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29 minutes ago, Crazy Dave said:

Pretty sure that he was down to a year on his deal and made it clear that he wouldn’t be signing a new contract. Think Leeds had already began the fire sale by that point too.

Yep - Ferdinand, Woodgate, Keane, Fowler were all gone the year before.

 

He also had played 40 something games the season prior to joining us. 

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18 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Yep - Ferdinand, Woodgate, Keane, Fowler were all gone the year before.

 

He also had played 40 something games the season prior to joining us. 

Was Kewell the 'edge of the seat player the fans craved for' or was he 'the missing piece of the jigsaw'? The club came out with so many soundbite back then when it came to transfers. 

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23 hours ago, JagSquared said:

Down the years we could have an impressive fragile XI players. The team might be a little porous in midfield though.

                   
                 kirkland

 

          babbel matip agger 

jones.                                aurelio

 

      Redknapp Lallana kewell

 

             sturridge Litmanen 


Possibly harsh on Babbel I don’t remember him being injured a lot apart from the GBS that ended his career.


Other mentions could include;

-Cisse

-Carroll

-aquilani (perhaps he could have been decent if he was ever fit)

-Owen (but we saw the best of him) 

-Degen - managed something 

 

I never realised Jari was injured a lot. Just thought he was bizarrely underused 

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On 16/03/2021 at 13:46, Pete said:

Was Kewell the 'edge of the seat player the fans craved for' or was he 'the missing piece of the jigsaw'? The club came out with so many soundbite back then when it came to transfers. 

I heard him described as 'the missing edge piece of the jigsaw' that 'the seats craved to see' . He couldn't even get that right. 

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On 17/03/2021 at 11:04, belarus said:

I never realised Jari was injured a lot. Just thought he was bizarrely underused 

He was pretty much injured for a lot of his career. Especially at Barca I think (maybe I’m wrong) by the time he was with us he couldn’t do a lot of consecutive games so perhaps a reason he was so underused. Loved him as a player though.

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On 19/03/2021 at 04:15, JagSquared said:

He was pretty much injured for a lot of his career. Especially at Barca I think (maybe I’m wrong) by the time he was with us he couldn’t do a lot of consecutive games so perhaps a reason he was so underused. Loved him as a player though.

I think even at Ajax he was crocked. Never the same.

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3 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

I think even at Ajax he was crocked. Never the same.

Yeah I should really written that better. There was supposed to be a full stop after Barca. 
 

He was such a good player, I remember watching the CL with him at Ajax and thinking I’d be made up if he signed for us one day. When he did I couldn’t help but think he was the “missing piece” (kewell was another I thought that about) but ultimately it was a let down due to injuries and not being fully trusted by Houllier.
 

Even then you could see how good he was. Still probably one of my favourite players of all time.

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