No matter how effective a club are in the transfer market, there are always players who slip through the net to leave supporters dreaming wistfully of what might have been.
Liverpool fans don’t have cast their minds back too far to recall the Reds supposedly closing on in top talents like Teddy Sheringham, Marcel Desailly, Dani Alvez and Alexis Sanchez to name but a handful, only to see them end up elsewhere and often come back to haunt.
Very occasionally though a player finally makes it to Anfield and delivers after years of speculation that he could one day become a Liverpool player and there are few finer examples than the veteran midfielder who raised serious eyebrows when being brought to the club on a free transfer at the ripe old age of 35 but played a hugely influential role in one of the club’s most exhilarating seasons and provided one of the Merseyside derby’s most iconic moments.
