12 Champions League Winners Who Played For Newcastle

5. Dietmar Hamann

Played For NUFC: 1998 - 1999. Appearances: 31, Goals: 5 Won Champions League: 2005, Liverpool Our capture of Hamann from Bayern Munich for £5.5 million in 1998 was considered something of a coup and without doubt ranks as a rose amongst the many thorns Kenny Dalglish brought to the club during his brief tenure. Regrettably we were only treated to a single season with the German international, in which he was the star of a painfully mediocre side, and gleefully jumped ship to join Liverpool in an £8m deal in pursuit of trophy success after just a year on Tyneside. Nine major honours in seven years justified his decision with a Champions League winners medal undoubtedly the highlight of Hamann's breathtaking array of silverware. It was his introduction as a half-time substitute that was a major contributing factor in the Reds success on that miraculous night in Istanbul in 2005 as they turned around a three-goal deficit in the second half to peg back AC Milan and eventually triumph on penalties.