I'd like to nominate my Arsenal team in the summer of 2016 when Arsene Wenger spent £95m on Xhaka, Mustafi and Lucas Perez while selling Serge Gnabry for less than £5m. Absolutely dreadful stuff.
Honourable mention, Monaco when they won the Ligue 1 title then proceeded to lose all their best players and just avoid relegation the following season
Monaco did have an enormously positive net spend and had a lot of money in the bank with that window, and the likes of mbappe and silva leaving was almost inevitable. Thats how clubs who are not regularly powerhouses work, be in teams such as monaco, lille etc. They sell their players for massive excesses following amazing seasons where they beat the leaders against all odds. Then the reinvest the money slowly to become better at youth recruitment and training facilities instead of players. That's why monaco is still fiercely competitive in their league and didn't suffer enormously from covid like the other french clubs. Moreover, the inclusions in this seven are mostly teams who sold their best players and reinvested the money on absolute scrubs. Monaco simply didnt reinvest the money on players, rather thought long term
@@mayukhdatta4017 yes, but they sold too many too soon. Can't live too much in the future if you can't even field a proper squad, and losing the entire spine of your team has got to hurt you, because who knows which of the new signings will work out and which won't. That's why teams sell some key players (if they really have to, or get a good price and have a replacement ready), but then they sell extortionate prices for others to not have a rebuild of the entire team and have some continuity, which is what Monaco clearly failed to do.
@@mayukhdatta4017 Monaco's long term plan looks more like Athletic Bilbao with the Kepa windfall where no fewer than two academy products got an opportunity although Alex Remiro was released for the benefit of his career after Unai Simon took the starting job with all the profit reinvested.
@@mayukhdatta4017 There's nothing wrong with selling your best players, take Salzburg but it has to be sustainable, not just Monaco but many Ligue 1 clubs sell and sell without signing anyone so they get weaker every season and it's why nobody takes Ligue 1 seriously anymore
20:47 'Free transfer Victor Anichebe scored just as often as a 15 year old incel.' This took me by utter surprise and I almost spat my drink out. Congratulations Alfie- that was truly savage.
Leonardo's transfer window as Milan's Sporting Director in 18/19: Castillejo, Laxalt, Higuain, Caldara, Bakayoko, then Piatek and Paqueta in January. You could argue that was even worse than the 2017 one.
@@seaninho3631 Paquetá was really good when he first appeared along with Vini Jr at Flamengo, then had an awful time at Milan and finally recovered his form at Lyon. Tbf Milan was really unlucky to not be able to get him at his finest
Got to mention Benfica's 2017 window. We had won 4 leagues in a row and could win a record breaking 5th championship in a row. Proceeded to sell Lindelof, Nelson Semedo, Ederson and Mitroglou (our top scorer) all in the same window. Made more than 100M€ in sales and what did we bring in? To replace Ederson we brought back Bruno Varela that had been out on loan in the previous season and he was so bad we had to play 18 year old Svilar, to replace Semedo we brought Douglas on loan from Barcelona but he barely payed, to replace Lindelof we bought no one...and to replace Mitroglou we brought Seferovic on a free. 0 points e the Champions league group, lost the league title and the quality of the squad would never recover. To this day Benfica suffers the consequences of that window. Manager was sacked and the president was arrested years later.
Also the return of the greatest coach ever jorge jesus spent over 100 mil, much more than the previus years combine, just to finish 3rd and just after the president goes to jail. Bad 5 years to be a fan thank god for lage season
Cause Portuguese football can't keep there players anymore with the big leagues getting richer and small leagues get all there players took IE. Portugal and holland
I would definitely add Leeds United’s 2003 summer window. We were on our knees financially and had lost many of our top players the year before, but the signings we made just compounded our dire situation. Loaning in the likes of Lamine Sakho, Solomon Olembe, Didier Domi, Zoumana Camara and of course the awful Roque Jr set the tone for our relegation season. It was clearly an unbalanced side full of players that had given up and washed their hands of us. Crazily one of the few shining lights that year was Jermaine Pennent on loan from Arsenal! Even the appointment of Eddie Grey wasn’t enough to save us and when you look at the business that summer, it’s clear to see why.
Felt i had to comment something similar. Led to us nearly being dissolved and points deductions galore. From champs league to league 1. Cheers ridsdale
That’s absolutely right. I remembered being so excited when we got him, the media seemed surprised too, but in the end, the only highlight of his time with us were the two goals against Swindon and a torn jersey. 😂.
Lol chelsea being the thumbnail is perfect because my god have we had some bad transfer windows lately, I will never forget the amount of stress that the signings from the summer 2017 and '20 windows put me through🤧
Summer 17 was the summer where Michael Emenalo lost his magic (although some said that it was because Marina). Chelsea pretty much lost all of their primary target like Lukaku, Barkley, Tolisso, and a right-back that I forgot. It almost broke Antonio Conte
Mate honestly it was soooo painful wasn’t it? 😂 We won the league & played champagne football under Conte and they repaid him with THAT window?! 🤦♂️ Bakayoko was so bad, drinkwater is a disgrace, Zappacosta was “okay” as a squad player, but my word what an average signing to compete with Moses who wasn’t even an actually RB! Morata well, he seems to have the best agent ever, because he is a fraud.
