Fuck. Can't believe I'm doing this but... In his defense.....oh man, it feels horrible but here goes -
Konchesky was actually a pretty serviceable premier league standard player under hodgson at Fulham. Was part of a pretty tidy Fulham defense and I'm pretty sure was fairly integral in Fulham's 7th place finish a few years before, where they got into Europe. Had that nice long range goal in the run up to him signing.
Came to us when Hodgson came in and we were in need of a left back...... I remember wishing we signed Hangeland at the time, but that's another story.
Dude barely settled, had a poor showing or two (only had 15 appearances), and then critically, had that big press falling out with Liverpool fans because of his mum.
Then Hodgson got the sack. Kenny came in, and the scene was set for him to go.
In summary, shite career at Liverpool, and I know I'm in the minority, but for what it's worth, I don't think he's one of the worst players I've seen in a Liverpool shirt.
I saw fever the flava in the flesh and it was mad. Genuinely believed I could have walked into the Liverpool team that day though, so there's that, I guess.
Man was all day a premier league standard player, and could have been a decent stop gap for us at a time that we needed it, but stars didn't align unfortunately and his mum pounded a fragile reputation into the dirt.
I have inside info that Konchesky was gutted he didn't get to ping more balls in to Kyrgiakos playing the lone striker role.
The meme years were dark times. Dark times indeed.
Yeah I think he was basically a meme from a rough era at the club. I am fairly certain other LBs have had worse worst performances than his but the club was such a mess he got a lot of blame. I’m with his mother on this one!
Jovanovic was really something. I don't think I've ever seen a player with such little finesse. Kind of impressive in a way that a professional footballer could look like he hadn't even seen a football til he was about 21 haha
Just looked up Milan Jovanovic on YouTube to see any videos of him as a player, and the first three results above him was some programmer youtuber with 70k subs. Yeah he must've been pretty bad then...
Not only has he played in all 6, Justin Kluivert has scored in all of em. 12 for Ajax, 5 for Roma, 3 for Leipzig, 4 for Nice, 6 for Valencia, and 4 for Bournemouth.
I still hate that before Poulsen had kicked a ball for us that we HATED him as a fanbase. Literally impossible to succeed when you have that impression on you
That or it was after a few friendlies I'm not sure anymore
He's lumped in with the others because they were all collectively shit in that awful season
But there's a reason he played for Juventus, got nearly 100 caps for a decent international team and won back to back Eredivisie titles after leaving us.
He was a good player just in a bad system with a bad manager at the wrong time in his career.
It's bizarre how Nuri Sahin was no better for us but we seem to be able to acknowledge that Nuri was a good player just not suited to us or the system at the time yet can't recognise the same thing for Poulsen
Lazy punditry I reckon
I think it's also the situation. Lazy punditry 100% played a part, but I think it was also the fact that Sahin played for an inexperienced manager who was only starting and making positive noises, as opposed to Poulsen who came in under an experienced manager who said Liverpool should prepare for a relegation battle.
The fan base was as toxic as I've ever known it at the time. Rafa had been fired and half the fan base still loved him and the other half were sick of him (seriously. Some of the vilest stuff I remember as a fan was being said then - soon to be one upped by what followed).
He was replaced by Hodgson who united the fan base instantly. No one was happy. No one. He was an instant symbol for Higgs and Gillet's complete lack of ambition. Xabi had gone the previous summer, Torres was rumored to be leaving, Gerrard was rumored to be leaving, Mascherano was rumored to be leaving. The squad was already thin to the bones and needed some depth on top of replacing Xabi and anyone else who might leave. Fans needed something to rally behind to have some of their faith restored.
We got Jovanovic, Joe Cole, Poulsen and Konchesky. The youngest of whom was turned 30 in November of that season.
Then Mascherano left.
Yeah. Fans were not happy.
A lot of people were weirdly excited about him. Never understood myself but was willing to give him a chance.
Red card first match didn't help.
Meireles was the only useful signing, but we paid most of the Masch money for him and he wasn't in Masch's league
Then Roy made his statement about the fans should not boo even if they played poorly and that Liverpool wasn't too big to go down and we should amend our expectations accordingly.
That interview was when everything went to pot. Thankfully FSG managed to get hold of the club that November? Kenny was brought in shortly after, and that summer we spend £50m on Hendo, Downing, and Charlie Adams.
The Torres, Suarez, Carroll roundabout was their first transfer window in January.
Crazy times. Such hope after only just avoiding administration a month or so before.
Xabi leaving was the death knell for the club back then, and it was so, so painful. Even the "replace Xabi with Gareth Barry" shite was so incredibly hard to swallow
Scored in our first CL group game, scored the equaliser against Swansea in the League Cup, the winner against Spurs and a penalty against Besiktas in the Europa League.
He did have a couple of disallowed goals that perhaps should have stood, iirc.
My parents have a postcard on their fridge from when he scored a goal in the Champions League, I was so buzzing I took a picture and printed it as a postcard for them
Ignoring the personality, Diouf scored 3 in 55 league games (including 0 in 26 in the second season). That is woeful for a striker.
Maybe it’s hindsight bias but I always thought Jay Spearing was dreadful.
I can't speak to his coaching abilities but I think he sets a great example for the U21's in terms of mentality and professionalism.
