Over the last 20 years the Premier League has seen the arrival of many players. For every good player we have seen there has been a bad player to equal it out. We have seen some big money spent over the years and some of it has been spent on disastrous transfers. These players are the ones that I think belong in the top 10 worst ever players to have been signed in the Premier League.

10. Francis Jeffers

Everton – Arsenal

Arsenal signed Francis Jeffers for £8mil and he never lived up to the Price tag. He was nicknamed as ‘The Fox in the Box’ but sadly Arsenal didn’t see any of these wonderful goals. He made 40 appearance and only scored 9 goals and majority of these were at his first few games at the club. His career never really recovered/started after leaving Arsenal.

9. Fernando Torres

Liverpool – Chelsea

I actually didn’t want to put Torres here because I still feel he is a great player and still has lots of potential but he is still one of the worst transfers. Costing Chelsea £50mil in the January of 2011 Torres had a huge amount of money to have to try to live up to. He became the most expensive player to be transferred inside of England but struggled to make an impression at Chelsea. He made his debut on the 6th of February but failed to score until 23rd april taking him to 903 minutes without a goal. In the 2011/12 season he scored 11 goals in 49 appearances and again went long periods of not scoring between those goals. It’s fair to say Torres hasn’t lived up to his £50mil fee but he is improving after a great summer in the Euro’s.

8. Stewart Downing

Aston Villa – Liverpool

Stewart Downing transferred to Liverpool in the summer of 2011 for £20mil. His first season was terrible, he failed to live up to the ability he had at Villa. He played in 36 league games and finished the season with no goals and no assists. A costly price for someone who just can’t perform for the team. He was one of the main people who were the subject of jokes and football memes this summer. This season Downing has been moved to a left-back decision, maybe this will improve him.

7. Robinho

Real Madrid – Manchester City

Robinho was a big transfer disaster waiting to happen. He had his mind set on joining Chelsea so much that when he signed for Man City he accidentally said he was glad to sign for Chelsea and the reporter corrected him. His first season didn’t go too bad but his 2nd season was diabolical. He eventually got loaned to Santos and then sold to AC Milan.

6.Winston Bogarde

Barcelona – Chelsea

Arguably one of the weirdest transfers that occurred in the Premier League. Bogarde joined Chelsea in the Vialli era although Vialli is said not to have known about the transfer as Hutchinson had dealt with it. Bogarde joined Chelsea on a free contract and only weeks later he was not really wanted by the club. He made a total of 9 appearances at Chelsea in 4 years, and earned £40,000 a week for the whole time he was there, due to a legality on his contract he also received an F.A cup bonus despite not playing for Chelsea that whole season. When Chelsea tried to sell him he decided to ‘honour’ out his contract stating “This world is about money, so when you are offered those millions you take them. Few people will ever earn so many. I am one of the few fortunate who do. I may be one of the worst buys in the history of the Premiership, but I don’t care, I am the best Chelsea pickpocket in history.”

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