The Ones we got away from!

[etho]

Surely as much the ones we didn't stay the fuck away from, that's a very long list. A shit liverpool x1 (excluding frees and bargains) would make very depressing reading I'd imagine.

[Bjornebye]

I remember really wanting Heinze. 

[Bad Red Bull]

Am I permitted to say Eriksen yet? I know he's just 21 but seems to be on the bench at Spurs who are on an all-out attack mode, a role he was hyped to be perfectly made for.

 

Other players that Spurs took out of our hands are Gylfi Sigurdsson & Clint Dempsey. Hardly pulling/ pulled trees when they played.

[Cardie]

January window I remember some saying Banega was exactly the player we need and we should sign him.

 

Let's shipped to Newells in Argentina for being shit for Valencia and having attitude issues.

 

 

[Saucepan]

Garreth Barry aka. Garry Barry aka. "The Garr Barr" (his late night biker bar cruising name)

[Red Banjo]

January window I remember some saying Banega was exactly the player we need and we should sign him.Let's shipped to Newells in Argentina for being shit for Valencia and having attitude issues.

He had a good season last year. I'd still have him here. Good player.

[Jose Jones]

Garreth Barry aka. Garry Barry aka. "The Garr Barr" (his late night biker bar cruising name)

 

Would've been a decent player for us for a couple of years.

 

The failed Dempsey/Henderson swap has to be one of the best misses for sure.

[JermainePennant]

We were strongly linked to elmander the summer we signed Torres and some Brazilian striker from udinese who I cant remember his name, both went on to flop and if we had signed elmander instead of Torres it would have been a disaster.

[bonesman]

chamakh.

[Gym Beglin]

Scott Dann

Phil Jones

 

For the money quoted, unbelievably shite.

[Saucepan]

Scott Dann

Phil Jones

 

For the money quoted, unbelievably shite.

 

[Jonny83]

Connor Wickham (KK/Comolli) and Paul Scharner (Woy) also spring to mind.

[Trumo]

Keirrison. A Brazilian striker who was scoring for fun in his domestic league, and we were one of the clubs heavily linked with him. He got signed by Barcelona for about £12m in a similar manner to how Atletico managed to sign Aguero, but he ended up getting loaned out to a couple of La Liga clubs and then back home again without ever looking like he would make it in Europe, never mind at Barcelona.

 

Marc-Vivien Foe. Houllier was deciding between him and the more expensive Hamann and chose to go with the German, which was a shrewd move as Hamann was much the better player. Perhaps it's unfair to name Foe here in light of what was to befall him just a few years later, but we could just as easily have had him on our books at the time he suffered his fatal heart attack. I didn't think he was all that but he was a lot better than Diao who was signed by Houllier off the back of his displays at the World Cup.

[Turkish Delight]

Egil Ostenstad.

 

Here's a quote from him on Twitter the other night...

 

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Egil Johan Østenstad ‏@Egilostenstad  Feb 25

There was a time when things were so bad at L'pool they considered signing players like me. M United fast approaching that stage..

[robslappa]

Mikael Silvestre.

John Beresford.

Ian Snodin.

[Johnlj]

Aly Cissokho.

[Ne Moe Imya]

Chamakh is a good shout, there were a good few we were linked to in Rafa's last season/Hodgson era that were really, really poor.

 

Gervinho, Toivonen, van Wolfswinkel (great name, though), NZogbia, Marveaux, Eljero Elia, Torosidis, Pavlyuchenko ... there was a long list of players in those dark days that haven't exactly gone on to prove us wrong for not buying them.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Malouda was a weird one, went to Chelsea for the £££ and was pretty good for a year or so and a car-crash after that.

[milky]

Solano. That Gary O' Neill (?) fella from Middlesborough.

[fowler9]

Malouda was a weird one, went to Chelsea for the £££ and was pretty good for a year or so and a car-crash after that.

 

think you've got that the wrong way round to be honest

 

 

he was poor his first year and we were saying we'd dodged a bullet then he was a key player for them for a good for years before suddenly getting frozen out last year