Sweatsock wrote:Bollocks on the Sutton thing JK. He was in great form way before the one season before he moved to Chelsea. Even at Norwich he was up there with the best strikers in the country.
Yes he was good at Norwich, but only really had one spectacular year (1993/1994) which made him the most expensive player in the country, £5m for him from Blackburn.
He had a good but not spectacular first year with Shearer (although admittedly that may be coloured by the fact that Shearer had an excellent one), then the next year he only played 13 times and scored... no goals. All I remember about the following season was that he broke the fair play rule and cost us a place in the Champions League, and has never apologised for it (unlike Kanu who apologised immediately after he did it against Sheff Utd.)
1997/1998 -> This is what I call his "big year" as he finished joint top scorer in the Prem, and this is what Chelsea used to justify the £10m price tag.
1998/99 -> Injured most of the year, bad year. Blackburn go down.
1999/2000 -> Chelsea year, bombs spectacularly.
So there you go, nothing to justify a £10m price tag. In my opinion that pretty much works out as one "big money" year per "big money transfer" That's my opinion anyway.