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Tom Victor

"Six of the worst words" - 11 controversial transfers including Liverpool raid on Everton

More than two decades have passed since Nick Barmby left Everton for Liverpool, but plenty of the wounds are yet to heal.

The former England international is one of a select few to trade the blue half of Merseyside for the Red. It's not a move which happens a lot, and the reaction of Everton's chairman Bill Kenwright - even years after the fact - gives a clue as to why that's the case.

Barmby's move, back in June 2000, wasn't the first hugely controversial move and won't be the last. Here, Mirror Football looks at 10 deals which caused quite the stir, beginning with the deal which left Kenwright furious just months after the turn of the century.

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