After Liverpool finished in the top-four last season, the fans expected a busy transfer window for Jurgen Klopp’s side, with the prospect of playing in the UEFA Champions League. And to a certain extent, it has been, considering that we have already snapped up the signatures of Dominic Solanke from Chelsea and Mohamed Salah from AS Roma.
As was thought, many fringe players who are not part of the plans for the manager will be shown the exit doors by the club in the summer.
One such player is Lazar Markovic. The Serbian winger arrived with great promise from Portuguese outfit SL Benfica in the summer of 2014, in a deal worth £20million. However, things have gone hardly according to plans for the 23-year old.
After loan spells in England and abroad, it is looking increasingly likely that Markovic will be sold in the summer with fellow Premier League outfit Watford being the touted destination, according to The Mirror.
The report also claims that Liverpool are willing to take an £8million loss on the player, with the club set to demand just £12million from the Hornets for Markovic.
With the transfer almost certain to take place, the Reds fans took Twitter to express their disappointment in the way Markovic’s career had failed to progress as anticipated and here we put together some of the best reactions on Twitter from the Kop:
Probably one of the most disappointing signings we've made in a few years. #Markovic had a lot of potential. Thought we did well. #LFC
— LFCZA 🇿🇦 (@LFCZA) June 27, 2017
They bring their players in young and cheap. We paid 20mil for Markovic as a 20 YO and played him at rwb killing his confidence.
— taahir (@taahir98) June 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/SaIahAkbar/status/879660929948024832
Under Rodgers we replaced Suarez with Lambert then brought in Markovic, Borini, Aspas etc. The club is moving forward massively under Klopp.
— – (@AnfieldRd96) June 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/JordanLFC1990/status/879469471689314305
If Lazar Markovic shows us anything, it's that sometimes FIFA potentials are a major bust
— Timmy (@timmyt19) June 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/MobyHaque/status/879553242073640961
4 years ago #LFC thought 16M was to much for Salah so they bought #EPL flop Markovic for 20M. Salah costs 40M now. Poor decision making.
— Marwan Ahmed (@MarwanAhmed_KF) June 9, 2017
They struggled to make Markovic look good on youtube. That's how you know it was a gamble! #LFC fans saying he looked class? No way!
— Paul Lyons (@paulglyons) June 27, 2017
Yes. He's shite. Got a lot of game time this season and still looked shite.
— James Kelly (@jkjamo) June 27, 2017
