Worthy's transfer record (easy copy for Archant)

There?s a list of Worthy?s ins and outs below, as complete as I can think of and corrected to take into account yesterday?s comments. It?s an interesting history, particularly when you come to summer 2005 and wince as you read the list of additions. I?ve divided the purchases into what I think are the successes and failures, judging them by how they have contributed to the team rather than on objective quality (thus Helveg has gone down as unsuccessful).

Comments welcome.

OBVIOUSLY SUCCESSFUL PURCHASES
Drury; Holt; Francis; Edworthy; Hucks; Leon; Safri; Gallacher; Ashton; Earnshaw; Croft. Total number = 11 out of 35, which is 31.5%. Total transfer fee cost of these players = ?9.91m, which is 64% of his total spend. That?s not a bad ratio IMHO.

OBVIOUSLY UNSUCCESSFUL PURCHASES
Crichton; Easton; Rivers; Emblen; Libbra; Heckingbottom; Briggs; Brennan; Helveg; Charlton; Jonson; Ward; Stuart; MLJ; Jarrett; Uncle Peter Thorne; Hughes. Total number = 17 out of 35, which is 48.5%. Total value in transfer fees = ?3.215m, which is 21%. Again, not a bad ratio (though of course this leaves wages out of account, and doubtless Worthy will have spent a lot of his budget on high wages for useless players even if they came on a free).

DEBATABLE/?JURY?S OUT? PURCHASES
Nielsen; Svenny (I was a fan but I know a lot weren?t so I?m putting him under ?debtable?); the Doc; Colin; Robinson; Etuhu; Dublin. Total number = 7 out of 35 = 20%. Total value = ?2.263m = 15%.

LOAN VERDICT
I would say that of his 21 loans, only 3 were a success ? Hucks, Crouch and Cooper. That?s poor.

CONCLUSIONS?
My own conclusion is that Worthy did quite well in the transfer market, with relatively few high value failures. But the record shows two huge purchasing cock-ups. The first was that he failed to strengthen us sufficiently when we got promoted. (EG If he had bought Ashton in the summer instead of in January, we would probably have stayed up.) The second, and this is the one that really stands out for me, was that he made a TOTAL BOLLOCKS of his purchases in the summer after relegation. That season he acquired MLJ, Jarrett, Uncle Peter, Andy Hughes, Jurgen Colin, Carl Robinson, and Etuhu. And he only got the last two after the failure of Hughes and Jarrett to play anything even faintly resembling football. No wonder we were a shambles last season. So he pissed away of our first season of parachute payments, and to my mind it is that failure more than any other which is (I hope) going to cost him his job.

WORTHY - THE COMPLETE TRANSFER RECORD

IN
Drury, March 2001 ? 500k
Holt, March 2001 ? 100k
Crichton, June 2001 ? 150k
Easton, June 2001 ? 200k
Rivers, June 2001 ? 700k
Emblen, July 2001 ? 500k
Libbra, July 2001 ? free
Nielsen, Jan 2002 ? 200k
Heckingbottom, Jan 2003 ? free
Keith Briggs, Jan 2003 ? 65k
Brennan, July 2003 ? free
Francis, July 2003 ? 260k
Edworthy, August 2003 ? free
Hucks, Dec 2003 ? 1m
Leon, Dec 2003 ? 350k
Svenny, Dec 2003 ? 300k
Saffers, June 2004 ? 500k plus add-ons, say 1m
Gallacher, June 2004 ? free
Helveg, July 2004 ? free
Simon Charlton, July 2004 ? 250k
The Doc, August 2004 ? 600k plus add-ons, say 1m
Jonson, August 2004 ? 600k
Darren Ward, August 2004 ? 250k
Stuart, Jan 2005 ? free
Deano, Jan 2005 ? 3m
MLJ, June 2005 ? free
Jarrett, June 2005 ? free
Uncle Peter Thorne, July 2005 ? free
Andy Hughes, July 2005 ? 500k
Jurgen Colin, July 2005 ? 263k
Carl Robinson, Jan 2006 ? 50k
Etuhu, Jan 2006 ? 450k
Super Robbie Earnshaw, Jan 2006 ? 3m
Lee Croft, July 2006 - 700k
Dion Dublin and his Magic Cock, September 2006 - free

Totals ? 35 players in; ?15,388,000 spent in transfer fees

OUT (for cash)
Lee Marshall, March 2001 - 650k
Adrian Forbes, July 2001 ? 60k
Adrian Coote, December 2001 ? 50k
Nielsen, August 2003 - 125k
Malky, September 2004 ? 300k
Jonson, July 2005 ? 700k
Francis, August 2005 ? 1.5m
Helveg, August 2005 ? 135k
Deano, Jan 2006 ? 7.25m
Greeno, August 2006 ? 2m
Leon, August 2006 ? 1m

Total: ?13,770,000 received in transfer fees (except that when we sold Deano apparently we didn?t actually get any money at all, according to Doncaster, and we haven?t had all the Green money yet)

LOANS
Nielsen, Dec 2001-Jan 2002
Andy Roberts, Jan-March 2002
Trevor Benjamin Feb-March 2002
Nicky Southall, September-November 2002
David Healy, Jan-May 2003
Leigh Bromby, March 2003
Elvis Hammond, August 2003
Hucks, Sept-December 2003
Crouch, Sept-December 2003
Harper, Sept-December 2003
Kevin Cooper, March 2004
Bentley, season 2004-5
Davenport, September ?December 2005
Kevin Lisbie, September 2005
Dean Marney, August-October 2005
Carl Robinson, Nov-Dec 2005
David Wright, Nov 2005
Zesh Rehmann, Feb-July 2006
Johansson, Feb-May 2006
Lee Camp, September 2006
Boyle, September 2006

21 players loaned in

Posted By: Old Git, Sep 28, 13:01:42