10 Manchester City signings who failed to impress

#2 Jo

Jo

He was signed from Spartak Moscow for what was initially thought to be £19 million, but later turned out to be £6 million pounds as Thaksin Sinawatra had sought to gain publicity and support for himself with the move in the last month of his spell as owner of the club. Neither amount justifies his signing, however, as Jo failed to adapt to the Premier League and recapture his Spartak form (he had scored 44 goals in 77 appearances for them).

He was sent out on loan in two separate spells to Everton and Galatasaray during his first two seasons, having only been in the squad for the first six months under Mark Hughes. When he eventually returned to Manchester in 2010/11, he failed to break into the first team which already had Emmanuel Adebayor, Carlos Tevez and Roque Santa Cruz.

All in all, Jo made 41 appearances and scored 6 goals for City in his ill-fated tenure in the Premier League and was sold to Brazil side Internacional. That works out to £1 million per goal scored, without even including his wages. It was ad business in what was otherwise a good transfer window, with Vincent Kompany and Nigel de Jong having also been signed in the same period.

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