My Nightmare at Liverpool

[IgorBiscan]

I was meaning to post this a while ago. I think it was an international break and I was returning back from Sweden after visiting relatives, via Denmark, and stopped off for a newspaper and remember seeing on the back the headline "My nightmare at Liverpool" by Christian Poulsen. Bearing in mind my Danish is not perfect I got the jist that he said how poorly he was treated at Liverpool and the famously friendly fans were anything but towards him. I think it ended with it came as a big surprise especially as YNWA is such a famous Liverpool anthem - and he felt very alone, the lonliest he has in all his career.

 

Got me wondering, should we be letting players leave Liverpool thinking these things about the club? To be honest it wasn`t exactly his fault, he was a Hodgson signing, coming to the end of his career. Should we have been a little nicer to him? :|

[Major Tom]

 

Got me wondering, should we be letting players leave Liverpool thinking these things about the club? To be honest it wasn`t exactly his fault, he was a Hodgson signing, coming to the end of his career. Should we have been a little nicer to him? :|

 

Yep, we should have been a lot nicer to him. We should have played him as a striker and let him take the pens to boost his ego along with his goal tally. He should have taken over from Hodgson rather than this clown we currently have in charge. We should have played him in as many games as it took to make him happy so he wouldn't go to the press to say he felt lonely at Liverpool.

 

Good post.

 

He should sue.

[Antynwa]

That whole episode was horrible

[fowler9]

never heard of him unfairly treated, I know everyone thought he was shite but he was never booed or anything was he

 

no personal issue with the likes of him and Konchesky as they gave their all but were just shite just gotta blame that arrogant old cunt Roy for signing him

[xerxes]

When you piece together the stories that have emerged from Rafa’s last year and Roy’s six months you read the tale of the darkest era of LFC in modern times, the blame for which falls on the shoulders of G&H.

 

When Roy took over he was on a hiding to nothing, how Kenny would have coped at that time ,a matter of conjecture. The destructive pall that hung over the club during that period affected the careers of many.

 

Poulsen was a good player, who came to us at the wrong time in his career.

 

Yes I do feel bad that he will have a jaundiced view of our club, but it was a bad time, and financially he will have done fine, even if his playing career did not prosper.

[navbasi]

We paid £5.5m for him, he "earned" £50k a week and then got his contract paid off.. Boo fucking hoo my heart bleeds for him.

[The Tott]

Never heard of him

[Guest Slim(fast)Shady]

i could've told em he was crap...i mean,blond hair and head band...

 

I ask yeh?

[Henrik C]

Here's a short reply from Denmark. In the interviews I've read Poulsen alway says, that he hasn't got anything bad to say about Liverpool. It just didn't work out for him. He calls Liverpool for a fantastic club in this interview from September 2011. Poulsen genfødt ved Geneve-søen - Fodbold

[TheHowieLama]

...i mean,blond hair and head band...

 

 

yep - and those were his two best attributes.

[Jairzinho]

yep - and those were his two best attributes.

 

His lesbian qualities.

[G Richards]

He would have been a good signing earlier in his career, not at the stage he came to us. Further to that, he came at a bad time given the ownership issues. We might have given him more recognition but for the two direct implications of these statements: 1. He wasn't a very good player for us 2. We were fighting for the future of the club, and an average defensive midfielder, albeit one with a good pedigree from years before, barely registered.

 

Sorry Christian. Be consoled by your many millions in the bank!

[Trumo]

He was very solid and effective at both Schalke and Sevilla, and had a Van Bommel-esque ability to irritate opponents (remember the Francesco Totti incident from Euro 2004?). His form nosedived when he went to Juventus, to the point where they couldn't believe their luck that not only were Liverpool willing to pay good money for him, they were also prepared to throw in Aquilani without a loan fee and sell him on the cheap in the summer. Hodgson signed him on the basis of having worked with him a decade earlier at FC Copenhagen rather than based on his recent form, which included a monumentally appalling World Cup showing.

[silverlining]

Nicer? He was shit and we should never have bought him. Nobody wanted him at the club, apart from the worst manager in our history

 

Fuck him

[TheHowieLama]

His lesbian qualities.

 

Lipstick maybe - weekend warrior more likely - doubles the chances.

[Liverpool lad]

I did enjoy him being clapped off against Napoli

[RobbieOR]

I did enjoy him being clapped off against Napoli

 

I remember that game well. You were caught on tele after Gerrard scored with your mouth shut.

 

Good times.

[Chairman Meow]

I don't really care how he feels about us.

 

He stood and watched players go by and didn't bother chasing them, wandered aimlessly around the pitch doing fuck all and basically did nothing to justify his inclusion in the side.

 

I can forgive someone playing badly if there is some effort there but Poulsen didn't even try.

[Magic Sponge]

 

I remember that game well. You were caught on tele after Gerrard scored with your mouth shut.

 

Good times.

 

He shit his kecks after the game, when I told him there were a few Napoli fans outside the Annie Road. He made us bail in the supporters club, until they had all got on their flights home.

[Guest TK-421]

I remember his debut and all the usual mongs on here proclaiming how it was a joy to watch him in action because he'd always try and pick out a forward pass. Yep, that actually happened.

[Liverpool lad]

I remember that game well. You were caught on tele after Gerrard scored with your mouth shut.

 

Good times.

 

Sorry Robbie, I must of missed you at the back getting the songs going.

 

And Magic Sponge makes me laugh the most with his sporadic appearances at the match. Reminds me of the Half Man Half Biscuit lyric;

 

'A group of football fans referred to as Commodores, as in once, twice, three times a season, who feed sugar lumps to police horses at Cup Finals'.

 

In fact throw RobbieOr in the mix as well.

[Magic Sponge]

Haha.

[Peflecan]

He had all the mobility of a floundering whale on a beach.

[usernameunknown]

The worst player I've ever seen here. Was a complete liability, would have been far better playing with 10 men, at least it might have been possible to stay organised then. Hapless.

[WaltonRed]

Should never of bought him in the 1st place

 

I'm indifferent to him, he was gash but we were gash at the time, we were a fucking cobras nest at the time.

 

I much rather hate the unholy trinity of Diouff, Cheyrou and Diao