What the hell, Daily Mail?! The tabloid have named our ten worst signings of the Premier League era, and they’ve done a very poor job of it in our opinion. Joe Allen, Titi Camara and Igor Biscan make the cut, while there is no room for the likes of Oussama Assaidi, Milan Jovanovic or Robbie Keane!
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We pick apart their effort in the list below. Take a look through and tell us who you agree with more, which players you think don’t deserve to be included and which players you can’t believe that they’ve missed out.
Andy Carroll
The big man is never going to live this one down. In reality, his record for Liverpool wasn’t as bad as it could have been. He actually scored 11 goals during an injury plagued 18 months at Anfield, while he looked virtually unstoppable during our run to the FA Cup final in 2012. Sadly, you expect more for your money at £35m.
Joe Allen
This seems a very harsh inclusion. He certainly hasn’t set the world alight since he joined the Reds from Swansea City in 2012, but to include him on a list of the ten worst signings of the last two decades seems laughable. He’s played almost 100 games for us in all competitions and must be doing something right if he keeps getting games.
Christian Poulsen
Fair enough, you can have this one Mail. The Dane was an unparalleled flop at Anfield and a signing that really summed up Roy Hodgson’s disastrous and short-lived spell in charge. He made just 12 Premier League appearances for us in total and was eventually sold to French side Evian at the end of his first season with us.
Sean Dundee
Who? The South African-born striker made just three league appearances for the Reds before he returned to Germany, where he continued to enjoy success throughout his career. Considering the £2m transfer fee it seems harsh to include what was, realistically, a low-priced gamble in a list of worst signings. Rickie Lambert, anyone?
Titi Camara
Really?! Surely they can’t include the great Titi Camara. Granted, he wasn’t brilliant, but he had his moments. He scored nine Premier League goals during his single season at Anfield and we’ll always remember THAT strike against West Ham. He was voted in 91st position in the 2006 poll “100 Players Who Shook The Kop”.
Erik Meijer
Surely there have been more disappointing signings for us up front. What about Mario Balotelli, Fabio Borini or Andriy Voronin, to name just three. The tall Dutchman arrived on a free from Bayer Leverkusen and scored a couple of goals during ten Premier League starts. He’s forgettable certainly, but not one of the worst ever.
Igor Biscan
Now the Mail are just being silly… this is a Champions League winning midfielder (and he certainly wasn’t the worst player in that squad, what about Djimi Traore?). The Croatian spent five years on Merseyside and remained a semi-regular until departing shortly after our success in Istanbul. A solid player at the very least.
El Hadji Diouf
We couldn’t agree more with this one. Nothing about this transfer worked out well for us. He was signed off the back of a successful World Cup campaign with Senegal but we never saw anything even close to the form he had shown for his country. To make matters worse, he proved to be a big issue with his attitude on and off the field.
Salif Diao
Another player who we were fooled into signing off the back of a couple of good games for Senegal. The midfielder simply wasn’t up to scratch and his chances in the team were almost instantaneously limited. He made 37 Premier League appearances in half a decade at the club and he was eventually sold on to Stoke City in 2007.
Antonio Nunez
The man who will always be famous for just one thing – being part of the deal that took Michael Owen to Real Madrid. Needless to say we got the worse end of the deal with that one, although the midfielder probably wasn’t as bad as most people would have us remember. He’s since gone on to have a decent enough career in Spain.
