6 players Liverpool should have never signed

#5 Andy Carroll

Carroll’s signing was a disaster

The West Ham Forward cost Liverpool £35m when he joined from Newcastle on deadline day in January of 2011. The Reds lost Fernando Torres to Chelsea that very day and viewed Andy Carroll as a player who would soften the blow of being stripped of one of the most prolific strikers in the club’s history.

Liverpool made him the most expensive British player at the time, yet he failed to live up to the billing. He played his first match for the Reds in March, more than a month after signing, as he had suffered a thigh injury before making the switch from St James’ Park.

Carroll’s Liverpool career would never take off the way everyone had imagined. He had scored 11 goals for the Magpies before moving to Anfield that season, as well as another 19 in the Championship the previous campaign. But 58 appearances for Liverpool only yielded 11 goals, and the player would be shipped off to the Hammers on loan in 2012.

The move was made permanent the following season, with West Ham paying £15m to keep him.