7 INSANELY Overpriced Average Footballers 

Not that anyone expected it, the Gordon transfer turned out quite well so far

I would like to see a list of players who were world class for one club, transferred to another club and were trash, but after being transferred again became excellent players. Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry come to mind (they were good at Ajax and Monaco, were awful in Italy before they came to Arsenal), but i'm sure there were more players like them

I do feel for Cutrone, he didn’t want to leave Milan and Nuno was never going to play anyone other than Raul up front. Basically a confusing and disappointing transfer, basically 🤷🏻‍♂️

As an Everton fan, Gordon to Newcastle is the best bit of business we've done in years

I remember seeing Carillo playing for Southampton at Newcastle and he was pretty anonymous. Not the best way to deploy a club record fee

'As much use as Peter Walton in a BT Sport studio' is a line I really appreciated.

Everton absolutely laughing to the bank with that Gordon transfer. He's pony.

How is Andy Carroll not on this list???, half a decent season at Newcastle in 2010/11 before a January move to Liverpool for £35m which was a record fee for a British footballer at the time. He scored just 6 goals in 44 games before eventually leaving for West Ham.

9 months ago I would've agreed with the Antony Gordon shout. But as of when I'm typing this, I think that he has been our best player with 18 G/A in a LW position which was originally meant for Barnes. If he keeps this up he could be an outside shout to get in the Euro Squad.

Please do a documentary on Dixie Dean

Shoya Nakajima as a notable mention. Al-Duhail SC paid Portimonense €35m for him and then sold him to Porto for €12m 5 months and 7 games later. Porto then loaned him out and left on a free (getting sent of seconds into his debut for Antalyaspor).

£18.6m for Vincent Janssen to Spurs was a mad one.

3:12 Ayoze Perez. 5:20 Patrick Cutrone 7:28 Jordon Ibe 10:17 Guido Carrillo 13:03 Seth Johnson 15:26 Stefano Sturaro 17:32 Kevin Wimmer

Day 4: 7 Best Loan moves ever. The loan moves that have greatly benefited the team receiving the player for a limited amount of time. While not exactly the best, I always think of Morientes to Monaco as an example. Shoutout to FM Mnager content creator Zealand who inspired me for that

I saw Jordan Ibe score a cracker in a pre-season friendly for Bournemouth against Cardiff and then he almost drove into me with his big car. That’s all I remember from his time at Bournemouth. It’s a shame to hear about his struggles in recent years and I hope he’s in a better frame of mind now.

Gordon was a shocking one that didnt make sense from the start, unless Newcastle were thinking of home grown points. Even so, apart from his footballing ability, his poor character and attitude at Everton was clear for all to see from his behaviour. Perez is a great example too, and it shows how much poor business Leicester have done alongside the good (they were seen as the best run club in England at one point). As a Wolves fan, that Cutrone deal still haunts us mentally to this day, at least Fabio Silva is now looking worth it though.

Loving the thumbnail here. Aged like milk!

Milan spending 21 million on Bertolacci, 24 million on Conti and 37 million on Caldara is also crazy just to add some crazy Milan signings

Gordon has been very good this season certainly worth 45 mil

Sam Clucas for £18m from Hull to Swansea is another, only to be sold by Swansea to fellow Championship side Stoke for £7m the season after.

Anthony Gordon not looking bang average anymore. Baller! If he keeps this up he'll go from 'insanely overpriced' to being well worth the money

The entirely uncapped Denmark XI which lost 0-3 Slovakia in September 2018. Where are they now?

More on Guido Carillo - he was well known to then manager Pellegrino, who managed him in Argentina. He convinced the board he was the real deal and was signed for him in January as we were bottom 3 at the time. He promptly looked like a headless chicken losing 0-3 on debut at Newcastle before Pellegrino was sacked the next day, so a pointless panic buy as hughes then Ralph didn't use him. Pellegrino was then manager at Elche where he ended up on a free.

Alfie, a suggestion for your "What on Earth is going on at" series (but that might take a long time because it's just the tip of the iceberg, so you might have to keep track and wait for a while): there's been investigations recently in Brazil regarding match-fixing schemes and illegal betting with football players here - even from Série A (1st division)

Ibe’s story is so sad. Didn’t know he wasn’t even playing anymore 😢

I was just searching Anthony Gordon's stats that made him the same priced as Luis Diaz or Lucas Paqueta. And the people's channel heard my inner thought.

Ah Danny Drinkwater. The first player on FM 19 that I had to loan for 3 seasons because he was underperforming even on the early stages of the FA Cup, until Derby County made a offer near the end of the contract for less than 1.5 million pounds.

a documentary of Borussia Dortmund and how they were extremely close to bankruptcy in 2002 time and how Bayern had to save them. The extreme difficulties the club has had to manage within to get back to where they are #thepeopleschannel

one player who deserve a mention in my opion would be Fiete Arp. he was an average young talant at HSV who got bought by Bayern just afer a few games the fee was only 4 million but the wages were insane. Fiete Arp made more money in 3 years playing 13 min for Bayern then players of his caliber make in theire whole carrer. An absolute stroke of geniuse by the player agent to get this deal.

