Premier League’s best transfer bargains : 10. Demba Ba: free A risk by Newcastle manager Alan Pardew given the state of the striker’s knees that saw him fail a medical at Stoke City, but it paid off enormously. He scored 16 goals in his first season on Tyneside. 9. Tim Cahill: £1.5m After being a large part of the reason Millwall reached their first ever FA Cup final Everton signed the Australian for a £1.5 million fee that looked a bargain at the time. 8. Joe Hart: £600,000 Manchester City and England’s No 1 goalkeeper who cost next to nothing from Shrewsbury Town in 2006. He is now one of the club’s top earners . 7. Michu: £2m Michael Laudrup appears to have pulled off the bargain signing of this season in taking Michu from Rayo Vallecano to Wales. 6. Robin van Persie: £2.75 A cut price deal for the striker who arrived from Feyenoord in 2004 and went on to score 96 goals in 194 appearances for Arsenal only looks better when you consider that the £24m United paid for him in the summer already looks like more than value for money itself. 5. Nicolas Anelka: £500,000 An awful lot of money has been spent on Anelka down the years, but Arsene Wenger, who signed Anelka from Paris St Germain in 1997, shelled out the least. During two seasons at Arsenal Anelka helped the club to a league and cup double before joining Real Madrid for just under £23 million. 4. Eric Cantona: £1.2m Perhaps Sir Alex Ferguson’s best deal to date in an impressive list. The King cost the Scot just £1.2m when he signed from Leeds in 1992. He scored 64 goals in 143 appearances but more than that proved the catalyst for United’s dominance within the English game that is still in effect today. 3. Cristiano Ronaldo: £12.4m A transfer fee of over £12m would rarely be described as a bargain, but then Ronaldo has always been an exception to the norm. And when you consider he was sold on for a profit of over £67m on that fee, it looks like a fantastic bit of business. 2. Ole Gunner Solskjaer: £1.5m United’s Baby Faced Assassin cost them just £1.5 million, a great investment for 10 years of outstanding service and crucial goals, none more so that the 1999 Champions League final. 1. Peter Schmeichel: £505,000 Sir Alex Ferguson has described the signing of the great Dane as ‘the bargain of the century’ and it’s difficult to argue. Five Premier League titles, three FA Cup wins, a League Cup and Champions League victory during eight years at Old Trafford only tells half the story #MOYES U NEED TO LEARN FROM SAF #ridhu
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:10:38 +0000
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