7 Worst Loan Signings of All Time

[@nathanb286]

I have played the same amount of Premier League football at Anfield as Arthur Melo

[@carltonleboss]

I've won the same amount of Premier League medals as Steven Gerrard

[@woodside4life]

You’re a legend, me boy.

[@jamesfilosa6277]

@@carltonleboss I've won as many Champions Leagues as Ronaldo R9, Zlatan and Ballack put together.

[@tomislavplaysguitar]

I've won as many world cups as Luka Modrić, Christiano Ronaldo and Zlatan combined

[@rgamingpolska]

​@@carltonleboss i won as many ucls as mbappe

[@pascallovic]

Lucas Ocampos at Ajax also a terrible loan deal. 114 minutes played in six games. 5 million in fees, 4 million in salary and zero goals and assists in 4 months. He was sent back in de winterbreak and now plays a Europa League final with Sevilla.

[@leifschannel]

De Winterbreak sounds like a Newcomer that is about to break through with a Transfer to a big club

[@miamithijs3579]

Wanted to write exactly this and you beat me to it. Ajax cant compete with big league salaries and therefore sold so many players over the years. Because of that they made some really bad last minute decisions.

[@daarom3472]

in some sense we were lucky it was a loan deal as the technical director wanted to buy him for 20M but was blocked by the board. Basically everything went downhill since Overmars left. It's now clear he was the club and van der Sar was just a PR figurehead.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? MLS NFL Worst Of Worst

[@Luigiman_95]

I remember how injured Sevilla were at that time. Ocampos was set to go on loan to Ajax, Jesus Corona got a season ending injury the next game, Sevilla wanted to pull the loan deal off but Ocampos was already in Amsterdam to sign. So Sevilla got Lamela and Bryan Gil to replace both of them. Just horrible moves for everyone till January

[@Jack-sh4uv]

Honestly have to say that this is one of my favourite channels. It is so refreshing to hear someone discuss football without tit being laced with bias/abuse in one direction or another.

[@BoereViking]

Hahaha you sure haven't seen his videos on the alphabet mafia...

[@KetwigKeith]

​@@BoereVikingdoesn't have much relevance to whether his videos about football are biased like

[@asimplenoob6798]

There was this one video where he starts with verses from the Bible 😅😅

[@episode93-y4b]

@@asimplenoob6798 whats that got to do with football bias? did you even read the comment properly

[@hansjakobappel3716]

Tbh he's clearly a socialist

[@brovegas1597]

The fact that Danny Drinkwater heatbutted a teammate in training and never played after that should have made him bad enough to include him

[@scoobydont3191]

Who did he nut?

[@mineraloasis9500]

Ah, thats why he never played. I didnt ever get why he got no gametime

[@Alfie_1]

A run down on how bizarre Slimani is. In the last two seasons, he has played for four clubs, Lyon, Sporting, Brest and Anderlecht. In 2021/22, he scored 1 goal in 12 games for Lyon in Ligue 1, before moving to Sporting, where he scored 4 in 9 in the league. After that, he moved to Brest for the start of the 2022/23 season, scored 1 goal in 16 games in Ligue 1, before moving in January to Anderlecht, where he has scored 8 goals in 10 Belgian Pro League games...

[@Eibarwoman]

Slimani goes from cold to hot to cold to hot.

[@SaudiGod]

We had him on loan at Newcastle, a think it took him almost his full loan to get fit

[@sparkybig9799]

@@Eibarwoman you don’t have to be sexy about it

[@jayme3181]

In fairness to Jese, you need to mention that he had ACL reconstruction surgery in 2013 from which he never really recovered. PSG were suckered into a move for him as his contract was running down and they pretty much just loaned him out every season to see if he was ever going to recover. It seems to me the player himself could see he was never going to deliver on his promise and lost interest in the game.

[@KingYahshua]

Can’t believe Renato Sanches is only 25 years old. I feel like this guy has been around for decades.

[@grayshigami6797]

He was accussed of lying about his age

[@MC-xv2tn]

Falcao’s decline was tragic for us Colombians, but as soon as he went back to Monaco in 16-17, he rose from the ashes. Insane comeback. Shows how the prem is just a pure hit or miss, even for the most brilliant of strikers. Back in 2012-2013, he was honestly the best #9 in the world, the awards speak for themselves.

