Published 6 min ago Signing a player in winter can be excellent business. A player who doesn’t even make it onto this quiz as his fee is too low is Philippe Coutinho, sold by Inter to Liverpool for £8.3m January 2013. Whether the Brazilian’s future is at Anfield or not, that can hardly be called a bad transfer (unless you’re wearing black and blue stripes, perhaps). Yet plenty of the below do have the enjoyable mark of panic signings – a massive splurge from a desperate club, paying over the odds for a player they look at it and the summer and go: "Er, what do we do with him now?" Superb. So before this list gets completely obliterated by January 2018’s business,...
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