Its good to hear footballers coming out about depression. Even 10 years they probably felt unable to open up.

I watch every video on this channel for amazing knowledge Alfie gives❤

Jordon Ibe’s story saddens me. I loved how electric he once was on the ball

To let you know for the future, as you have seemed interested in correct pronunciation for other languages, the double L in Spanish names and words, such as Carrillo, actually makes a "yuh" sound, as in "Cah-ree-yo". Also, this was another great video!

Next year list: Mudrik! Football hype is a strange beast

Love your videos so much! All the best from Las Vegas! !!!!!!

Are there ever repercussions against the people who make such costly decisions? Who gets the blame (the scouts? The person in the club responsible for transfers negotiations?) and do they lose their jobs because of it? Thanks for the video!

I love this gloves off type of content. You really are the master of very long video introductions.

Wow even by Alfies standards he broke his own record for longest introduction lmao

Alfie, you should do a series of videos that looks at the best football player born on each day of the year broken up into 12 videos one for each month. You could release the videos over an entire year with videos releasing on the first of their respective months to spread the videos out as well.

Am I the only one that thinks Richarlison is ridiculously overhyped and overrated? He scored 5 goals in his single season in Watford and somehow Everton thought that warranted forking over £35mil for him. Then after not scoring more than 13 goals in any season in Merseyside, Spurs decide he's worth £60mil?! Seriously, if his name was Richardapolous or O'Richard instead of Richarlison, no one would pay more than £20mil for him

another bang on cracking vid Alfie keep smashing these as any true footie fan trust me will agree wae atleast 5 of ur 7 on ths ur RB vid etc

0:18 for what Hazard was playing, that's not "abismal".. nobody can predict the future, it's so easy to say that now

Maguire definitely falls under that category. He's been utter excrement so far.

Great video! Cheered me up from simulating to 2050 in fm23 and seeing my Man Utd get relegated after have van Nistelrooj have his 4th stint at the club and take us down

Could you do a documentary about the background of Evangelos Marinakis?

20m for Lazar Markovic was pretty abysmal

Gabriel Obertan and Bebe at Man Utd. Whatever their fee was at the time, they both deserve a shout.

Very surprised Rhian Brewster didn’t get a mention, from Liverpool to Sheffield United for £23.5m was crazier than the Jordan Ibe transfer for me, don’t think he’s made much of a contribution at Sheffield unless I’m mistaken?

100% Denilson to Real Bepis should have been in this list

I can see a pattern developing...Brendon Rodgers

I think as we move into the realms of even the lower end premier league teams having huge transfer budgets some will take greater financial risks on trying to bring inunproven players with potential in the hopes it pays off. Obviously the clubs they are coming from will also want to try and get as much as they can from such deals.

No mention of Dominic Solanke? signed for 20m by Bournemouth at a time when his record in top flight football across England and the Netherlands read as: 46 games, 8 goals, and his most recent season with Liverpool stood as a remarkable 21 games, 1 goal. Which has since expanded to a rather astonishing 118 games, 17 goals... keeping in mind this guy's a striker... Good in the championship, but you're not paying 20m in 2019 for a Championship quality striker.

This Guy's videos always put me in a 2 hour nap. You're much appreciated by me 🙏

Harry Maguire absolutely tops this list by a country mile. He is average on his best day. Has been utterly crap for united and can’t get into the team these days. HE COST £80,000,000. Pogba isn’t far behind him £89,000,000 and did absolutely nothing and I mean nothing in a United shirt and is average at best.

How on earth is Rhian Brewster not on the list. £23 mil for sheff Utd. 0 goals in the prem, 3 goals next season, 1 goal the next. 4 goals in 2 years of the championship.

If it wasn't for his international exploits, Richarlison would be due for that "average" tagline

Nobody going to talk about Andy Carroll huh?

might be too soon to say but fc augsburg forking out 16 million for ricardo pepi to have him play 4 games and then loaning him out to groningen still boggles my mind

First player that came to my mind was wimmer. (Stoke fan btw) So it’s nice to see us come first in something for a change :)

Maybe a video about whats happening in sampdoria, only 3 games won in league whole season and only one at home. Theyre also gonna get relegated after staying 11 years in seria a

Hi Alfie, Could you do a 7 list of your greatest title races and relegation battles? Would be interested to hear your opinion. 👍🏾

Never thought I'd see Sturaro in an HITC 7s video

We had our pants down with the Gordon transfer, just have to hope Eddie can transform him like he has done with other players. At least we can afford it now I guess lol

3 minutes for an intro is everything the world needs.

Video idea: best player ever/right now from each premier league academy

I liked Ayoze Perez at Newcastle and I'm not sure I'd suggest average player, but I do agree it's not worked out at Leicester

Sturaro never even played for Sporting, he was injured and then his loaned got terminated in January. So not even a season on loan

I remember Kevin Wimmer being very good for Cologne. He stabilized the defence and showed good mentality. He was a true loss at that point in time.

