4) Djibril Cisse
A serious case of what could have been. Liverpool beat off competition from all over Europe to sign the young Auxerre forward, who at the time, was rated as one of the most promising strikers in world football. Tragically, two broken legs ruined his chances of reaching his potential. Cisse still scored his penalty in the Champions League final shootout in 2004/05 though, and bagged in the FA Cup final victory one year later. He finished his Reds career with 26 goals in two seasons.
3) Ian Rush
Rush would undoubtedly be no.1 had we been considering everything he’d done throughout the 1980s, but this list only takes the Premier League era into account. Our record ever goalscorer notched 45 goals in the top flight from the competition’s inception in 1992/93 until he left to join Leeds in 1996/97.
