6 worst January transfers in EPL history

#1 Andy Carroll

Carroll was a Liverpool flop

Newcastle - Liverpool

Date of arrival - 31 January 2011

Transfer fee - £35m

Once hyped as the next big thing in English football, Carroll was extremely highly rated as a youngster and like other "English prodigies' before him, he proved to be nothing but an overrated player.

Having been the driving force behind Newcastle's immediate promotion back to the Premier League in 2010, Liverpool shelled out £35m (most expensive British and eighth overall transfer at the time) for the then 21-year-old to bring him to Anfield on deadline day in January 2011to replace the departing Fernando Torres.

Perhaps buoyed by the fact that they knew Liverpool were desperate to get their man and more importantly had a largesse of cash available, Newcastle inflated the price for the player and it is a purchase which every Liverpool fan regrets till this day.

In two years at Liverpool, Carroll scored just six goals in 44 Premier League matches, amounting to about £6m for every goal he scored and it is hard to find a higher waste of money anywhere in football history.