Signings that stick in your mind....

[carheex]

...which signings, for us or any other team, stick in your mind and for what reasons? For me, 2 stand out:

1) the second coming of fowler. it came right out of the blue and still didn't sink in until his "first appearance" (as a sub, vs brum, overhead kick disallowed in injury time??)

2) chris sutton to blackburn for 5m. i remember very clearly reading the article over and over and thinking that 5m was a ludicrous amount of money to spend on one player. i just couldn't get my head round it at all!

[Dessy]

LFC signing Sean Dundee.....I've never laughed so much.....pure comedy genius that one.

[Gingawaria]

Probably when we paid £8 Million for Collymore, a British record at the time...I was so excited when he signed. Such a shame that he had so many personal problems because he had the potential to be one of the best ever.

[Darth Marty]

Agree with the "shame Collymore was a mentalist" statement, he could have been a footballing god.

Transfers which blew my mind were David Speedy....never forget that, thought it was a joke then a mistake then I just wanted to kill someone, and Torres. Torres was a player I had picked in my Footy Manager team for years and in my mind he was the ultimate striker, ****ing loved it when he signed for us and it seems that he is indeed the ultimate striker!

On a side note Agger used to be in my FM team too and he was always great on that so I was delighted we got him too. Makes me wonder if Rafa should play FM more at times.

[Dessy]

...which signings, for us or any other team, stick in your mind and for what reasons? For me, 2 stand out:

1) the second coming of fowler. it came right out of the blue and still didn't sink in until his "first appearance" (as a sub, vs brum, overhead kick disallowed in injury time??)

2) chris sutton to blackburn for 5m. i remember very clearly reading the article over and over and thinking that 5m was a ludicrous amount of money to spend on one player. i just couldn't get my head round it at all!

On a serious note I suppose Trevor Francis becoming the first million pound player will always stick in my mind.

As landmark signings go for Liverpool I'm hopeful that the Torres signing will be the one that stands out in the years to come...pure genius.

[Kenneth]

Paul Ince. I mean, where did that come from?

[Big Dave]

Torres for me. I was so excited when he signed. I really feel that he's the first world class player that we had signed in many years.

[MrsB]

Degen

[nevelator]

For some reason I was excited when we signed Smicer, his international record was very good. He did come good in his last game though!
Shearer to Blackburn is another one that sticks in my mind.
Also the conveyor belt of signings when Abrahmovich took over Chelsea, it was astounding - the players and the prices. I remember saying that I will never see the like of it again....guess I will be proven wrong with Citeh

[Kenneth]

Degen

The signing of an international player you'd never seen before who signed on a free and hasn't played a proper game sticks in you mind ok.

[saj]

Stan Collmore - yes he was ****ed in the head but he was still a damn good player for us. The emergence of Michael Own pretty much ended his career at Liverpool

Philip Degen - the amount of **** this guy has taken, even before he had signed is ridiculous. He's made 1 appeareance and people are already saying he's a flop. Absolute madness IMO. I think he's a talented player and definately with the right coaching could become a decent player. The big problem is, he's way too offensive and is clearly not a Rafa player

[dww]

I don't think that Degen is a flop in terms of ability but the amount of time he has spent being injured is a concern. I know we got rid of Kewell and the physio has some time on his hands as a consequence but he was supposedly injury prone in Germany and unless Rafa has hitherto unseen faith in Derby then we are a bit light at rightback IMO.

[RoadEnd]

I was initially excited at signing Diouf - but that wore off as quickly as lager turns to piss.

The ultimate for me however was Dalglish. I was only 9, but my Dad told me at the time it was a top drawer signing and he wasn't wrong there.

[dww]

The signings that stand out for me have already been mentioned - obviously Torres, before that Collymore and actually Heskey and Litmanen seemed signs of intent at the time I was very excited about both of them. I guess for other teams I was pleased when Kitson got his transfer from Cambridge to Reading as I'd been tipping him to go on to better things for a while. Figo from Barca to Real also struck me as massive news at the time.

[wiw]

Alonso. At the time it was like, "who?! 11m? what?!"