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It is always a sad time for football fans when they see a player they idolise walk off the pitch for the last time and even sadder for those running the club when they move on for free  – a feeling Liverpool know all too well.

Divock Origi is the latest cult hero to head out the Anfield exit door this summer, joining current Serie A champions AC Milan on a four-year contract.

The Reds have seen plenty of other modern-day heroes leave the club for nothing over the past 20 years, and we have taken a look at Origi plus seven others.

Origi, while never the greatest goalscorer, cemented himself in Liverpool folklore after a string of famous goals against Everton, Barcelona and Tottenham.

As Andy Robertson succinctly put it on Twitter after Origi scored a heroic winning goal at Wolves in December 2021, “I’ll take my grandkids to visit the Divock Origi statue one day.”

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Two goals in that iconic Champions League semi-final against Barcelona in which Origi also found the net cemented Wijnaldum’s place in Liverpool’s history books.

Unfortunately, a new contract could not be agreed between player and club, and he joined PSG in June 2021 on a free transfer. The Netherlands international left Anfield with just under 200 appearances, 22 goals and four trophies to his name.

It hasn’t gone anywhere near as well in Paris and has even been omitted from recent Netherlands squads.

In June, Oranje manager Louis van Gaal said: “Unfortunately, little has changed in Gini’s situation at his club since our last two international matches in March. As