How did they sign him?

[Section_31]

Times you've been bamboozled by another team's signing.

 

Klinsmann to Spurs always baffled me, what the actual fuck happened there.

[Daisy]

Ravanelli Middlesborough 

[Captain Turdseye]

Youri Djorkaeff at Bolton was the maddest of a few mad ones there. 

[Trumo]

Gullit to Chelsea was a bit of a surprise because at the time, Chelsea were a mid-table team with a shit stadium, and I had no idea the area was surrounded by prime London real estate. 

[Kevin D]

Mascherano and Tevez to West Ham.

[Trumo]

Tevez and Mascherano to West Ham. Turned out it was down to the dodgiest of dodgy deals, but both players were highly coveted by European clubs at the time.

[Pidge]

Was vialli before or after that?

[3 Stacks]

There are a bunch nowadays because the small Premier League teams are all richer than the majority of even some of the big clubs in other leagues now. 

 

Paqueta to West Ham is the biggest one recently. 

[Megadrive Man]

13 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Times you've been bamboozled by another team's signing.

 

Klinsmann to Spurs always baffled me, what the actual fuck happened there.

 

I read somewhere that Klinsmann decided he wanted to play in England and he only wanted to live in London, so he approached Spurs and asked them if they'd be interested in signing him and they couldn't believe their luck!

[Lee909]

8 minutes ago, Pidge said:

Was vialli before or after that?

 

After 

Gullit comebin while Hoddle was manager if i remember correct. 

[Megadrive Man]

Bolton had a few mad ones, Hierro, Okocha and Ivan Campo.

[TheHowieLama]

Rodriguez to Everton.

[Megadrive Man]

Brian Laudrup to Rangers is another mad one. He turned down offers from Barcelona and AC Milan to stay there!

[Trumo]

Just now, TheHowieLama said:

Rodriguez to Everton.

 

Not a surprise. They just slapped the money on the table.

[Lee909]

Juninho going to Boro just after breaking into the national team

[Lee909]

Charlton signing Allan Simonsen

[Kevin D]

16 minutes ago, Megadrive Man said:

 

I read somewhere that Klinsmann decided he wanted to play in England and he only wanted to live in London, so he approached Spurs and asked them if they'd be interested in signing him and they couldn't believe their luck!

[an tha]

Bojan to Stoke

 

Finidi George to Ipswich

 

Kevin Keegan to Southampton

 

Youri Djorkaeff to Bolton

 

Keylar Navas to Forest

 

Serge Gnabry to WBA

 

 

[KMD7]

Maradona to Napoli.

Zico to Udinese. 

 

 

[Clem H Fandango]

Prosinecki to Portsmouth in the championship!

[Jennings]

Aldo to Tranmere. Unbelievable signing.

[Mudface]

In the '70s, George Best, Rodney Marsh and Bobby Moore all played at the same time for Fulham. They were all clearly on the wane (Best had played for Stockport and Cork after leaving Man Utd), but still.

[TheHowieLama]

Messi to Miami.

[Guest]

Luther Blissett to AC Milan.

Jonathan Woodgate to Real Madrid.

Mark Hughes to Barcelona.

Trevor Steven record transfer to Marseilles.

[JagSquared]

Dugarry to birmingham.

 

Karembeu and mendieta to Boro. In fact they had some mental signings like Reiziger and boksic too. 
 

Being boring - a lot of these could be explained by the prem starting to offer massive wages to ageing or past their best players. Obviously with a few exceptions. A bit like saudi now.