Worst AI transfer ever?

Ah.. Real Madrid. Much can be said about their transfer policy in the last years but nothing screams Real like throwing insane amount of money on world megastars. Of course a day came when that also changed and they ended up signing this dude for the amazing sum of 57 mil.euro

My 20/20 scouts say he is a useful player at best but judge for yourselves:

Stats:

http://i47.tinypic.com/b4yv54.png

Games:

http://i47.tinypic.com/14ca8ue.png

Best part is - the guy is unhappy and "Wants to leave" because he was treated badly. I've never seen the AI buy a random guy for so munch money.

Was that a dubious decision? :D:D

** UPDATE! **

Here is the current condition of our beloved player after his pretty tough period with R.Madrid:

http://i47.tinypic.com/29n9poj.png - he got a real price tag too

http://i48.tinypic.com/2ir7t6c.png

And the report of my 20/20 scout (again):

http://i47.tinypic.com/2d9qnau.png

AI teams do seem to pay alot for average players.

manutd bought a player for £17.5 in my game but my scouts gave the player a 1 and a half star rating.

think he was about 27 years old.

good tackler/marker. Really fast and good acceleration. Decent corner taker, seems to seldom make mistakes. Id have picked him as backup anytime, he may even be better with the right training. I guess his recc. is Continental. Plays for the Polish national team. Decent free kick taker as well. Last 5 games;7,52. Way too expensive imo, but this can also be because "someone" has made extreme signings lately, thus driving the rpices up to unreal levels?

I once had Inter buy Heskey for £36m that was weird!! Seeing has he never played for them before he retired!

57 mil for a fullback, or any player with those stats =

Well done HSV

Not looking at his stats I see a 23 fullback having played great matches in all divisions. Based on that... a great signing.

Im pretty sure his other stats would say he enjoys big matches and has a great personality.

If they have 57 million to spend and only lack a back, why not...

Real Madrid are notorious for spending ludicrous amounts of money on half-rate or has-been players on FM. They bought fat Ronaldo for £9.5m on my game and he retired a year later.

I'm sure that if I load my saved game and browse their transfer history I would find more.

Maybe not the worst transfer ever, but Real Madrid bought Marek Jankulovski in my journy man game in 2010... They only paid 1,4mill, but i still thinks its a pretty bad deal, his salary is 30k a week, and he's sooo over the hill...

Hes hasnt played a single game for them in 2 seasons...

Absolutely ridiculous. These kind of things really shouldn't be happening in Football Manager - it makes the game rather absurd.

I've seen man utd buying youth players with 2 and a half star ratings from a 20,20 scout of mine

I've said this in another thread as well but I got bored of my Man City game because I was able to sell Lescott, Shawcross and Given all to Barca for overpriced fees. None of them played many competitive games before being moved on.

Julien Faubert to Madrid..

Oh wait... that was real life...

Well, Real Madrid paid £ 13.4M Jonathan Woodgate... approx £ 1.4M per appearence, considering he just played 9 games with Los Merengues.

But well, £ 50M+ for such a fullback seem to be too much even for Real Madrid

ross mccormack to ac milan...hahahahah

Would love to see Real Madrid's finances. Maybe 57mill is peanuts

Sure thing just tell me where to look

Nevermind, here are the top richest clubs:

http://i49.tinypic.com/11lsvgh.png

They also are in 200mil. debt

And that's how the league is coming up so far:

http://i45.tinypic.com/nd350h.png

Of course Real preserved the proud tradition of reaching the 1/8 finals of the CL and getting beaten there

In my game at the minute AC Milan bought Silvain Ebanks Blake for £10.5 million, that's a shocker.

In my game at the minute AC Milan bought Silvain Ebanks Blake for £10.5 million, that's a shocker.

I just inherited a Liverpool squad that had him in it, oddly enough they'd bought him for £10,500,000 as well

57 mil for a fullback, or any player with those stats =

Well done HSV

I bought my right back for 63 mill... but he has way better stats, makes a lot of assists and scores a lot of goals from free kicks. How do I put a screenshot here? I can only post it tomorrow since I'm at work.

reputation just needs a tweak tbh...

clubs buy on reputation first and ability second..

Indefensible really. And yet people do so. Im baffled.

on my save Real Madrid bought David Bentley for £12 million.

This is one of those moments that say i wish i had him when he was 16 lool

Could have been a better player

everytime i start a new game man u sign gary cahill for the same price 13.5 mil he hardly plays in his first season ges loaned out in his second and sold for 3.5 in his third

^^ what marknufc said that happen's everytime shows how poor this patch is...

I've been known to pay a little over the odds for a player i really need or want but thats just ridiculous

ano but the thing is cahills a good player on the game i signed him form man u for the toon for 3.5 mil and 2 season later man u (yes man u) made and offer of 22 mil :O real madrid, arsenal and bayern munich also made big offers but i kept him

You boys are worse than the red tops for sensationalism. The original player was overpriced but definitely not bad. Remember the transfer is in Euros. Its realistic - big reputation clubs paing over the odds for big reputation players. Look at the price City paid for Lescott this summer.

