2012-13: Fraser Forster
Another massively underwhelming window on the face of it, with another pitiful spend of just £3.5 million; we’d brought in almost double that from the sale of Ki Sung-Yueng.
The club’s apparent lack of ambition was shocking.
Amongst the lowlights of that window was that we signed Lassad Nouioui and Miku on loan and the unknown ?uboš Kamenár.
The two players we spent money on were Efe Ambrose – no joke; he cost us £1.5 million – and, of course, Fraser Forster for a cool £2 million.
It seems ironic to be naming him the signing of that summer on a day like today, but he absolutely was.
Even if the rest of the players hadn’t been so underwhelming, he would probably have been the biggest thing we did in that window anyway … and what a bargain he was.