5 Worst Chelsea signings

Premier League club Chelsea has won 28 major trophies in their 113-year history: six top-flight titles, eight FA Cups, five League Cups, four FA Community Shields, one UEFA Champions League, two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, one UEFA Europa League and one UEFA Super Cup.

Their success throughout the years is down to the glut of legends such as Frank Lampard, Bobby Tambling, Didier Drogba and many more, who have put on the famous blue shirt. But, not every player has had the prerogative of going down as an icon in the club's history. Some deals have turned out to be catastrophes that Chelsea would rather like to forget.

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Here's a list of the 5 worst players ever to have played for this glorious club.

*All transfer and related info gathered from "www.transfermarkt.co.uk"

#5 Fernando Torres

Chelsea FC v Atletico Madrid - UEFA Champions League

Fernando Torres became the most expensive player to move between two Premier League clubs when Chelsea paid Liverpool an exorbitant £52.65m for their star striker on an action-packed deadline day in January 2011.

Signed after an excellent 4 seasons with Liverpool, a lot was expected of Torres but his Chelsea stint was totally bizarre. Torres' first goal for the Blues came after 903 minutes against West Ham United which turned out to be his only goal in 18 appearances for the club that season.

The Spain international was an inferior version of his former self at Stamford Bridge, probably burdened by the great weight of his price tag. He was the target of derision for opposition fans and the media as he managed to score a mere 20 goals in his entire Chelsea career. The presence of Didier Drogba and his poor form saw him drop to the bench for the most part of his Chelsea career and even though the Spaniard, who won nothing at Liverpool despite scoring so many, was a part of Chelsea's successful European campaigns for the past two seasons, the forward hardly made an impact at the club.

He eventually left the club when AC Milan made his loan move permanent in 2015 and then returned back to his former club, Atlético Madrid where he managed to revive his career.

#4 Andriy Shevchenko

Substantial things were expected from Andriy Shevchenko after the Ukrainian striker made a £39.49m move to Chelsea from AC Milan, a transfer fee that broke the then record for the highest fee paid by an English football club.

Shevchenko made his debut with the club in the Community Shield game vs Liverpool where the Ukrainian scored the only goal in his side's 2-1 defeat to the Reds. Shevchenko struggled to acclimatize to a physical mode of play in English football and it quickly became clear that the 29-year-old was way past his supreme as he managed only 8 goals thereafter throughout his 3-year stint.

His £121,000-a-week remuneration made him the highest earner in the squad but he couldn't even manage to get into double figures in terms of goals in his three years at the club. Despite his poor performances Andriy managed 76 games at the club and finally was loaned back to Milan in 2008.

Shevchenko returned back to Chelsea for one remaining year in his contract but he soon left for his former Ukranian Premier League club Dynamo Kyiv and was named the League's best player the same year. Pretty crazy, right?

#3 Adrian Mutu

Adrian Mutu scored 6 goals in his 27 matches for Chelsea

Adrian Mutu was by far the most controversial player signing in the history of Chelsea when he arrived from Parma for a fee of £17.10m. The Romanian had a pretty decent start at the Stamford Bridge but soon his form dipped predominantly due to lack of chances.

Gianfranco Zola left Chelsea to be succeeded by Mutu but he couldn't reproduce the brilliance shown by his forerunner due to a breakdown in relationship with the then manager Jose Mourinho.

It got worse when in September 2004 he failed a drugs test for cocaine and was subsequently released in October by the Blues. The FA gave him a seven-month ban and a £20,000 fine.

Ten years of legal proceedings followed as Chelsea sued their former player for a contravention of his contract. However, Mutu got back to his best after departing Chelsea playing for the likes of Juventus and Fiorentina where he played a total of 145 matches and banged in 61 goals.

It was ultimately sad that off-field intrusions ended his hopes of showing his quality in the Premier League and went on to become one of the worst signings for Chelsea.

#2 Shaun Wright-Phillips

Shaun Wright-Phillips scored 4 times in 81 games for Chelsea.

Shaun Wright-Phillips, arguably England's most propitious player at that time, joined Chelsea in 2005 for £28.35m from Manchester City. After a successful spell with City, a lot was anticipated of the pacy winger but the England international failed to deliver terribly.

His move from Manchester City to London proved to be a risk and he was erratic in his first season, earning only 15 starts in an already strong Chelsea side. He also ended up missing out the England squad for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Wright-Phillips made a total of 81 appearances at the club scoring a pitiful 4 times and even though he was given a more consistent role under provisional manager Avram Grant, the winger failed to make his presence felt and was soon sold back to Manchester City thus ending an expensive mistake of Chelsea.

#1 Winston Bogarde

Winston Bogarde could top any list in world football for bad signings. He was signed by Gianluca Vialli in 2000. The Dutchman Winston arrived on a free transfer after not very successful spells at AC Milan and Barcelona and he soon became a huge monetary burden for the Blues because of his wages.

Bogarde joined Chelsea at 29 years of age and earned £40,000-a-week, which amounted to a huge £2m a season, and this was before Chelsea became extremely rich under the ownership of Abramovich.

But soon after Claudio Ranieri took charge of the Stamford Bridge he made it clear that Bogarde wasn't in his scheme.

Bogarde persisted though, insisting he would honour his contract at Stamford Bridge. His reason was that he wouldn't be proffered such a lucrative contract anywhere else. Chelsea attempted to force him out by relegating him to the youth and reserve sides but Bogarde devotedly turned up for training every day.

The 6'2 defender managed only four starts during his four-year stay at the Blues in which 11 of his 12 appearances came in his first season at Stamford Bridge and became a figure of ridicule for Premier League fans.

In 2005 he retired at an early age of 34 after failing to acquire a new deal with the club and also fairly failing to find a new club. He is quite surprisingly presently the assistant manager of Jong Ajax, the youth team of Ajax.

Edited by Shruti Sadbhav