Today, we start a series of posts looking at some disastrous transfers that have taken place in January over the years.

We have not restricted our choices to those that happened after the transfer window was introduced in the 2002/03 season so do expect a few transfers that occurred earlier than that.

Since the advent of the January window, it has been commonly associated with panic buys and there are a few that fall into that category on this list.

Press the next page as we list our worst Premier League signings in January (numbers 20 to 17).