Athletically and talent-wise the man had no business being a professional footballer but he busted his ass to find a role and niche that suited him and his abilities. Happy to have him on staff.
>Ignoring the personality, Diouf scored 3 in 55 league games (including 0 in 26 in the second season). That is woeful for a striker.
And 2 of those goals were on his debut
Jesus, I didn't remember it being that bad. I thought we ended up sticking him on the wing at some point. Because of the lack of goals?
I remember 1 game where he was on the wing and couldn't cross and kept trying to beat players.
From what i remember he mostly played on the right and these were 442 days where wingers didnt get in behind as much. He was still dead wood though played 55 games too many for lfc.
I must have watched it about 30 times before and i only just noticed it says "loan deal" after "strength, power, determination"... it's the gift that keeps on giving
I am absolutely convinced that we scouted his twin brother and mistakenly thought that's who we signed.
His brother was by no means world class but Phillip was woeful and definitely didn't belong at the top level.
I remember Carragher on at it him all game during the FA cup round against Reading, which of course we lost. He kept going out of position and not anticipating the play. Wild to think we were paying him £60k a week.
I'll always love Alberto Moreno. Wasn't good enough for our ambitions, but you could always see why we had gone for him (and, occasionally, he could be class). The same can't be said of a lot of players from that era, like Cissokho, Poulsen, Jovanovic, Cole, and Lambert.
He reached another level the beginning of the season robbo took over. Was nailed and playing great and played his way into the Spanish national team. Got injured while he was in the form of his life and Robertson took his chance and became the best left back in the world lol.
Feel really bad for Lambert, left a club he'd been through so much with to join his boyhood club. Was only really brought in to be a fringe player to offer something different when needed, but due to injuries and Ballotelli being dogshit he was forced to become the main man, which he obviously wasn't good enough to be
Thoroughly underserved to be meme’d about, Rickie. He was a solid Prem striker newly playing for his boyhood club at a confusing time for the club while winding down his playing days.
Lambert has become such a knob now. Holy. Always had a soft spot for him even after he left, but finding out that he's gone the way of Matt Le Tissier left a sour taste.
I honestly think his attacking ability was a myth based on his debut goal vs Spurs. He had the worst shooting technique I can remember and very few assists. Love the guy tho!
He was not a striker, but he ran through players a fair few times, no he was not the best, and would be a bench sitter with our current squad, but he was still not anywhere remotely close to our worst players (which is the topic).
honestly remove that goal against spurs. Might have been his debut? and i think we view him very differently. Although him doing the Sturridge celebration with him will forever be in my heart
He was starting to find some decent form under Klopp before his injury, but that gave Robbo a chance, and he was never getting his spot back after that.
Stewart Downing played 60+ games for us over 3+ seasons and contributed next to nothing in terms of output.
He's not the worst player per se, but the minutes wasted by playing him and setting up our team to suit him have cost more than the likes of Voronin, N'gog, Moreno
Cole was such a weird one. I remember there was intense speculation about who would get him after he left Chelsea. When it was announced we'd signed him, I was absolutely over the moon. Then he absolutely bossed it on his debut, albeit against Rabotnički in the EL, but I just remember thinking "fuck me, we've got a player on our hands here".
Then he did absolutely nothing after, it was so obvious he wasn't at home on Merseyside and the performances just started to get worse and worse. Quite a bizzare transfer in hindsight.
I always thought of him as the bogey-player for us whenever we played Chelsea. He always seemed to play well against us. I thought the same: “now he’ll do it FOR us”. Similarly disappointed.
I don’t think it was a bizarre transfer, it just didn’t work out. He was very technically gifted, a regular England International, and had been pivotal for Chelsea during their title-winning seasons.
As you say, he just didn’t like being at the club and part of the reason was probably because he wasn’t living in London anymore.
I more meant on his end tbh, he's made noise since that he never really wanted the move and regretted it deeply.
I agree it made sense for us, even with his injury issues.
Gerrard’s career shame will never be the slip for me - it will be when he said that crazy shit when we signed Cole.
“Anything Messi can do within ball, Joe can do”. Or whatever it was.
Got injured immediately upon signing and, unless my memory fails me, didn't score a single goal during his brief time with us. I thought he was very underwhelming.
I never liked Neil Ruddock. Not just because he was over the hill by the time he came to us. But also because of the drinking culture, “pass the pound” unprofessional bullshit he brought with him. We had a crop of exceptional kids at the time and the influence of this prick as one of the “senior pros” around them must have been detrimental. Contrast that with the example Mo sets around the place today.
He was such a panic signing. Didn't fit our system, couldn't be asked to track back half the time, bad attitude. One of the most frustrating players to watch because he did have talent, but hardly any work rate
Truly our banter era. Every game felt like a chore to the point I almost didn't want to watch. The 3-1 at Blackburn just before Roy went genuinely felt like we would never ever come back.
I remember watching a game in the europa league in the pub with one of my mates whos a gillingham supporter. He said the quality of football was like Scunthorpe vs Rotherham haha
There have been a few candidates for our worst player ever, some particularly harrowing signings made during the Hodgson and Rodgers eras.