[@darkgenesis342]

It wasn’t really about the prem imo it was more about the injuries he had at the time

[@MC-xv2tn]

@@darkgenesis342 true true. 2012-13 Falcao pre acl would have ripped it up in there

[@seandelap8587]

Yet another list that Chelsea could feature prominently in

[@tanaka7341]

Yes i hate being a cfc fan 😂

[@finfog4590]

Falcao, Quasmera, Pato

[@brunoserra1531]

There should be a special list called "clubs that thought KDB wasn't good enough" with Chelsea as the only entry.

[@chaelpsonnen8030]

Falcao only played 3 games in his second season at Monaco because that was the same season he was loaned out to Man Utd, he was available for all of monacos games before he left

[@ollieduracell]

Poor old Freddy Adu gets the brunt of everything 😂

[@kipzonderkop1994]

Felix may have only scored 3 goals, but considering how little everyone else has scored, it’s sort of worth it. What a joke.

[@lucaslonchampt613]

Day 10: 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. Now come on Alfie, you're just teasing me at this point

[@sammedina550]

davids to barca, lingard to west ham, James at bayern

[@lucaslonchampt613]

@@sammedina550 You're now the 3rd person to suggest Davids

[@asimplenoob6798]

Never fall in love with a loan signing 🥲

[@leavingthematrix1261]

​@@asimplenoob6798 arsenal with odegaard would like to differ.

[@asimplenoob6798]

@@leavingthematrix1261 Odegaard was never going to stay in Madrid

[@achimsturzu6703]

I know you have talked about Romanian football in the past, but could you dwelve a bit in the history of Dinamo Bucharest? The club with the second most titles in the Romanian football, bought by spanish investors who have literally scammed everyone and brought in players with big wages just to not pay them like Alex Garcia who has played for Manchester City. The club was relegated last season, and everyone thought that it was going to die, but somehow we are in the promotion play-off this season. I could help you with some stuff, if you are interested in doing a documentary about it :).

[@charlottehardy822]

That does sound interesting.

[@cosby678420]

Who?

[@achimsturzu6703]

@@cosby678420 Dinamo Bucharest, a romanian team who is currently in the second league. Its kind of like if Liverpool were bought by some rich people who brought players like Messi, did not pay their salaries and the new arrivals basically bankrupted the already broken club. Also, it was the first time the club was relegated in its history(from 1948), and we lost the relegation play-off against our best friends Universitatea Cluj.

[@achimsturzu6703]

Also, what is interesting is that they basically ghosted us lmao. They acted as if we did not exist and just moved on with their lives, putting the club in huge debts☠☠☠

[@achimsturzu6703]

The club basically survived because us, the supporters, paid money. We have launched an app with over 20.000 members, each ones pays between 3 eur monthly at a minimum.

[@stenic10]

I saw Falcao play for Man Utd at Deepdale in an FA Cup tie in 2015, it was almost sad seeing a player who was in such decline he made Kevin Davies (playing for Preston at the time) look like a world class striker.

[@GW-dk5jy]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@GW-dk5jy]

po

[@coffeyallday]

Things Kim Kallstrom did at Arsenal: Scored a penalty in the semifinal shootout to help send Arsenal to the FA Cup Final Made a cool pass in a mid-week game For that, we thank him for his service

[@mattanderson8575]

Arthur's loan deal is made poetically even worse when you consider that as a "stopgap" to signing Bellingham he has played a big part in Liverpool missing out on the UCL, which probably means Bellingham won't sign with them.....

[@albertmiller2electricbooga897]

Streets won't forget Sturridge selling out Perth Glory's stadium in the first of his 4ish home games

[@deanmarais4471]

As a United fan, watching Falcao was so frustrating. You could see he really was trying his best but he was accomplishing nothing and it was getting to him. It felt like he was always falling on the floor for some reason. With so many struggling strikers its usually only their inability to finish that limits them but with Falcao it felt like he couldn't do anything right.

