A look at Chris Hughton's past Premier League signings

[skipper734]

In Paul Winstanley we trust. Done quite well so far.

 

[severnside gull]

I thought it'd be interesting to have a look back at Chris' previous signings when managing in the Premier League. He has had 3 seasons buying players there, 1 with Newcastle and 2 with Norwich.

Looking at the past I reckon we'll be looking to:

1. Bag a couple of frees from this list (http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/endendevertraege/wettbewerb/GB1) Obviously the top of that list is made up of players way our of our league (Cazorla, Navas, Zlatan etc. ). EDIT Perhaps some players from relegated Premier League teams - someone like Jermaine Defoe would seem like an ideal signing.

2. Pick up some top level Championship players from the past season. Tom Cairney I know has been mentioned by a few, his availability will depend a lot on what Fulham do in the play offs. Perhaps we'll be the team to try and sign Will Hughes in the Premier League. Pontus Jansson seems to be highly rated at Leeds. I'm sure there will be a lot of Championship players we're looking at.

3. Try and get lucky with some young up and coming players from Ligue 1 or the Eredivisie (Hopefully not any more Manus!). When I mean get lucky I'm sure we'll do a lot of due diligence on any signing but with these sorts of signings it seems you can never be sure how successful they'll be. Does the NSC hive have any names to throw in to the hat?

4. A standout performer from the Scottish Premier League. Moussa Dembele is a wonder kid and way out of our reach, perhaps Scott Sinclair or someone like Liam Boyce who has scored over 20 goals for mid table Ross County (although it's very hard to take this League seriously!)

5. A wild card signing from the MLS or Latin American leagues.

EDIT 6. A couple of high quality loans from a Premier League team such as Tammy Abraham.

Newcastle 2010-11
James Perch (aged 24) RB - Nottingham Forest 1.5M
Season Prior (17 apps, 1 goal, 1 assist)

Dan Gosling (aged 20) CM - Everton FREE
Season Prior (24 apps, 5 goals, 1 assist)

Sol Campbell (aged 35) CB - Arsenal FREE
Season prior (16 apps, 1 goal, 1 assist)

Cheick Tioté (aged 23) CM - Twente 2.5M
Season prior (42 apps, 1 goal, 0 assists)

Hatem Ben Arfa (aged 23) LW - Marseille 2M (loan fee + 5m when made permanent)
Season prior (41 apps, 7 goals, 5 assists)

Norwich 2012-13
Stevan Whittaker (aged 27) RB - Rangers FREE
Season prior (28 apps, 2 goals, 3 assists)

Jacob Butterfield (aged 21) CM - Barnsley FREE
Season prior (25 apps, 5 goals, 7 assists) * injured for half season

Robert Snodgrass (aged 24) RW - Leeds UNDISCLOSED (2.5m reported)
Season prior (44 apps, 13 goals, 15 assists)

Michael Turner (aged 28) CB - Sunderland UNDISCLOSED
Season prior (31 apps, 0 goals, 1 assist)

Sebastien Bassong (aged 25) CB - Tottenham UNDISCLOSED (4m reported)
Season prior (22 apps, 0 goals, 0 assists)

Alexander Tettey (aged 26) CM - Rennes UNDISCLOSED (1.5m reported)
Season prior (32 apps, 1 goal, 0 assists)

Mark Bunn (aged 27) GK - Blackburn Rovers UNDISCLOSED
Season prior (8 apps)

Lee Camp (aged 27) GK - Nottingham Forest UNDISCLOSED
Season prior (50 apps)

Luciano Becchio CF - Leeds PLAYER SWAP
Season prior (43 apps, 11 goals, 2 assists)

Javier Garrido LB - Lazio LOAN
Season prior (11 apps, 0 goals, 0 assists)

Harry Kane CF - Tottenham LOAN
Season prior on loan at Milwall (33 apps, 10 goals, 5 assists)

Kei Kamara RW - Sporting Kansas City LOAN
Season prior (37 apps, 12 goals, 7 assists)