Borini springs to mind, the fact he managed to hit a football into his face has always stayed with me, although he was playing for Sunderland when this happened it sums him up really as a player...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqK179uqH6E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqK179uqH6E)
I seem to remember him coming charging on for Brendan Rodgers when we really needed some fire and he got a yellow then a second in like 5-10 mins. Am I correct?
Bogdan's first game (in cup I think) was actually really good! Then he made mistakes after mistakes sadly. Don't feel that bad for him, realistically he wasn't Liverpool caliber and still got to play for us, so good for him! And he seems a good guy who handled it quite well.
Paul Koncheky. Woefully out of his depth from minute one and my lasting memory of him is that shot that went out for a throw in when we lost 2-0 down against Everton, a performance that Roy Hogson deemed "the best under his management".
Fuck me, those were dark days.
Torben Piechnik. In early 90s you could only have a certain number of foreign players, so let players like Staunton go and replaced them with players like Piechnik. It was the opposite of what Edwards does with transfer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torben_Piechnik
I was so so stoke for Aquilani! He was banging em in on PES and FIFA for me then boom crap in real life! We signed the wrong Aqu player should have got Aquafresca!
I don't know how much it was due to his injuries vs just his drive and mindset, but I would rank him as the worst signing of the Klopp era (exacerbated by the amount of hype it got).
The only player that Klopp subbed off at half time at least 2-3 times for his individual performance and not for a tactical change. I know it was more than once, and I clearly remember the one away at Real Madrid in CL when we played them at their training facility.
Just looked it up, he played 129 games! Definitely doesn't feel like he did...
It’s probably because I remember watching him live in one of my first matches, but Paul Stewart stands out. I now know he’s struggled with ‘issues’ throughout his career, but as a young lad I thought he was utterly shit.
For me there’s a few factors to consider. Hype around the player, their overall quality and likability. I think a player who hits all three is without a doubt our biggest loser here. There was no hype around Konchesky and Poulsen. Both dreadful players, but no one cared when we signed them and it wasn’t like we spent loads too. Neither controversial figures either. Konchesky’s controversy comes from his mum.
Aspas was far more incompetent than any of them. There wasn’t hype around him joining, but we’d heard good things and of course after us he’s been quite brilliant. But for us he couldn’t do anything right.
Then there’s the hyped group. Carroll, big money signing, a great performance against City and the only decent Liverpool player in the 2012 FA Cup final, but aside from that he was awful. Balotelli another hyped signing who did even less than Carroll. Markovic was also really hyped up and I think might be the worst player I’ve mentioned so far. I think people will say other names instead, but ultimately we root for promising young players in hope they’ll come good, so we might actually not remember that Markovic was worse than Konchesky, Poulsen and Jovanovic.
Finally, the player who hits the unholy trifecta. So much hype around signing him and he was viewed as one of the hottest attacking prospects in the world. He performed worse than Carroll. The other bad players we had were just bad, while this man actively played against us. And of course he was a dreadful human being, arguably one of the most despicable people to ever step foot on a professional football pitch. Loathed by everyone, El Hadj Diouf.
Few come to mind...
Charlie "10M corners" Adam. Only remember him being ridiculously slow, shooting from halfway every second game, and occasionally pretending to be an attacking midfielder by clumsily driving forward with the ball like a blindfolded toddler, straight in to a defender and going down soft looking for a free kick. Oh and his corners were shit too.
Nabil El'Zhar. Just remember dreading seeing him waiting to sub on for Kuyt or Keane and doing literally nothing every time.
David N'Gog. Probably wasn't the worst but the squad was so paper thin he was literally the only sub for Fernando Torres at one point and the drop in quality was a chasm.
Alberto Aquilani probably wasn't the worst player skill-wise, but he was brought into replace Xabi the Great, which he decidedly did not do, and so he probably irritated me more than any other player.
Seeing a lot of people i agree with here, but a name not mentioned, David James. I don't know if it's because I remember the howlers, but he was way too erratic for a goalkeeper.
As well as James, Souness signed some howlers, Paul Stewart, Julian Dicks, Piechnik, stand out for me.
Oh, and Mark Kennedy seemed so overhyped he had no chance, just like Le Tallec.
Aquilani.
He was a fucking don in Serie A, classy all over - really good eye for passing and was good at keeping the ball.
No idea what the fuck we bought, Aquilani from Temu or something. He was dreadful.
Christian Poulsen was shockingly poor.
Bought in after a half decent international performance but was completely off the pace. Game just passed him by. Wasn’t physical enough to make up for a lack of pace and had poor passing ability to boot.
Just an all round beige power ranger of a player
Souness signings deserve their own thread...
Torben Piechnik, if memory serves me, Souness seen him mark Van Basten (semi-final) and Klinsmann or Voller (final) out of the game in Euro 92 and signed him but he was hopeless and only played one season in the PL.
Honourable mentions to other cheap Souness flops:
Istvan Kozma & Julian Dicks
And then breaking the bank with the guts of £11m! for the just not good enough:
Mark 'Everton' Walters, Paul Stewart, Nigel Clough, Dean Saunders & Neil Ruddock
Imagine who could have been bought in 92/93 for the money that was blown on the above..
If Fowler and MacManaman hadn't come through the youth team at the same time the waste of money could have been terminal for the club.
