The best free transfers in Premier League history is dominated by Liverpool.
James Milner seems intent on populating this list entirely by himself, but as Liverpool bid farewell to a club legend we look at the greatest Premier League free agents.In a way, Zlatan Ibrahimovic was emblematic of every wrong turn Manchester United had taken while stumbling through their post-Sir Alex Ferguson apocalypse.
At 32, and with his career winding down, the accusations were inevitable. The Premier League was not then as it is now; foreign talents were still viewed with suspicion. Gullit – voted runner-up to Eric Cantona in the Footballer of the Year vote in his first season – wasEverton will never deploy a two-man wall again, at least not when half of its components move out of the way before the ball is kicked.
Merseyside’s favourite namesakes remember him incredibly fondly. Manager Houllier described McAllister as his “most inspirational signing”; midfielder Steven later recalled a “masterclass on legs”, the “master” to his “awestruck pupil” and a Liverpool role model “I could learn from both on and off the pitch”. Even if he was initially furious at the arrival of his future assistant manager, telling his agent: “‘McAllister can f*****g well learn off me!'”.
One player remains on the King Power books nine years later. Marc Albrighton might not have expected to become a Premier League champion, FA Cup winner and Champions League goalscorer as a specific consequence of being released by Aston Villa in 2014, but those cunning Foxes saw something in the winger that Paul Lambert did not.
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