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Assessing Damien Comolli's Liverpool transfer dealings

With former Liverpool director of football Damien Comolli having said he was sacked by the club's owners for his failures in the transfer market, ESPN FC takes a look at his signings during his two-year stay at Anfield.

Comolli signed nine first-team players when he was at Liverpool before he lost his job in April 2012. Here are how they fared:

Andy Carroll -- signed Jan. 31, 2011
Fee paid: £35 million

It is a transfer that is synonymous with Comolli's time on Merseyside. After Fernando Torres' departure to Chelsea for £50m on transfer deadline day, Liverpool reinvested the majority of the funds by spending a club-record fee for Carroll, Newcastle United's young No.