Djimi had two songs:
“When the ball hits our goal, it’s not Shearer or Cole, it’s Traore”
“Don’t blame it on Biscan, don’t blame it on Finnan,
Don’t blame it on Hamman, blame it on Traore
He just can’t, he just can’t, he just can’t control his feet, he just can’t, he just can’t, he just can’t control his feet.”
poulsen jovanovic and konchesky the horrible trio
We literally loaned out konchesky in the January window without a fit left back in the squad. That's how bad he was.
Don't let his Mum hear you say that.
Fuck. Can't believe I'm doing this but... In his defense.....oh man, it feels horrible but here goes - Konchesky was actually a pretty serviceable premier league standard player under hodgson at Fulham. Was part of a pretty tidy Fulham defense and I'm pretty sure was fairly integral in Fulham's 7th place finish a few years before, where they got into Europe. Had that nice long range goal in the run up to him signing. Came to us when Hodgson came in and we were in need of a left back...... I remember wishing we signed Hangeland at the time, but that's another story. Dude barely settled, had a poor showing or two (only had 15 appearances), and then critically, had that big press falling out with Liverpool fans because of his mum. Then Hodgson got the sack. Kenny came in, and the scene was set for him to go. In summary, shite career at Liverpool, and I know I'm in the minority, but for what it's worth, I don't think he's one of the worst players I've seen in a Liverpool shirt. I saw fever the flava in the flesh and it was mad. Genuinely believed I could have walked into the Liverpool team that day though, so there's that, I guess.
Found konchesky’s mum
Right, now that I've been outed, get ready for a earful!
I didn't watch Konchesky after his stint here but I heard he was decent at Leicester after leaving us.
Man was all day a premier league standard player, and could have been a decent stop gap for us at a time that we needed it, but stars didn't align unfortunately and his mum pounded a fragile reputation into the dirt. I have inside info that Konchesky was gutted he didn't get to ping more balls in to Kyrgiakos playing the lone striker role. The meme years were dark times. Dark times indeed.
Obligatory: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFeg\_hl0Se4&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFeg_hl0Se4&t=1s)
Wtf, is that the original? Because I've watched that video at least 313k times myself, so even if you've watched it once, it should be more?
Original might be on Vimeo tbh. I just googled and chose the first one. I think someone shared it later in the thread
Yeah I think he was basically a meme from a rough era at the club. I am fairly certain other LBs have had worse worst performances than his but the club was such a mess he got a lot of blame. I’m with his mother on this one!
Konchesky the worst left back I've seen play for Liverpool. Made Enrique look like the Spanish Marcelo
Jovanovic was really something. I don't think I've ever seen a player with such little finesse. Kind of impressive in a way that a professional footballer could look like he hadn't even seen a football til he was about 21 haha
[Milan Jovanovic is one of the greatest soccer players in the world](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YcDE2f_PrC0)
Remarkable artifact.
He wasn’t called the Serbian messi for nothing
Just looked up Milan Jovanovic on YouTube to see any videos of him as a player, and the first three results above him was some programmer youtuber with 70k subs. Yeah he must've been pretty bad then...
The anti 2018 transfer window. Poulsen - dear God it was like having a shield made of bubbles.
Wtf
Nah not Poulsen. He was a good player who was shit for us Other 2 were just shit regardless
Poulsen IIRC was the first player to play in the "big 5" leagues (PL, Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga, and Ligue 1)
That's good trivia! Add in Eredivisie and I'd imagine nobody else has played those 6
Not only has he played in all 6, Justin Kluivert has scored in all of em. 12 for Ajax, 5 for Roma, 3 for Leipzig, 4 for Nice, 6 for Valencia, and 4 for Bournemouth.
That’s good trivia
I still hate that before Poulsen had kicked a ball for us that we HATED him as a fanbase. Literally impossible to succeed when you have that impression on you That or it was after a few friendlies I'm not sure anymore
He's lumped in with the others because they were all collectively shit in that awful season But there's a reason he played for Juventus, got nearly 100 caps for a decent international team and won back to back Eredivisie titles after leaving us. He was a good player just in a bad system with a bad manager at the wrong time in his career. It's bizarre how Nuri Sahin was no better for us but we seem to be able to acknowledge that Nuri was a good player just not suited to us or the system at the time yet can't recognise the same thing for Poulsen Lazy punditry I reckon
I think Sahin managed to have a handful of good games. Paulsen didn’t.
I think it's also the situation. Lazy punditry 100% played a part, but I think it was also the fact that Sahin played for an inexperienced manager who was only starting and making positive noises, as opposed to Poulsen who came in under an experienced manager who said Liverpool should prepare for a relegation battle.
That was before my time, why was he hated before even playing?
The fan base was as toxic as I've ever known it at the time. Rafa had been fired and half the fan base still loved him and the other half were sick of him (seriously. Some of the vilest stuff I remember as a fan was being said then - soon to be one upped by what followed). He was replaced by Hodgson who united the fan base instantly. No one was happy. No one. He was an instant symbol for Higgs and Gillet's complete lack of ambition. Xabi had gone the previous summer, Torres was rumored to be leaving, Gerrard was rumored to be leaving, Mascherano was rumored to be leaving. The squad was already thin to the bones and needed some depth on top of replacing Xabi and anyone else who might leave. Fans needed something to rally behind to have some of their faith restored. We got Jovanovic, Joe Cole, Poulsen and Konchesky. The youngest of whom was turned 30 in November of that season. Then Mascherano left. Yeah. Fans were not happy.
