Forgotten Liverpool defender completes RECORD transfer deal | OneFootball

Players join and leave the club all the time and fans won't be aware of all of them.

This is because low-profile signings to the academy can be made discretely and unless they find a pathway to join the first-team, they're often moved on to bigger and better things without much faff.

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As has been the case with this one particularly former player, who failed to play a game for Liverpool in any capacity. He might have donned the Liverbird on his chest at one stage, but at no point was he on the pitch for the academy or the first-team in any sort of competitive fashion.

Throughout his six-year tenure at the club, he embarked on eight separate loan spells, meaning his minutes always came away from Liverpool and at no point was he recalled to prove his value to us.

His name is Anderson Arroyo, a defender from Colombia, and he's just made history.

Record transfer deal completed

Following an initial move to Liverpool from Fortaleza CEIF in January 2018, the 18-year-old was loaned out to Mallorca's B team, before subsequently joining KAA Gent, Mlada Boleslav, Salamanca UDS, Mirandes, Deportivo Leaves, FC Andorra and Burgos Club de Futbol, all while contracted.

It was only in 2024 that he left the club on a permanent move to his last loan club, where he played in La Liga 2, alongside a couple of Copa del Rey matches, before the club were knocked out.

The now 25-year-old defender spent one full-season playing for Burgos, getting regular game-time at a club that he could finally call his own, after failing to really introduce himself to Liverpool fans, but he's since gone elsewhere this past summer, broadening his horizons once more.