[@dharris-rd2md]

Could you do a video on a combined 11 of the best players outside Europes top 5 leagues

[@seandelap8587]

Stoke City were in the EPL from the 2008/2009-2017-2018 seasons which is in fact 10 seasons not 9

[@vanfadly]

your consistent and recurring banter of Freddy Adu is hilarious 😅

[@karlfroberg520]

Alfies puns are top class 🔥

[@woodside4life]

@@karlfroberg520Wright!

[@CoolGuy55000]

Another (dis)honourable mention, Coutinho to Bayern. Helped knock out his own parent club by scoring 2 goals in a thrashing!

[@garthvader9916]

No, WBA did not pay an infinite amount of money per goal or assist for Daniel Sturridge. That is a misunderstanding of the meaning of dividing by zero. They paid an impossible, completely incalculable amount per goal or assist - because infinitely many zeroes is still zero.

[@gentlegamer980]

Whooo, Bremen. But a little correction, Bremen were only relegated in Selke's second stint, finishing 13th or 14th during the 14/15 season.

[@Jonathanizer]

Didn't he say his second season? Maybe thats what he meant.

[@enthusiastofcute]

It’s still hilarious that Chelsea saw Falcao at United and thought that it would be any different with them

[@xurstadia8404]

Brilliant research yet again. How did Ramsey and Felix get such lucrative deals? Genuinely blows my mind, but not more than Falcao, now he was a joke. Trust my team to be #1 ha.🤯😂 Great video, keep it up

[@Dd-ks2fm]

Rangers were freaking out after their manager left because celtic who had collapsed the previous season and hired an relatively unknown manager in Scotland has rapidly rebuilt and were closing in on rangers. It was a total glamour signing to try hide cracks in their team

[@jessemokoena842]

How is Saul Niguez not here?😂😂

[@SirRyan31]

He scored

[@dwainanderson8500]

steven caulker to liverpool, 1 appearance as a forward but plays his trade as a centre back lol

[@clarenceonyekwere5428]

Good to see someone point out that Chelsea's recruitments have been bad even before Boehly. I'd say since 2014 or so, it's been a lot of busts and a weird desire for marquee signings. It was also sad that it happened at a time the team needed to transition from an older set of players who won the UCL. It was good that they got trophies in that time but the cracks were evident.

[@garyanderton]

The best Chelsea signing during this period is between Thiago Silva, Kante, Diego Costa. I may have some recency bias as Chelsea isn't my team, but if any striker ever epitomised a style and club, it was Costa.

[@duyanhng8430]

yeah kai havertz without that one cl finals goal would be one of the worst signings ever, alongside kepa and timo

[@emilfrederiksen.1622]

@@garyanderton You forgot David Luiz and Febregas.

[@JayTechZM]

Thank you very much for being a keen observer. Chelsea's transfer dealings have been scattergun since the summer of 2015 when we finished 10th because previous ownership didn't see a proper continuity plan like they did in the previous years. The went for plan B signings that the manager clearly didn't want and they expected the manager to do all the miracles (see Jose and Conte and Tuchel to a less or greater extent) that every season after a major win would be a catastrophy (10th after winning the league in 14-15, 5th after winning the league in 16-17, failing to build on the 2nd champions league win in Porto). As much as the current ownership has struggled, the symptoms have been long in the tooth for quite sometime. Chelsea's success in the last near decade has been built on chaos and extreme short termism that just no longer works or is functional in the modern era of football. I hope that with Pochettino the road to building a consistent top levels challenger on all fronts like the first decade under Abramovich will be worth the current pain the fans are going through and I believe it to be so

[@clarenceonyekwere5428]

@@JayTechZM Yup, football has changed since 2010, and the best teams in the premier league since 2017 or so have taken a more comprehensive, long term approach to recruitment. I hope Chelsea start getting it right with shrewd signings after an era of hunting big deals.

