4. Shaun Wright-Phillips To Chelsea (£21 Million)
Mike Egerton/EMPICS SportThe route Shaun Wright-Phillips' transfer history took is the archetype for overpriced and over-hyped English players. After impressing at Manchester City, he caught the attention of Jose Mourinho's Chelsea and, with the relatively new status as football's rich team, they were able to fork out
£21 million of Roman Abramovich's money to take the pacey England winger to Stamford Bridge. His time at Chelsea was relatively uninspiring. In 2005-06, he won a Premier League title medal, despite only making fifteen starts for the club, and he was generally in and out of the team and, as such, he ended up returning to Manchester City in 2008 - when he was still only 26 years old - for a fee of only
£8.5 million. This was a loss of £12.5 million on a man who was still in his peak years and only three years after being sold for the fee of £21 million - stark proof that it was a huge over-valuing of the player (really, his pace was all he ever had going for him). Three years later in 2011, he joined Queens Park Rangers, where he remains to this day, having spent last season playing in the Championship.