Whether it be in terms of whether they didn’t play as well as you expected them to be, or if they were injured/unfit all the time during their career at your club or perhaps got on bad terms quickly into their career at your club (e.g. Di Maria at Man Utd).

As a Liverpool fan, I can think of names like Aquilani, Robbie Keane, Morientes, Andy Carroll, Kewell, Litmanen, Nuri Sahin etc.

But the one that has to take the cake is Naby Keita. I was very excited when it was announced he would be joining us. He was like the 2nd best midfielder in the Bundesliga that season for Leipzig in the data and for a couple of seasons had shown a lot of great technical ability. He joins us and the rest is history. It’s not to say he didn’t have good moments with us when he had a run of games in the first team. But that was presicely the issue, getting a run of games. It was a constant cycle of spending over half his time injured and when returning, not always having his best games due to slowly returning to fitness and when he did start showing his sparkle he’d go off injured again for a while. I am not just gutted for us but gutted for him too in how it could’ve and should’ve turned out.

  • jamughal1987@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Kuyt was goal machine in Holland. He could not transfer that performance but still made himself useful player.

  • Immediate_Wolf3802@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Tomas Brolin …scored 2 v West Ham off the wing…turned his nose up at having to wing it again v Liverpool and put in a complete no show…he was never a proven scorer but hard to believe this non professional with an awful attitude came joint 4th in the 94 balon dor

  • JU14C@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Keita to Liverpool. Thought he was going to be unplayable on the ball, a supercharged Gini

  • cek32701@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Havertz was someone I was irrationally excited for. Won us a champions league final so it wasn’t all bad but safe to say he didn’t live up to my hype for him

    • crackity85@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      He was 2nd best player at the World cup barely 1 year before joining Arsenal. I was more excited about signing Suker than Henry, at the time.

      Funny how things turn out

      • martinljb@alien.topBEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Such a shame how it turned out. The memory that sticks in my head is the penalty miss against Galatasaray in the 2000 uefa cup final

  • GrumpyOldFart74@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Michael Owen was the worse signing we ever made

    I was genuinely excited when we signed him - a properly world class player. And he wasn’t bad when he was fit and could be arsed, but there were so many times he didn’t want to play, clearly didn’t want to be here, and disrupted the dressing room so badly - I still think he deserves a lion share of the blame for our relegation

    Patrick Kluivert was also a disappointment- though it wasn’t really his fault he was well past his best when we signed him, and at least he tried

    • charlierc@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      There’s been so many underwhelming Newcastle players where I thought we’d get more than we got - Boumsong, Luque, Cabella, Thauvin, Sels, Muto - but really it’s impossible to declare that Owen was anything other than a disaster