[@MrMickeyyy89]

Including felix at the start is hilarious. I challenge you to find a Chelsea fan that doesn't want him back at the club next season. He, alone with Enzo and Maduke have been some of the only players with a performance worth noticing in a below par season for Chelsea

[@txg399]

I was working for a supplier to WBA during Sturridge’s loan and an employee of mine had a number of conversations with Daniel at the time (some of which were recorded) and I know for a fact that he was faking his injury and only took the loan move to be back with his family in Birmingham. During the calls he was looking for help deleting incriminating WhatsApps and iMessages. Whilst I would have loved to have sold the recordings to the tabloids the commercial impact would have been far too severe to consider.

[@justhuy7960]

yeah pls don't, injuries have already killed his career 😂

[@connorledwith98]

@H go private and pay a doctor to forge documents

[@txg399]

@@connorledwith98 exactly that. They were messages to his private doctor discussing how long he wanted to be signed off for and what should be told to the club doctors.

[@Tris2000]

12th request: @HITCSevens Idea for episode: the 7 players currently playing in the lowest division in England to have played (or still playing) senior international football. I've found loads, but so far Calvin Morgan, regular international for Anguilla (12 caps, 1 goal), currently plays for Chalvey Sports FC in the Thames Valley Premier League in the 11th division!

[@chrisomarm]

I appreciate how Alfi always has inside jokes for the people who have been here for a while, like the Freddy Adu joke 😂

[@Robi2009]

2:59 - both Wright and Freddy Adu jokes in one video, we didn't deserve that :D

[@Durbanite2010]

Not fair on Kallstrom there. He arrived injured requiring injury rehab and still managed to score a key penalty in an FA Cup Semi-Final, which put Arsenal on course for their first trophy in a few years. Great signing? No. Honourable mention for this video? Also no.

[@untitleddocument4197]

Denis Zakaria has been fine for what it's worth - when he's not been injured he's been pretty good Would even say he was better than Kovacic's season on loan at Chelsea

[@emilfrederiksen.1622]

Yeah Zakaria has been decent everytime he plays just Chelseas shit season and Injuries that has brought him down

[@christophernicolson5086]

The Kim Kallstrom loan was bad mainly for non-financial reasons. 1. Failed his medical and loan still went ahead. 2. Arsenal were pushing for the title and there was pressure on AW to do business in Jan for squad depth on the run in. His signing took all the wind out of AFC who faded badly.

[@JoeCool90]

Maybe only Denis Suarez could be as bad a loan deal

[@moerocco775]

Poor Arthur. Nothing was his fault in this situation and he showed a great attitude throughout his time at our club. Good luck in the future Mr Melo and YNWA.

[@davidpyott3710]

However in the light of the sheer expense fully revealed by Alfie(bloody legend) it was catastrophic on behalf of Liverpool Considering we're always being told how short of transfer funds we appear to be

[@adamhillyard7688]

Danny Drinkwater had two horrendous loan moves in the space of 1 season. 1 appearance at Burnley after fighting in a nightclub 4 appearances at Villa then got sent back early after fighting another player in training

[@jaot]

Higuain 18/19 snubbed, €10m loan fee at milan and €8m loan fee at Chelsea no more than 6 league goals at either side

[@tlawal7]

Also, after Leicester both unpredictably winning the league and getting relegated, a video about the least likely league outcomes ever would be very interesting.

[@BradRowlands_]

Anwar El Gazhi - played 11 minutes at Everton Eliaquim Mangala - debuted in a 5-1 drubbing by Arsenal and got injured for the rest of the season during his second appearance for Everton

[@MartinParnham]

West Ham fan here. My first thoughts when I saw this were Zaza (couldn’t agree more) and also Mido, who scored an equally impressive zero goals in 9 games and missed a penalty in an away match against Everton- we were 0-1 down at the time and went on to draw 2-2 with another (more successful) loan signing Ilan scoring a superb diving header to equalise - and our fans sarcastically called for him to be sent off after a late challenge. He was one of the worst players I’ve ever seen in a West Ham shirt and that is a field with very strong competition! We had Benni McCarthy at around the same time (he and Mido might even have played together up front) who was even worse but I checked his Wiki and he was apparently a permanent signing.

[@desktopuser2912]

Arthur costed 82 fucking millions for Juve?! HOLY SHIT, HOW????!! He was an afterthought in Barça...

