Shevchenko, Veron and Rebrov Voted The Worst Ever Football Transfer Decisions In Major Poll

Sportingo, which empowers sports fans to become expert pundits through creating and sharing opinion, has announced that Andriy Shevchenko (Chelsea), Juan Sebastian Veron (Manchester United) and Sergei Rebrov (Tottenham Hotspurs) were the worst transfers in English football history, according to more than 6,500 fans.

Thousands of online supporters logged on to put their vote forward airing disappointment at the £70million flops on the eve of the opening of the transfer window, in January 2008. Ukrainian ace, Andriy Shevchenko topped the table by quite some way, receiving 2857 of the 6677 votes. The former Dynamo Kyiv and AC Milan legend joined Chelsea in 2006 for the heavy price tag of £30million plus a weekly wage of around £120,000.

In second place is Manchester United dud Juan Sebastian Veron with 1069 of the votes. Sir Alex had high hopes for the Argentinean play-maker following his transfer from Lazio in 2001. Another Ukrainian that had ability but failed to impress in the Premiership took the number three spot with 635 votes. Sergei Rebrov, the highest ever scorer in the Ukrainian League with 120 goals in 249 appearances, left Dynamo Kyiv for Tottenham Hotspur in 2000 for a fee £11 million.

Sportingo is the world's largest platform for fans to write about sport with over 2,000 registered writers. Fans benefit by having their articles professionally edited and presented to a growing audience of punters who rank and comment on the articles. Sportingo also allows views to be 'put forward' through various interactional exercises including a daily poll from which the above data was collected.

Ze'ev Rozov, Managing Director of Sportingo commented: "Sportingo is a unique platform for sports fans to express their feelings about past and present sporting issues. Our daily poll has been a particular success as it is quick and simple to use and highlights issues that are of interest to a huge audience - almost every team has been in a situation where a new player doesn't live up to expectation. Other daily polls we have included are 'Who is the best buy ever' and 'Does Mourinho actually want the England job'? again both raise issues that are of huge interest."

The remaining third of votes were as follows:

- Francis Jeffers gained 579 of the votes following his disappointing £10 million move from Everton to Arsenal in 2001
- Jean Alain Boumsong moved from Rangers to Newcastle in 2005 and picked up 359 of the fans votes.
- Eric Djemba Djemba. The Manchester United flop attained 314 of the votes.
- Tore Andre Flo moved from Brann to Chelsea in 1997 for just £300,000, picking up 283 votes.
- Liverpool's injury prone Harry Kewell grabs eighth spot with 250 votes following his departure from Leeds in 2003.
- Bernado Corradi who moved from Valencia and got sent off during his Manchester City debut against Chelsea, gained ninth place with 101 votes.
- Football veteran Don Hutchison came in at tenth place with 56 votes following a disastrous move from Hartlepool to Liverpool and then on to West Ham United.
- 174 online voters voted for 'other'.

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