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Great Liverpool Donkeys

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El Hadji Diouf - Without doubt, the WORST player to play for the club ever, other than 2 goals on his debut and one more tapped over the line from half a yard out courtesy of an Owen shot that was going in anyway (and that 70 odd games after the first 2) he did absolutely, completely, the sum total of NOTHING.

 

Oh sorry, I forget there was the spitting allegations at Leeds and Boro' in 2002/2003 (Leeds) and 2003/2004 (Middlesbrough), the PROVEN spitting incident at Celtic in 2002/2003 and the general hateful snarling "lets undermine the manager and take on the world" attitude we were supposed to have dispensed with with the Spice Boys - Clearly not as we hired the daddy of all Spice Boys in Diouf.

 

Yes Cheyrou and Diao should be on this list but at least Cheyrou got us the winner at the Bridge for the first time in 18 odd years and we played a couple of really good displays in 2003/2004 with Diao in the middle and we had quite a good rate of wins with him there but Diouf? Awful, simply awful, the MOST pathetic signing I've ever seen at LFC and I've seen a few, he is without doubt the worst of the lot by a distance.

 

Incidentally in terms of pointless signings what about Carl Medjani and Alou Diarra? Both of whom may or may not have been great talents in the making in defense and midfield but who we will never know about now as we bought them in 2003, loaned them out repeatedly, farmed them out to the reserves and then sold them without either EVER making a first team appearance, what was the point of that?

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Glen Hysen BTW was good in his first season along with ok in his second; But he was definitely bad, very bad if not awful after that; He certainly wasn't the new Hansen that we needed at the time - In hindsight does anyone think that we should have bitten the bullet under Paisley or Dalglish was it? When we first inquired and bought Pallister instead of Hysen?

 

What a difference he might have made after a few years bedding in when our defence began to disintegrate in 1991 - 1993 instead we had a declining Hysen and then a past it/couldn't be bothered Mark Wright and no stability at all at the back (except when Harkness played occasionally or when Wright all to rarely turned it on) until we bought big Sami in 1999;

 

Since then we've gone back to what we used to do (and should of done in the 1990's) which is bringing in underrated or unknown defenders/prospects and making them good if not great players (eg Arbeloa, Agger, Skrtel, Carra' and Markus Babbel to name but a few and I suppose I shouldn't forget the legend that was Igor !!!! LOL) Looking at that I actually think that the act of buying big Sami together with the treble season of 2000/2001 soon after buying him can't be emphasised enough in the (re)development of us as regular challengers - together they turned us into winners again and showed us how to keep massive runs of clean sheets IN THE LEAGUE and how to win games when playing badly or under the cosh - both traits that had been all to clearly missing in the period between seasons 1991/1992 and 1999 - 2000 which coincidentally cover almost the whole of the '90's.

 

Incidentally since our last Championship Title was won in 1989/1990 that means we're the only club to have won titles in the 60's, 70's, 80's AND 90's in a row - do you think we can make it the 00's before the 10's come around? Would be a fantastic record if we did and one that Rafa' well deserves. Still, we shall see this coming May won't we? If anyone can do it though Rafa' can...................

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I thought Donkey was just a term for an awful player/signing who was nothing like as good as they were meant to be hence names like Hysen, Kvarme, Kozma (never will understand why we signed HIM), Babb, Diouf etc were all mentioned. Incidentally Scouse Tapas - Burrows wasn't a bad footballer - he fitted well into our footballing side in the late 80's and did ok until things started to go badly wrong in late '91. And Larry Lloyd went on to prove his quality at Forest - good defender if a tad limited - rather like Stefan Henchoz for us - he did what it said on the tin and ONLY that.

 

And speaking of bad signing decisions - exactly WHY did we get rid of Nicolas Anelka - look at him now, he's like Beardsley was in 1990/1991 and Gary Mac 10 years after that - having a golden sunset to his career and it could be THAT and all the goals it's giving them that stops us winning it this time - if nothing else, Houllier needs castigating for THAT decision - Anelka was quality and still is and we just let him go like that - we've got enough good strikers now to cope but a cheeky bid for maybe Owen in the window mightn't go amiss as other than Torres or maybe Keane on form we have NO instinctive goal scorers in reserve;

 

In Anelka, Chelsea quite clearly do have that and with him as backup to Drogba - well it's just as well we've the resolve to keep up with them now and hopefully Torres will start firing again now he's back.

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I thought Donkey was just a term for an awful player/signing who was nothing like as good as they were meant to be hence names like Hysen, Kvarme, Kozma (never will understand why we signed HIM), Babb, Diouf etc were all mentioned. Incidentally Scouse Tapas - Burrows wasn't a bad footballer - he fitted well into our footballing side in the late 80's and did ok until things started to go badly wrong in late '91. And Larry Lloyd went on to prove his quality at Forest - good defender if a tad limited - rather like Stefan Henchoz for us - he did what it said on the tin and ONLY that.

 

And speaking of bad signing decisions - exactly WHY did we get rid of Nicolas Anelka - look at him now, he's like Beardsley was in 1990/1991 and Gary Mac 10 years after that - having a golden sunset to his career and it could be THAT and all the goals it's giving them that stops us winning it this time - if nothing else, Houllier needs castigating for THAT decision - Anelka was quality and still is and we just let him go like that - we've got enough good strikers now to cope but a cheeky bid for maybe Owen in the window mightn't go amiss as other than Torres or maybe Keane on form we have NO instinctive goal scorers in reserve;

 

In Anelka, Chelsea quite clearly do have that and with him as backup to Drogba - well it's just as well we've the resolve to keep up with them now and hopefully Torres will start firing again now he's back.

 

 

Larry Lloyd was a good stopper thing was as soon as he got the ball it was HOOF up the pitch.Pretty sure the donkey thing means someone who hoofs the ball ie Tony Donkey Adams( or eeyore).The hoof as in donkey footware.

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I thought Donkey was just a term for an awful player/signing who was nothing like as good as they were meant to be hence names like Hysen, Kvarme, Kozma (never will understand why we signed HIM), Babb, Diouf etc were all mentioned. Incidentally Scouse Tapas - Burrows wasn't a bad footballer - he fitted well into our footballing side in the late 80's and did ok until things started to go badly wrong in late '91. And Larry Lloyd went on to prove his quality at Forest - good defender if a tad limited - rather like Stefan Henchoz for us - he did what it said on the tin and ONLY that.

 

And speaking of bad signing decisions - exactly WHY did we get rid of Nicolas Anelka - look at him now, he's like Beardsley was in 1990/1991 and Gary Mac 10 years after that - having a golden sunset to his career and it could be THAT and all the goals it's giving them that stops us winning it this time - if nothing else, Houllier needs castigating for THAT decision - Anelka was quality and still is and we just let him go like that - we've got enough good strikers now to cope but a cheeky bid for maybe Owen in the window mightn't go amiss as other than Torres or maybe Keane on form we have NO instinctive goal scorers in reserve;

 

In Anelka, Chelsea quite clearly do have that and with him as backup to Drogba - well it's just as well we've the resolve to keep up with them now and hopefully Torres will start firing again now he's back.

 

Sorry mate you are right. St range I always thought it meant someone who justs boots the ball up field.

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