@@gruncletim Yeah it was a saving grace tbh. Allowed James, Mount, Tammy and Tomori to shine, shame we sold the latter two. Could really do with them right now!
You may have missed Tottenham’s 2019 window after the champions league final, Ndombele club record fee, 65million and 250k a week! Absolute flop Lo Celso another 45-50million, awful player Jack Clarke, 10million, never got a game, only just sold to Sunderland for a fraction of the price. Finally Ryan Sessegnon, 30million, always injured, had a decent second half of the season last season, some potential but overall not delivered as of yet
We went 18 months without a signing and then made some of the worst aside from how we spent the Bale cash. Sessegnon is the only one who has showed any hope, despite his injury problems. Lo Celso had one decent half season but at least has decent sell on value, and Clarke was never able to develop. Ndombele is, imo, our worst transfer. His fitness levels and attitude have stunk and no one will buy him bc Levy gave him stupid wages and is demanding +40M for a guy who has barely played and when he has mostly looks like ass and can’t play more than 60 minutes.
Liverpool under Hicks & Gillet were an absolute shambles. Wasted a huge amount of money on bang average and rubbish players over a two to three year period. I also recall Damien Comolli leaving Spurs to join Liverpool during that period as well.
If you are ever thinking about a part 2, I'd seriously consider St. Johnstone Summer 2021, almost all of the players signed were gone within 12 months, went from double winners and draws against Galatasaray and LASK Linz, to relegation fodder. Also lost their best 2 players, as well as 3/4 others who were crucial
Please don't remind me of that summer 2017 transfer window Alfie, us Chelsea fans still have nightmares of Bakayoko trying to control a ball and Morata struggling to score goals 😂
Tottenham 2013/14 shouldve got in, we lost bale, signed soldado and lamela and the only good things that happened in 2013/14 was signing eriksen and getting tim sherwood out
Really quite impressive that in the Everton window there was a player I still don't remember existing, even when reminded of him. Pickford is a very good goalkeeper, especially when he has players that aren't Michael Keane in front of him though. And God we needed a keeper that year.
As a side note on Sunderland, Im pretty sure we signed Rodwell and Alvarez in the same transfer window. Both players worthy of topping "worst transfer of the year". And the year before that under "super agent" Roberto Di Fanti we signed around 7-8 random players from everywhere, told they were "hidden gems" and we would be following the Udinese model of bringing through talent. We avoided relegation by the skin of our teeth and none of those players were heard from again.
Is nobody going to mention Fulham's ridiculous £100 million 18-19 summer window? I get that the paycheck for winning the playoff final is massive, but spend that money on improving the backline. They couldn't defend to save their lives
people praised Man Utd for the James/Wan-Bassaka/Maguire window at the time. none of them were terrible signings per se, but each player was wayyyy overpriced. as a Chelsea fan, the Bakayoko/Drinkwater/Zappacosta/Morata window was def worse, esp as it led to us losing Conté, and honestly who could blame him after that?
I'd argue that some of Milan's previous transfer windows were even worse, but still, it's very strange to think that we're talking about the same team who has managed to turn their fortunes around in recent years!
I'm not a Chelsea fan but I see a fair number of their games. What always baffled me is that Alvaro Morata obviously doesn't understand the offside rule. You'd think, given what he does for a living, that would be essential knowledge but he's made it this far without knowing it. It's really weird.
Stokes 2017 summer transfer window sent them down, let 3 key players leave, 2 went out on loan and brought in stars such as Kevin wimmer and the now infamous choupo moting to try and replace arnautovic, disastrous
Alfie your content is always amazing informative in depth and well researched. Would love to see a best and worst of premier league players who became managers. Worst and best debut seasons as manager and those that lasted or are still managing.
I would like to nominate Schalkes 2018/19 transfer window as we lost on the back of a runners up campain our whole 3 backline gaining only 40 M€ and our whole central midfield consisting of Leon Goretzka and Max Meyer (for nothing!!) whilst we tried to replace that with signings worth above 60 M€ that ultimately that saw us drop from 2nd to 14th and then to relegation rock bottom 2 years after that
Bristol City 2020/21 season transfer dealings was one of the worst I had ever seen. Adrian Mariappa Henri Lansbury Chris Brunt Chris Martin Danny Simpson Alfie Mawson
Day 12: A detailed look at the state of Crotone would be nice, going from Serie A in 20/21 with a 20 goal a season striker (Simy) to Serie C by 22/23. Two relegations in a row, something surely has to be wrong at that club.
Just to add to Villas awful transfer window, they also allowed Albrighton to leave on a free after not offering him a contract and he obviously then went on to win the league a year later.
I feel like not including Leeds 2003, any Chelsea windows in the last ten years, or what Spurs did with the Bale money is a bit criminal. Also Spurs 2019 for an outside shout by following up 18 months of no spending with Jack Clarke, Ryan Sessegnon, Gio Lo Celso, and Tanguy NDombele set them back three years.