[@cathalcolgan1126]

2017/18 season the season of bad signings and bad loan signings

[@TheDoctor_22]

Ricky Alvarez to Sunderland has to be the worst ever loan signing in the history of football. No results and we've been paying for the deal ever since!

[@ikponmwosauwague3018]

Joao Felix is Chelsea's highest goalscorer this year

[@omrigilboa2582]

I am not turkish, but speaking on Slimani and Fenerbache, I remember in the video on the Turkish Superlig you said you were planing to do 4 diffrent videos on 4 diffrent Turkish Superlig clubs...

[@alexdavison2978]

Can you do the 7 best loan signings next?

[@fifafocker6350]

Tevez at West Ham would be number 1

[@danieldickens250]

Day 3 7 teams who’ve had the most managers since 2000

[@macaulaymcgregor768]

Watford

[@HerrAirburst]

8:25 Werder Bremen weren't relegated in 14/15, mate

[@johndixon7007]

“Worst voice award goes to” the narrator

[@rsturba]

I came for banter and got reminded about Ramsay missing that penalty :(

[@Jim_Milton29]

No Denis Suarez at Arsenal ? No way!

[@emilfrederiksen.1622]

There are so many bad loans in this last decade it is hard to get them all to make the list

[@PhilWhelanNow]

Quality content, keep it up Alf 🍻

[@glennaldosf]

Alfie, can't believe no one's doing a video on FC Heidenheim's first ever promotion to the Bundesliga, and the manner of their final game would be something else...

[@joezebedee9893]

Ricky Alvarez must be one of the most name dropped players on this channel now

[@user-xj3ld1zj7f]

Dennis Suarez the Arsenal legend

[@mutts.nutts1]

Great video again mate

[@abnormalanorak]

0:25 Never did I ever think that Clarke Carlisle would feature in an HITC Sevens video, with the Cobblers shirt no less.😅 8:25 Werder Bremen were not relegated from Bundesliga that season.

[@SofaK1ingN1c3]

Early prediction for number 1, Kim Kalstrom signed by arsenal on loan whist injured so didn't play a single second of football.

[@dazzaMusic]

Kim kallstrom to Arsenal just based on the fact they signed him while injured so it was pointless to begin with.

[@yasin_GD]

I love these Transfer lists keep em coming

[@joecurrie2381]

You should do a video on the rise of Stockport County especially as they may be getting back to back promotions!

[@jackhunter2952]

Can you do a video on Gambia, their u20s beat France in the u20 World Cup.

[@NEWCASTLE-UNITED-1892]

This is WAY better than the irish guy that just shouts all the time

[@christopherr3676]

You leave aaron ramsey alone . An Absolute god here in glasgow

[@gregorisgod]

When I watched your video about Augustin recently, I thought to myself "if we're ever talking loan signings, our move for Ramsey, just to cost us a European final, last season has to rank highly." Heh. I know a couple of fellow Rangers fans who thought we should've considered giving him another season, and I still cannot explain that.

[@achimsinn6189]

I don't remember the player as it was some years ago, but I remember how Herta BSC Berlin got themselve into the ridiculous situation of not being able to use their trainers first choice player despite him being in great shape and healthy. That was because the loan of that player involved a clause where they would have to sign that player permanently if he played more than a certain amount of matches and he already reached that number. Herta was (as usual) in bad financial shape and just couldn't afford the money for that signing so the trainer was forced to scramble around for the last 3rd of the season trying to replace the key player of the team.

[@BALHAM69]

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

[@lsr3794]

Can you do an update on Scunthorpe United. Since your last vid they have been relegated again and are risk of collapse because the previous owner, Perter Swann still owns the football ground and is threatening to kick the football group off the land.

[@emilfrederiksen.1622]

They are in the National League north now the 6th division of English football sad downfall

[@SquirrelSeb84]

Falcao at #1 is my moment of patriotic pride (?) of the century (??)

[@imusti2nd222]

As a Fenerbahçe fan i can easily say slimani at number 1 samatta in 20/21 season is 2nd (i watched slimani play all those games live from the stadium yes it was dreadfull)

[@D4RC1991]

As a Newcastle fan, I feel that nacho gonzalez should have had at least an honourable mention.

