On this day in Liverpool history, Igor Biscan signed for the Reds from Dinamo Zagreb for £5.5m. Dan Kay takes a look back at the ups and downs of the 'Super Croat's' time at Anfield...
Whenever Liverpool’s miraculous Champions League triumph in Istanbul is recalled, chief among the aspects which have people shaking their heads in wonderment are the names of some of the players who made that heady night in the Turkish capital possible.
With the greatest of respect to them, Djimi Traore and Milan Baros - who both started against AC Milan in the Ataturk Olympic Stadium - along with the likes of Neil Mellor, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Anthony Le Tallec and Antonio Nunez, who all made valuable contributions en route to the final, are unlikely to ever make anyone’s all-time LFC XI and would, in all likelihood, have never been anywhere near getting into the far more accomplished Reds side that won the club’s sixth European Cup fourteen years later in Madrid.
