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  • 03.22.11
    Bargains of the transfer window Superstars, Transfers | Comments Off
    In recent years, huge amounts of money has been spent on players in football transfers and it has proved to be money almost wasted. Andrei Shevchenko's tenure at Chelsea springs to mind when I say that. But there has been some absolute bargains. Let's look at some. When Liverpool scouts were eyeing up a young Welshman that played for Chester in 1980, they probably didn't realise that they would purchase one of the club's most important players of the 1980's and 1990's. He became the most expensive teenager at the time, but the £300,000 Liverpool spent on Ian Rush turned out ...