Real Madrid 2019 should be in here considering all the players that were signed didn’t really get going and splashing over 100m on Hazard and he still hasn’t done anything since he arrived.
Militao and Mendy are starters for Madrid, and will probably remain for the next 5 years. It's hard to consider as a total failure a transfer window which gave you two players who made you win a champions League.
@@joachimeimery8179 yeah but did either of them or any player that was signed do anything in their debut season? You have to remember that Militao couldn’t take over from Ramos who was still number one until he left and that’s when he got going.
Arsenal summer 2016 should be on dishonourable mention for spending money on Xhaka, Mustafi and Lucas Perez. After this Arsenal haven’t got into CL again.
17:35 On the pitch he was good. Only 1 disappointing season where he had to play at CDM/CM in a 442 but he got 14 goals and 7 assists in 18/19 and 8 goals and 10 assists in 20/21.
A bit disappointed you failed to explain the context behind Liverpool's bad 2010 summer window, which was in the midst of an ownership sale/near-administration saga, with its then owners obstinately refusing to sell despite being millions of pounds in debt, and the fans had to organize to force the banks to bypass them and find a new buyer.
I feel a bit sorry for Moshiri at Everton, he brought in the guy who had recruited so well for Leicester and backed him with money. Pickford has made vital saves; £25M for an England No.1 seems OK. Sigurdsson seemed good previously. For bad transfers how about QPR in 2011 and 2012, a team so bad even Mark Hughes and Harry Redknapp couldn't save them. Bad players, bad attitude, toxic dressing room.
a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel
Dude, you need to number your days of posting this, I've seen this comment in what feels like months now. I too would like to see Alfie do that documentary
@@BALHAM69 No I mean like, I support your iniative and I'd like to see this documentary come to fruition, therefore you should write like "day (insert number here)" followed by your standard comment, maybe that's just what it'll take for Alfie to take notice of you. By all means, spam the man. #thepeopleschannel can handle that
hearts in 2019 was definitely up there. One brilliant signing in Craig Halkett, a few underwhelming loans and free transfers and 3 absolute disasters in every sense of the word in Glenn Whelan who simply couldn't be arsed, Loic Damour on a 4 year deal, and Joel Perreira who was worse than a bin bag with legs. The same club that was top of the league in december of the previous year would end up relegated at the end of the season
Video idea: the 7 greatest 'what if' players Like players who's bodies let them down e.g reus, ledley king Or players who let their bad habits get the better of them e.g ravel morrison
Have to disagree on all of those Inter 09-10 was the best Diego Milito, Samuel Eto’o, Wesley Sneijder, Thiago Motta, McDonald Mariga, Emiliano Viviano, Goran Pandev, Marko Arnautovic and Lucio they went on to win the treble that season.
@@dazzaMusic Most of them had like 2 -3 good years. Those liverpool signings are literally some of the greatest in the history of English football. Don't even waste my time with this shit
Manchester United: Let's go of the talented Pogba for free, Buys him for a record fee near 100 Mil, starves him of Club trophies, Let's him go for free again 🤣🤣🤣
This transfer window looks worse. Injury to either chillwell or James and the defense will collapse and sterling has been very inconsistent since 2020 so that attack in top 6 teams looks worse.
I thought that but he said Richards thought better then lescott which is true unless you love supercars after 6 nil defeats and big weight off at being truly horrendous in a team you play in
Justice for Maguire and James. That’s nowhere near one of the worst windows ever. Maguire has been a first team mainstay and James looked tremendous at points and was only let go because of the spontaneous Ronaldo signing. A hot take of mine is that he could become a CL level player in the right system. His pace and power combined with improved finishing would make him a nightmare for full backs.
Buying bonucci is one of the worst transfer ever made by ac milan. Like why you bought a slow ball playing center back when the defense are frail already?
@@r3zaful Leonardo and Mirabelli were more interested in "big" names rather than what the team actually needed. Imagine if Maldini had that budget, he would've built a super team by now
Don't you hate it when your phone presses buttons by itself in your pocket and posts a photo of your luxury car on social media. Totally inconvenient dude.
I think Real Madrids 2019 Window might be worth a mention. Like Rodrygo is the only transfer from that window that was great without any asterisks. Militao is starter now, but he was struggling during his first 2 seasons and was nearly let go to Tottenham in January 2021 to a huge loss if Ramos and Varane hadn't been injured, only then did he start to turn his fortunes. Mendy is a bit of a mixed bag, definitely brilliant when fit and in form, but his price tag was hefty, and he is very injury prone. Kubo never played a single official game for Real Madrid and was sold to Sociedad after a couple of lone spells, at a profit at the very least, but that transfer had barely any point. And of course there are the two big elephants in the room, Hazard and Jovic, who cost us a combined 200 Mio Euro and both crashed and burned spectacularly, and are easily the 2 worst transfers Real Madrid ever made. Obviously the outcome was nowhere as bad as with some other clubs, but given they spend over 300 Mio Euros and tried to replicate the 2009 formula with only half of them turning out decently to good, it's worth a mention.
