9. Adam Lallana: Southampton to Liverpool – £25m
It’s not that Lallana is a bad player, far from it, but when you consider that Real Madrid paid just £19m for World Cup/Champions League/Bundesliga winner Toni Kroos then the Reds can start to feel that the got a raw deal. The England international will surely improve Brendan Rodgers’ midfield, but at what cost? Will he prove to be worth the outlay, or will it just be another case of paying through the nose for English talent in the top flight?