Top Ten Career destroying transfer fails

Top Ten Career destroying transfer fails

10) Robbie Keane (Tottenham to Liverpool)

One of the leading goalscorers in the Premier league then, Robbie Keane joined Liverpool from Tottenham for a whopping £20.3m . But his I'll fated move lasted just six months as the situations just turned for the worse as Robbie Keane joined Spurs back.

9) Joleon Lescott (Everton to Manchester City)

Despite shining at Everton, he looked completely out of his depth at City. No worries, what’s £24 million to an oil-loaded Sheikh? Just another transfer isn't it.

8) Arjen Robben (Chelsea to Real Madrid)

After helping Chelsea and Jose Mourinho to two back to back Premier League titles and other trophies, Real Madrid came calling for the Dutch winger. But his fall was so massive, that he played just 50 games for them in two and half season at the Spanish club, before moving to Bayern Munich.

7) Dmytro Chygrinskiy

The Ukranian could easily go down as the biggest mistake of Pep Guardiola's transfer indulgences. He signed from Shakhtar Donetsk for a fee of €25 million. However, a season later he would go back to the Ukranian outfit for 10 million lesser.

6) Sebastian Squillaci

Sebastien was shipped in from Lyon to solve Arsenal’s rocky defensive issues, but did quite the opposite. Squillaci was unable to fit in and form partnerships with the likes of Koscielny, Mertesacker and Vermaelen, and ended up in the reserves for the most part of the last campaign before inevitably being released when his contract expired.

5) Zlatan Ibramovich (Inter Milan to Barcelona)

After almost successful stint at Inter Milan, Zlatan Ibramovich made to Barcelona as a part deal of Samuel Eto'o who was moving in the opposite direction. But this move turned out to be miserable for Zlatan and the club as well, as he was finally sold to AC Milan the very next season.

4) Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan to Chelsea)

With Roman Abramovich the helm of the decision makings, he sanctioned a mega money move which then was a English transfer record for Andriya Shevchenko. Sheva, a prolific goal scorer at his time at Milan, scored just about 9 goals for Chelsea before being shipped off to a far distant country.

3) Ricardo Kaka (AC Milan to Real Madrid)

Perez was once again appointed as the president of the club, with Real being over shadowed by rivals Barcelona, Perez over saw a massive sea of spending with rebuilding of Galaticos. With Ricardo Kaka being the very first addition of it. Kaka moved from AC Milan to Real for a mind blowing £56m but could never justify his price tag in White jersey.

2) Fernando Torres (Liverpool to Chelsea)

Never had this been ever seen in the history of English football, Liverpool sold their star man to their direct rival Chelsea. Fernando Torres the flying Spaniard who'd score goals for fun while playing for Liverpool, failed miserably for Chelsea.

1) Sebastian Veron (Lazio to Manchester United)

Back in 2001, Juan Sebastian Veron became British football’s most expensive player. Expectations were sky high. Along with the price tag, Fergie described him as one of the best players in the world. Maybe the pressure was too much or maybe the English game just didn’t suit him, either way, Veron just never replicated his Lazio form in red.