Wasn't it Avi Cohen?
As for fee I can't remember 100k?
Edit. Just saw nationality. If it's right he was from Israel
It was Avi Cohen mate you're right.
£200,000 we signed him for in 1979
He was actually born in Cairo,Egypt but he chose his nationality as Israel.
Played 24 times in a red shirt and scored one goal in his Liverpool career,a goal which helped us beat Aston Villa to clinch the League title in 79/80, minutes after he's scored an own goal at the Kop end.
Died tragically at the age of 54 in 2010.
Well done K78 the pencil's in the post
The point I'm making with this is how in nearly 40 years the influx of foreign players has had such an impact on our game.
Think after Avi we signed Grobbelaar for £250K and Molby for £???(free maybe? I know it was Joe Fagen who signed him) then it wasn't until 92 we signed the Norwegian Stig for £600K.
I can remember watching an England game in the 70's and i think 8 out of the 11 on the pitch we're Liverpool players.
The lure of the big money once the Premier League began opened the floodgates to what we now know as silly money players.
Once Sami Hypia(2.6m) and Patric Berger(3.2m) made their mark here in the late 90's the stakes just got higher and higher
and as we all know now transfer fee's are just beyond comprehension (Coutinho)
Was big Sami, Molby or Patric Berger enticed to the "bigger" stage in La Liga or elsewhere in Europe? No.
Simply because they knew which side their bread was buttered.
Playing for this club was, is and should be the ultimate privilege to any player who has the honour of wearing the shirt.
I saw the picture of Mo Salah in the LFC picture thread sat smiling looking relaxed and really happy at the recent training camp in Spain, he loves it here, no doubt about it.
Compare that to the poker face Pogba had on him after being subbed against Newcastle recently tells me there's only one team and manager these top players want to play for.