Signings that stick in your mind....

[Gaz]

Anelka, even though it was only a loan signing, i was really excited about the prospect of seeing him in the team

[Rich]

...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!

About 2) I remember reading an article in the Daily Mail just after the Sutton deal basically saying that Julian Joachim could well be the first £6m player... no idea why that sticks in the mind, but it did. And he wasn't!

[EST_1892]

the second coming of fowler.

The second coming of Rush beats Fowler for me. I was gutted when he left but over the moon he was back so soon.

Paul Ince was definately the biggest shock transfer. It took some getting used to !

Djibs had to be the signing that had so much expectation for me.

[mersey86]

Dalglish - I was excited at that one, but remember thinking we paid a bit much. I mean 440K was almost all the Keegan money.
Venison - my mate's Dad, an Evertonian, was laughing at me when that was announced. I liked Barry as a Liverpool player, though - he worked hard, showed consistent improvement and did the job asked of him.
Diouf - watching him play for Senegal in that World Cup I was convinced that Houllier had pulled off a masterstroke.
One I missed - Ronnie Rosenthal. I'd just arrived in Italy as part of my studies and was watching a friend's tv on the Saturday afternoon. We were losing late at home to Southampton when this sub came on who I'd never heard of before - and he looked good - Rushy scored 2 in the last 15 minutes with Ronnie's help. We never looked back and won the league.

[Darth Marty]

Rosenthal = Villa

[slimbimjim]

Roy Keane to Man Utd for £3.75 million! Saw a few games for Nottingham Forest and realised they had signed a ****ing good player.

The one that stick in my mind the most is Jurgen Klinsmann to Spurs. ****ing genius signing.

[El Jefecito]

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.

Are you sure? He said in an interview on the offall that he's only ever had 1 real injury before and that was the one in the season before he joined us. You kind of make it sound like he's an Aurelio, when I don't think that is the case at all.

[El Jefecito]

...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!

That was the one for me. I'd speculated about it a couple of months before it happened so when it actually came off I was flying.

[Lee]

Blimey, for us I guess;

Collymore - He was fantastic at Forest and was chuffed when we signed him.
Ziege - An attacking, goalscoring leftback when at the time it was a real weak spot for us.
Friedel - Read a few days before he signed that he was rated one of the top 10 keepers in the world so assumed he'd sort our defence out.
Litmanen - A true superstar forward, perhaps we signed him too late, or Houlliers tactics, or just that he couldn't adapt to the PL was gutting.
McAteer - Saw him at Bolton and he looked a world beater. A case of 'big fish little pond'.
Morientes - See Litmanen above! Gutted it didn't work out for him.
Gonzalez - After so much hype, plus his reprutation in Spain I thought we were getting one of the best wingers in the world.
Fowler - All time favourite player, I was over the moon when he returned.

Probably a few more that I've missed... can't really think of any other teams at the moment

[Shaggy]

I was staggered when we signed Anelka. December 23rd, I think it was. I remember the day vividly funnily enough....and couldn't believe the news.

[hertsred]

One for me was the signing of Dalglish - not least because it is weird to look back now and remember that signing exotic foreigners from places like Sctoland was a big deal!

[kop-al-74]

Collymore and Morientes are the 2 signings that had me creaming myself.

And to think i thought Torres would be too much of a gamble!

[kop-al-74]

I was staggered when we signed Anelka. December 23rd, I think it was. I remember the day vividly funnily enough....and couldn't believe the news.

That was a bolt out the blue but now days surprises are few and far between with the internet.

[ELNINO 9]

fowlers 2nd coming and collymore and robbie keane where the ones i was over the moon about . i thought torres would be another flop. how wrong was i

[El Jefecito]

fowlers 2nd coming and collymore and robbie keane where the ones i was over the moon about . i thought torres would be another flop. how wrong was i

JOin the club mate. Don't let them kid you. We are brothers in arms.