5 players who switched clubs and fell off the radar

#3: Andriy Shevchenko

Andriy Shevchenko’s move to Chelsea basically wrecked his career

One of the greatest European strikers of all time, Shevchenko is the classic example of a transfer going wildly wrong and practically wrecking a career.

After making his name with Dynamo Kiev, Shevchenko joined AC Milan in 1999/00 where he had his greatest successes, scoring a bucketload of goals and winning the Scudetto and the Champions League. He even won the Ballon d’Or in 2004. Around the same time, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich was making his takeover at Chelsea.

It was the summer of 2005 when Shevchenko was first linked with the Blues, but it wouldn’t be until the summer of 2006 that he made his move – breaking the British transfer record at the time with a £30.8m fee. Unfortunately, it felt from the off that he never quite fitted in at Stamford Bridge – the rumour at the time was that it was Abramovich, not manager Jose Mourinho who actually wanted the Ukrainian.

Shevchenko only spent two seasons at Chelsea, scoring a meagre 9 league goals in 47 appearances. He was shipped back to Milan and then Kiev in loan moves, but never recovered the form that made him so feared by defenders during his initial run in Italy.

He retired in 2012 and in hindsight should probably have never moved to Chelsea.