Norwich 2013-14
Ricky van Wolfswinkel (aged 24) FW - Sporting CP 8.5m
Season prior (41 apps, 20 goals, 2 assists)

Javier Garrido (aged 28) LB - Lazio UNDISCLOSED (5m reported)
Season prior on loan at Norwich

Nathan Redmond (aged 19) LW - Birmingham City UNDISCLOSED (3.2m reported)
Season prior (42 apps, 2 goals, 7 assists)

Martin Olsson (aged 24) LB - Blackburn Rovers UNDISCLOSED (2.5m reported)
Season prior (33 apps, 0 goals, 2 assists)

Carlo Nash (aged 39) GK - Stoke City FREE
Season prior (2 apps)

Leroy Fer (aged 23) CM - Twente UNDISCLOSED (4.3m reported)
Season prior (39 apps, 11 goals, 7 assists)

Gary Hooper (aged 25) CF - Celtic UNDISCLOSED (5m reported)
Season prior (51 apps, 31 goals, 10 assists)

Jonas Gutierrez (aged 29) LB/LM - Newcastle LOAN
Season prior (40 apps, 1 goal, 2 assists)

Joseph Yobo CB (aged 32) - Fenerbahce LOAN
Season prior (34 apps, 0 goals, 0 assists)


Notes
25 signings in total

7 from Premier League
8 From Championship
2 from Eredivisie
2 from Ligue 1
2 from Scottish Premier League
1 from Turkish Super League
1 from MLS
1 from Serie A
1 from Primiera Liga


6 Loans (includes Ben Arfa which became perm)
5 Free Transfers
3.8M Average fee (based on disclosed fees and reported fees)

Very high success rate/very low failure rate in that lot.
Impressive

 

[lawros left foot]

Well, Ricky van Wolfswinkel is a black mark against him in the transfer business - but then again, Sir Alex Ferguson signed Juan Sebastian Veron and Massimo Taibi!

I think I'm right in saying that most Norwich supporters were over the moon when they got RVW, and most pundits thought it a great bit of business, but 20/20 hindsight had kickedvin by about Christmas.

 

[Bring back Bryan wade!!]

Michaël Seri, Ricardo Pereira and Wylan Cyprien have had good seasons at Nice. Might be under the radar enough for us even though they're having a stand out season in lige 1. Their goalkeeper Cardinale is highly rated too. Monaco are only meant to be letting a couple of players go and


Alarmingly Ricky van Wolfswinkel is the joint second top scorer in the Eridivisie with 18 goals...

Hakim Ziyech from Ajax would be immense.

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The Nice boys are a great shout, all 3 excellent players especially Pereira. Cyprien talented but out til Christmas with a knee injury.

 

[GT49er]

I think I'm right in saying that most Norwich supporters were over the moon when they got RVW, and most pundits thought it a great bit of business, but 20/20 hindsight had kickedvin by about Christmas.

ManU supporters wet themselves with joy when they paid a record breaking £28M for Veron. They also got it wrong.

 

[BrianWade4]

That's a good point. The chief scout was a Scottish bloke named Ewan Chester (who I believe also joined the Albion in 2015 before going back for a second stint at Birmingham). From my very limited research it doesn't seem that Norwich had a director of football or similar so I presume that the signings were under Hughton's authority. He obviously had a good relationship with Ewan as he took him from Birmingham to Norwich to the Albion.

Great thread
We need 6..... 2 from the Championship, 2 from abroad and 2 loans from PL clubs
Spend £25m

 

[Stat Brother]

Chris and the recruitment team would appear to be considerably more cosmopolitan.

 

[spence]

Chris and the recruitment team would appear to be considerably more cosmopolitan.

Do you bookmark these threads for a later date ?

 

[Stat Brother]

Do you bookmark these threads for a later date ?

No I mentioned it early, in the Chris Wood thread, by way of justifying CH being more likely to spend millions on English football experienced talent. :