Andrea Dossena, a man Liverpool once shelled out £7million for, has been arrested on suspicion of shoplifting in Harrods.

The 33-year-old, who now plies his trade with League One strugglers Leyton Orient, was arrested at the Knightsbridge store on Tuesday.

Dossena, whose crowning moment for Liverpool came when he scored the winner against Real Madrid in the Champions League, was later bailed.

Andrea Dossena (scoring for Liverpool against Real Madrid) has been arrested on suspicion of shoplifting

Dossena celebrates with Ryan Babel after scoring against Manchester United in March 2009

DOSSENA'S LEAGUE CAREER Games Goals Verona (2001-05) 99 3 Treviso (2005-06) 21 0 Udinese (2006-08) 63 3 Liverpool (2008-10) 18 1 Napoli (2010-13) 83 3 Sunderland (2013-14) 7 0 Leyton Orient (2014- 13 1

He also netted four days after that strike against Real back in March 2009, lobbing Edwin van der Sar away at Manchester United in a 4-1 win. He earned around £40,000-a-week at Anfield.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: 'Police arrested a 33-year-old male and a 31-year-old woman on April 7 on suspicion of shoplifting at Harrods.

'They were taken to a west London police station.

'Both the man and woman have been bailed to a date in late April, pending further enquiries.'

Dossena has been capped by Italy on 10 occasions and also played for Sunderland under Paolo Di Canio and Gus Poyet at the back end of last season.

Dossena signed a short-term contract with League One strugglers Leyton Orient back in November

He was heralded by Rafa Benitez on arriving on Merseyside from Udinese back in 2008, but made only 13 Premier League starts for the club.

Dossena has appeared 13 times for Orient this season but has found life tough in the third tier.

Leyton Orient released a brief statement on Wendnesday, saying: 'The Club are aware of the incident reported earlier today involving Andrea Dossena.

'However, the Club is not in a position to make any further comment on this matter whilst it is being dealt with by the authorities.'

No-one at Harrods was available for comment.

Since publication of this article, representatives for the player have informed us that the incident was down to an oversight when he forgot to pay for honey and dried beef. Dossena was informed by police on April 10 that no further action would be taken.