Transfer: What's the best January signing ever?

[robertmac43]

Simple question to end of another January window. Curious to hear from people.

Some that immediately came to mind.

Suarez to Liverpool
Vidic to United
Laporte to City
Bruno to United.

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[Savant]

Virgil to LFC by a lot

 

[robertmac43]

Virgil to LFC

Ah yes, that is one i probably shouldn't have missed. Bigger than Suarez?

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Coutinho to barca jumps out.

 

[Savant]

Ah yes, that is one i probably shouldn't have missed. Bigger than Suarez?

more silverware and more longevity than Suarez. And changed the culture

Coutinho to barca jumps out.

For Liverpool.

Liverpool have always done well in the January window yet every year they pretend like doing business in January is like having the plague. We suck.

 

[robertmac43]

Evra from Monaco to United was solid.

 

[cgf]

Max Kruse rescued FC VW from relegation singlehandedly.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

more silverware and more longevity than Suarez. And changed the culture


For Liverpool.

Liverpool have always done well in the January window yet every year they pretend like doing business in January is like having the plague. We suck.

Could be worse you could do nothing then last moment talk about doing something totally stupid to f*** with your fans. Then go out and do something that’s diffeent but still stupid but somehow even stupidly fail at that.

 

[Savant]

Could be worse you could do nothing then last moment talk about doing something totally stupid to f*** with your fans. Then go out and do something that’s diffeent but still stupid but somehow even stupidly fail at that.

I don’t know man. This feels bad man. Ignoring your weakness for two consecutive windows and then watching a rival spend more money in one window than Michael Edwards spend combined? It’s rough. Waiving the white flag on this season while all the eggs are in the basket for making a 150m transfer work in the summer? Feels bad man.

I could write a book on this. It’s ridiculous what has happened to my team. It’s all self-inflicted. They had it all and they gave it away

 

[al secord]

Jimmy Bullard to Wigan.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Interesting that Liverpool fans say Virgil over Suarez - I get that VVD was the lynchpin of a UCL winner while Suarez didn't win anything at Liverpool, but Suarez's 2013-14 is IMO the greatest individual season in EPL history AND I don't think Klopp-era Liverpool and all the accompanying success happens without Suarez's time there.

For Chelsea, Nemanja Matic jumps to mind. I have fond, fond memories of Chelsea-Man City in Jan/Feb 2014 (I think it was his first game for us, but I could be misremembering) and him and David Luiz (another January signing, FWIW) absolutely bossing the midfield.

Funnily enough, given what just happened this month, Chelsea have been quiet in January for the past bunch of years. This insane spending spree has been our first January signings since we brought in Giroud, Emerson, and Barkley in 2018 (I'm not counting Pulisic in 2019 because he didn't join until the summer).

EDIT: looked it up, it was Matic's first start, not his first game.

 

[The Abusement Park]

In order I'd probably go Suarez, VvD, Vidic as the clear top 3. Than Bruno and Evra for 3rd and 4th. Than either Matic or Coutinnho in 5th.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Is this just for epl?

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Is this just for epl?

why would it be! fill your boots with transfers from elsewhere.

only big one i can think of is that Marcelo was a January signing when he first came to Madrid as a kiddo.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

why would it be! fill your boots with transfers from elsewhere.

only big one i can think of is that Marcelo was a January signing when he first came to Madrid as a kiddo.

He came to mind and its probably the best, based on longevity, trophies and becoming a captain.

Higuain is another top one.

 

[S E P H]

Kim Kallstrom to the Arsenal, who suffered from a back injury hours before the agreement but they went along with it anyway.

 

[JeffreyLFC]

Ah yes, that is one i probably shouldn't have missed. Bigger than Suarez?

Yes. It changed LFC overnight.

 

[Evilo]

Bruno and here's why :
he (and other factors sure, but himself being a huge one) completely turned around Newcastle's season.

 

[Vasilevskiy]

B. Fernandes has been huge for United, has to be up there

 

[Incubajerks]

Salah to Fiorentina, ainec.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Bruno and here's why :
he (and other factors sure, but himself being a huge one) completely turned around Newcastle's season.

It’s true. Fernandes has been a revelation at United.

 

[bleedblue1223]

Interesting that Liverpool fans say Virgil over Suarez - I get that VVD was the lynchpin of a UCL winner while Suarez didn't win anything at Liverpool, but Suarez's 2013-14 is IMO the greatest individual season in EPL history AND I don't think Klopp-era Liverpool and all the accompanying success happens without Suarez's time there.

For Chelsea, Nemanja Matic jumps to mind. I have fond, fond memories of Chelsea-Man City in Jan/Feb 2014 (I think it was his first game for us, but I could be misremembering) and him and David Luiz (another January signing, FWIW) absolutely bossing the midfield.

Funnily enough, given what just happened this month, Chelsea have been quiet in January for the past bunch of years. This insane spending spree has been our first January signings since we brought in Giroud, Emerson, and Barkley in 2018 (I'm not counting Pulisic in 2019 because he didn't join until the summer).

EDIT: looked it up, it was Matic's first start, not his first game.

Ivanovic is another. Cahill was a great bargain.

 

[Savant]

Interesting that Liverpool fans say Virgil over Suarez - I get that VVD was the lynchpin of a UCL winner while Suarez didn't win anything at Liverpool, but Suarez's 2013-14 is IMO the greatest individual season in EPL history AND I don't think Klopp-era Liverpool and all the accompanying success happens without Suarez's time there.

For Chelsea, Nemanja Matic jumps to mind. I have fond, fond memories of Chelsea-Man City in Jan/Feb 2014 (I think it was his first game for us, but I could be misremembering) and him and David Luiz (another January signing, FWIW) absolutely bossing the midfield.

Funnily enough, given what just happened this month, Chelsea have been quiet in January for the past bunch of years. This insane spending spree has been our first January signings since we brought in Giroud, Emerson, and Barkley in 2018 (I'm not counting Pulisic in 2019 because he didn't join until the summer).

EDIT: looked it up, it was Matic's first start, not his first game.

I think most LFC fans would say Virgil.

If you look at the names on this list, there are great players that didn’t win silverware and there are players that brought silverware to teams that were already winning it.

Virgil brought silverware to a team that wasn’t winning it and has been team of the season every healthy season at LFC, including two BDO caliber seasons. It’s him

 

[JeffreyLFC]

I think most LFC fans would say Virgil.

If you look at the names on this list, there are great players that didn’t win silverware and there are players that brought silverware to teams that were already winning it.

Virgil brought silverware to a team that wasn’t winning it and has been team of the season every healthy season at LFC, including two BDO caliber seasons. It’s him

They are also many factors.
The fact LFC were leaking goals left and right and he came in and he stopped that. In term of influence you cannot ask for a better player.
Also Suarez was arguably the best forward ever at LFC but his legacy was tainted with his antic and the fact he did not win a major trophy.

 

[Live in the Now]

Yeah I would also say VVD, we won everything because we signed him. There were also major questionmarks people had about the price at the time and for whatever reason that makes it feel better too. Almost everyone would also say he was one of the best players of the last ten years, easily without doubt.

Only reason we weren't talking about him five years before we started talking about him was because his youth coaches were absolute morons. One of them told him to go get a job.