The Worst Premiership Players ever

September 5, 2008

by Nick Verite

There’s a lot of money being splashed around the Premiership these days, and most of it on foreign players. In most cases, managers know who they are signing, but in the first fledgling years of the Premiership, it could have been anyone. Here’s my top 5 Premiership flops…

5. Bosko Balaban: What the heck happened here? He waltzes in for what at the time sounded like a massive transfer fee (I know 6m isn’t much any more), scores the grand sum of absolutely nothing and waltzes out. What a load of rubbish. Was John Gregory in charge at the time? Ahhhhhh, now that might explain something.

4. Tomas Brolin: It’s sad to think of Brolin - but he does tend to be thought of as a “before” and “after” player - in other words - before he came to Leeds, he was one of the world’s greatest footballers. After he went to Leeds, he was a fat waster that not even Crystal Palace could put up with for more than a couple of months. What did he do? Go out on the lash with Lee Bowyer? It’s so sad - he cost 4.5m and repaid absolutely none of it. Useless.

3. Andrea Silenzi: Everyone thought that Silenzi would be the revival of Nottingham Forest, but the overgrown Italian turned out to be an overpaid waste of space and lost his place in the team to a man whose head looked like a pineapple. Of course, this was back in the days when English managers thought that any Italian would be an improvement on their team, so the signing of Silenzi proved to be something of a watershed in English football.

2. Jean-Alain Boumsong: How on earth did he get a transfer to Juventus after the shambolic display he put in for Newcastle - week in, week out? In fact, how on earth did Newcastle get him? Every week, Alan Hansen would point out how bad Boumsong is, but in came Juventus - “Hey, we’ll have some of that” thought the masters of defending themselves. Perhaps the worst defender ever in the history of defending.

1. Ali Dia: So funny that the story of Ali Dia should be incorporated in the National Anthem, and serves as a stark reminder to any club chairman that hiring Graeme Souness can be horribly, horribly bad for your club’s health. It’s strange to think that Souness kept walking into jobs even before this debacle, especially as he had mangled Liverpool beforehand. Ali Dia, to cut a long story short, was not the cousin of George Weah, but some scammer who convinced the aforementioned Scot that he was great. So without watching him play, Souness throws him on as a substitute, and then hauls him off. Hilarious.

Can you think of anyone worse than this lot? Give me a shout!

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