With Raheem Sterling joining Manchester City for £49m, we look at nine other transfers that rocked the club - and how it responded to the departures
This was the 1970s, agents were a rarity, transfer windows didn’t exist, yet on Merseyside there was a man with a release clause. Yes, as well as appearing in Brut adverts, ‘KK’ was plotting his future in a manner that was ahead of his time, insisting Liverpool put a £500,000 clause in his contract so as to open up the possibility of a lucrative move abroad. And that is just what Keegan secured in 1976 – just like the Beatles he was heading to Hamburg.
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