Liverpool Transfers: 10 Boyhood Reds Fans The Club Should Have Signed

If Kevin Nolan never cut it as a professional footballer, you’d have to think he’d be turning up at Anfield every other week cheering on the heroes of his local team. Even when he was an established Premier League player at Bolton, he popped up in Istanbul to cheer on the Reds alongside his fellow Kopites.

Before Nolan made a name for himself at Bolton, he had been on the books at his boyhood club. Hoping to make the grade at Liverpool, he had been with them for four years - between the ages of six and 10. There’s always been an affinity between Nolan and the Anfield club, with his words laced with emotion whenever he has spoken of them during his career. When Andy Carroll completed his shock £35 million move to the club in January 2011, the-then Newcastle captain didn’t express sorrow but rather delight for his friend in joining ‘a fantastic club’.

Perhaps Nolan would never have been a marquee signing for the Reds, but then was Jordan Henderson, Lucas or Craig Bellamy? The man has scored over 100 career goals from midfield, and is arguably one of the unluckiest men in recent times not to have won an England cap.

A solid goal-scoring midfielder for Bolton, Newcastle and West Ham, he would have been at least a valuable option to have coming off the bench.