Best and Worst signings of this Season - West Ham, Aston Villa, Bayern Munich, Blackburn
May 6th, 2008 | 
Author: An article in the Independent wrote Best and Worst signings of the season are:-
Best Buy: Blackburn’s budget goal machine
ROQUE SANTA CRUZ (Bayern Munich to Blackburn Rovers, £3.5m)
Mark Hughes feels that he is the best pound-for-pound signing, and it is hard to disagree. A player who was averaging just five goals a season at Bayern has scored 23 already for Blackburn. An indication, perhaps, that the Premier League is easier? Maybe, but in Germany he was playing for the nation’s dominant team. The Paraguayan appears simply to have settled better at Ewood Park, away from the pressures of Bayern, where a season without a trophy is regarded as a season wasted. He feels that he is trusted by the manager, and the English game suits his style. He was named the Premier League player of the month for December after goals against Wigan, Arsenal, Manchester City and Derby. He has also scored the bulk of his goals away from home. Best of all, at 26 his best years should still be ahead of him.
Worst Buy: Hammer horror signing
MARLON HAREWOOD (West Ham to Aston Villa, £4m)
West Ham were astonished when Martin O’Neill offered £4m for a player they were looking to shift. Once described as “a world-beater on his day, a panel-beater on the others”, he has largely been the latter. Harewood has made one Premier League start, at Old Trafford in March, which lasted 69 minutes. Five goals from 21 substitute appearances looks a decent return, until you examine them. Three came at in the last five minutes of routs which were already won. Which leaves a goal at Anfield which helped snatch a point, and one at Reading which put Villa two up in what proved a 2-1 win. About £1.3m a point, plus wages, and it is not as if, being 29 in August, he has a resale value.
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Actually on goals to minutes played the hare has done well.And 4 million is pocket money to lerner.
Haha! You can’t tell that was written by a shammer..
Harewood has been great for the Villa this season and his work rate and general impact as a substitute have made him very popular. Same goes for his mate NRC who has the most tackles in the league this season.
This season should have proved to you that those two weren’t the root of your problems and I hope they jam your racist abuse back down your cockernee throats this weekend.
The same old “cockney” stereotype. I accept Reo-Coker has has a good season but the time was right for both he and Harewood to move on. They have been replaced by Parker and Bellamy respectively, both you could argue are better players injuries aside.
I think West Ham could have been challening with The Aston Villa’s and Evertons has they had a fit squad. Few teams would be able to cope with the losses of Bellamy, Dyer and Faubert for almost the whole season. Add Dean Ashton is as his season has also been injury stricken and that is alot of top quality players missing.
there you go, intelligent debate and the villa mad!