The Chelsea 2017 window has to go on there. Conte said "Van Dijk and Lukaku" and Emenalo couldn't get the deals over the line. He "left" the next year.
Day 9: Best XI with only trophy-less players. (Similar idea to "7 best players without trophies" but that was outdated and a XI would definitely be more intriguing.)
Any Sparta Praha transfer window in the past 10 years would be great. but the worst one was likely the Andrea Stramaccioni window. Probably tied with the Slavia one the same year. if you know, you know
I've either seen this video before and forgotten, have Nostradamus-esque foresight, or just firmly believe that my beloved Spurs spaffing the Bale-bonds on a largely disappointing Paulinho, Capoue & Chadli, a non existent Chiriches, an absolute shocker in Soldado, a shithouse virtuoso in Lamela, and an essential cog -even leader in Eriksen was without a doubt one of the worst transfer campaigns ever Funnily enough each player has gone on to have a successful or at least interesting career almost decade on.
Man Utd was spot on! I was a Fergie knows the best camp at the time but lack of big signings hurt. Utd's overcompensation in the last decade had made things worse.
I'd like to nominate my Arsenal team in the summer of 2016 when Arsene Wenger spent £95m on Xhaka, Mustafi and Lucas Perez while selling Serge Gnabry for less than £5m. Absolutely dreadful stuff.
Shocked we didn’t feature
Arsenal win the fa cup and 5th in premieship....
@@ariekabana8843 it’s in our blood
No lie, shouldve been number 2 at least
Wait xhaka is decent now and lucas Perez didn’t even get a chance
Honourable mention, Monaco when they won the Ligue 1 title then proceeded to lose all their best players and just avoid relegation the following season
Monaco did have an enormously positive net spend and had a lot of money in the bank with that window, and the likes of mbappe and silva leaving was almost inevitable. Thats how clubs who are not regularly powerhouses work, be in teams such as monaco, lille etc. They sell their players for massive excesses following amazing seasons where they beat the leaders against all odds. Then the reinvest the money slowly to become better at youth recruitment and training facilities instead of players. That's why monaco is still fiercely competitive in their league and didn't suffer enormously from covid like the other french clubs.
Moreover, the inclusions in this seven are mostly teams who sold their best players and reinvested the money on absolute scrubs. Monaco simply didnt reinvest the money on players, rather thought long term
@@mayukhdatta4017 yes, but they sold too many too soon. Can't live too much in the future if you can't even field a proper squad, and losing the entire spine of your team has got to hurt you, because who knows which of the new signings will work out and which won't. That's why teams sell some key players (if they really have to, or get a good price and have a replacement ready), but then they sell extortionate prices for others to not have a rebuild of the entire team and have some continuity, which is what Monaco clearly failed to do.
@@mayukhdatta4017 Monaco's long term plan looks more like Athletic Bilbao with the Kepa windfall where no fewer than two academy products got an opportunity although Alex Remiro was released for the benefit of his career after Unai Simon took the starting job with all the profit reinvested.
@@mayukhdatta4017 There's nothing wrong with selling your best players, take Salzburg but it has to be sustainable, not just Monaco but many Ligue 1 clubs sell and sell without signing anyone so they get weaker every season and it's why nobody takes Ligue 1 seriously anymore
They avoided relegation during 2018/19 season. In 2017-18 they finished second. Still, it was one dreadful transfer window after another back then
20:47 'Free transfer Victor Anichebe scored just as often as a 15 year old incel.' This took me by utter surprise and I almost spat my drink out. Congratulations Alfie- that was truly savage.
That line got a heart chuckle out of me too
When Coutinho was signed, Barcelona hoped to improve their champions league form, Which he did in 2020’, That was Epic
Genius comment, Hala Madrid!!!
Barca had to pay a Champions League clause to Liverpool because he won it with Bayern
Lmao
@@michiadams thats such a ridiculous fact haha
@@SamuelSaveli didn't know we call false statements "facts", now
Its funny how 2 of Aston Villas terrible signings in 2015 turned out to be really good players (Gueye, Veretout)
They also had Grealish and Adam Traore in that team lol.
Losing Steve Bruce strengthens a team. There's a reason he's had 12 managerial jobs and only Hull fans like him.
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He won us promotion multiple times mate
Eh most villa fans do especially in hindsight.
@@jameswg13 lmao no they don't.
@@sgtty69 And he almost put our club in a Sunderland situation. He's a very polarizing sack of sentient potatoes.
Leonardo's transfer window as Milan's Sporting Director in 18/19: Castillejo, Laxalt, Higuain, Caldara, Bakayoko, then Piatek and Paqueta in January. You could argue that was even worse than the 2017 one.
