Our worst recent buys

[Fidel Castro]

David Platt
RSC
Vieira
Lescott
Jo
Bridge

I'm most pissed off about Vieira taking up a place in our 25-man squad, after proving he was useless and past it last season. Something dodgy going on between him and Mancini imo. Jo was a Frank money-laundering operation

[the_georgian_genius]

Santa Cruz but it's not his fault.

I never understand why fans get on players like Santa Cruz's back for no fault of their own.

[xavi6]

i cannot think of a single game santa clause has ever played well in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two goals to beat Sunderland at home in Leslie's last game. He was quality that day.

[City1970]

benjani did score a goal off his ear against the scum ... we didn't pay THAT much for him, and in all fairness he had scored 12 goals in the first half of the season before coming to us, so ~7m wasn't that bad a fee, no one knew how bad he really was till he got here, but still, he did score that goal ... I also remember him running down a ball out wide shoulder his man to the ground and crossing in for our player to score, can't remember who though. Much more contribution than RSC for a 3rd the cost?

Think it was for Petrov at Fulham.

[dick dastardley]

i cannot think of a single game santa clause has ever played well in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two goals to beat Sunderland at home in Leslie's last game. He was quality that day.

yeah but apart from that ;-)

[Fish111]

Santa-Cruz - We paid way over the odds for him on the strength of one good season. We all knew how injury prone he is and we were never going to get value for money from him.

100% agree. Total waste of money, time & effort. A small glimpse of what would have been a recurring theme had we not got rid of Hughes when we did.

[Wooders]

Santa-Cruz - We paid way over the odds for him on the strength of one good season. We all knew how injury prone he is and we were never going to get value for money from him.

100% agree. Total waste of money, time & effort. A small glimpse of what would have been a recurring theme had we not got rid of Hughes when we did.

Sigh...

Kompany, SWP, Tevez, Adebayor, Barry De Jong, Lescott etc etc - that needless dig carries no water

[Im_Spartacus]

Santa-Cruz - We paid way over the odds for him on the strength of one good season. We all knew how injury prone he is and we were never going to get value for money from him.

100% agree. Total waste of money, time & effort. A small glimpse of what would have been a recurring theme had we not got rid of Hughes when we did.

Sigh...

Kompany, SWP, Tevez, Adebayor, Barry De Jong, Lescott etc etc - that needless dig carries no water

Apparently, he had little involvement in many transfers, and SWP (this time round), Lescott, Barry and De Jong are hardly headed to becoming club greats are they

Licker ;0)

[Lee_R]

Worst Buy - RSC (too much money for a bench warmer and an obvious reason why our owners couldnt trust Hughes with much more money)

Best Buy - Tevez (by a country mile for all the reasons that instantly spring to mind)

Worst Decision - Dunne out (IMO we would have made 4th and perhaps gone just that bit further in the cups if we'd have not changed our defence so dramatically)

[bobby brows]

Tal Ben Haim - signings like Vieira don't even come close to the damage that he caused us

[HeyMark]

i cannot think of a single game santa clause has ever played well in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two goals to beat Sunderland at home in Leslie's last game. He was quality that day.

Exactly mate I know i mention it almost every time a RSC thread is started but that game showed what a player we could have had if only he'd been able to stay fit.

[carl_feedthegoat]

This is leaning towards a "Hughes out" thread so Ill get mine in now whilst I can.

Hughes - most wastefull manager EVER in Citys history.

CUNT.