Liverpool: 10 Over-Priced Flops Who Failed At Anfield

$10 million pound transfer fee but his extortionate wages - which if signed by Liverpool would make him a higher earner than captain Steven Gerrard and superstar Luis Suarez. That shouldn't happen, especially with Sneijder's injury issues and his worth to Liverpool upon his signing. Please Note: Since this article was drafted, Sneijder now looks close to moving to Galatasaray. A big price does not always correlate to a good player. Prices can get pushed up for various reasons: the buying club may be desperate, the buying club may have excessive funds and are there to be exploited or the player is so valuable to the selling club that they hold onto him until the money becomes ridiculous, Steven Fletcher's transfer from Wolves to Sunderland, for example. With a big time price tag comes big time pressure and some players can't mentally survive the attention of playing at a big club with a worldwide fan base focusing in on every little mistake. A high-priced player can flop for a variety of reasons such as being homesick if they are signed from abroad, a change in manager early on at the new club or getting injured and never being able to recover properly. Liverpool have had successes when flashing the cash in the forms of Fernando Torres, Luis Suarez, Javier Mascherano and Glen Johnson, but there have been a number of expensive flops and Rafael Benitez' transfer record is by far the most scrutinised of recent Liverpool managers, despite leading the club to their biggest success in twenty years.