Paqueta was the only decent one piatek could’ve but flopped later on
@@seaninho3631 Paqueta completely flopped at milan
@@seaninho3631 Paquetá was really good when he first appeared along with Vini Jr at Flamengo, then had an awful time at Milan and finally recovered his form at Lyon. Tbf Milan was really unlucky to not be able to get him at his finest
Got to mention Benfica's 2017 window. We had won 4 leagues in a row and could win a record breaking 5th championship in a row. Proceeded to sell Lindelof, Nelson Semedo, Ederson and Mitroglou (our top scorer) all in the same window. Made more than 100M€ in sales and what did we bring in? To replace Ederson we brought back Bruno Varela that had been out on loan in the previous season and he was so bad we had to play 18 year old Svilar, to replace Semedo we brought Douglas on loan from Barcelona but he barely payed, to replace Lindelof we bought no one...and to replace Mitroglou we brought Seferovic on a free.
0 points e the Champions league group, lost the league title and the quality of the squad would never recover. To this day Benfica suffers the consequences of that window. Manager was sacked and the president was arrested years later.
This is the way
Also the return of the greatest coach ever jorge jesus spent over 100 mil, much more than the previus years combine, just to finish 3rd and just after the president goes to jail. Bad 5 years to be a fan thank god for lage season
I think 20/21 was and will be worse on the long run, but I understand your points.
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Cause Portuguese football can't keep there players anymore with the big leagues getting richer and small leagues get all there players took IE. Portugal and holland
I would definitely add Leeds United’s 2003 summer window. We were on our knees financially and had lost many of our top players the year before, but the signings we made just compounded our dire situation.
Loaning in the likes of Lamine Sakho, Solomon Olembe, Didier Domi, Zoumana Camara and of course the awful Roque Jr set the tone for our relegation season.
It was clearly an unbalanced side full of players that had given up and washed their hands of us. Crazily one of the few shining lights that year was Jermaine Pennent on loan from Arsenal!
Even the appointment of Eddie Grey wasn’t enough to save us and when you look at the business that summer, it’s clear to see why.
Felt i had to comment something similar. Led to us nearly being dissolved and points deductions galore. From champs league to league 1. Cheers ridsdale
Roque Jr won the World Cup 1 year before. In context didnt look as a bad deal.
That’s absolutely right. I remembered being so excited when we got him, the media seemed surprised too, but in the end, the only highlight of his time with us were the two goals against Swindon and a torn jersey.
😂.
Nobody cares about leeds
Clearly you do 👍
Lol chelsea being the thumbnail is perfect because my god have we had some bad transfer windows lately, I will never forget the amount of stress that the signings from the summer 2017 and '20 windows put me through🤧
Sometimes I wonder if Chelsea's best transfer window was the summer we were under the transfer ban, and had to bring up players from the youth team.
Summer 17 was the summer where Michael Emenalo lost his magic (although some said that it was because Marina). Chelsea pretty much lost all of their primary target like Lukaku, Barkley, Tolisso, and a right-back that I forgot. It almost broke Antonio Conte
Mate honestly it was soooo painful wasn’t it? 😂 We won the league & played champagne football under Conte and they repaid him with THAT window?! 🤦♂️ Bakayoko was so bad, drinkwater is a disgrace, Zappacosta was “okay” as a squad player, but my word what an average signing to compete with Moses who wasn’t even an actually RB! Morata well, he seems to have the best agent ever, because he is a fraud.
@@gruncletim Yeah it was a saving grace tbh. Allowed James, Mount, Tammy and Tomori to shine, shame we sold the latter two. Could really do with them right now!
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Danny drinkwater sitting at home he’s not even good enough to warm the bench 😂
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As a Newcastle fan I may be biased but I would like a look at the 7 worst Sunderland transfer windows
As a Sudnerland fan so would I. We made signing bad players an art form
You may have missed Tottenham’s 2019 window after the champions league final,
Ndombele club record fee, 65million and 250k a week! Absolute flop
Lo Celso another 45-50million, awful player
Jack Clarke, 10million, never got a game, only just sold to Sunderland for a fraction of the price.
Finally Ryan Sessegnon, 30million, always injured, had a decent second half of the season last season, some potential but overall not delivered as of yet
We went 18 months without a signing and then made some of the worst aside from how we spent the Bale cash.
Sessegnon is the only one who has showed any hope, despite his injury problems. Lo Celso had one decent half season but at least has decent sell on value, and Clarke was never able to develop.
Ndombele is, imo, our worst transfer. His fitness levels and attitude have stunk and no one will buy him bc Levy gave him stupid wages and is demanding +40M for a guy who has barely played and when he has mostly looks like ass and can’t play more than 60 minutes.
I've literally never heard of Lo Celso, which is really impressive for a player that cost that much.
@@DJMavis Says a lot about your knowledge of spain at the time tbh, the guy had just had a double figure goal and assist season at Betis
Lo Celso is not an awful player lol
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Barca 2017/2018 should've been here. Especially when we talk about money-quality ratio
Chelsea 600 million this summer worst window
Liverpool under Hicks & Gillet were an absolute shambles. Wasted a huge amount of money on bang average and rubbish players over a two to three year period. I also recall Damien Comolli leaving Spurs to join Liverpool during that period as well.
