After looking at numbers 12 to 9 in our list of the worst Premier League transfers to take place in January last week, we are now firmly on the home straight.

We will be profiling four deals today that were undoubtedly disasters for their respective teams, with none of them making any real impact on the English top-flight.

Sometimes a transfer may look a good piece of business initially but it can quickly transpire that a massive mistake has been made.

Press the next page as we continue to count down our worst January signings of the Premier League era (numbers 8 to 5).