I wasn't happy at Liverpool - it was an opportunity I couldn't turn down but I ended up cold, fed up and alone

In years gone by, if I had told you that Liverpool were interested in signing a player who had played a starring role alongside Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero for the Argentina side that won the 2005 FIFA U20 World Cup, was a FIFA Club World Cup runner-up at the age of 21, played at a World Cup and enjoyed seven-and-a-half successful years in Serie A, most notably with AC Milan, you’d be forgiven for getting a little excited at such a prospect.

Yet, believe it or not, Rafa Benitez actually once signed such a player for the Reds.

Surely with such a C.V. he would have proven to be one of the Spaniard’s masterstrokes at Anfield? Especially when informed he scored on his Liverpool debut in 2006 too?

But alas, no. It never worked out on Merseyside with the guilty player moving on after just one season, having only made eight appearances for Reds and cursing his decision to even make the move to Anfield in the first place.

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The man in question? Gabriel Paletta.

So having thought to be something of a coup for Liverpool when signed in 2006 and actually gone on to enjoy a respectable career to date, where did it all go wrong for the Argentine under Benitez?

The defender first caught the attention of the Reds after starting all seven of Argentina's games as they won the 2005 FIFA U20 World Cup and following an impressive season with Club Atletico Banfield, where the Argentines even altered their Copa Libertadores squad for the knock-out stages to include the teenager.

With competition in his signature rife, Liverpool wasted no time in agreeing a £2m