He came just after fsg took over and thankfully was soon binned haha
If you are ever thinking about a part 2, I'd seriously consider St. Johnstone Summer 2021, almost all of the players signed were gone within 12 months, went from double winners and draws against Galatasaray and LASK Linz, to relegation fodder. Also lost their best 2 players, as well as 3/4 others who were crucial
Please don't remind me of that summer 2017 transfer window Alfie, us Chelsea fans still have nightmares of Bakayoko trying to control a ball and Morata struggling to score goals 😂
Fax
Still got Rudiger though, our 2021 one was arguably worse
@@barry4649 dude not even close, that was a good window, ziyech has been decent and havertz is a key player and has huge potential
@@JonasRodgers that was 2020
@@barry4649 oh right i though u meant the 20/21 season
Galatasaray winter transfer window 2014 is a contender for this list. That window plagued the club for the next 4 years
Every Galatasaray transfer window since 2013 (except maybe 2017) qualifies for this list
@@a.e.a. yeah this year is good tho
@@idontexist1681 Our defensive midfield is still very weak and we need a competent replacement for Marcao.
Tottenham 2013/14 shouldve got in, we lost bale, signed soldado and lamela and the only good things that happened in 2013/14 was signing eriksen and getting tim sherwood out
Really quite impressive that in the Everton window there was a player I still don't remember existing, even when reminded of him. Pickford is a very good goalkeeper, especially when he has players that aren't Michael Keane in front of him though. And God we needed a keeper that year.
"scored as often as a 15 year old incel" good lord! 😂💀
As a side note on Sunderland, Im pretty sure we signed Rodwell and Alvarez in the same transfer window. Both players worthy of topping "worst transfer of the year".
And the year before that under "super agent" Roberto Di Fanti we signed around 7-8 random players from everywhere, told they were "hidden gems" and we would be following the Udinese model of bringing through talent. We avoided relegation by the skin of our teeth and none of those players were heard from again.
Not our finest hour
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Is nobody going to mention Fulham's ridiculous £100 million 18-19 summer window? I get that the paycheck for winning the playoff final is massive, but spend that money on improving the backline. They couldn't defend to save their lives
people praised Man Utd for the James/Wan-Bassaka/Maguire window at the time. none of them were terrible signings per se, but each player was wayyyy overpriced. as a Chelsea fan, the Bakayoko/Drinkwater/Zappacosta/Morata window was def worse, esp as it led to us losing Conté, and honestly who could blame him after that?
Your videos literally always make my day. Thank you so much and never stop uploading, please!!!
I'd argue that some of Milan's previous transfer windows were even worse, but still, it's very strange to think that we're talking about the same team who has managed to turn their fortunes around in recent years!
Even more strange when you think how disastrous Leonardo's transfer window in 2018 was. Maldini has performed a true miracle.
I'm not a Chelsea fan but I see a fair number of their games. What always baffled me is that Alvaro Morata obviously doesn't understand the offside rule. You'd think, given what he does for a living, that would be essential knowledge but he's made it this far without knowing it. It's really weird.
Jesus 2017 was an awfull time for many clubs
Stokes 2017 summer transfer window sent them down, let 3 key players leave, 2 went out on loan and brought in stars such as Kevin wimmer and the now infamous choupo moting to try and replace arnautovic, disastrous
Their 2018 window was even worse
Alfie your content is always amazing informative in depth and well researched. Would love to see a best and worst of premier league players who became managers. Worst and best debut seasons as manager and those that lasted or are still managing.
Best and worst Premier League players who became managers is a good idea... you have my vote.
When he said “In all seriousness” and put a Lampard pic oh my dayssss😂😂
As Villa fan I totally agree with our 7th place. We had some other bad windows but this one was the worst.
I would like to nominate Schalkes 2018/19 transfer window as we lost on the back of a runners up campain our whole 3 backline gaining only 40 M€ and our whole central midfield consisting of Leon Goretzka and Max Meyer (for nothing!!) whilst we tried to replace that with signings worth above 60 M€ that ultimately that saw us drop from 2nd to 14th and then to relegation rock bottom 2 years after that
Bristol City 2020/21 season transfer dealings was one of the worst I had ever seen.
Adrian Mariappa
Henri Lansbury
Chris Brunt
Chris Martin
Danny Simpson
Alfie Mawson
Day 12:
A detailed look at the state of Crotone would be nice, going from Serie A in 20/21 with a 20 goal a season striker (Simy) to Serie C by 22/23. Two relegations in a row, something surely has to be wrong at that club.
Just to add to Villas awful transfer window, they also allowed Albrighton to leave on a free after not offering him a contract and he obviously then went on to win the league a year later.
I feel like not including Leeds 2003, any Chelsea windows in the last ten years, or what Spurs did with the Bale money is a bit criminal. Also Spurs 2019 for an outside shout by following up 18 months of no spending with Jack Clarke, Ryan Sessegnon, Gio Lo Celso, and Tanguy NDombele set them back three years.
Real Madrid 2019 should be in here considering all the players that were signed didn’t really get going and splashing over 100m on Hazard and he still hasn’t done anything since he arrived.
They signed Luka Jovic for an absurd price and he just left for a massive loss
Militao and Mendy are starters for Madrid, and will probably remain for the next 5 years. It's hard to consider as a total failure a transfer window which gave you two players who made you win a champions League.
