#4 Fernando Torres to Chelsea
In Torres’ first season with Liverpool, he scored 24 goals in EPL play. During his entire stint with Chelsea, he only managed 20 EPL goals. Yet before the worst 6 seasons of his career would play out, he was being hailed as one of the best January transfers in EPL history. The prolific scorer would leave EPL giants Liverpool for their top-4 rival Chelsea.
Rare is it that in-form strikers are sold to premier league rivals in the January transfer window. After a bit of badgering and a 50 million pound transfer fee to good to pass up, Liverpool sold the best player they had under their employ in years.
With that cash, Liverpool went out and broke their own transfer record by signing Luis Suarez whose £22.8 million fee was then broken three hours later by Andy Carroll’s £35 million arrival.