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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Finlay Swift

Former Liverpool flop turned into a goalscoring machine at age 31 by Andrea Pirlo

Liverpool fans may remember Fabio Borini for some underwhelming performances in a red shirt, yet, under legendary Italian midfielder Andrea Pirlo, he has become a goalscoring machine at the age of 31.

Part of the Chelsea academy and signed by Brendan Rodgers in the summer of 2012, there were high hopes for the striker, who was well known to the Northern Irishman, having enjoyed a successful loan spell at Swansea in which he scored six times in nine games.

He'd since joined Parma and then Roma, where he'd boast of respectful record of scoring nine times in 24 appearances before Rodgers made him his first signing of his Anfield reign for £9m.

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