The ex-Reds attacker would horribly flop at the Hawthorns, making just six appearances that campaign and walking away from the West Midlands dejected with zero goals to show for the disastrous stint.
Yet, it’s Nacer Chadli who could be viewed as being even more of a draining buy for the Baggies with the eventually relegated side once paying Tottenham Hotspur a club record £13m to land the Belgian’s services.
Pocketing a healthy wage across two turbulent seasons – which saw him earn two times the wage that West Brom man Jed Wallace currently earns in his second season – this is a signing nobody at the Hawthorns remembers with glowing fondness.
Nacer Chadli’s wage at West Brom
Considering Chadli only made a meagre total of 38 appearances for the Baggies over two seasons, it’s fair to describe the current KVC Westerlo man as a colossal flop.
Chadli’s failure to set the world alight at Spurs consistently should have been an ominous precursor for what West Brom had in store at the Hawthorns, with the Belgian winger making just five appearances for the Baggies in his second campaign before jetting off to AS Monaco.