@@joachimeimery8179 yeah but did either of them or any player that was signed do anything in their debut season? You have to remember that Militao couldn’t take over from Ramos who was still number one until he left and that’s when he got going.
Arsenal summer 2016 should be on dishonourable mention for spending money on Xhaka, Mustafi and Lucas Perez. After this Arsenal haven’t got into CL again.
You know your fucked when your weaker without Steve Bruce
What about signing a player called gay like Aston villa
@@wayneking9997 He's a brilliant player though.
I must say....the way you put your videos together is amazing. They're such a good watch
17:35 On the pitch he was good. Only 1 disappointing season where he had to play at CDM/CM in a 442 but he got 14 goals and 7 assists in 18/19 and 8 goals and 10 assists in 20/21.
150 mil on James, AWB and Maguire is one of the worst in history
A bit disappointed you failed to explain the context behind Liverpool's bad 2010 summer window, which was in the midst of an ownership sale/near-administration saga, with its then owners obstinately refusing to sell despite being millions of pounds in debt, and the fans had to organize to force the banks to bypass them and find a new buyer.
Its not a deep dive into the clubs, he usually goes into very deep detail in his documentary videos
Like how you managed to get Hull mentioned in this video, well done Alfie 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
We need the best transfer windows of all time now.
Man Utd signing Wan Bissaka, Dan James & Harry Maguire. That’s the worst transfer window of our lifetime.
Fred, Dalot and Grant was terrible too
I feel a bit sorry for Moshiri at Everton, he brought in the guy who had recruited so well for Leicester and backed him with money. Pickford has made vital saves; £25M for an England No.1 seems OK. Sigurdsson seemed good previously. For bad transfers how about QPR in 2011 and 2012, a team so bad even Mark Hughes and Harry Redknapp couldn't save them. Bad players, bad attitude, toxic dressing room.
Everton should have kept Big Sam. He took a struggling squad and turned them into a Europa League team
We went nearly three games at home without a shot on target under [redacted] Sam
@@DJMavis you seem to have done very well without him
@@nikolas8203 that benitez and Lampard were also bad choices didn't mean Sam was a good one
@@DJMavis no manager will ever be a good choice for Everton
@@nikolas8203 why?
a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now.
The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore.
How they were very close to moving to ireland
How they went up the English football leagues.
It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel
Dude, you need to number your days of posting this, I've seen this comment in what feels like months now. I too would like to see Alfie do that documentary
@@gurururuwarararara8164 i understand that i don’t want to over spam Alfie you know ?
Good video today on clubs and teams who did bad transfers
@@BALHAM69 No I mean like, I support your iniative and I'd like to see this documentary come to fruition, therefore you should write like "day (insert number here)" followed by your standard comment, maybe that's just what it'll take for Alfie to take notice of you.
By all means, spam the man. #thepeopleschannel can handle that
hearts in 2019 was definitely up there. One brilliant signing in Craig Halkett, a few underwhelming loans and free transfers and 3 absolute disasters in every sense of the word in Glenn Whelan who simply couldn't be arsed, Loic Damour on a 4 year deal, and Joel Perreira who was worse than a bin bag with legs. The same club that was top of the league in december of the previous year would end up relegated at the end of the season
Video idea: the 7 greatest 'what if' players
Like players who's bodies let them down e.g reus, ledley king
Or players who let their bad habits get the better of them e.g ravel morrison
Greatest transfer window ever was Liverpool 1977- Alan Hansen, Kenny Dalglish and Graeme Souness. Literally doesn't get any better
Real Madrid-2009 far better
Have to disagree on all of those Inter 09-10 was the best Diego Milito, Samuel Eto’o, Wesley Sneijder, Thiago Motta, McDonald Mariga, Emiliano Viviano, Goran Pandev, Marko Arnautovic and Lucio they went on to win the treble that season.
@@dazzaMusic Most of them had like 2 -3 good years. Those liverpool signings are literally some of the greatest in the history of English football. Don't even waste my time with this shit
@@abhirupnath3261 ill maybe give you that. But outside of Benzema and Ronaldo, none of them are all time greats. All 3 of liverpools were
Milan 87
Gullit, Van Basten, Costacurta, Ancelotti
That Victor Anichebe burn was brilliant
Manchester United: Let's go of the talented Pogba for free, Buys him for a record fee near 100 Mil, starves him of Club trophies, Let's him go for free again 🤣🤣🤣
To be honest Chelsea’s transfer dealings have been overrated
They’ve been riding on Roman’s money
No wonder Todd Boehly sacked the board
This transfer window looks worse.
Injury to either chillwell or James and the defense will collapse and sterling has been very inconsistent since 2020 so that attack in top 6 teams looks worse.
That's a truly savage roast of Tactics Tim.
Bonucci is a system player lmao, what kind of a mad man buying a clear ball playing center back in an already terrible defense.
