10 Most Expensive Transfer Flops In Everton History

When a club manages to prise a key player away from a rival team it either goes down as a coup, or a case of 'they offloaded him at exactly the right moment'.

Many of Ronald Koeman's signings are misfiring at the moment, but it's too soon to dismiss his summer captures as failures. Ashley Williams, however, has been a regular fixture in the team for over a year now and is failing to live up to his billing as a top-class international centre-half.

Everton paid £12 million to Swansea City for the 33-year-old's services, which is the equivalent of shelling out at least twice that sum for a player in his prime.

After a string of solid performances during his first season at Goodison, the Welsh captain is showing signs of being past his best, already having made a clutch of serious blunders during the 2017-18 term.

The timing of Swansea's decision to offload Williams is looking shrewd indeed. Will Gylfi Sigurdsson's big-money move to Goodison similarly benefit the Welsh club?