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.
Nicolas Pepe
Really should have gone for Zaha instead of going for the “cheaper” option.
Emery wanted a right footer to play on the left. So Raul sanelli , our beloved head of football. went and got a left footer who plays on the right (and a massive envelope under the desk from someone i would guess for the money that was exchanged)
Emery also wanted nzonzi in midfield but got given torreira again by Raul… where is Raul now by the way?
This one stung. He had some real high moments and felt like he tried. No big character flaw our coach fallout, just wasn’t good enough
The annoying thing is, looking at some of the goals he scored for us, the talent was in there. A bit like Gervinho. Both capable of the sublime but far more likely to produce the ridiculous
As a Liverpool fan I was so gutted he went to Arsenal after being well linked with us. I still remember he may have been the first player after a couple of years to dribble past VVD? And then just nothing, all sizzle no steak.
Doku is what pepe was meant to be