Average players you REALLY wanted us to sign....

[Russ Atmosphere]

Emre Can.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Really wanted us to sign Christian Zeige about 4 years befor we finally did, and another vote for Peter Ndlovu, if only for the potential chant, "Ndlovu, yeh, yeh ,yeh"...

[Shitty Arse]

Seemed to be linked with him a lot in 90s and I really wanted us to get Peter Ndlovu.

Or as Ray Stubbs would say. “Peter Nlurrrve”

[Carvalho Diablo]

Yaya Banana.

[No2]

Arnoutovic Winston Reid

[No2]

Stoichkov but only because teletext said he was going to sign for us.

Far from average.

[No2]

True that, too slow.

[TheHowieLama]

Fred -- greatest name ever.

[aRdja]

He wouldn't get in this Liverpool team today.

Balón D’Or winner Stoichkov?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Really wanted us to sign Christian Zeige about 4 years befor we finally did, and another vote for Peter Ndlovu, if only for the potential chant, "Ndlovu, yeh, yeh ,yeh"...

About 4 years before we signed Ziege he was far from average; at a time when we played with wing backs he was arguably the best left-sided one in the world.

 

By the time we did sign him he had become a bit mediocre.

[VladimirIlyich]

Arnoutovic Winston Reid

No wonder he just calls himself Winston Reid with a first name like that.

[Lee909]

He was looking good at the time but i wanted Mancini (The winger at Roma). Feel off the face of the earth not long after

 

Oh and i really wantin Drenthe when was in that Dutch U21 team with Babel.

Thought he was going to be another out the mould of a Davids/Seedorf

[aRdja]

About 4 years before we signed Ziege he was far from average; at a time when we played with wing backs he was arguably the best left-sided one in the world.

 

By the time we did sign him he had become a bit mediocre.

He was still a good player IMO.. he just wasn’t a left back or a left midfielder.

[Remmie]

Konoplyanka

Demba Ba

[Ronnie Whelan]

At one point I regaled friends with the undiscovered talents of Ricardo Vaz Te. They, to their eternal credit , said he was shit & history tends to support them.

Don't be hard on yourself sir roger. I hold the view if we had signed ricardo we would be on title number 22 and european cup number 7 or 8. What could have been eh....

[Jurgens Red Army]

Tom Ince and David Bentley

[Trumo]

Going back to around 1999, there was a guy at Anderlecht called Walter Baseggio who was a left back or wing back. At the time, we really needed a left back because we were playing central defenders in that position (I think we'd either sold Stig Bjornebye or he was out of favour), and on Eurosport highlights he looked decent. A couple of years later, we signed a MUCH better player in Riise. No idea what happened with old Walter but I'm guessing he never rose above Jupiler League standard.

 

Around 2014, I was really hoping we'd sign Swiss left back Ricardo Rodriguez. He'd been very good for a couple of years and had a strong showing at the 2014 World Cup. Excellent left foot, reasonably quick (if not pacy) and seemingly solid defensively. He seems to have fallen off a cliff in the last couple of years. Milan signed him in the summer for a fortune, and he has looked the definition of bang-average.

 

Maybe I should steer clear of recommending left backs.

[KMD7]

Charlie Nicholas

[dockers_strike]

Le Tissier so we could bench him for the rest of his career and really give him something to be pissed off with us about.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

Gareth Barry?

Hola Rafa!

[Elite]

Sigurdsson

[Lee909]

You jinxing bastard

[Elite]

Even if he scores a worldie we should be beating these.

[Mascherano]

My claim to fame is Junior Hoilett. I always thought that there was a really good player there. At the time, i wanted to see more players run with the ball and i thought that he would come in and help us back to glory!

[Grinch]

It'd be a very long list.   A list that would make even Rodgers blush.