Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool have perhaps recruited better than any other Premier League team in recent years, they've really got it right with the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and many more.

But it hasn't always been like that at Anfield and today we're going to be revisiting a number of occasions where they have got it woefully wrong in terms of an incoming transfer.

So here's a look at Liverpool's 20 worst signings of the Premier League era...

Sean Dundee

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Liverpool's Michael Owen & Sean Dundee celebrate Steve McManaman's goal

Pictured above celebrating with one of the club's better acquisitions over the years Michael Owen, Sean Dundee was a true waste of money for Liverpool.

£2m may not seem like a lot of dough now at all but back in 1998 it was and all joint-managers at the time Roy Evans and Gerard Houllier would get for that lofty sum would be five appearances (all of them from the bench) and no goals from the centre-forward.

Charlie Adam

Despite that one cracking season in the Premier League for Blackpool, Charlie Adam was never good enough to represent a side like the Reds and he probably knew that as well.

That's why the creative Scotland international lasted just the one campaign on Merseyside in what was a very strange time for Liverpool Football Club.

Christian Benteke

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There are similarities between Adam and the next infamous member of this list, the man known as one of the attacking flops of all time at Anfield, Christian Benteke.

Then gaffer Brendan Rodgers splashed out an eye-watering £32.5m on the striker in the summer of 2015 and like both Adam and Dundee would last just the one term - ironically, Benteke left the north west with a record of ten goals in 42 matches, not too bad at all.

Alberto Aquilani 

Mention the name Alberto Aquilani and most Kopites would offer a chuckle, this is certainly not the effect that the Italian would have wanted to leave when he arrived from Roma for £17m plus bonuses prior to the 2009/2010 season.

In truth, Xabi Alonso was always going to be a hard act to follow and that role always had the potential to be a poisoned chalice to whoever had to fulfil it, however, the woeful Aquilani made a special mess of it and it's no small miracle that he managed to officially remain a Liverpool player for three years.

Milan Jovanovic

Famous for that hilarious video of his Reds best bits on Youtube, Milan Jovanovic turned up in the Red Half of Merseyside to a different manager to the one that signed him in 2010.

Roy Hodgson was hardly renowned for getting the best out of his players at Anfield and the Serbia midfielder is some example of that.

The balding winger is remembered at the Reds for the wrong reasons and 18 pathetic appearances after his signing he was shipped back to the league he tricked Rafa Benitez into thinking he was any good in, the Belgian first division.

Christian Poulsen

Is that a picture of Dirk Kuyt?

No, if Christian Poulsen was even half as decent for Liverpool as the legendary Dutch frontman he wouldn't be anywhere near this list.

Putting any ifs and buts aside, Roy Hodgson was probably right to identify the Dane's quality, after all he is one of the rare few to have played in all five of Europe's big five divisions, though by 2010 he was fast slowing down and his terrible only campaign in Anfield Road is best forgotten.

Tiago Ilori

All the big teams have done it, signing a youngster dubbed to be the next big thing in European or even world football only for them to flop massively.

Well, Tiago Ilori is the Reds' anti-climactic starlet and they paid a fair amount of money for him in September 2013, a reported £7m for the then 20-year-old who would only ever represent the club three times.

Paul Konchesky

As you may have already noticed, the Reds made some stinkers of signings around the turn of the decade, but none of them quite as terrible as Paul Konchesky.

The left-back was Roy Hodgson's main man at Fulham so he saw no reason why he couldn't follow him to play the same role at Anfield, however, his spell was nothing short of a total disaster shrouded by his mum's Facebook rant in which she branded Liverpool fans "scouse scum."

Mario Balotelli

Sure Mario Balotelli's mother never said anything bad about Kopites, but his football in Liverpool could hardly do the talking for him either.

The controversial character was alright at Manchester City and pretty impressive at the 2012 UEFA European Championships, however, Luis Suarez's were big boots to fill at Anfield plus there was always the weight of his £15m+ price tag - he was set up to fail really and did.

Joe Cole

Liverpool's decision to sign Joe Cole in the twilight of his career was a strange one and they got what they deserved for what was a poor bit of business.

The former England and Chelsea star may not have cost Roy Hodgson (yes, him again) any actual money but his £130k-per-week salary was obscene for what the Reds actually got, a mere 42 matches, five goals and three assists, sub-standard for any attacking midfielder let alone Cole.

