Worst foreign player in Prem history

[bristolian]

I know there was 'George Weah's cousin' but Stephane Guivarch or Tomas Brolin would be up there.

[colonel]

Bosko Balaban!

[colzilla23]

He can't be considered the worst. He was never given a chance and it wasn't his fault that he was signed for that stupid amount.

[Guilbert]

Surely Winston Bogarge at Chelsea must be up there somewhere.

Only 11 appearances in 4 years, refusing to leave, he just saw out his infalted contract.

As it says on Wikipedia

He signed for Chelsea FC in the 2000/2001 season, after following the advice of compatriot Mario Melchiot to join him at the London club.

His career at Chelsea is notable because, only weeks after signing his contract with the club, the newly-appointed manager Claudio Ranieri wanted him to leave.

According to Bogarde it would be next to impossible to find a team that would offer him a contract comparable to the one he had at Chelsea with reference to his biography This is Negro Bows for No One, he was astounded at the salary Chelsea had agreed on since it is a fact that his value has depreciated severely due to lack of first-team action.

Bogarde decided to stay at Chelsea honouring his contract to the letter (as he could not get a similar salary anwhere else), as a result Bogarde played only sparingly for Chelsea again.

In the end, he only appeared eleven times during his four-year contract, reportedly earning ?40,000 a week during this period. Worse still, Chelsea won a domestic trophy during this period triggering a bonus payment in agreement with his contract, despite Bogarde not featuring at all for Chelsea that season. His contract ended in 2004.

During his period at Chelsea, they repeated tried to offload him because of his inflated wages. When there were no takers, Chelsea demoted him to their reserves and youth team in an effort to force Bogarde to leave.

However, he stuck to his contract, turning up every day and attending whatever training he was assigned to. Bogarde claims to have been placed in suspiciously compromising situations involving drugs (Similar to what happened with Chelsea players Mark Bosnich and Adrian Mutu), soon after he refused to leave Chelsea or sign a new contract for a reduced wage.

Bogarde continued to stick to the letter his contract and working every day with the Chelsea reserves, while increasingly becoming a figure of ridicule in the English press for his alleged selfishness.

On November 8, 2005, he announced his retirement from professional football, having failed to reach an agreement with a club since leaving Chelsea. Bogarde was capped twenty times for the Dutch national team and appeared in the 1998 World Cup in France.

[HellyeahHammer]

Marco Boogers! Harry signed him for us for nearly a million and the bloke was nuts. Only played about 2 games for us, one of them he got sent off at Old Trafford trying to snap Gary Neville in two (not a bad thing though), and then he went awol to live in a caravan back in Holland.

[eduardo]

I'm not having that.

Glen Hysen spent 3 seasons at Liverpool and for the first 2 of those he did a first class job.

Towards the end of his second season he did struggle with injuries and those injuries caught up with him in his 3rd season and it was then that he started to struggle badly and he did seem to be one of those players that got old overnight but as I said before he was excellent in his first 2 seasons at the club, particularly his first when he was a top player for us.

[biffalo]

Marcelino, Silvio Maric, Gavilan, Bassedas, Cordone, Dumas, and of course, Fumaca (known as Formica at SJP cos he was best kept on the bench). All have (dis)graced Premiership pitches up and down the country in the famous Black 'n' White shirts.

[IG]

William Prunier for Man U? Must be a nightmare that wakes Sir Alex up even now!

[IG]

Mikkel Beck? He was shit!