Much was expected of James Beattie when he joined for £6m in 2005, making him Evertons most expensive ever signing, but he ultimately failed to impress at Goodison Park. Beattie had previously spent the majority of his career at Southampton, managing to score 68 league goals in 202 appearances during a seven-year stay at the club. During the 2002-03 season he even managed to score 23 league goals, leaving him third on the Premier League goal scoring charts that year and the highest Englishman on the list. That kind of goal scoring prompted a £6m move to Everton in 2005, but the striker simply failed to settle on Merseyside and his most famous incident in the Royal Blue was probably his sending off for head-butting William Gallas. He would score just 13 league goals in 76 appearances for the club before moving on to Sheffield United, later blaming David Moyes for his demise at the club. Unfortunately for the striker, he was simply not the right fit for the puzzle and his career suffered as a result.
