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Our best signings since 2016?

Daisuk

Daisuk

Paul Stewart
Ten years of signings, who have delivered? A colleague asked me this, and I struggled to answer. I made a top 5:

Porro
Kulusevski
Maddison
Van de Ven
Romero

And out of those, only Porro and Kulu have ever really delivered on a consistent basis, but Kulu now of course being out for ages.

Quite shocking! Our recruitment has been abysmal, for ten years!
 
Wanyama should be up there IMO. Whilst I agree our recruitment for ready made now players hasn't been good enough I'd say I expect Kudus and Simons to show themselves to be very good signings and many of our young signings to kick on from the likes of Bergvall, Gray, Vuskovic, Souza, Odobert and Tel. I think most will go on to be very good players, but the focus went too much in the young potential direction....
 
Working backwards.

Danso
Palhinha
Gray
Bergvall
Kulu
Richie
Royal
Bentancur
Reggie
Doherty
PEH
Bale
Bergwijn
GLC
Vorm
Moura
Aurier
Llorente
Foyth
Sissoko
Wanyama
Son
Toby
Wimmer
Trippier
 
Baleforce said:
Working backwards.

Danso
Palhinha
Gray
Bergvall
Kulu
Richie
Royal
Bentancur
Reggie
Doherty
PEH
Bale
Bergwijn
GLC
Vorm
Moura
Aurier
Llorente
Foyth
Sissoko
Wanyama
Son
Toby
Wimmer
Trippier
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Daisuk said:
Ten years of signings, who have delivered? A colleague asked me this, and I struggled to answer. I made a top 5:

Porro
Kulusevski
Maddison
Van de Ven
Romero

And out of those, only Porro and Kulu have ever really delivered on a consistent basis, but Kulu now of course being out for ages.

Quite shocking! Our recruitment has been abysmal, for ten years!
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As I'm obviously bored

Total number of players signed - 57
Players signed in that period with
- Over 150 appearances - Moura, Sanchez, PEH, Sissoko, Romero, Deki
- Over 100 appearances - Bentancur, Bissouma, Lo Celso, Sarr, Porro, Royal
- Over 50 appearances - Richi, Aurier, N'dombele, Udogie, Johnson, Bergwijn, Wanyama, Maddison, Vicario, Sessegnon, Doherty, VDV, Reguilon, Solanke, Gray (49 appearances)
- Other notables (not there in appearances but impact can be argued) - Llorente, Perisic, Bergvall, Bale, Kudus, Palhinha, Danso

My view, all the highlighted we got return on
- Arguments could be made that Bergvall, Gray, Kudus are probably just a matter of time
- Injuries ruined Wanyama (career) and Perisic's time with us (one that got away, we so could have done with him last season)

If you look at it by year, pattern is more interesting

2016/17 - 2019/20 - You can only stretch to Moura as big impact, Sanchez & Sissoko ran up big appearances numbers (1 out of 16 players)
2020/21 - 2022/23 - PEH, Romero, Deki, Bentancur, Porro, Sarr, Richi, Perisic and Bale loan (9 out of 21 players)
2023/24 - 2025/26 - Udogie, Maddison, Vicario, VDV, Gray, Bergvall, Kudus, Danso, Palhinha with TBC (Odobert/Xavi) and Johnson (hard to say a failure with his goal contributions), even minus TBC and Johnson (9 out of 20)

so split into 3 year groups, the 2016/17 - 2019/20 stands out as the brick era of recruitment, post that, quality of players definitely went up, and hit ratio gets closest to 1 in 2, which is about as good as anyone does I suspect
 
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