The Chelsea supporting punters have been in the Transfer Tavern all afternoon to witness their side’s 1-1 draw with Manchester United, which was shown live on the big screen in the bar.
Despite falling behind in the game, Chelsea weren’t to be denied and scored a deserved equaliser a minute into stoppage time through a Diego Costa strike.
Chelsea have won numerous Premier League titles under the stewardship of Roman Abramovich, but the Blues haven’t always been successful in securing the world’s top players.
A group of Blues supporters are getting among the two-for-one cocktails here in the Tavern and they are going through a list of misfits, who will inevitably go down as the club’s worst pieces of transfer business.
Our writer Lee Clarke picked his choices for Chelsea Football Club’s worst ever signings……
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Andriy Shevchenko
The Ukrainian striker was one of the most feared marksmen in world football when he signed for Chelsea in 2006, but he quite simply couldn’t get to grips with the English Premier League.
He had a remarkable goal ratio at both Dynamo Kiev and AC Milan but was found sadly wanting during his three years at Stamford Bridge, scoring just nine goals from 48 games, despite the club paying £30 million for his services.
After being put out of his Chelsea misery he returned to Kiev and showed once again that he knew how to score goals on a consistent basis by adding 23 more goals to his career tally.
Chris Sutton
Sutton was part the famous Blackburn Rovers team that achieved the unthinkable in 1995 when they pipped Manchester United to the Premier League title, with the target man forming a formidable partnership with Alan Shearer.
Following 47 goals for Rovers between 1995 and 1999, Chelsea decided to pay £10 million for the striker’s services but he failed to scale the scoring heights of his previous clubs.
The man who went on to manage Lincoln City after his playing days had come to an end, netted just once in 28 appearances before Chelsea decided to cut Sutton loose and sell him to Celtic, where he became a cult hero after finding his scoring touch once again.
Mark Bosnich
The Australian goalkeeper was signed from Manchester United where he had experienced a miserable two seasons, making the signing in the first place all the more strange.
In seven seasons at Aston Villa he established himself as the club’s number one goalkeeper, playing close to 200 games before earning his big move to United.
During his time at Stamford Bridge, Bosnich was on a huge salary, played just seven times in two years and eventually failed a drugs test and was sacked by the club. A completely miserable signing.
Winston Bogarde
Dutch defender Bogarde was signed by Gianluca Vialli in 2000 and the Italian boss used the experienced player nine times, but that was as good as it got for poor old Winston.
Vialli was dismissed and replaced by Claudio Ranieri who clearly didn’t rate Bogarde and wanted him out of the club, but the Dutchman wasn’t having any of it so refused to leave.
He then sat twiddling his thumbs in the reserve team for the next four years on an astounding £40,000 per-week to play no football whatsoever.
Mateja Kezman
The Yugoslavian-born striker was another player who Chelsea signed expecting big things from only to sit back and watch as he failed to make an impact on the first-team.
In four years playing for PSV over in Holland he scored an astonishing 105 goals in 122 appearances, prompting the Blues to sign the player for a rather cheap £5.3 million.
Kezman lasted just one season at Stamford Bridge and netted a paltry four goals in 25 appearances, with the player simply not good enough to play Premier League football.
Following his poor spell at the Blues he went on to play in La Liga with Atletico Madrid, Ligue 1 with Paris Saint-Germain and in the Russian league with Zenit.
