Whether it be in terms of whether they didn’t play as well as you expected them to be, or if they were injured/unfit all the time during their career at your club or perhaps got on bad terms quickly into their career at your club (e.g. Di Maria at Man Utd).
As a Liverpool fan, I can think of names like Aquilani, Robbie Keane, Morientes, Andy Carroll, Kewell, Litmanen, Nuri Sahin etc.
But the one that has to take the cake is Naby Keita. I was very excited when it was announced he would be joining us. He was like the 2nd best midfielder in the Bundesliga that season for Leipzig in the data and for a couple of seasons had shown a lot of great technical ability. He joins us and the rest is history. It’s not to say he didn’t have good moments with us when he had a run of games in the first team. But that was presicely the issue, getting a run of games. It was a constant cycle of spending over half his time injured and when returning, not always having his best games due to slowly returning to fitness and when he did start showing his sparkle he’d go off injured again for a while. I am not just gutted for us but gutted for him too in how it could’ve and should’ve turned out.
I’d say the last two windows jury’s out, some have looked positive. But barring summer 16 I think every window has been bad or meh since summer 14.
Lol “looked positive” be fr for the money we spent, we should be top of the table. Enzo didn’t score his first (and so far only) goal until this season and it was against a team in EFL 2!! At least Mudryk’s scored in the prem but it’s the same story.
For the hype and price that surrounded these players, they should be having a much greater impact
I guess, not really how football works though.