You know how it is in football – a big-money signing gets announced, and the hope is electric. You think, “This is the one, this is the player who’ll take us to the next level.”
At Liverpool, they’ve rolled the dice with huge transfer fees plenty of times. Sometimes, it pays off spectacularly. When you look at the names at the very top of Liverpool’s shopping list, it’s a real mixed bag.
Big Buy Hit And Miss
| Player | Fee | From | Year | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darwin Nunez | £85m | Benfica | 2022 | Jury’s Out |
| Virgil van Dijk | £75m | Southampton | 2018 | HIT |
| Alisson Becker | £66.8m | AS Roma | 2018 | HIT |
| Dominik Szoboszlai | £60m | RB Leipzig | 2023 | Promising |
| Naby Keïta | £52.75m | RB Leipzig | 2018 | MISS |
| Luis Díaz | £50m | FC Porto | 2022 | Hit |
| Diogo Jota | £45m | Wolves | 2020 | Hit |
| Cody Gakpo | £44m | PSV Eindhoven | 2023 | Promising |
| Mohamed Salah | £43.9m | AS Roma | 2017 | LEGENDARY HIT |
| Fabinho | £43.7m | AS Monaco | 2018 | Hit |
As you can see, the club’s record signing, Darwin Nunez, remains a topic of debate. He’s pure chaos on the pitch – runs like a machine, causes defenders nightmares, but then misses a sitter. The jury is very much still out on whether he’ll ever truly justify that eye-watering £85 million price tag.
However, some were worth every single penny. You can’t talk about Liverpool’s recent glory without mentioning Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker. Before they arrived in 2018, the defence was shaky, to say the least. They came in and completely transformed the team, forming the spine of a side that went on to conquer England and Europe.
They weren’t just signings; they were statements. The same goes for Mohamed Salah, who at £43.9 million, now looks like the bargain of the century.
Naby Keïta is probably the biggest recent example. Arriving with a huge reputation from Germany for around £53 million, he was meant to be the dynamic force in midfield. Instead, his time at Anfield was a frustrating cycle of injuries and fleeting moments of quality. He left for nothing, resulting in a massive financial loss for the club.
And while they’re not in the current top ten, you can’t forget older examples like Andy Carroll (£35m) and Christian Benteke (£32.5m). Both were expensive signings who never quite fit the system and were subsequently moved on at a significant loss.
Out of Liverpool’s ten most expensive signings ever, you could say at least one was a clear-cut failure, with another still having a massive question mark over his head. It’s a stark reminder that in the world of football transfers, there’s no such thing as a sure thing.
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