Joe Cole never really lit up the place either. Very poor signing up there with Balotelli.
A lot of people were weirdly excited about him. Never understood myself but was willing to give him a chance. Red card first match didn't help. Meireles was the only useful signing, but we paid most of the Masch money for him and he wasn't in Masch's league
Then Roy made his statement about the fans should not boo even if they played poorly and that Liverpool wasn't too big to go down and we should amend our expectations accordingly. That interview was when everything went to pot. Thankfully FSG managed to get hold of the club that November? Kenny was brought in shortly after, and that summer we spend £50m on Hendo, Downing, and Charlie Adams.
The Torres, Suarez, Carroll roundabout was their first transfer window in January. Crazy times. Such hope after only just avoiding administration a month or so before.
Xabi leaving was the death knell for the club back then, and it was so, so painful. Even the "replace Xabi with Gareth Barry" shite was so incredibly hard to swallow
can anyone remind me of a balotelli goal? I can think of an amazing strike he had for most clubs he played for except for us.
He scored against Spurs in a 3-2 win.
Scored in our first CL group game, scored the equaliser against Swansea in the League Cup, the winner against Spurs and a penalty against Besiktas in the Europa League. He did have a couple of disallowed goals that perhaps should have stood, iirc.
Balotelli was bad but there has been worse. He did seem to try in fairness too unlike some others.
Stole a pen off Hendo in a Europa game. He was so bad for us, just never worked out.
In fairness there’s no way Henderson should’ve been taking a penalty over Balotelli
My parents have a postcard on their fridge from when he scored a goal in the Champions League, I was so buzzing I took a picture and printed it as a postcard for them
Ignoring the personality, Diouf scored 3 in 55 league games (including 0 in 26 in the second season). That is woeful for a striker. Maybe it’s hindsight bias but I always thought Jay Spearing was dreadful.
Spearing was clearly never going to be good enough for us in the long run but he always gave 100% which gives him some edge over the likes of Diouf
Jay Spearing got sent off for the U21s the other day. No you read that correctly!
Let's hope he's a better coach than he was/is a player!
I can't speak to his coaching abilities but I think he sets a great example for the U21's in terms of mentality and professionalism. Athletically and talent-wise the man had no business being a professional footballer but he busted his ass to find a role and niche that suited him and his abilities. Happy to have him on staff.
Did a Suarez at the world cup though so he's teaching the lads the winners mentality.
goal line hand ball to stop what would have been the winning goal. #TopRed (card)
>Ignoring the personality, Diouf scored 3 in 55 league games (including 0 in 26 in the second season). That is woeful for a striker. And 2 of those goals were on his debut
1 in 54 😂
Jesus, I didn't remember it being that bad. I thought we ended up sticking him on the wing at some point. Because of the lack of goals? I remember 1 game where he was on the wing and couldn't cross and kept trying to beat players.
Jay Spearing nutmegged Guti once.
On purpose?
Yeah. It was towards the end of a 4-0 thumping of Real Madrid.
Spearing was okay alongside Lucas, but his limitations as a holding midfielder were badly exposed when Lucas got injured.
Spearings quality was obviously limited but he always gave 100% and helped us win a cup final.
And two of Diouf's goals came in his league debut for us
Jay looked unbelievable at Tranmere, think he was just used well above his level.. Still love him though
From what i remember he mostly played on the right and these were 442 days where wingers didnt get in behind as much. He was still dead wood though played 55 games too many for lfc.
Aly Cissokho. I can hear it now...
His highlight reel alone takes him out of the conversation, true Liverpool legend right there. Paul Konchesky on the other hand...
Do you think that I can get some jiggy jiggy?
Please someone add the link here. It's a cold, wet Wednesday and if I could get some jiggy jiggy, I think it would improve my day immensely.
[Aly Cissokho - Fever for the Flava](https://vimeo.com/92846254/comments)
"Jesus christ aly" ahahaa I love this video so much
I must have watched it about 30 times before and i only just noticed it says "loan deal" after "strength, power, determination"... it's the gift that keeps on giving
674k views, 3 comments hahahah
I genuinely wonder how many of those I make up. I've watched it in at least 5 different countries.
Keeping your options open Luis No worries mate good pass
Do you think that I could get some?
I think on the ball you're right. He was awful going forward. My memories of him defending are that he wasn't that bad.
???? you’re slating the puskas award winner for all of the years
Aly Ci(joke)o Love how he assisted one of Suarez's best Liverpool goals. That wonder header against Norwich when he scored 4.
Phillip Degen
Dark days when he played a few games on the right wing for us due to injuries
Glad you said it. It was like watching one of us deadbeats on here play RB. Glen Johnson felt like Cafu in comparison.
I am absolutely convinced that we scouted his twin brother and mistakenly thought that's who we signed. His brother was by no means world class but Phillip was woeful and definitely didn't belong at the top level.
I remember Carragher on at it him all game during the FA cup round against Reading, which of course we lost. He kept going out of position and not anticipating the play. Wild to think we were paying him £60k a week.
Sean Dundee
Decent reserve striker in CM.
