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.
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
Turbo Timo
Sancho, Di Maria, Falcao, Pogba, Maguire, onana, Ronaldo, Depay….
How are you already writing Onana off because of a few mistakes at the start of the season? He already seems to have recovered…
Ok I’ll take onana back. He has recovered well to be fair to the lad.
Roberto Soldado, Sergie Rebrov, Tanguy Ndombele, Richarlison. Pretty much any record Spurs signing has been shite
Havertz at Arsenal
Tanguy Ndombele. So much talent with a terrible work rate.
Ángel Di María
Nuno Gomes, Michel Salgado, Danny Murphy, Dixon Etuhu, Peter Whittingham
Ndombele. I was so pumped after watching his highlight videos, so silky and able to get through a press so well. What a disappointment.
A very weird and forgotten one, but Denis Suarez. Dude had great potential and I really thought he was gonna fill the void that cazorla left.
I remember that loan spell he almost never played.
Edgar Davids, although I never held it against him
Giovanni dos Santos
Jimmy Bullard to Hull in 2009. He was our record signing (5 mil) and we thought he’d help us avoid the drop. He picked up a long term injury on his debut and nearly bankrupted the club due to a ridiculous contract with no relegation clause (which allegedly also included a misprint in the wage giving him 15k a week more than agreed). We ended up not playing him at all in case a new injury would interrupt a potential sale.
He played about 23 times over three years, was the centre of numerous dressing room dramas (allegedly) and eventually got sacked for a breach of contract which was ruled unlawful.
The player obviously isn’t really at fault for most of this, but he certainly didn’t live up to the hype.
Aquilani for Liverpool, played roughly 63 minutes. All shit. The other 789 days was injured.
Thought we were gonna win the league when lukaku came back…