1. Jean-Alain Boumsong
This must be one of the worst transfers in Premier League history; it really does defy logic as to how the management of the time thought that the calamitous Frenchman would sure up Newcastles notorious dodgy defence. Arriving from Rangers for a
ridiculous £8 million in the January of 2005, after signing for the Scottish outfit on a free the previous summer, its no wonder the transfer was under investigation by the Stevens inquiry in June 2007. Although eventually cleared of any wrongful behaviour, the transfer seems like an absolute brain-explosion on the part of Graeme Souness, and his largely disappointing time on Tyneside was ended in the summer of 2006, when he was transferred to newly-relegated Serie-B outfit Juventus for
a fee of £3.3 million. Now after that depressing look through the archives at the worst, lets cheer ourselves up with some of the best