'I was sold by Liverpool for just £4m - I now have more La Liga goals than Samuel Eto'o'

Iago Aspas may have not been the greatest striker that the Premier League has ever seen, but he has certainly proven his worth in La Liga after flopping at Liverpool.

The Spanish forward joined Brendan Rodgers' Liverpool side in the 2013 summer transfer window for an approximate fee of £7.7million (€10.8m). This move to the Premier League came after a successful 2012/13 campaign with Celta Vigo, where he scored 12 goals and assisted eight times in all competitions.

However, Aspas arrived at Anfield with two strikers already in front of him in the pecking order - Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge - and he struggled to replicate his impressive form for the English side. He made just five starts across the entire season, scoring a solitary goal in the FA Cup third round against then-League One side Oldham Athletic.

Following a dismal debut in the Premier League, he made a loan move to Sevilla while Rodgers added Rickie Lambert and Mario Balotelli to his ranks, alongside the return of Fabio Borini from a loan move.

Sevilla ended up triggering a clause in the deal to snap him up on a permanent basis for just £4.4m. Despite not regretting his time on Merseyside, Aspas admitted he had to leave because he wasn't being given the game time.

He did, however, admit he may have made an impact at Anfield had he stuck around rather than going out on loan to Sevilla due to Sturridge facing a period on the sidelines and Suarez's blockbuster move to Barcelona. Aspas added: "I am going to stay here for some years at Sevilla but I do have unfinished business as I felt I could bring much more things to the team, if I had been given more playing time.

"I think that if I'd been at Liverpool this year, I would have played a lot more games, with Sturridge's injury and Suarez not being there."

He spent one season at Sevilla, scoring 10 goals and leading the Copa del Rey as top scorer alongside Neymar - but he was about to return to a familiar haunt.

Sevilla activated the £4.4m (€6m) buy clause in 2015 and then promptly sold him back to his former club, Celta Vigo - and this is where he truly revived his career. Across 17 total seasons for Vigo, Aspas has scored a whopping 212 goals, assisting 82 times.

In La Liga, the Spaniard has scored 163 goals in 375 total appearances and overtook the iconic Samuel Eto'o, who has 162 goals in 277 appearances, after scoring the winner from the spot against Osasuna on Friday.

He has one trophy in his career, which wasn't won at Celta Vigo or at Liverpool, for that matter. Aspas won the Europa League in the 2014/15 season with Sevilla in a 3-2 win over FK Dnipro.

Despite how his Premier League time ended, Aspas holds no grudges against Liverpool or his former manager Rodgers - who now plies his trade at Scottish club Celtic.

Speaking to the Guardion in 2017, the 37-year-old said: "It was their best year for 10, 15 years, they were close to winning the league. [Daniel] Sturridge scored 21, Luis [Suárez] 31, so it’s normal that I didn’t get many chances. It didn’t annoy me; I understood that I couldn’t play with them at that level.

"It’s hard, of course: I’d played every game at Celta. But there are times you can’t play and when they win [without you], you know that. You have to take your frustration out on the training ground and the sessions were really good, at least."

The striker is still at Celta Vigo to this day, captaining his longtime side and looking to add to his LaLiga goal tally in the future.