11 years passed before Southampton’s transfer fee record was broken, with the £6m spent on Jay Rodriguez surpassing the £4m fee spent on Rory Delap from Derby County in 2001.

Since Delap, the club-record transfer fee has been broken seven times.

Prompted by current record-holder Guido Carrillo’s brief stop at Saints before reuniting with Mauricio Pellegrino at Leganes, we decided to poll St. Mary’s Musings readers to see who they thought was the club’s worst player to break the record transfer fee.

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Signed for £15m from AS Roma in 2013, Osvaldo made just 13 appearances for Mauricio Pochettino’s Southampton, scoring three goals.

Looking totally disinterested in playing for the club, he was infamously suspended by Saints for headbutting team captain Jose Fonte in training.

After that, Osvaldo was done with the club. The Argentina-born Italian international was then sent out on loan to the likes of Juventus, Inter Milan, and Boca Juniors.

Osvaldo failed to impress Juve enough to secure a long-term move, before heading to Inter. At Internazionale, he scored five goals in 12 games, but was suspended by the club for being absent from training without reason. Before that, he had publicly fallen out with star striker Mauro Icardi.

After the Boca loan move, Saints terminated Osvaldo’s contract. A move to Porto and a return to Boca Juniors followed, but he had his contract terminated once again at the latter club following an argument with then-manager Guillermo Barros Schelotto, which happened after Osvaldo was caught smoking in the club dressing room.

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