Throughout the Premier League era and especially after the takeover by the Abu Dhabi United Group in 2008, Manchester City have made some wonderful signings.

Just think about the likes of Vincent Kompany, David Silva and Sergio Aguero, but what of the lesser remember names that represent some of City's not-so-successful business in the last 27 years?

So we've recalled the Citizens' 20 worst signings of the Premier League era so far -agree?

Maicon

First up is Brazil legend Maicon who would have perhaps have gone down as a completely different signing had the Sky Blues captured him four or five years earlier.

When the right-back arrived at the Etihad Stadium in the summer of 2012 for £3m, still a fair sum of money back then, he was the wrong side of 30 and beginning to battle with repeated injuries.

He would only appear 13 times before being shifted onto Roma a year later.

Bernardo Corradi

Would it be fair to say that Man City's current Bernando (Silva) was inspired by his club's Bernando from a decade before (Corradi)? No, probably not.

The hot-headed former Italy international striker was signed by Stuart Pearce prior to the 2006/2007 campaign and lasted just one term in Manchester before his loaning out to Parma and subsequent departure the following summer, scoring just three goals and collecting two red cards.

Nolito

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Pep Guardiola's Cityzens forked out the best part of £15m for a Spanish centre-forward in his pomp in the summer of 2016, Nolito - a year later the Spanish international was to return to his homeland with Sevilla.

In reality, the former Barcelona man who impressed at EURO 2016 never adapted to the English game or way of life, infamously commenting not long before his City exit that he and his family had changed colour due to the lack of sunshine in England's climate.

Roque Santa Cruz

Early in the reign of what is now known as the City Football Group the east Manchester outfit were like a teenager after just receiving their first pay packet, splashing their cash on any old thing just because it's their money and they can.

£17.5m acquisition Roque Santa Cruz is certainly an example of that having been purchased based on a half-decent scoring record at Blackburn Rovers and for the grand total of four goals for the Etihad side goes down as one of their worst PL era signings.

Christian Negouai

How could we not include in this list the only player in Premier League history to have been sent off in his only match in the league?

The great irony here is that Christian Negouai only made 11 appearances in total for the club but he somehow managed to get himself sent off on three occasions, with the other two coming in the League Cup and the FA Cup.

Wait, actually this is the best part, they paid £1.5m to bring him in from Charleroi in the first place, a lot of money in 2001.

Jack Rodwell

Last seen refusing to give up his extortionate contract on the Sunderland documentary on Netflix, Jack Rodwell was one of the rising stars of English football when he swapped Merseyside for east Manchester in 2012 for £12m.

But injuries limited the ex-England central midfielder to just 15 outings in his first season with the Citizens and even fewer the following term meant he was offloaded to the Stadium of Light after just two years, leaving the Etihad in a downward spiral in such contrast to the way he had arrived.

Laurent Charvet 

The story of Laurent Charvet is rather similar to that of Rodwell, captured for big money after a couple of impressive terms at a fellow English team and moved on after two campaigns having barely made 25 appearances.

The right-back was simply never up to the task, utterly woeful, and the fact that he was deemed not even good enough to play for Sochaux in the year after his City exit says it all really.

Gerry Creaney

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Manchester City's Gerry Creaney celebrates his 87th minute winner

Members of the Blue Army might well want to look away for this one.

Imagine swapping one of your best players and fan favourites in Paul Walsh for someone as ineffective as Gerry Creaney and also paying £500k for the pleasure, well that's exactly what City did in 1995 and three years and four outbound loans down the line Creaney was released - shocking move.

Jo

Talking of shocking moves, this one is up there with one of the worst transfers of all time in world football, let alone just for City and just in the Premier League era.

Striker Jo, who's somehow played 20 times for Brazil and scored a few goals as well, signed for a fee believed to be a club-record £19m from CSKA Moscow in the summer 2008 transfer window just and the Sky Blues certainly got value for money, if you count that as a miserly six goals in 42 games.

Jerome Boateng

On paper, Jerome Boateng was a huge waste of money for Man City but in reality, the move could have paid off if they were a little more patient with him.

Roberto Mancini saw his potential whilst he was playing for Hamburg though the centre-back only remained under his reign for one injury-affected season and played out of position at right-back for most of it.

Nowadays we, of course, know Bayern Munich's Boateng as the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Champions League and seven-time Bundesliga-winning global star.

Robinho

Who could forget the transfer that perhaps gave birth to Transfer Deadline Day as we all know it today?

