Top Ten: Football transfers that shocked the world

3) Fernando Torres

January 31st 2011 still remains the busiest day in English transfer history when 135 million pounds were spent on transfers. And 50 million of those were received by Liverpool as a British record fee for Fernando Torres – betrayal was the watchword.

The prodigal son of Liverpool, who was adored by the fans, had told the local Liverpool papers just a few weeks before about how he loved the club, the fans, and how he would like to spend his entire career there, until, Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea came calling and he changed his mind. It was the shock of the year.