EPL Bargain's

Rolling on from a few posts regarding Frank Lampard in the 'best team' article, who in your opinion have been the best buys since the EPL began.

Frank of course was £10million well spent.

Cantona £1 to Utd and Ronaldo £12 to the same team have been two more obvious ones.

Cantona has to be the bargain!!

RVP - £2.75m. Not a bad bargain!!
Sami Hyypia - £2.5m!

Can you believe Kolo Toure only cost Arsenal £150,000.

Nicolas Anelka - £200k

Some nice ones there crazy.

Wimbledon have done some fine negotiating over the years. Terry Phelan, Barton and Scales to name a few.

I think Man U got Peter Schmeichel for something like £550k.

Other than him, Joe Hart went from Shrewsbury to Man City for an initial £600k, he's got to be one of the best bargains.

Patrick Viera - £3.5m

Demba Ba - £0. Bargain of the century.

Andy Carroll -

Gianfranco Zola was £3.5M

Stella wrote:Rolling on from a few posts regarding Frank Lampard in the 'best team' article, who in your opinion have been the best buys since the EPL began.

Frank of course was £10million well spent.

Cantona £1 to Utd and Ronaldo £12 to the same team have been two more obvious ones.

Whilst £10m is indeed money well spent, it was a lot at the time and therefore doesn’t, IMO, constitute a bargain.

Think other posters have hit the nail on the head with Anelka £500k->£20m+; Ronaldo £12m->£85m and Toure £150k->£16m being probably the best bits of business in the Prem whilst Cantona (£1.2m) and maybe Schemichel (£500k) two of the best out and out bargains given what they went on to achieve for their club.

Stella wrote:Some nice ones there crazy.

Wimbledon have done some fine negotiating over the years. Terry Phelan, Barton and Scales to name a few.

Yeh we were pretty good at getting players on the cheap and selling them on. Keith Curle was a prime example. Signed him for £500,000 in 1988 then in 1991 Man City broke their own transfer record to get him. It was only £2.5m but for a club like Wimbledon at that time it was a fantastic bit of business.

You will also find that a lot of Wimbledon players played for England........after they had left us!! I think England managers had a thing about the club.

Marky wrote:I think Man U got Peter Schmeichel for something like £550k.

Other than him, Joe Hart went from Shrewsbury to Man City for an initial £600k, he's got to be one of the best bargains.

great shout on Joe Hart Marky! Mega bargain.

Odemwingie-2.5 Million, 25 premier league goals.

Mat wrote:Odemwingie-2.5 Million, 25 premier league goals.

Alan Shearer - £15million, 260 Prem Goals.

Using your calculation.... Odemwingie would cost about £27million for that kind of return.

Shearer was a bargain for Blackburn. Lot's of profit and a championship medal that they probably wouldn't have got without him.

Jussi Jaaskelainen was 100k to Bolton and possibly been one of the best keepers in PL consistantly for a long time.

It's fair to say that Wenger has been as shrewd as any in the transfer market.

Henry at £11m wasn't cheap but boy did he repay Wenger.

Grant Holt cost 400K for Norwich and has scored more than a goal every other game for us!

Michel Vorm at Swansea only cost £1.5 million I think

Not in the EPL but didn't Barcelona get Messi for the price of some growth hormone treatment?

Cantona and Ronaldo massive bargains

Chris Samba.

lorus59 wrote:Not in the EPL but didn't Barcelona get Messi for the price of some growth hormone treatment?

Looks like they did.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=lionel%20messi&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CFEQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLionel_Messi&ei=BWJnT8rxGqmM0AWtz4nACA&usg=AFQjCNG2WaL6lRPiJNTnzJiX2tulrUCApg

Javier Hernandez £6 million.

Joe Hart £600K

Ronaldo - £12 million

Vidic was £7m. Does that count?

Cesc Fabregas. £500k. Barca got him on the cleap also.

Michel Vorm - £1.5m

Cantona in the context of the transfer market as it is now would be an absolute bargain but the £1mil he cost back in 1992 was a fair bit of money back then, great signing nonetheless.

Patrice Evra for 5 million.

Xabi Alonso, paid 10.5m for him and received around £30m from Real Madrid! Superb player as well.

Demba Ba...at the moment is looking a bargain.

Cheik Tiote could be a bargain aswell...certainly been worth his 2.5 - 3m price since his arrival.

I take it your not looking at home grown players like Giggs, Scholes etc.

Mind Beckham...a home grown and made united £25m or something wasnt a bad bit of business.

How much did Denis Irwin cost...he's was a big player for united.

No, not really looking at players that came through the youth system. They though can be the best bit of business you can make.

Irwin cost £625,000 in 1990.

He's a long way to go to match some of the above but 350k in this day and age for James McClean looks like a bargain already..