StandFree1982 Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Of all the players we have paid money for, who did we get the most value for money from, and of course the worst? Most - Possibly Duncan Shearer. A bargain for £250k considering the goals he scored for us. Worst - Paul Bernard. It could be argued that folk like Tommy Wright were far worse, however did Bernard give us £900k more value than Wright? Not a chance Link to comment
dave_min Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Definite summer thread. Link to comment
Poodler Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Velicka for Foster. Not financial as such, but such poor value Link to comment
Robbie Winters Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Vested interest but the Dodds for Winters plus cash deal must go down as the worst Duncan Shearer is a good shout for best Link to comment
RAZOR Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 OH EM GEE We are going to be sma bored this summer. 1 Link to comment
dave_min Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Velicka for Foster. Not financial as such, but such poor valueYou look so good in blue. Link to comment
The Hulk Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Of all the players we have paid money for, who did we get the most value for money from, and of course the worst? Most - Possibly Duncan Shearer. A bargain for £250k considering the goals he scored for us. Worst - Paul Bernard. It could be argued that folk like Tommy Wright were far worse, however did Bernard give us £900k more value than Wright? Not a chance We paid £550k for Shearer. Still great value though, but his goals regrettably only won us one trophy and we got nothing when he left our having signed him when he was only a couple of months short of his 30th birthday. I often wonder what we might be talking about now had Willie Miller instead been successful in his pursuit of John Robertson for whom Hearts had been holding out for over £1m. Paul Bernard was an excellent footballer who had atrocious difficulties with injuries. Transfer fee was deliberately inflated to £1m for PR reasons, we didn't pay Oldham £1m for him, it was closer to £850k plus signing-on and agency fees. He at least contributed to us winning a trophy Most value for money for someone over all time for us would likely still have to be Steve Archibald. Bought from Clyde for pennies, made an enormous contribution to our first Premier League title and then sold on to Spurs for a fortune. One of only a very select few players to have moved on to bigger and better things on leaving Aberdeen. 1 Link to comment
Tord31 Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 IMO Brian O'Neill was a bigger disaster than Bernard or Winters. Ilian Kiriakov is probably up there too although I thought he was ace at the time. Best purchase for money - Shearer is up there. Eoin Jess from Coventry is up there. Link to comment
paddy Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Worst, in recent times, has to be Tommy Wright. £100,000 in exchange for shite. Link to comment
RAZOR Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 IMO Brian O'Neill was a bigger disaster than Bernard or Winters. Ilian Kiriakov is probably up there too although I thought he was ace at the time. He did finger a team mate's airsehole during the 1994 World Cup though. Link to comment
Site Sponsor RTYD Posted December 10, 2015 Site Sponsor Share Posted December 10, 2015 Steve Archibald was a fair profit.£775,000 Link to comment
KentishDon Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Rooney on a Free ? Link to comment
Robbie Winters Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 £775,000Using your financial wizardry, what is that in todays money ? Link to comment
RAZOR Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Using your financial wizardry, what is that in todays money ? £775,000 Idiot. Link to comment
Clydeside_Sheep Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Worst Probably Brian O'Neill for worst as has been said. 800k for him. Definitely Aitken doing sellick a favour. Rather than the shock among our support, the utter glee from the sellick fans was what really told the story of that transfer. I know Bernard was injury plagued, but whatever the reason he still represented a poor return for the money imo. We also signed Nigel Pepper for ~300k if memory serves. Best How about Paul Mason for 400k? Link to comment
The Oxford Don Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 In no sense was Paul Bernard a disaster, and to lump him in with some of the other jokers mentioned on this thread is a bit of a disgrace. He was an extremely good holding midfielder who wasn't afraid to mix it, and who when fit and on his day was one of the best midfielders playing in Scotland at the time. Both he and the club were desperately unlucky with all the injuries he suffered. Surprised no-one has yet mentioned Bisco in terms of good value... picked him up on a free did we not? Link to comment
RAZOR Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 In no sense was Paul Bernard a disaster, and to lump him in with some of the other jokers mentioned on this thread is a bit of a disgrace. He was an extremely good holding midfielder who wasn't afraid to mix it, and who when fit and on his day was one of the best midfielders playing in Scotland at the time. Both he and the club were desperately unlucky with all the injuries he suffered. I tend to agree. I've said this numerous times during the summer when this sort of thing normally crops up. Everyone seems to remember him the wrong way imo. Link to comment
Robbie Winters Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 £775,000 Idiot.Aye ok Link to comment
Robbie Winters Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Worst Probably Brian O'Neill for worst as has been said. 800k for him. Definitely Aitken doing sellick a favour. Rather than the shock among our support, the utter glee from the sellick fans was what really told the story of that transfer. I know Bernard was injury plagued, but whatever the reason he still represented a poor return for the money imo. We also signed Nigel Pepper for ~300k if memory serves. Best How about Paul Mason for 400k?Was Snelders not about 300k, in todays money that would be about 300k Link to comment
Edinburgh_sheep Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Dean windass was an amazing signing. Did we not pay around £800k for him? Link to comment
Henry Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Using your financial wizardry, what is that in todays money ? £3.5million http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html Link to comment
fine-n-dandy Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Another snorefest Link to comment
Robbie Winters Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 £3.5million http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.htmlThen Spurs sold him to Barca for about 1.5 Million (4.5million) Archibald fact - He once appeared in 2 different songs on 1 episode of Top Of The Pops Link to comment
Dal Riata Don Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Craig Hignet one of the worst. Jeril Ifil if he wasn't free then he'd be down too. Getting Jim Leighton back felt right so I'd have that down as one of the best. Link to comment
fine-n-dandy Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Cash for Foster (cheers Deek) & Clark. Still astonished by this Link to comment
Robbie Winters Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Cash for Foster (cheers Deek) & Clark. Still astonished by thisSnore Link to comment
fine-n-dandy Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Archibald fact - He once appeared in 2 different songs on 1 episode of Top Of The PopsREALLY!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!! Link to comment
fine-n-dandy Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Except for a couple of swear words this place is starting to look like AbMad when you log in & see the thread titles. Link to comment
paddy Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Craig Hignet one of the worst. Didnt we make a profit from him? EDIT: We got him for free, then sold for £800,000 Link to comment
dave_min Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Didnt we make a profit from him?Got him for free, sold him for cash about 3 months later. Top quality player too. Link to comment
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