For three and a half years, Southampton would have been sick of the sight of Liverpool as the Reds plucked player after player from the Saints.
With £65m from selling Luis Suarez to Barcelona in the summer of 2014 burning a hole in their pocket, Liverpool snapped up Rickie Lambert (£4.5m), Adam Lallana (£25m), and Dejan Lovren (£20m) from the South Coast club as they looked to build on their title miss from the year before.
Social media ‘banter’ accounts would take great glee as the Reds finished that season in a disappointing sixth, just two points and a place above their Southern ‘feeder club’. Nathaniel Clyne would follow in their footsteps in a £12.5m deal in the summer of 2015, as Liverpool’s struggles continued.