[@lagofala]

Wow this video actually reminded me of Falcao at United, which i managed to store at the deepest parts of my memory bank.

[@seandelap8587]

Different leagues and different managers suit certain players better i guess having talent is one thing but it still needs to be used in the correct way

[@stevenmacdonald9619]

Alfie...... The annoying ghost of John Motson. The legend lives on in this man. You can't always agree with him, in fact you often want to scream at his videos, but what is undoubtable, is the way he can bring football knowledge to the screen like a computer algorithm, and there was previously only one man who could. The annoying ghost of John Motson is meant entirely as a compliment.

[@Eukng]

Aaron Ramsey should be on the list. £45k a week is like £150k in England and winning that trophy would have revolutionised Rangers.

[@alino_chelse92]

You forget to mention Ighalo's £11m signed for united in 2021 earning £240k weekly wages at united , who ended scoring 5 goals in all competitions

[@unknown20s92]

Wasn’t that much

[@RangersBear]

Umar Sidiq at Rangers. Played a total of 121 minutes and missed an open goal in his only contribution for the club.

[@BlakeGrice]

Your research and knowledge is quite astounding, recommend this channel to anyone.

[@mallmone3562]

Interesting, Thankz . OneLuv from London

[@Jaxymann]

I honestly feel so bad for Arthur. So many sources at Liverpool praised him for his hard work ethic and dedication, but his body has just seemingly betrayed him. I earnestly hope he can turn his fortunes around, perhaps at a lower level club that can afford him more minutes.

[@emilfrederiksen.1622]

I mean Liverpool did not even play him over Milner what does that say 🤣🤣

[@constablekennedy7705]

Just make a Documentary about the Rise & Fall of Chelsea FC because your Last Couple of Videos have revolved prominently around us as a Club …. ⚽️

[@saslightadjustments]

Hey alfie what about top 7 players who have neven been in either a title race or a relagation battle? tough one i think..

[@brohanime]

i always forget that this guy speaks like a stroke victim after smoking 24th spliffs

[@bens4602]

You wanna say “looking thoroughly uninterested throughout those games”. Disinterested means neutral - ie won’t pick a side so not “interested” per se - whereas you were actually implying a lack of interest. Common English language mistake.

[@dtop101]

I am sure you are in the Guinness Book of Records for the longest introductions

[@CammoCan]

alfie showing gnabry at west brom like twitter doesnt already remind me enough😭

[@JackGD1991]

Poor Aaron Ramsey with the dubious honour of featuring in the worst free transfers and worst loan signings.

[@tlawal7]

Erling Haland has won the golden boot with a record-breaking 36 goals in 35 games. I have seen many people online saying that Kane scoring 30 goals in a rubbish spurs team is more impressive. Can you make a video about this? Much appreciated.

[@emilfrederiksen.1622]

It is how many goals would Haaland score in that shit Spurs team i would suggest about 10

[@Jelle_FR1908]

There’s a left back who joined Feyenoord on loan back in the summer, he played like 30 mins or something I think, and afterwards he never played for us again and got called back to Hertha, and afterwards he went back to Norway.

[@Jelle_FR1908]

Bjørkan is his name

[@7068365]

In fairness to joao Felix he has been one of the better players in an awful squad.

[@oskarringstad5951]

Hi Alfie, Just wondering if you have any opinions on Allahyar Sayyadmanesh? signed him on for HSV FM after a loan to hull in the starting season and he's great for me. just wanted to know how he is in real life, if that loan to hull wasn't generated by the game of course

[@robingronwald7993]

8:18 important to mention that it was Werder Bremens second team

[@mikeoxlong246]

As a Werder fan I was kinda hoping we would get relegated so we didn't have to sign Selke for what was I believe 15 milion. Relegation was better than having to sign that klutz.

[@garthvader9916]

Also, Melo essentially cost Liverpool £9,000,000 - thereby an even worse deal than described.

[@joegannon4212]

Julien Faubert is extremely fortunate to miss out here after famously falling asleep on the Real Madrid bench during his loan move from West Ham...

[@nicholasgunson2945]

Any chance of a video about wigans financial troubles?