Other overpriced transfers off the top of my head - Lee Bradbury and Jon Macken back in the day for £3 and £5 million respectively, half of Newcastle's squad last season, it goes on and on.

If Ebanks-Blake left Wolves last summer i'm pretty sure he would have been quoted around the £10 million mark. It happens the other way too - Jason Scotland in the Championship was awesome - and for £30K.

Real Madrid signed Antonio Di Natale in about the 3rd season when he'd be 33/34 for £15m in my save game, and never played him before transfer listing him.

Regarding my original post - this boy they bought for 57mil. Well eventually they didn't even play him much he became unsettled and wants to leave and his price is down to 4-5 mil.euro.

Genoa buying a 33yr old Berbatov for £15.75 mil...

I see it's 2017..what database size are you running?

I ended my first game around the same time, and that guy would be a top 10 fullback among all 16-24 year olds. Regen quality was so poor teams were having to resort to these things. Although I still don't think anything more than 15 million EU could be justified...

its actually may 2018 now on a medium database. I don't know if most regens are poor but I have an italian goalkeeper regen who is as good as Casillas and Buffon at game-start (worth around 30mil.euro)

Also a spanish striker who is 18 and already at 20+ mil. worth :o Barcelona seem to have an amazing finnish right-back, and chelsea have a bulgarian AMC with amazing stats as well. And maybe a few others I havent dug that much into it.

So i can't complain there are a few good stars shaping up

You boys are worse than the red tops for sensationalism. The original player was overpriced but definitely not bad. Remember the transfer is in Euros. Its realistic - big reputation clubs paing over the odds for big reputation players. Look at the price City paid for Lescott this summer.

City paid somewhere in the region of £20-24 million for Lescott, which was already a considerable price and caused largely by the fact that Mark Hughes was trying to target players who had been plying their trade in England. This is €57 million = £51 million, more than twice as much; it's a bit more than "over the odds".

His physical attributes are a bit of a mix, and his technical attributes are average but not spectacular: Tackling 15, Positioning 11, Anticipation 10, Concentration 15, Teamwork 14, Work Rate 14. He's not terrible, but in the context of FM he is pretty much objectively a run-of-the-mill player.

Chelsea bought wes brown for 17.5 million pounds when he's 31 in my game...Top that

Julien Faubert to Madrid..

Oh wait... that was real life...

They never bought him. He was on loan. True a stupid loan but a loan, which meant he left end of season. Really ppl need to get their facts right.

in my game ac milan bought gareth bale for 32.5 million euros.. 2011-1012 season... i know bale is good but 32 Millions :O !

You boys are worse than the red tops for sensationalism. The original player was overpriced but definitely not bad. Remember the transfer is in Euros. Its realistic - big reputation clubs paing over the odds for big reputation players. Look at the price City paid for Lescott this summer.

Other overpriced transfers off the top of my head - Lee Bradbury and Jon Macken back in the day for £3 and £5 million respectively, half of Newcastle's squad last season, it goes on and on.

If Ebanks-Blake left Wolves last summer i'm pretty sure he would have been quoted around the £10 million mark. It happens the other way too - Jason Scotland in the Championship was awesome - and for £30K.

What does 3 or 5 mil have to do with 51 mil?

Especially because this is a very poor player tbh and isnt exactly a youngster lol. And 6.8-7.0 average ratings arent exactly great.

Even Real wouldnt pay 51 mil for some low rated player like this lol. Ive had better full backs in the Championship...

try to look in the bug forum, there are some posts complaining about weird ai transfer..SI said, they are looking at this issue

everytime i start a new game man u sign gary cahill for the same price 13.5 mil he hardly plays in his first season ges loaned out in his second and sold for 3.5 in his third

Exactly the same here, every time I play no matter what they do this!

I have update the first post with the current situation of the hero of this thread.

Man City bought Ruben de la Red for like £12 million before... if I remember correctly he is unavailable to play due to a heart defect? Hardly a bargain

What I find even more interesting is how the newgen's hair has grown in the updated picture. A nice touch if it's meant to be one. Didn't know this was possible.

I actually installed a graphics pack that adds more hair-styles. That's why it changed.

The worst transfer I have seen, that really did not make any sense at all was Jonathan Woodgate from Tottenham to Manchester City for a whopping £105,000,000.

It was on my first file when I first got the 2010 game about 4 or 5 seasons in. He was about 32 as well!

in my game ac milan bought gareth bale for 32.5 million euros.. 2011-1012 season... i know bale is good but 32 Millions :O !

Bale's one of the best left backs in the game.

And there really aren't many.

Socha is a Czech name, not Polish.