What are our best and worst January transfers?

[Redlips]

Best. Gaston Ramirez, he got us over the line. A brilliant loan move.

Worst. Connelly on loan from Brighton. Powder puff. Seen better players at Goals.

 

[chickenrunner]

Best Uwe Fuchs.

Worst Rudi Gestede (at least Connolly was only a loan)

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

Best Ramirez.

Worst Gestede.

 

[Morton94]

Best - Gaston Ramirez

Worst - Michael Ricketts - Rudy Gestede & Aaron Connolly, all absolutely horrendous

 

[EuropeTwice]

Best - Ramirez

Worst - a toss up between Gestede or Adlene Guedioura

was Kike Sola a January signing? Because he turned out to be shight

 

[Diego]

Best Ramirez.

Worst Rudy Gestede. Hated that signing so much.

 

[indeedido]

Best Ramirez, but if he had been played CF by Monk and pulis then Bamford even better.

Worst is Gestede - football and financial disaster.

 

[Nano]

As an alternative to Ramirez (who I agree was excellent but I also think his behaviour the following season counts against him) but wasn't Riggott a January signing? He was very good for us in probably our 2 best seasons ever.

 

[Subbuteo_171]

Best - Festa in with a shout.

Worst - Marlon King. How we ever allowed this disgusting reprobate to represent the club I’ll never know.

 

[festa5]

Are we talking purely January? Or January transfer window? If it's just January then that narrows it down a lot. Fuchs for example, doesn't qualify as was signed in Feb I think.

As were players like Branca and Schwarzer who would also be in the conversation.

 

[Redlips]

Just because Marco Branca was a hero of mine(can’t believe I forgot about him) I will allow the January/Feb window!

I ripped off the thread idea from the bbc sport website.

Brighton fans said the best piece of transfer business was loaning out Pally Fanny Connelly.

 

[Jedi boro]

Worst Rudi Gestede

End of thread

And let’s forget we were IN THE PREM at the time.

Insanity.

 

[Morton94]

Best - Ramirez

Worst - a toss up between Gestede or Adlene Guedioura

was Kike Sola a January signing? Because he turned out to be shight

Don't think we could judge kike sola, he barely got a kick

 

[Morton94]

As an alternative to Ramirez (who I agree was excellent but I also think his behaviour the following season counts against him) but wasn't Riggott a January signing? He was very good for us in probably our 2 best seasons ever.

Riggott was absolutely superb, criminally under rated

 

[Alwaysaborolad]

Ramirez is a good shout, Bamford & Ayala were good additions, if we are talking Feb loans then I loved watching Benito Carbone he was a quality player.

Worst Jan transfers, there's loads of disappointments take your pick, Lee Dong-gook, Ricketts , Guedioura , Gestede to name a few and our last flop Connolly.

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[locomansimon]

45 minute

Don't think we could judge kike sola, he barely got a kick

45 minutes

 

[TeaCider]

Best Ramirez.

Worst has to be Guedioura.

Cost £3.5m, played less than 2 matches worth of minutes in a year and then had his contract ripped up in the next January window.

Gestede might have been *****, but he at least contributed.

 

[indeedido]

Best Ramirez.

Worst has to be Guedioura.

Cost £3.5m, played less than 2 matches worth of minutes in a year and then had his contract ripped up in the next January window.

Gestede might have been *****, but he at least contributed.

No he didn't.
Gestede cost more money, was paid lots more money and for a longer.

 

[TeaCider]

No he didn't.
Gestede cost more money, was paid lots more money and for a longer.

We won 3 games in the 2017/18 season directly because of Gestede goals or assists, he was injured for over half the season.

He contributed, for the money we paid he should have contributed far, far more, but large parts of the lack of impact are down to the fact he was incredibly injury prone.

He was clearly a big waste of money, and we should never have signed him, but Guedioura was a worse transfer.

£3.5m for absolutely no contribution whatsoever is worse to me.

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

Riggott was absolutely superb, criminally under rated

Loved him during the 04/05 and 05/06 seasons. Stepped in for Ugo, popped up with some important goals in Europe. As you say, doesn't get mentioned enough given the role he played in our most successful years.