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Signings of the Century. (Wayne Rooney was wrong)

The Premier League’s signings of the century

Wayne Rooney once tweeted that Javier Hernandez was the greatest signing of the century. After long consideration, we’ve compiled a list of our top 5. And funnily enough, Hernandez didn’t feature.

  Luc Nillis – PSV to Aston Villa (Free)

The man who was considered by Ronaldo as one of the greatest strikers he’s ever played with. He wasn’t only admired by the Brazilian legend, Nillis was highly thought of by many of the top clubs in Europe, particularly after forming a deadly partnership with Ruud van Nistelrooy at PSV. After his contract was up in the summer of 2000, a number of clubs were put on red alert. He chose Aston Villa. Aston Villa. He wanted to take them to the Champions League and end his career there. He fulfilled one of those ambitions, after just three games.

  Andy van Der Meyde – Inter Milan to Everton (£2 million)

The exciting Dutch international winger was 26 when he made the switch to Everton, and in the prime of his career. In four years he made an astonishing 20 appearances for the Toffees, including a particularly notable performance in his incredible Merseyside Derby debut. He received a straight red card for a challenge on Xabi Alonso. And they lost 3-1. Although his relationship with David Moyes was indestructible and his personal life was at it’s peak, van Der Meyde was surprisingly released in 2009. Since then he has managed 18 professional appearances across a number of unknown clubs. And is now struggling financially.

  Roque Santa Cruz – Blackburn to Manchester City (£17.5 million)

After an extremely impressive first season in English football, followed by an absolutely awful second, Mark Hughes saw enough to make Roque Santa Cruz the man to lead the Man City revolution. There is a reason that Mark Hughes is no longer a manager. The Paraguayan got off to a flyer on his debut, when he was substituted for Shaun Wright-Phillips without scoring a goal. He didn’t have to wait too long for his first City goal however. The game that all City fans were waiting for was just around the corner, and Santa Cruz was not about to go missing. Scunthorpe were the visitors, and the League Cup was the occasion. City won 5-1 and Santa Cruz got the all-important fourth. He didn’t have to wait long for his first Premier League goal for the club though, when on December 19th he scored a brace against title rivals Sunderland. Then immediately after, in March, he scored his third and final goal of that season against Fulham.. The following season, Santa Cruz really came into his own at Eastlands. He made a solitary league appearance and scored an instinctive 0 goals.  Soon after his 24 games and 4 goals for the club, he was loaned out to whoever wanted him.

  Carl Cort – Wimbledon to Newcastle (£7 million)

This young England U21 international went on to become a full Guyana international following his career-changing move to Newcastle. Three games into his career at St. James’ and he picked up an impressive hamstring injury that kept him out until March the following year. Unfortunately he returned, but only briefly. The following season saw a knee injury keep him out, followed by an ankle injury. Four years later, £318,000 per appearance and £1,000,000 per goal, he was sold to Wolves. Carl Cort’s decision to move up to Newcastle proves that intelligence didn’t just lie in his feet.

  Per Kroldrup – Udinese to Everton (£5 million)

Per Kroldrup is a name that is synonymous Premier League stardom. He arrived in English football from Udinese with a solid hard-earned reputation. Next stop: Everton. After immediately securing a place in the first team, the Norwegian became an instant hit with the Goodison Park faithful. He made one appearance for the club, a 0-4 defeat at the hands to Aston Villa. Injuries and lack of ability meant that Koldrup didn’t make another appearance for the club.  He currently plies his trade at free agent, and is likely to end his career there.

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Fiorentina 5 - Udinese 2

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 cherishedsaulie replied to your post: Well that's just awesome.

I didn’t even see WHY he got that red because my stream crapped out on me. But I started hissing at the screen when I saw that he got one in the first place. (I normally really like Milan but they became the spawns of satan during this match.)

My stream started getting pretty spotty towards the end, as well, so I didn't actually catch it if there was a tackle or something that lead to the red card. It looked like he was carded for arguing with the ref. But I don't actually know if he got fouled and started arguing because it didn't count, if he fouled someone and was arguing that he didn't, just started arguing for the hell of it, or what. 

And yeah, I generally don't have that much wrong with Milan (other than freaking Ibrahimovic, who I can't stand) when they're not playing us. They're definitely better than Juventus and Inter to me, that's for sure.

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Well that's just awesome.

You know what's the perfect thing to add to our enormous tally of injuries? A suspension for Krol due to a red card in the very last minute of stoppage time, of course. 'Cause, you know, it's not like our defense (or... entire team) wasn't already hurting enough or anything.

I'm not even that torn up about the match, though. I mean, uninspiring matches with lousy results have become incredibly par for the course. And this was Milan, so even hoping for a draw was, sadly enough, a longshot today. (Plus, out of the big teams, I probably have the least amount of ill will towards them.)