Premier League Season 2008-2007: Flops & Worst Signings Of The Season

This current season has had its fair share of poor signings - I mean, whoever thought Jose Enrique was worth more than £6m wants sacking! Enrique wasn't the only poor signing however; I can easily name £100m worth of Premiership footballers, who quite frankly, have been major disappointments - so that's £94m to go then.

Tottenham'sDarren Bent isn't really a bad player, he's just a terrible signing at £16.5m. He has proved he can score goals at this level, but why pay so much for a player who you are going to use sparingly - whoever signed him wants sacking - sorry, I've already used that line. Bent has scored just 6 Premiership goals this season and you just can't see him playing often enough to add many more to that tally. Even with Jermaine Defoe's departure to Portsmouth he is struggling to get any meaningfull minutes on he pitch.

Sunderland have made some decent signings this season, who will all be justified if they avoid relegation, but you would have to say that the £5m they paid for Michael Chopra and the £3.5m they paid for Greg Halford now looks bad. Chopra became an instant hero at the Stadium of Light when he scored a last ditch goal against Spurs on the opening day of the season, but he's only added two more goals to his tally and doesn't look good enough at this level. Halford made just eight league appearances for the Wearsiders and is now out on loan at Charlton.

You have to admit that West Ham have been the unlucky team. They spent over £26m on four players (Craig Bellamy, Kieron Dyer, Scott Parker & Julien Faubert), yet all four have had bad injuries that have prevented them from playing most of the season. Does this make them bad signings though? Well £26m for decent players that aren't playing, I'd say yes - but let me know what you think. Would the Hammers be any further up the table if they had a fully fit squad?

So that's around £50m of poor Premiership signings - where's the other £50m coming from? Let's start with Rolando Bianchi who cost Man City £8.8m - he's now back playing in Italy. Or we could start with Marlon Harewood at £4m - he hasn't started a league game for Villa yet. And what about poor David Nugent, who cost Portsmouth £6m - he was so bad they tried to sell him as soon as he arrived. At least these clubs are still fighting for a UEFA Cup slot, so it's not all bad.

So I'm still about £30m short. How about Mido (£6m) at Boro, Diomansy Kamara (£6m) at Fulham, Alan Smith (£6m) and Joey Barton (£5.8m) at Newcastle and Emerse Fae (£2.5m) at Reading - all have turned out to be poor signings in my opinion. As for the final £3.5m, I'll put up Derby's not so prolific striker Robert Earnshaw - now, whoever signed him really does want sacking!

To add to that, i can still name a couple of players who might have made the grade but that would take me above the £100m. A few that springs to mind are our own Florent malouda who we signed for £13.5m. Another one is, Emile Mpenza of Manchester City, who's fee i am yet to discover but he is having a stinker of a season. However much they've paid for him, he doesn't seem to be worth the money. I could possibly add the likes of Nani at 17m (Manchester United), Younes Kaboul at 7m (Tottenham), Steve Sidwell & Claudio Pizarro (Chelsea).