Sean Dundee – The South African born striker was bought for £2million from Karlsruhe as backup for the injured Robbie Fowler. He only ever played three games for the Reds though and his lack of pace and technical ability meant he was hastily sold back to Germany after one season in England. ——-
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El-Hadji Diouf – The Senegal striker cost £10m. Despite being named African player of the year twice in a row and starring at the World Cup in 2002 with Senegal, Diouf failed to live up to expectations while on Merseyside. Despite scoring twice on his debut at Southampton, Diouf only scored six goals in the entire season and was hastily moved from his favoured striking position to the right wing. The Senegalese went fourteen months without scoring a goal for Liverpool and was sent out on loan to Bolton by Rafa Benitez. ———-
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Paul Stewart – The Striker/midfielder actually had a successful time at his previous two clubs Manchester City and Spurs, but the £2.5million spent on him was an absolute waste of money as he scored just one league goal in 24 appearances. They only managed to shift the player for free two years later to Sunderland. Souness had compared the player at the time to Steve McMahon.
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Andrey Voronin – The blond pony-tailed Ukrainian striker was brought in on a free transfer from Bayer Leverkusen in July 2007. He subsequently failed to impress in any performances at Anfield, and he was loaned out to Hertha Berlin during the 2008/09 campaign where he scored 11 goals, helping the German side finish fourth. On his return to Liverpool last season however, he seemed to have the same old problems, and was eventually sold to Dinamo Moscow last January.——-
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Doritos Presents: Professor Green
erm… about keane. he was NOT bought as a replacement for torres’s role. he was bought to provide support for torres but rafa let gerrard do it that season. the problem was keane would not come deep enough to get the ball but gerrard would. you can’t teach an old keane new tricks- not adaptable enough. still a bad buy.
Insightful. Thx.
I would say Cisse,Morientes and Heskey were a waste of money!
I remain unsure about so-called flops. Heskey provided plenty of assists, as did Cisse (plus pace). I see Morientes more like Berbatov and do wonder what would’ve happened if we’d stuck with him like SAF.
I agree about Morientes, he flopped miserably but Im not so sure about Cisse and Heskey. Cisse scored 26 goals in 83 games in his two years at LFC and he also scored the opening goal in the FA cup final win as well as scoring in the penalty shootout in the UCL final win in 2005. I would say that injuries cost him during his time here and if he stayed fit he would have been a great asset with his speed and finishing ability. Emile Heskey surely wasn’t a prolific goalscorer but he added another dimension to our attack and Houllier did say “Some people like to criticise Emile, but I can produce plenty of facts and figures to back up how important he is to us, and how many goals we have scored that he has been involved in.” So I have to say I disagree that Cisse and Heskey were a waste of money.
I believe if Robbie Keane was given more time and if he was allowed to play in the role just behind Torres more regularly he would have been quite a useful player. Rafa stuck with the Torres-Gerrard partnership after their successful first season and in a way Keane just didn’t fit in but I do believe that Keane would have been the perfect foil for Torres. I do like Keane as a player but sadly he did not fit into our style of play but I think it’s crazy to say he was one of our ‘worst ever’ Liverpool striker signings cause I honestly don’t think he was. About Diouf, he was very unpopular and he still is but I don’t think it’s right to say he was one of our ‘worst ever’ striker signings. His unpopularity has prejudiced him and that’s why we often say he flopped miserably during his time at L4 but if you think about it, if Diouf was a popular English guy who worked hard in every match but still flopped, we wouldn’t brand him as one our ‘worst ever’ striker signings. However, I do have to admit that, like many fans, I hate Diouf but that doesn’t mean that he should be branded as one our worst every striker signings.
Errrrr nobody remember Salif Diao and Bruno Cheyrou
worst ever STRIKER signings, are you another one of those who can’t read
they are not strikers.
neither were strikers you muppet
Diouf is the only liverpool #9 in the history that not scored for a season ..And Houllier selected to sign Diouf instead of Anelka ..what a joke .
Dundee wins hands down. He was that bad we didn’t play him when we had no fit strikers. My ‘scout’ told me they wanted to sell him but didn’t want to expose him because potential buyers would see how bad he was !!
Voronin was free and scored a few goals at a time when Liverpool had zero money for sigining. He wasn’t great but you can’t call a free transfer at that period in our history one of the ‘worst siginings’ dumbass. I bet you bellamys chances to goals ratio was way way worse and I liked Bellamy.
We got Voronin in the same summer we signed Babel and Torres.
Morientes and Voronin, were total waste of time and money, Both strikers were the wrong type of striker at the time and the former needing alot of service and pace around him and the second was only suited to a lesser league.
Keane had done a great job with Berbatov and I could see the logic behind the signing. I don’t think he got enough time, I’m not sure if Rafa bought him or not, he didn’t appear to be a Rafa signing. Veronin arrived as a kind of extra ‘something for nothing’ in that sense I don’t think he was a failure. He left Liverpool and went to Hertha Berlin were he ended the season all be it in a poor Hertha team as top scorer. The fans loved him but the club couldn’t afford his wages.
The most disappointing for me personally was Morientes, I read all the stories about him being a typical ‘dare i stereotype’ spanish mummys boy and he badly missed Spain. He looked like a real class act and he had been consistently good in Spain, so I couldn’t wait for him to put on the red shirt.
I fear Andy Carroll will be included in this list shortly.
Morientes and Robbie Keane were complete flops and waste of money in my estimation.