Top Five: Last Season's Biggest Transfer Flops


With the Premier League having drawn to a close, we look back at some of the players who promised so much but failed light up the best league in the world this season.










With the Premier League having drawn to a close, we look back at some of the players who promised so much but failed light up the best league in the world this season.
After shipping out some dead wood, and others who lack enough passion to play for a Harry Redknapp side, the financial side of QPR cannot live for more than a year without top flight football. In 2011/2012 the club lost £22million – although slightly better than £25million the previous 12 months. This isn’t surprising when player wages shot up dramatically during their recent relegation campaign.
I have always been a little sceptical about magicians and 'mind readers'.
Robert Green was signed on a free transfer for QPR at the start of last season but the former England number one spent most of the season playing second fiddle to Brazilian Julio Cesar. However after having an impressive season with the doomed side Harry Redknapp admits that Julio Cesar will be sold over the summer to help reduce the wage bill. This is good news for Robert Green though as he will have the chance to take the number one jersey at the hoops.
There a still a few players who haven't been snapped up yet from the Championship and would be foolish to let them stay there.
Arriving at his new club as an attacking midfielder, Miguel Perez Cuesta soon showed the rest of the Premier League that goals were very much within his locker.
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With the Brazilian keeper seeming to look for a new club after being apart of the relegated QPR team and clearly a top-flight keeper, he would prefer a stay in the Premiership for another season, so is expected to leave Loftus Road.
With the on-loan QPR defenders loan deal with Bursaspor coming to an end, Anton Ferdinand has said he wouldn’t mind continuing his career in Turkey due to an option to but clause that could be triggered by the club.
Mark Hughes famously walked out on Fulham in 2011, claiming the Cottagers didn’t match his ambition. Six months later he wound up at QPR, a recently promoted club struggling to retain their Premier League status. Ironically, Stoke City, a club Tony Pulis struggled in vain to get into the top half of the table, could be a perfect fit for Hughes.
With images already appearing of banners demanding Mark Hughes out of Stoke City, before he was even appointed as manager, but if he changes their torrid ways of playing football then surely they can't detest the man. As long as he keeps them up, that is.
Peter Odemwingie who has been pretty much exiled from the West Brom first team after some quite amazing events in the January transfer window, is set to be offered a lifeline in the Premiership with newly-promoted Hull City reported to be interested in the Nigerian’s signature.
Harry Redknapp’s move to QPR midway through the Premier League season was supposed to inspire a Lazarus-esque rise from the ashes, and a climb towards safety for the Loftus Road outfit. For many reasons this did not transpire, but as QPR face up to life in the Championship is Redknapp likely to stay on?
After a rough, rough couple of months at the Baggies, West Brom manager Steve Clarke has speculated that his future will be confirmed in the summer and when asked if the Nigerian forward will be a West Brom player next season, replied with “I don’t think so.”