2nd best midfielder in the Bundesliga that season for Leipzig in the data and for a couple of seasons had shown a lot of great technical ability. He joins us and the rest is history. It’s not to say he didn’t have good moments with us when he had a run of games in the first team. But that was presicely the issue, getting a run of games. It was a constant cycle of spending over half his time injured and when returning, not always having his best games due to slowly returning to fitness and when he did start showing his sparkle he’d go off injured again for a while. I am not just gutted for us but gutted for him too in how it could’ve and should’ve turned out.
Is it the players, or is it the club though? Sometimes it feels like a prime messi could walk into the club and he’d fail.
I kinda blame the club in a way for shitty scouting and transfers. We keep buying young players with little work ethic for high price points. Young players really shouldn’t cost that much, that’s part of the appeal of them being young innit - but Chelsea doesn’t gaf. Dropping big money over players who haven’t proved themselves meanwhile City spends 60 mil on Haaland who’s not only impacted the team, but the league as a whole.
It also doesn’t help that Chelsea’s often been in the spirit of sacking managers but I would least like to see the players try harder in the match. Often times it seems like these players aren’t hungry at all and today’s match against Newcastle shows it
Haaland cost A LOT more than 60.
The transfer fee itself was basically his release clause at €60mil. Sure with bonuses and agents fees it came to £85mil
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Either way, they still paid less for him and he’s had a far greater impact than players we’ve paid 100+ mil for
85 with agents and sign on? 😂