Dirk Kuyt cost a massive £10 million when Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez bought him from top Dutch team Feyenoord. The giant from the Netherlands promised goals galore - but all we have seen are a few easy ones and a host of missed chances. 

Liverpool need a striker who is more of a complete player. They are now real contenders for Champions League glory, not just for this year but for years to come. But while they have found a winning formula in Europe, Kuyt is just not good enough to sustain this form.

He was a revelation in the Netherlands, first playing for FC Utrecht before moving on to Feyenoord. His first couple of seasons there were a success - he scored over 20 league goals in the first year and was an even bigger revelation with a club record 29 in the following campaign.

'While Liverpool have found a winning formula in Europe, Kuyt is just not good enough to sustain this form'


Benitez saw Kuyt as a goal machine, but what he failed to remember is that the Dutch Eridivisie is poor compared to the Premier League.  Players of average quality earning their living in England would look fantastic over in the country of tulips and clogs. 

Apart from Feyenoord, Ajax and PSV, the Eredivisie is of inferior quality.  It was only a matter of time before Liverpool, their fans and the Premier League realised that Kuyt couldn't cut it England - and especially not meet the famous Anfield side's expectations or ambitions.

Liverpool need to find a new striker to play up front with the likes of Fernando Torres, who with the right partner could be even more lethal than he is now.

The only saving grace for Kuyt was his goal recently in the first leg against Inter Milan in the Champions league. The tall strker will have to score plenty more before the season is out or he could see himself on the transfer market in the early summer. Although a Dutch international, Kuyt lacks the class of his Merseyside team-mates, so who will really be sorry to see him go?