For every new signing, the desire to make a good first impression can be all-consuming - particularly when they’re a striker.
No matter how high the price tag, for all the importance rightly given to aspects like workrate, linking the play and tracking back, goals are the currency by which all frontmen are judged and every single one of dream of getting off the mark as quickly as possible in their new colours.
No-one in Liverpool history has ever done it quicker at Anfield than Paul Walsh who arrived in L4 as one of the country’s most promising youngsters having been brought in to bolster one of the club’s most successful sides as the long-term replacement for one of the Reds’ greatest ever players.