Robinho forgot it as it was happening you could argue having mistakenly stated how happy he was to have signed for Chelsea at his first Man City press conference, just days earlier he was all set to sign for the west London club.

However, on the same day as their takeover the Citizens swooped in for the Brazilian attacker, paying an obscene £32.5m, a sum Robinho wouldn't really ever pay back as he enjoyed just two fruitful seasons in sky blue.

Fernando

It may seem harsh including Fernando on this list seeing as he made over 100 appearances for City and was rarely out of the team for long during his spell.

But as most of the Etihad faithful would recall, the midfielder's barnstorming showing against Newcastle United on his debut bought him a lot of time under Manuel Pellegrini and Pep Guardiola saw him for what he was when he arrived - not up to standard - and quickly got rid.

Emmanuel Adebayor

I think we mentioned the Sky Blues' bizarre spending spree in the first year or two of their Emirati ownership, well there's no doubt Emmanuel Adebayor was a significant part of that.

All supporters really got for the £25m that their club forked out for the Togo international was one brilliant moment against his former club against Arsenal, we've all seen it, and he was able to dine out on that for a good while.

Lee Bradbury

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Manchester City's Lee Bradbury is defied by QPR goalkeeper Lee Harper 
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Man City's current club-record transfer is the purchase of Rodri from Atletico Madrid for over £66m, in 1997 it was centre-forward Lee Bradbury for £3m from Portsmouth - that's how far they've come in little over 20 years.

And whilst it remains to be seen whether the former will be a success at the Etihad, the latter undoubtedly wasn't as it took City little over one disastrous season to work out that he wasn't even worthy of a long-term place in the team, let alone the honour of being the club's most expensive player.

Bradbury scored just six Football League Division One goals as the Citizens were relegated and was soon gone.

Wilfried Bony

You can forgive City boss at the time Manuel Pellegrini for thinking that Wilfried Bony was the real deal in the Premier League when he threw away £25m on him in January 2015.

After all, he had impressively scored more PL goals than any other player in the calendar year of 2014 for Swansea City.

However, like his fellow frontman Bradbury, Bony wouldn't see more than a season-and-a-half in the north west and he's now spending his time training with the Newport County squad, lol.

Vicente Matias Vuoso

We're on a real roll here with strikers who arrived at the Sky Blues promising goals galore and left having made very little impact, if any, in their wake.

The latest is Vicente Matias Vuoso, a real tongue twister that one, and it was similarly difficult to work out how he had managed to wrangle himself a contract at a team like Man City and for £3.5m too - Vuoso wasn't good enough to play a single match in sky blue.

Glauber

As you may have discovered, the Citizens really haven't had much luck over the years with one-named players and the "Invisible Man" Glauber epitomises that.

Whilst we don't know how much Mark Hughes' side paid to bring him to England from Nuremberg, he certainly wasn't worth it as he warmed the substitutes' bench a remarkable 20 times before being introduced for the final few minutes on the final day of the 2008/2009 season, Glauber's final and only appearance.

Bizarrely, the man the supporters called "Berti" is still considered a cult hero amongst the Blue Army.

Stevan Jovetic

Incredibly the 12th attacker to feature on this list of Manchester City's 20 worst ever Premier League era signings, Stevan Jovetic represents yet another big waste of money from the Sky Blues' mega-rich owners.

It was a mixture of injuries and poor form that led to the Montenegro great's career in east Manchester not being a success, although not as bad as some of the other names in this gallery, Jovetic's time was one of mediocrity and one can't help thinking he might have been more successful at a lower Premier League outfit.

Scott Sinclair

One star who most definitely has now found his level in the Scottish Premiership is Scott Sinclair having left English football behind to become a real force for Celtic in recent years.

Go back seven years and Man City thought they had majorly got one over one of their "Big Six" rivals by capturing the former England youth international Chelsea had let leave for just £500,000 for a mere £8m, but the reason the Blues did so became apparent pretty quickly and Sinclair appeared only 19 times in a frustrating three years at the Etihad.

Eliaquim Mangala

You would have perhaps expected to see a few more calamitous and clumsy centre-backs on this list but we've got one here for you to finish off with.

The ex-French international Eliquim Mangala never seized to look out of his depth wearing the sky blue and it's a surprise how long he was able to stay in east Manchester, even winning himself a Premier League champions' medal before Pep Guardiola decided enough was enough last summer.