Danny Murphy on a free to Blackburn when we got relegated was overpriced. Shocking

Some West Ham players come to mind like Jonathan Calleri,Jordan Hugill, Gotham tore and regouli

I watched Wimmer play for spurs against Colchester in the FA Cup once. I have never seen a more one footed player in my life, he would twist his body into mad angles to make sure it was his left foot he was tackling with 💀

Sturaro is well known to have been done as a sort of deal between juve and genoa to because of accounting reasons.

This is not a list of “average” players. The players covered here in many cases didn’t play much for their clubs and in some cases are not even in football anymore. If that’s “average” then that’s a sorry average. This was a list of “lesser known busts.”

Contribution of Peter Walton in a BT studio had me in tears

Make a video about instances where 2nd or lower division clubs played in European competition by virtue of winning the domestic cup the previous season. Like Wigan Athletic won the FA cup in 2013 which qualified them for europa league but were relegated from PL They played in the 2013/14 europa league whilst being a championship club

Imbula to Stoke is a ridiculous signing as well. Also, Fabio Silva for £40m is definitely up there

Jordon Ibe - what can I say? I thought it was a ridiculous fee at the time, and despite a handful of performances that showed glimpses of his potential at Bournemouth, he was mostly a passenger. His fitness was an issue, but noises coming from Dean Court suggested that his attitude was a greater problem. It's worth saying that while Eddie Howe may seem like the loveliest guy in football, he can be very ruthless when it comes to players that don't fit with his method (see also Tyrone Mings and Jack Wilshere at Bournemouth - Matt Ritchie and Ryan Fraser (ironically) at Newcastle).

That pic of Drinkwater drinking water is brilliant 😂😊

Surely this should just be a list Chelsea's 2022-23 transfer signings

Piątek is harsh. He was actually good at Genoa, and the half season in Milan after he joined in January. But then he fell out of favor because Ibrahimović, and then left to join the basket case of a club that is Hertha Berlin, who are basically the German Everton on steroids, and have 0 clue what they're doing. Sure, he was poor at Milan besides that half season, but so was the entire team. Hope he can revive his career elsewhere

I was there when Jordon Ibe scored his debut professional goal as a 15 year old, shame things never worked out for him.

wow. never thought i’d hear seth johnson’s name again. i started watching football around the time of his move to leeds and was under the impression that he was a big star. 🤣

Sure it's been mentioned somewhere in the comments, but sturaro is a massive asterisk to this list, seeing as his transfer was likely a plusvalenze deal

Bundesliga edition: Maximilian Phillip Freiburg->Dortmund for 20 mio€ Nico Schulz Hoffenheim-> Dortmund 25 mio€ Andre Silva Frankfurt-> Leipzig 32 mio Diadie Samassekou Salzburg-> Hoffenheim 18 mio Nabil Bentaleb Tottenham-> Schalke 19 mio Breel Embolo Basel-> Schalke 28 mio

Hello from the future. Gordon, when not injured, is somewhat class and one of Newcastles most consistent performers. Worth £45mil? I’d say maybe £40mil as it stands, so not far off.

Loved the wolves lesson

I was waiting for you to highlight Claire Balding. You let me down mate.

quite surprised you didnt mention sam clucas honestly!

Harry Maguire i don't care what anyone says no way was he worth the prize tag that Man Utd bought him from Leicester City and quite frankly has performed quite abysmally and been a constant liability in the Man Utd defence

Gordon was 21 when signed by Newcastle, literally less than 6 months ago, and he's only had 4 starts. Seems unfair to rule him out already, and dangerous to underestimate Howe & co's ability to develop players - McNeil is about 18 months older i believe

I love how even if this video is not worst transfers ever, it feels even worse than that, this feels like there was no reason to sign this guys and unsurprisingly they failed, which makes for a dreadful signing. I would love for this to be a series covering other leagues since only 1 Serie A signing with the rest being prem

This could be a video full of Everton players over past few years really surprised there isn’t any on it whatsoever

3:10 I had literally JUST paused the video to say “Ayoze Perez?” Before you did.

As a Leeds fan I can think of many players in our current squad who fit this category.

7 lower tier teams that played international. Just came across CA Patronato from Argentina, they were relegated to the second division last season but won the cup so they are playing in the Copa Libertadores right now. Also there was FC Vaduz from Liechtenstein that qualified for the Conference League this season despite playing in the second division in Switzerland. In Germany till a couple years ago you wouldn't even need to win the DFB-Pokal to qualify for europe, the runner-up got into the euro league if the winner already qualified for CL/EL, so we had a couple of relegated teams that reached the cup final and played international the following season. These are just some examples that came to mind, I'm sure there are some other interesting storys espacially outside europe.

Ryan Brewster - Liverpool to Sheffield United £23.5m

Seth Johnson is a Derby legend. Helping bankrupt Leeds and then coming back to Derby. Leeds couldn't afford to pay Derby the extra (appearance based) transfer fee so gave him back for nothing.

Should just be a list of the England National Team

I mean, Jack Grealish is good, but at 117 million euros he's the definition of overpriced

Great too see Gordon here he’s absolutely shocking we’ll Done Everton for that business