The worst Liverpool transfers in history. Not even bad kid Mario Balotelli is missing

Server Fourfourtwo recalled the worst signings in the history of top English clubs. We will now look at just five of the worst ever players to move to Liverpool.

5. Andriy Voronin

The Ukrainian striker arrived as a free agent in 2007 after a brilliant spell at German side Leverkusen. In 3 years at Bayer he managed 37 goals and 21 assists in 121 games.

Rafael Benítez had high hopes for this skilful striker. Unfortunately, the Spanish strategist was wrong. He finished the 2007/08 season, which was his only complete season in a Liverpool jersey, with a record of 6 goals and 4 assists in 28 games.

He spent the next season back in Germany, specifically at Hertha Berlin on loan. There he managed to score 11 goals during the whole season. However, Liverpool’s management was not convinced at all, he spent half a year in the stands and in the winter of 2009 he was sold to Dynamo Moscow for 2 million euros.

4.el Hadji Diouf

The Senegalese striker joined Liverpool in 2002 for 15 million euros. Quite a high amount by the standards of the time. He earned the transfer after a successful season at French side RC Lens, where he scored 10 goals in 28 games.

However, his first season did not go well at all, he scored only 6 goals and 6 assists in 47 games. Add to that the high transfer fee and he didn’t pay off for Liverpool at all.

Did the following season bring an improvement? No, it was even worse! 33 games and no goals. For a striker, that’s an appalling statistic. Liverpool ran out of patience and sent him to Bolton for the season, where he scored 9 goals. Eventually, even after a loan spell there, he moved permanently for just €5 million.

3. Andy Carroll

A name that will surprise no Liverpool fan here. He cost the club 41 million euros in 2011. However, he only spent one full season at Anfield and eventually left for €17.5 million away a couple of years later. The club made as much money from him as anyone.

The aforementioned full season was the 2011/12 season, in which he racked up 9 goals and 6 assists in 47 games. Pretty paltry numbers for a striker who came in with a reputation as a sharpshooter. In the 2 previous seasons alone in the league he scored over 10 goals each time, but the engagement at Anfield didn’t work out at all.

2. Mario Balotelli

If Carroll was supposed to be the replacement for Fernando Torres, then Balotelli was replacing Luis Suárez who was moving to Barcelona in 2014. The transfer fee came to €20 million, which AC Milan put on their account.

Brendan Rodgers was thus secretly hoping that the naughty child of Italian football would catch form and finally show what was dormant in him. But many people have tried to tame Balotelli, all of them failing.

It took the Italian striker 13 games to score his first goal and by the end of the season he had just 4 goals to his name. For a striker who was supposed to replace the excellent Suárez, who was scoring goals like a treadmill, that’s a crazy calling card. Liverpool, as on previous occasions, sent Balotelli out on loan and he never played for the club again.

1. Paul Konchesky

In 2010, Roy Hodgson brought in a left-back to Liverpool who he had previously managed at Fulham. The Englishman cost the club just €4 million, which is probably the only positive news about this transfer.

Konchesky didn’t play well, but still featured in the starting lineup. Liverpool were in the middle of the Premier League table at the middle of the season. Hodgson was sacked for poor results and Konchesky went on loan a few days after.

He never played for the club again. 18 games played for Liverpool, however, no one will take him away.

Source: Fourfourtwo, Liverpool, Premier League