Roy Keane's Premiership Signings

[Sluffy]

I got a bit curious as to who Roy Keane had signed with his reportedly £80 million since his appointment for Sunderland exactly 100 games ago, so I did a bit of research.

I would not guarantee my findings to be 100% accurate but the best I could do in the time I was willing to spend on it produced the following list.  I did limit myself to just his signings since Sunderland were promoted back to the Premiership.

Michael Chopra - £5m - Cardiff on loan
Kieran Richardson -£5.5m
Kenwyne Jones - £6m
Russell Anderson - £1 - Burnley on loan
Greg Halford - £3.5m - Sheffield United on loan
Paul McShane - £1.5m - Hull on loan
Craig Gordon -£9m
Phil Bardsley - £2m
George McCartney - £4.5m
Carlos Edwards - £1.5m
Steed Malbranque - £17m combined fee*
Teemu Tainio - £17m combined fee*
Pascal Chimbonda - £17m combined fee*
El Hadji Diouf - £2.6m
Liam Miller - free
Andy Reid - £4m
David Healy - £1.2m
Anton Ferdinand - £8m
Rade Prica - £2m


19 players (4 of which are currently out on loan) totalling £74.3m!!!

Of these the above highlighted players played against us yesterday.

I'm not trying to prove anything but it does seem that even having deep pockets does not guarantee success.

[Manny]

To be fair, some of the players he signed aren't too bad, I really rate Malbranque.

But the prices he's paid for some of those players is just shocking, that's why I was worried about us spending so much money since Megson arrived.

How Sunderland would swap places with us right now.