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12 hours ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

None of these were anywhere near the most expensive player we'd ever signed, though.

35m in that market is like 90m today. If you signed a striker today for 90m and he went on to score 6 goals for the club, it's a total disaster, it doesn't matter that one of those goals helped us win a semi-final. Even Di Maria and Pepe, the worst signings of the last few years in the league, had better records than that.

Konchesky was a worse player than Carroll, sure, but he cost us peanuts. There's no comparison - Carroll is easily the worst signing in our history. The only ones who even come close are Benteke and Acquilani, and maybe Downing.

Collymore. 
Most expensive player in British football. 
Came into a side who played expansive, attacking football, having just finished fourth. 
Evans is remembered as a nice guy, but it’s easy to forget how ruthless he was early on, binning big signings like Dicks and Stewart, cutting loose experienced pros who he’d known for more than a decade such as Nicol and Whelan, recognising that Hutchison had a lot in his locker but took the piss too often, etc. 
And yes, if you were only judging what happened on the pitch, Collymore’s story is ‘Started well, began to go missing when it mattered, tailed off quite badly at the end’. But factor in the other stuff and it’s a guy who was on a one-man mission to turn the entire changing room toxic. An employee whose behaviour was appalling in multiple ways. And who, when people wonder why that Evans side didn’t push on, is the individual who has to take centre stage in explaining all the things that were fundamentally dysfunctional at Anfield. 
We got £7million for Collymore in the end, but we’d have been better off selling him 12 months earlier for half of that. 

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5 hours ago, Arniepie said:

If you want to look at the price tag alone he would probally be up there with acqualni and Diouf.

In terms of acting like a cunt he is light years behind the likes of Diouf and ruddock.

You could fill a book with the players who contributed less on the field, practically everyone souness bought for a start.

Dundee and Dicks fucking pair of Dicks

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1 hour ago, Ron B said:

Collymore. 
Most expensive player in British football. 
Came into a side who played expansive, attacking football, having just finished fourth. 
Evans is remembered as a nice guy, but it’s easy to forget how ruthless he was early on, binning big signings like Dicks and Stewart, cutting loose experienced pros who he’d known for more than a decade such as Nicol and Whelan, recognising that Hutchison had a lot in his locker but took the piss too often, etc. 
And yes, if you were only judging what happened on the pitch, Collymore’s story is ‘Started well, began to go missing when it mattered, tailed off quite badly at the end’. But factor in the other stuff and it’s a guy who was on a one-man mission to turn the entire changing room toxic. An employee whose behaviour was appalling in multiple ways. And who, when people wonder why that Evans side didn’t push on, is the individual who has to take centre stage in explaining all the things that were fundamentally dysfunctional at Anfield. 
We got £7million for Collymore in the end, but we’d have been better off selling him 12 months earlier for half of that. 

I felt one of the problems he had was he didnt fit in with that clique of players we had at the time, but him and Fowler were a great partnership.

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5 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

I felt one of the problems he had was he didnt fit in with that clique of players we had at the time, but him and Fowler were a great partnership.

He had enough chances. The club bought him a big house in Rainhill that he wouldn't stay in because he kept gong home to the midlands every night, except the nights he stayed in town and got bladdered trying to shag anything that moved. He wanted to be the main man when we had the likes of Fowler and Macca in their pomp. Then James, Redknapp etc doing the modelling stuff. It put his nose out of joint. The players hated him because he just took the piss out of Evans despite chance after chance to put it right. Damn shame because him and God were superb together for a short time. 

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1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

He had enough chances. The club bought him a big house in Rainhill that he wouldn't stay in because he kept gong home to the midlands every night, except the nights he stayed in town and got bladdered trying to shag anything that moved. The players hated him because he just took the piss out of Evans despite chance after chance to put it right. Damn shame because him and God were superb together for a short time. 

Oh yeah he was quite a crackpot and didnt help himself but he wasnt the only one who took the piss.

I think there is a story on extra time about him not fitting in with that clique.

Yep they were devastating together for a while..werent the bloos after him aswell?

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53 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

Oh yeah he was quite a crackpot and didnt help himself but he wasnt the only one who took the piss.

I think there is a story on extra time about him not fitting in with that clique.

Yep they were devastating together for a while..werent the bloos after him aswell?

Even Collymore wouldn't have gone there. He had some standards. 

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1 minute ago, Doctor Troy said:

You don't have to be the best team in Europe to be the best team in Europe. But they are the best team in Eurooe.

How dare you!  They've won the ECWC once, so they're right up there with Magdeburg, Mechelen and Slovan Bratislava.

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