Signings that stick in your mind....

[AFII]

Mauricio Pellegrino. He was signed so Hyypia could get rested and learn the players Rafa's zonal marking.

That is the signing for me that shows how clever Rafa is.

[Joe King]

...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!

Shearer to Newcastle- a tremendous amount of money for then and still is. Quality striker, shame he had some bad injuries.

Torres signing- big money signing, marquee signing if you will. Balague linked him with us all summer long and he was a player who was linked with teams before but it was unbelievable that we did sign him. Fowler re-signing also was a huge shock.

[Exiled_red]

I was excited by signings of
Collymore - a record fee at the time
Kewell - I thought would be a good signing
Morientes - Ditto
I also got a bit carried away on the Ince being "the missing piece"

I worried as to whether Torres would make it in the Premiership and I was puzzled as to why we signed Gary Mac.

I've not got a great record, it's a good job I'm not a club scout

[Paul12]

+ Kenny paying £300k for a 17 year old Jamie Redknapp. It seemed a huge amount for someone who had played only a handful of games and was so young.
+ The Heskey signing made the nine o'clock news.
+ Kenny buying Aldridge, Beardsley and Barnes in the same summer. That was from another planet.

[spud_gun]

Uncle Roy signing both Babb and Scales on pretty much the same day. They were the center back pairing to return us to league glory.

[fah-q]

+ Kenny buying Aldridge, Beardsley and Barnes in the same summer. That was from another planet.

[Leyton388]

Harry Kewell:
What a ****ing amazing player he was for Leeds. When we signed him for £5m i could not hide my delight at the fact we had prob the best winger in world football at the time. What a let down that was as if he had stayed fit i have no doubt he would still be here tearing up Anfield.

The legend that is Gary Mac:
One of the greatest players to pull on the red shirt who should have been signed ten years earlier. Without him i don't think gerrard would be the player he is today as i am sure he showed him a thing or two.

[EST_1892]

Before the internet evolved and we were all playing the early versions of champ manager. I bought an unknown (to me) called John Scales and how surprised was I when Liverpool actually signed him 2 weeks later.

That sticks in my mind!

[Crazy-Horse]

Ossi Ardiles and Ricky Villa to Spurs after the 1978 World Cup... They were the great southern hope to break the control that Liverpool had on football.

We welcomed them to Anfield on September 2 1978, and I was making one of my earliest visits to Anfield from New Zealand. What a match! I bet the World Cup winners were wondering why they bothered leaving South America

[cumbriankop]

le tallec and sinama pognolle were our first 'wenger-esque' signings of recent years that were going to rule the world

i remember being genuinely optimistic about riise signing as well and after the man u goal i thought him at LM and vignal at LB would be an unreal combination with both interchanging

[dww]

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.

Well the write ups I read seemed to imply that that one injury had crossed several nominal comebacks. Whether fair or not the Germans I spoke to and who had heard of him gave the impression he was constantly in the treatment room - they described him a bit like Kewell in that maybe is was only one real injury but it seemed to drag on forever.

[Bender]

Rob Jones

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

Djibril anyone ?

£14 million, great goalscoring record, young and as fast as they come.

Shame.

[Joe Le Toff]

Torres (When id heard previously we were looking at Darren Bent)
Fowler 2nd time around
Anelka
Litmanen
Paul Stewart

[Marky]

Diouf to us. Thought he'd be the **** after watching him tear France apart in the 2002 WC.