Big Sami retires from football

[satansmutt]

One of my favorite players in the premiership era a definite reds legend

[YNWAViking]

Legend that personified The Liverpool Way.

 

A great defender and a great person.

 

Last summer there was talks about him coming back to LFC in a coaching capacity - let's hope Kenny calls him up today and offers him a job.

 

Could see Carra and him leading LFC sometime in the future.

 

Come back, Sami!

[tenner]

One of the best defender's that has played for our club. Absolute legend.

[J-V]

What a legend. Hope he comes back in some capacity in the future.

[dennis tooth]

In 1995 Hyypia enjoyed a trial at Newcastle, but it'd be another four years before he would grace the Premiership.

 

They'd have won the league if they had signed him, monumental fuck up to decide to stick with Gavin Peacock and Phillipe Albert by Keegan there.

[Section_31]

Legend. It was obvious from his first appearance in the Carlsberg cup in Belfast that he had the positional sense of a truly great defender and a head like a magnet. Remember him coming through a match against Leeds with flu too and he didn't miss a beat. Absolutely world class and I'd dearly love to see him back here in a coaching role. He should always have a home here.

 

What's great though is that before we got him for a pittance, he was rejected by Spurs, Newcastle and Oldham.

 

 

 

[gaz181]

Great player and a great man.

 

Legend.

[gkmacca]

LFCTV are currently showing Sami's old interview with them. Not that many will see it because it's billed as 'Sixty Minutes with Ian St John'. What a shambles.

[Anubis]

Wish him all the best at Leverkusen.

[Kevin D]

A complete professional, wonderful role-model and a class act.

[MLB]

Hope he does well as a coach and comes back some day. One of our greatest ever players for me and one of my favourites too.

[bossy]

Good luck Sami, pearler of a footballer and man.

[Newport]

One of my favourite reds of all time. He deserves a testimonial for his ten years with the club.

[Son of L8]

I'll never forget that time he got his head cut up in a collision in the box, blood streaming down his face. Went off and got bandaged up like a wounded soldier, blood drying through the bandages wrapped around his forehead, ran back onto the pitch and immediately headed clear a corner.

 

Legend in every sense of the world. Commitment, brute strength, intelligence and the composure of a Zen master.

[WaltonRed]

Class act.

 

Gutted he's coaching for Leverkusen cos I want him back!

[Royal Family]

First time I saw Sami in the flesh was a home match against Watford ... which we lost and, to be truthful, he looked abject. How first impressions can be misleading! One of the finest players I have seen in the famous Red.

 

I'm lucky enough to have met with his father, Jouko, a few times - he was a footballer too: an absolutely charming, intelligent, humble man, just like his son by all accounts.

[YNWAViking]

Finnish tv station MTV3 reports that Sami will become an assistant coach for the German side, in addition to doing part time work for the Finnish national team.

[murphy]

RIP Sami-Lowe-Laden-Cooper-Thatcher. What a couple of days its been.

[WaltonRed]

Good Luck Sami!

[RoboRiise]

I broke down in tears at the full time whistle of that game, watching him break down in tears! One of my favourite players of all time. Only one word comes close to describing him accurately, as has already been used - legend.

 

 

One of the most moving things I've seen in the game that.

 

Come home Sami.

[dirty_sanchez]

Great player and in terms of value for money, one of the best signings that Liverpool Football Club ever made.

[stevensr123]

I fuckin cried like a little girl in hit last match when he was getting up set! not ashamed to say it as well, because that guy deserves all the praise and emotions the fans give him.

 

a true liverpool legend and my favourite player ever.

[murphy]

I fuckin cried like a little girl in hit last match when he was getting up set! not ashamed to say it as well, because that guy deserves all the praise and emotions the fans give him.

 

a true liverpool legend and my favourite player ever.

 

My worst assesment of a player ever was writing him off after the first two games of the season at Sheff Wed and at home to Watford. I remember turning to me Dad after Tommy Mooney scored and saying " Don't like the look of him, he is a bit one paced".

'Murphy, getting football wrong since 1983'

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[Tommy Lawrence]

Sami was a wonderful player and an even better person,what an example he'd set to our up and coming players as a coach with us!

 

Truly a Red legend.

 

Enjoy your retirement,Sami and come home soon,