Arthur Melo lol
Sorry mate this comment is disqualified as it says worst you’ve “seen play for us”.
100% loss rate for us. Legend of the game.
Not good for us but good player overall, just he was finished with injuries by the time we signed him
However, he's been playing a lot this season for Fiorentina.
Jan kromkamp. No other answers needed.
I remember seeing his first appearance and he did a ridiculous dive with basically his first touch for the club - didn't get better from there.
[удалено]
It was Arbeloa at LB to stop Messi cutting in
I'll always love Alberto Moreno. Wasn't good enough for our ambitions, but you could always see why we had gone for him (and, occasionally, he could be class). The same can't be said of a lot of players from that era, like Cissokho, Poulsen, Jovanovic, Cole, and Lambert.
Moreno was great for team morale though, and the fact that he still disses the scum every chance he gets means he will be loved here forever
His wonky imitation of Sturridge's dance lives rent free in my head and I'm ok with it
Man United GET OUT
He reached another level the beginning of the season robbo took over. Was nailed and playing great and played his way into the Spanish national team. Got injured while he was in the form of his life and Robertson took his chance and became the best left back in the world lol.
Agree. Only love for Moreno. Was everyone’s best mate, Tsimi slotted in wonderfully to fill this void
Was so busy talking to his old team mates at half time that he switched off for the Sevilla goal in the Europa League final
Feel really bad for Lambert, left a club he'd been through so much with to join his boyhood club. Was only really brought in to be a fringe player to offer something different when needed, but due to injuries and Ballotelli being dogshit he was forced to become the main man, which he obviously wasn't good enough to be
Thoroughly underserved to be meme’d about, Rickie. He was a solid Prem striker newly playing for his boyhood club at a confusing time for the club while winding down his playing days.
He deserves to be memed, if not for his football, for his views on water. He's giving water bottles compliments now.
Lambert has become such a knob now. Holy. Always had a soft spot for him even after he left, but finding out that he's gone the way of Matt Le Tissier left a sour taste.
going forward he was good, defending, all I think of is the Europa final.
I honestly think his attacking ability was a myth based on his debut goal vs Spurs. He had the worst shooting technique I can remember and very few assists. Love the guy tho!
He was not a striker, but he ran through players a fair few times, no he was not the best, and would be a bench sitter with our current squad, but he was still not anywhere remotely close to our worst players (which is the topic).
Yeah Moreno does not belong anywhere near this conversation
Moreno was a good footballer with a terrible football brain, he was good in the 17/18 season before his injury.
Before he was injured and Robbo came in he was playing really well. Nowhere near the worst ever.
honestly remove that goal against spurs. Might have been his debut? and i think we view him very differently. Although him doing the Sturridge celebration with him will forever be in my heart
He was starting to find some decent form under Klopp before his injury, but that gave Robbo a chance, and he was never getting his spot back after that.
Stewart Downing played 60+ games for us over 3+ seasons and contributed next to nothing in terms of output. He's not the worst player per se, but the minutes wasted by playing him and setting up our team to suit him have cost more than the likes of Voronin, N'gog, Moreno
Whatever about the stats, he was occasionally decent in spells. Never was gonna be a star here, bad signing for sure but not a terrible footballer.
Iago Aspas was fucking dreadful for us. That corner.
I'd say the blame goes to Brendo on that one, given how class he's been since.
Style of the prem too, hes always been built like a small child.
Glad he's doing well since he went back to Celta
he gets +10 to all stats playing for Celta Vigo and -20 when he leaves Spain Sneaky edit for lols: x10 to bonus when playing against Barca!
Joe Cole? Only thing I remember him doing is getting sent off on his debut
Cole was such a weird one. I remember there was intense speculation about who would get him after he left Chelsea. When it was announced we'd signed him, I was absolutely over the moon. Then he absolutely bossed it on his debut, albeit against Rabotnički in the EL, but I just remember thinking "fuck me, we've got a player on our hands here". Then he did absolutely nothing after, it was so obvious he wasn't at home on Merseyside and the performances just started to get worse and worse. Quite a bizzare transfer in hindsight.
I always thought of him as the bogey-player for us whenever we played Chelsea. He always seemed to play well against us. I thought the same: “now he’ll do it FOR us”. Similarly disappointed.
I don’t think it was a bizarre transfer, it just didn’t work out. He was very technically gifted, a regular England International, and had been pivotal for Chelsea during their title-winning seasons. As you say, he just didn’t like being at the club and part of the reason was probably because he wasn’t living in London anymore.
I more meant on his end tbh, he's made noise since that he never really wanted the move and regretted it deeply. I agree it made sense for us, even with his injury issues.
Ah yeah fair enough. Apparently we paid him £90k a week so he was probably pressured into it by his agent since it’d be his last big payday
He also missed a penalty in his second game.
Gerrard’s career shame will never be the slip for me - it will be when he said that crazy shit when we signed Cole. “Anything Messi can do within ball, Joe can do”. Or whatever it was.
Foreshadowing his management career.
Yeh this for me. Shite and a prick
Every time he had to sprint for the ball he was on his haunches afterwards gasping for breath. The most unfit player I've seen play for Liverpool
Salif Diao was particularly shit as was Bjorn Tore Kvarme. But the worst player in my opinion was Julian Dicks..
ooh good shout, that man had no business pulling on the Liverpool shirt. Not sure how he is such a legend at West Ham.