Love your videos man, you always make me laugh!! 😂😂
2:40 eh that show is the best thing channel 4 has ever made. Not a big brag but that show was ace. Better than the office by miles
And no Richards is not held high by villa fans at all. More sympathy after recently but no just no. Him and Lescott were just NO
I thought that but he said Richards thought better then lescott which is true unless you love supercars after 6 nil defeats and big weight off at being truly horrendous in a team you play in
Aleksandr Hleb to Arsenal the second time is one of the ultimate memes of transfer history 😂
Thanks for going easy on us! 😂
Nothing beats QPR, that was bang on hilarious 😂
Sherwood did give Kane his big break despite backlash. Lampard did the same for Mount at Chelsea. Best (only good) thing they ever did as managers.
Justice for Maguire and James. That’s nowhere near one of the worst windows ever. Maguire has been a first team mainstay and James looked tremendous at points and was only let go because of the spontaneous Ronaldo signing. A hot take of mine is that he could become a CL level player in the right system. His pace and power combined with improved finishing would make him a nightmare for full backs.
Yes knew we (Sunderland) would be on here. Lets get a deep dive "what on Earth happened" episode on us
Damn that summer of Liverpool!! the likes of Poulsen & Konchesky!!
I knew the AC Milan 2017 window would be mentioned. One of the worst transfer windows ever.
Buying bonucci is one of the worst transfer ever made by ac milan. Like why you bought a slow ball playing center back when the defense are frail already?
@@r3zaful Leonardo and Mirabelli were more interested in "big" names rather than what the team actually needed. Imagine if Maldini had that budget, he would've built a super team by now
Don't you hate it when your phone presses buttons by itself in your pocket and posts a photo of your luxury car on social media. Totally inconvenient dude.
As a Newcastle fan, I’m begging you to release the all-Sunderland edit 😂
Hoever shirt never gets old i swear
Grêmio 2021 takes the cake for me. You should take a look at it.
Love the way you rosted the players😂
No barca 2017?? Much surprising.
I think Real Madrids 2019 Window might be worth a mention. Like Rodrygo is the only transfer from that window that was great without any asterisks. Militao is starter now, but he was struggling during his first 2 seasons and was nearly let go to Tottenham in January 2021 to a huge loss if Ramos and Varane hadn't been injured, only then did he start to turn his fortunes. Mendy is a bit of a mixed bag, definitely brilliant when fit and in form, but his price tag was hefty, and he is very injury prone. Kubo never played a single official game for Real Madrid and was sold to Sociedad after a couple of lone spells, at a profit at the very least, but that transfer had barely any point. And of course there are the two big elephants in the room, Hazard and Jovic, who cost us a combined 200 Mio Euro and both crashed and burned spectacularly, and are easily the 2 worst transfers Real Madrid ever made.
Obviously the outcome was nowhere as bad as with some other clubs, but given they spend over 300 Mio Euros and tried to replicate the 2009 formula with only half of them turning out decently to good, it's worth a mention.
Burnley 20/21 only signed dale stephens and will Norris 💀💀💀
Ultimately led to relegation the following season
The Chelsea 2017 window has to go on there. Conte said "Van Dijk and Lukaku" and Emenalo couldn't get the deals over the line. He "left" the next year.
03:14 🤣🤣🤣 quality mate 🙏🏼
Francis Jeffers we have rated him the Worst Arsenal Transfer, Inamoto was one of our worst
Drinkwater should be paying Kante royalties from his Chelsea contract
This video has the shortest intro.. Well done 👍
Video starts at 2:36 to avoid the usual rambling
You should check out Hoffenheim's transfer window in the summer of 2012
Please do another one of these there really interesting and funny
Inter's 2010 and 2011 transfer windows were terrible as well and dismantled a great team very soon
Day 9: Best XI with only trophy-less players. (Similar idea to "7 best players without trophies" but that was outdated and a XI would definitely be more intriguing.)
so spurs basically
Bit dry isn’t it
Any Sparta Praha transfer window in the past 10 years would be great. but the worst one was likely the Andrea Stramaccioni window. Probably tied with the Slavia one the same year. if you know, you know
Eddie Howe
Wright
Watsmore
Hoever
Freddie adu
Surprised not to see the Bale-Seven make the list
Derby during their record breaking low points relegation was horrible during the transfer window.
They barely had much of a window and were going through a sale. Jewell's January window was a shocker though
What about Barcelona 2017/2018 season?
The story of Martin Palermo?
I've either seen this video before and forgotten, have Nostradamus-esque foresight, or just firmly believe that my beloved Spurs spaffing the Bale-bonds on a largely disappointing Paulinho, Capoue & Chadli, a non existent Chiriches, an absolute shocker in Soldado, a shithouse virtuoso in Lamela, and an essential cog -even leader in Eriksen was without a doubt one of the worst transfer campaigns ever
Funnily enough each player has gone on to have a successful or at least interesting career almost decade on.
Decent vid. Thanks
That Villa transfer window still gives me nightmares.
15:47 Borussia was only 2 points behind Bayern in 2018/19
Man Utd was spot on! I was a Fergie knows the best camp at the time but lack of big signings hurt. Utd's overcompensation in the last decade had made things worse.
Benfica 2019-20 transfer window was horrible!