5 best and 5 worst signings in Premier League era

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5 best and 5 worst signings in Premier League era

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Been asked by the Liverpool Post to nominate Arsenal's best 5 signings during the Premier League period as well as the 5 worst signings. Off the top of my head, I have come up with the following list...

Thierry Henry
Dennis Bergkamp
Patrick Vieira
Robert Pires
Sol Campbell

Denilson
Manuel Almunia
Francis Jeffers
Mikael Silvestre
Glenn Helder

any names you think deserve to be there instead? i am thinking name signings rather than the likes of Amaury Bischoff who cost £500,000 or something - so people fans of other teams will have heard of.

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Igor Stepanovs

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the likes of lauren and freddie gave great value for money, the worse would be the shite we have in our squad now.

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Freddie's gotta be worth a shout :barscarf:

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IN
Thierry Henry
Dennis Bergkamp
Patrick Vieira
Feddie Ljungberg
Cesc Fabregas

OUT
Manuel Almunia
Efstathios Tavlaridis
Emmanuel Eboue
Lukasz Fabiansky
Francis Jeffers...... Igor Stepanovs

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Post by SteveO 35 »

Pretty much there although I would replace Almunia with Stepanovs. We did supposedly part with £1m+ for Stepanovs and I have to say I can't recall a worse centre half (Squillaci, Cygan and Caesar look like world beaters compared to him).

Just watch the re-run of the first half of that 1-6 defeat at Old Trafford. A centre half that ducks out of the way ! Only the GIC could buy one of those...

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Post by goonersid »

Stephan Malz, also that portugese guy we signed a couple of seasons ago who was injured when the lunatic manager signed him.

Ooops just seen the footnote on gooner ed's post. :oops:
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Re: 5 best and 5 worst signings in Premier League era

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The best:

Thierry Henry
Dennis Bergkamp
Patrick Vieira
Robert Pires
Sol Campbell

Worst:
Silvestre
Denilson
Jeffers
Helder
Stephanovs

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Post by Swale_Gooner1985 »

Not sure Helder should be in there, he wasnt all that bad?!

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Re: 5 best and 5 worst signings in Premier League era

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5 Best (in order);
Dennis Bergkamp
Thierry Henry
Patrick Vieira
Robert Pires
Sol Campbell

5 worst (in order);
Comedy Eboue
Denilson
Manuel Almunia
Francis Jeffers
Mikael Silvestre

Biggest cunt;
Comedy Eboue

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rodders999 wrote:Freddie's gotta be worth a shout :barscarf:
Not sure about Freddie, one great season then up and down after that.

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The technically best player we signed in the premier league is without question Bergkamp but in terms of the best overall signing we have in that era I would put him fractionally behind Vieira 8)

After those two you could take your pick from freddie, sol, pires, jens, cesc and kolo

As regards the worst buys how do you define them ? Is buying a player who is/was clearly shit (almunia) worse than buying a player that was talented (jeffers/wright) but who jst didnt work out ? :? Personally I would say signing almunia who was never worth a fcuk or silvestre who was clearly past it was much worse than signing richard wright. I know that he was only signed on loan but baptista def ranks up there as one of the worst buys in my lifetime :roll:

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augie wrote:The technically best player we signed in the premier league is without question Bergkamp but in terms of the best overall signing we have in that era I would put him fractionally behind Vieira 8)

After those two you could take your pick from freddie, sol, pires, jens, cesc and kolo


As regards the worst buys how do you define them ? Is buying a player who is/was clearly shit (almunia) worse than buying a player that was talented (jeffers/wright) but who jst didnt work out ? :? Personally I would say signing almunia who was never worth a fcuk or silvestre who was clearly past it was much worse than signing richard wright. I know that he was only signed on loan but baptista def ranks up there as one of the worst buys in my lifetime :roll:
Augie

I'm sure it was in error but no TH14 :shock:

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Re: 5 best and 5 worst signings in Premier League era

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DB10GOONER wrote:5 Best (in order);
Dennis Bergkamp
Thierry Henry
Patrick Vieira
Robert Pires
Sol Campbell

5 worst (in order);
Comedy Eboue
Denilson
Manuel Almunia
Francis Jeffers
Mikael Silvestre

Biggest cunt;
Comedy Eboue
Bergkamp over Henry? :?

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augie wrote:The technically best player we signed in the premier league is without question Bergkamp but in terms of the best overall signing we have in that era I would put him fractionally behind Vieira 8)

After those two you could take your pick from freddie, sol, pires, jens, cesc and kolo

As regards the worst buys how do you define them ? Is buying a player who is/was clearly shit (almunia) worse than buying a player that was talented (jeffers/wright) but who jst didnt work out ? :? Personally I would say signing almunia who was never worth a fcuk or silvestre who was clearly past it was much worse than signing richard wright. I know that he was only signed on loan but baptista def ranks up there as one of the worst buys in my lifetime :roll:
Are you not forgetting our Imperious No.2 ? :barscarf:

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