£20.3million on Robbie Keane: Expensive mistake or a striker just out of form?

When Robbie Keane signed from Tottenham in the summer, everyone expected him and Fernando Torres to enjoy the same success Keane & Berbatov had at Spurs, but the £20million man has struggled to live up to his massive pricetag - is it simply a case of him not finding his form or was it a mistake signing him?

Keane has Premiership experience, so it is not as if anyone can use the age old line "give him time to adapt to the pace of English football", so why isn't he scoring?

4 goals in 22 appearances - doesn't exactly make good reading does it? Don't get me wrong, i want to see hitting the back of the net every week, but what is going on? He bagged 23 goals last season - an ideal signing , the "20 goals a season" striker we have been looking for, but with Fernando Torres out, Liverpool fans dont seem convinced that he is going to get near that tally again.

You only have to look at his face every time he gets subbed to see he is pissed off at not getting the full 90 minutes, but the way he is playing why should he get a full game? Everyone gets on the backs of Kuyt, Lucas etc after one bad game, so how many more is Keane going to get?

He has commanded massive transfer fees wherever he has been (nearly £60million in total), so he has obviously done something right - if we were seeing the Robbie Keane of last season i guarantee we would be more than 1 point ahead of Chelsea in the league. I; like everyone else was excited when he signed, thinking that maybe it could be "our year" and that we wont be relying on Torres for a match winner all the time, but something has to give sooner or later; he needs to start scoring.

Rafa has seen an array of strikers leave during his reign at Anfield : Bellamy, Fowler, Cisse, Baros, Pongolle, Crouch, Mellor, Morientes, Voronin - how much longer before Keane joins that list? Will Rafa admit he made a mistake in spending such a large amount on Robbie, cut his losses and sell him to someone like Newcastle for £10million at the end of the season, or will he change his tactics to accomodate Keane's game and help him rediscover his goalscoring touch?

I am hoping for more goals like this one from our number 7, and hopefully we won't be waiting too much longer :