Robbie Keane

It's difficult to work out why the Anfield outfit's move for one of the best strikers ever to grace English football still very much in his pomp didn't work out.

Robbie Keane had grown up dreaming of representing the Reds but when he got the chance to do that very thing in 2008 he failed to find his best by a long way and after half-a-season of trying to make it work went right back to where he came from, Tottenham Hotspur, causing Rafa Benitez's men a £7m loss.

Torben Piechnik

Torben Piechnik holds a special place in Liverpool fan folklore as a player so bad it was laughable and perhaps the worst to ever turn out for their great club.

It seems rather fitting then that he was acquired by one of the worst managers to ever grace the Anfield dugout in Graeme Souness too.

Whilst the 1992 European Championship-winning centre-back didn't cost the Reds a pretty penny, he blatantly wouldn't listen to instructions and decided to play his own way according to teammate Jan Molby and he stuck out like a sore thumb as a result, beyond dreadful.

Andy Carroll

When Sir Kenny Dalglish made Newcastle United's young bustling centre-forward Andy Carroll the most expensive British footballer of all time in January 2011, there was much excitement on Merseyside.

But Carroll would never fulfill his true potential at Liverpool or any other side for that matter, mostly due to injuries, and left for West Ham United two years later having mustered up a sorry 11 goals in 58 outings - what a waste.

Iago Aspas

It's not often that one moment can sum up someone's whole career at a certain club but anyone who remembers Iago Aspas' corner against Chelsea will know that it can happen.

The Spain striker only ever scored once for the Reds and that strike came in the FA Cup against lowly Oldham Athletic, making him a laughing stock.

However, as surprising as it may be, Aspas has actually been able to save some face since leaving England at the end of his second Liverpool season, scoring for fun in La Liga, which is undoubtedly his level.

Fabio Borini

If versatile attacker Fabio Borini never made it at Chelsea he was never going to be likely to be up to scratch for the Reds and this was what new manager Brendan Rodgers should have realised when he made him his first Liverpool acquisition.

Instead, the Welshman was blinded by his liking of the one-time Italy international and the rest, as they say, is history - if you count history as a dire 38 appearances of pure atrociousness.

Lazar Markovic

If you take away the 2013/2014 season, Brendan Rodgers' spell at Anfield was pretty sub-par and the same goes for most of his signings, including the £20m Serbian youngster Lazar Markovic.

Unfortunately, the winger will be remembered more for his foul antics that cost the Reds qualification for the group stages of the 2014/2015 UEFA Champions League and not anything positive he did with the liver bird on his jersey. Was there anything positive anyway?

Stewart Downing

The Reds' highly questionable year of recruitment in 2011 strikes again as we come to the latest member of our gallery, Stewart Downing.

The uninspiring winger was never the most exciting footballer even in the prime of his career, which had passed in the rearview mirror by the time he arrived on Merseyside but somehow, the traditional former England star was still able to figure on 91 occasions for Liverpool.

Djimi Traore

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Sometimes in football you encounter a regular player so consistently poor that they become something of a cult hero among their club's fanbase and Djimi Traore is essentially the definition of that.

The disaster-prone left-back is surely one of the worst stars to ever win the Champions League and Kopites who weren't jumping on the bandwagon of making light of his awful play were forced to put up with Traore for seven years following his 1999 move from French minnows Laval.

Bruno Cheyrou

Gerard Houllier once remarked that Bruno Cheyrou was the next Zinedine Zidane and apart from the fact that Cheyrou looked a little like his fellow countryman, the gaffer was off-the-scale wide of the mark.

Houllier's incorrect estimation of the midfielder perhaps explains why he threw away £4.5m, a lot of money in 2002, on him as there's little else to justify the waste of money.

Maybe if Cheyrou hadn't had such pressure placed on his shoulders right from the off, he might not have embarrassed himself in English football and may have lived up to that ridiculous tag after all.

El Hadji Diouf 

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Liverpool's El Hadji Diouf and City's Sylvain Distin 
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And finally, we come to the final shocking acquisition of Liverpool's 20 worst signings of the Premier League era, the loathsome El Hadji Diouf.

When he wasn't spitting at everything that moved, the Senegalese striker was showing Houllier up for ever having faith in him and more damningly, spending £10m on him - only recording a pathetic six goals in close to a century of appearances on Merseyside.