10 Players Who Didn't Fulfil Their Potential At Liverpool

10. Bruno Cheyrou

When Cheyou joined Liverpool from Lille for £3.7m in the summer 2002 he was famously dubbed the 'new Zidane' by then Reds boss Gerard Houllier. It's fair to say that this added pressure did the Frenchman no good, and he would go on to produce very little in his two seasons in a Liverpool shirt. The 2002/03 campaign saw the midfielder make a total of 29 appearances in all competitions, and he scored just one goal, against Spartak Moscow in the Champions League group stages. His game was simply not catered towards English football, with a lack of pace, power and work-rate seriously working against him. In that respect, he couldn't have been any different from Zidane. Cheyrou's final season at Anfield- 2003/04- at least provided Liverpool fans with a couple of glimpses of what he was capable of. A winning goal at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea and an FA Cup double against Newcastle at Anfield won him a couple of weeks worth of praise, but that was all. He was shipped out on loan to Marseille and Bordeaux by new Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez, in 2004/05 and 2005/06 respectively, before departing on a permanent basis to Rennes in the summer of 2006. There haven't been too many Liverpool midfielders who have arrived with a bigger reputation than Cheyrou in recent times, but barely any have been as ineffective as him.