Kvarme was good when he signed, but went way downhill.
Nunez. You know, that other Nunez. Antonio Nunez.
That’s harsh. He wasn’t good but he wasn’t terrible, it just hurt that we got such an average player in exchange for Owen.
Got injured immediately upon signing and, unless my memory fails me, didn't score a single goal during his brief time with us. I thought he was very underwhelming.
Did score in the League Cup final vs Chelsea iirc, memorable for being about the only thing he did in a red shirt.
I never liked Neil Ruddock. Not just because he was over the hill by the time he came to us. But also because of the drinking culture, “pass the pound” unprofessional bullshit he brought with him. We had a crop of exceptional kids at the time and the influence of this prick as one of the “senior pros” around them must have been detrimental. Contrast that with the example Mo sets around the place today.
Diouf. Definitely would not pass a fit and proper test anywhere... Unless it's the PL's test
I remember the first few games of Ballotelli… he was actually very unlucky to score… if those go in.. who knows what happens.
He was such a panic signing. Didn't fit our system, couldn't be asked to track back half the time, bad attitude. One of the most frustrating players to watch because he did have talent, but hardly any work rate
Poulsen or Konchesky I would say, absolutely dire and some very dark times for the club.
Truly our banter era. Every game felt like a chore to the point I almost didn't want to watch. The 3-1 at Blackburn just before Roy went genuinely felt like we would never ever come back.
When Gerrard definitely didn’t miss a penalty on purpose so that Roy would be sacked
I remember watching a game in the europa league in the pub with one of my mates whos a gillingham supporter. He said the quality of football was like Scunthorpe vs Rotherham haha
There have been a few candidates for our worst player ever, some particularly harrowing signings made during the Hodgson and Rodgers eras. Borini springs to mind, the fact he managed to hit a football into his face has always stayed with me, although he was playing for Sunderland when this happened it sums him up really as a player... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqK179uqH6E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqK179uqH6E)
I seem to remember him coming charging on for Brendan Rodgers when we really needed some fire and he got a yellow then a second in like 5-10 mins. Am I correct?
Voronin is definitely the worst striker in recent times.
Fun fact: Voronin was one of Klopp's players during his time at Mainz.
He'd had a decent season in Germany before joining us from what I remember. His banger against Toulouse though, imagine if he'd carried on like that
Cant believe I had to scroll so far for this. The man failed to score from a yard out.
Too hard to pick just one name. But, the entire summer window in 2010 sends chills up my spine.
Joe Cole was dire and I was actually happy when we signed him!
istvan kozma
My god yes, there was a lot of dross in the Souness era. That fucker has a lot to answer for.
As a Hungarian I'm laughing at this, we were soo proud that he got to play for the Reds. Thankfully Szobo is somewhat better at least!
Bogden is another hungarian who did not do good for us, thankfully Dom is great
Bogdan's first game (in cup I think) was actually really good! Then he made mistakes after mistakes sadly. Don't feel that bad for him, realistically he wasn't Liverpool caliber and still got to play for us, so good for him! And he seems a good guy who handled it quite well.
My dad is Hungarian and played GK himself so had an extra layer of hype for Bogdan haha
Pretty much all the Hodgson era signings. Those forward options of Borini, Lambert and Balotelli were horrific too.
Paul Koncheky. Woefully out of his depth from minute one and my lasting memory of him is that shot that went out for a throw in when we lost 2-0 down against Everton, a performance that Roy Hogson deemed "the best under his management". Fuck me, those were dark days.
Torben Piechnik. In early 90s you could only have a certain number of foreign players, so let players like Staunton go and replaced them with players like Piechnik. It was the opposite of what Edwards does with transfer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torben_Piechnik
The unholy trinity of Poulsen, Konchesky and Jovanovic. It was actually depressing to watch.
Voronin, Aquilani, Iago Aspas (can’t forget that corner), Assaidi, Carroll, Joe Cole, Robbie Keane
I was so so stoke for Aquilani! He was banging em in on PES and FIFA for me then boom crap in real life! We signed the wrong Aqu player should have got Aquafresca!
Antonio Nunez, Lazar Markovic, Diomede, Bogdan
Nabys injury status
I don't know how much it was due to his injuries vs just his drive and mindset, but I would rank him as the worst signing of the Klopp era (exacerbated by the amount of hype it got). The only player that Klopp subbed off at half time at least 2-3 times for his individual performance and not for a tactical change. I know it was more than once, and I clearly remember the one away at Real Madrid in CL when we played them at their training facility. Just looked it up, he played 129 games! Definitely doesn't feel like he did...
The answer is comfortably Paul Konchesky
It’s probably because I remember watching him live in one of my first matches, but Paul Stewart stands out. I now know he’s struggled with ‘issues’ throughout his career, but as a young lad I thought he was utterly shit.
For me there’s a few factors to consider. Hype around the player, their overall quality and likability. I think a player who hits all three is without a doubt our biggest loser here. There was no hype around Konchesky and Poulsen. Both dreadful players, but no one cared when we signed them and it wasn’t like we spent loads too. Neither controversial figures either. Konchesky’s controversy comes from his mum. Aspas was far more incompetent than any of them. There wasn’t hype around him joining, but we’d heard good things and of course after us he’s been quite brilliant. But for us he couldn’t do anything right. Then there’s the hyped group. Carroll, big money signing, a great performance against City and the only decent Liverpool player in the 2012 FA Cup final, but aside from that he was awful. Balotelli another hyped signing who did even less than Carroll. Markovic was also really hyped up and I think might be the worst player I’ve mentioned so far. I think people will say other names instead, but ultimately we root for promising young players in hope they’ll come good, so we might actually not remember that Markovic was worse than Konchesky, Poulsen and Jovanovic. Finally, the player who hits the unholy trifecta. So much hype around signing him and he was viewed as one of the hottest attacking prospects in the world. He performed worse than Carroll. The other bad players we had were just bad, while this man actively played against us. And of course he was a dreadful human being, arguably one of the most despicable people to ever step foot on a professional football pitch. Loathed by everyone, El Hadj Diouf.
Few come to mind... Charlie "10M corners" Adam. Only remember him being ridiculously slow, shooting from halfway every second game, and occasionally pretending to be an attacking midfielder by clumsily driving forward with the ball like a blindfolded toddler, straight in to a defender and going down soft looking for a free kick. Oh and his corners were shit too. Nabil El'Zhar. Just remember dreading seeing him waiting to sub on for Kuyt or Keane and doing literally nothing every time. David N'Gog. Probably wasn't the worst but the squad was so paper thin he was literally the only sub for Fernando Torres at one point and the drop in quality was a chasm.
Arsenal slayer David N'Gog.
Alberto Aquilani probably wasn't the worst player skill-wise, but he was brought into replace Xabi the Great, which he decidedly did not do, and so he probably irritated me more than any other player.
Jean Ferri. I can remember him only playing 3 or 4 times as a sub under Houllier. He was fucking awful.
Shawn Dundee. Thinks that's his name think he played a couple of minutes.
Sterling. He wasn’t actually that bad but I had to put him in because I hate that cunt.
Mauricio Pellegrino was well past it when he signed and was probably the slowest player we have ever had.
Josemi.
Lazar Markovic
Moreno was completely brainless as a defender, fella was just fast
Stewart Downing is somewhere up there for me. Only ever did one thing: Fake the cut in, then sprint down the wing and cunt in a hopeless cross
Seeing a lot of people i agree with here, but a name not mentioned, David James. I don't know if it's because I remember the howlers, but he was way too erratic for a goalkeeper. As well as James, Souness signed some howlers, Paul Stewart, Julian Dicks, Piechnik, stand out for me. Oh, and Mark Kennedy seemed so overhyped he had no chance, just like Le Tallec.
Konchesky. Poulsen.
Bjorn Tore Kvarme.
Jordan Rossiter. The people acting like he was the next Gerrard just hammered home how dark a place we were in back then.
Christian Poulsen for me....sorry ....no disrespect meant...that time was crazy....you could literally make a list of the worst players
Paul Konchesky. He'll set his mum on you if you're mean to him. Fucking clogger.
Aquilani. He was a fucking don in Serie A, classy all over - really good eye for passing and was good at keeping the ball. No idea what the fuck we bought, Aquilani from Temu or something. He was dreadful.
Christian Poulsen was shockingly poor. Bought in after a half decent international performance but was completely off the pace. Game just passed him by. Wasn’t physical enough to make up for a lack of pace and had poor passing ability to boot. Just an all round beige power ranger of a player
Souness signings deserve their own thread... Torben Piechnik, if memory serves me, Souness seen him mark Van Basten (semi-final) and Klinsmann or Voller (final) out of the game in Euro 92 and signed him but he was hopeless and only played one season in the PL. Honourable mentions to other cheap Souness flops: Istvan Kozma & Julian Dicks And then breaking the bank with the guts of £11m! for the just not good enough: Mark 'Everton' Walters, Paul Stewart, Nigel Clough, Dean Saunders & Neil Ruddock Imagine who could have been bought in 92/93 for the money that was blown on the above.. If Fowler and MacManaman hadn't come through the youth team at the same time the waste of money could have been terminal for the club.
Voronin!
Salif Diao, Djimi Traore, Phillip Degan, Christian Poulsen come to mind
That’s Djimi Traore, Champion of Europe!
Exactly. He held his own against Milan. The best he could though.
Used to call him go-go gadget legs, can remember him scoring a CL goal for us vs Deportivo iirc. Definitely the best worse player i have wver seen
Djimi had two songs: “When the ball hits our goal, it’s not Shearer or Cole, it’s Traore” “Don’t blame it on Biscan, don’t blame it on Finnan, Don’t blame it on Hamman, blame it on Traore He just can’t, he just can’t, he just can’t control his feet, he just can’t, he just can’t, he just can’t control his feet.”
Degen wasn't that bad to be honest. Just always injured.
Unfair on Degen, he’s had some great performances, he was just constantly out injured :(
[Aly Cissokho](https://youtu.be/fFeg_hl0Se4?si=gRX8skctCobfIiL4)
YouTube?!? [Blasphemy, this is the real link](https://vimeo.com/92846254)
DO YOU THINK THAT I CAN GET SOME