Former players and managers - general discussion

A sportsman having a heart attack at 36 is odd. Happy that he is recovering. :pray:

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Numbers canā€™t measure his importance and the influence he had for us.

Made Gerrard 5 years younger.

Flanagan looked like a world class player with him.

Sturridge thrived on the ā€šcompetitionā€˜ with Luis.

Sterling might never have the rise he had here without Suarez.

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If memory serves, was that the season he was suspended for 6 games also!

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I would have loved to have seen him playing for us under Klopp.

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Not too late to buy him at the next window.
Though past his prime, heā€™s still not that far from his peak and have plenty to offer š—‚Ģ¶š–æĢ¶ when properly managed.

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Weā€™ve missed the boat there as he will unfortunately decline and the finances with him under contract at Atletico would be tricky. This season would have been the best time for a Suarez return. I would have loved it to happen myself.

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Bit too early in the morning for existentialism, mate.

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I didnā€™t know it was the best individual season stats-wise but Iā€™m not surprised. I have never seen any Liverpool player play as well as he did that season.

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Well, this was almost a Liverpool-player, he still plays and not badly. Just ignore written Dutch and watch the footage, enjoy. :sunglasses:

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If ever there was a man beautiful enough to come close to changing my sexual preferences it was him or Agger!

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In the cold light of day it makes sense and he was able to play some part in a CL win.

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I donā€™t know. By the time he left FSG were in and Hodgson was out. I canā€™t really think of what promises they would have made that they wouldnā€™t have delivered on. Also, I am pretty sure I remember that the plan was Suarez in regardless of him being sold with the plan to have them together and Carrol literally coming out of the blue once the Torres situation became evident. We played Wolves (I think it was) just before we left and we looked pretty damn good under Dalglish and I was pretty amazed thereafter to hear he wanted to leave.

Itā€™s easy to rewrite what happened from his point of view as the Club is not really going to come out with their version, I mean, what for? Iā€™m well over it and really could not give too much of a damn now but articles like this are pretty revisionist and designed to show him in the best way possible so it does stick in the throat somewhat. Personally, he sold out so fuck him.

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I still hold a candle for Fernando and I will always love him. My favourite young player of the noughties.

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Itā€™s just my assumption of how things played out nextā€¦ but yeah itā€™s one of those what ifs

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Too much is often made of the ā€œrebuildā€ needed at LFC to justify him moving on to win silver ware. But thatā€™s using hindsight. 18 months prior we finished 2nd. Most/the core of that squad was still there. The parts that had been lost could have been replaced and weā€™d had new owners come in so nobody could predict with certainty exactly how our funding and recruitment was going to play out. Torres left 6 months too early. He should have at least given it to the end of the season to see how things were going to play out. He made a mistake and then made too much of a PR exercise in trying to win over the Chelsea fans which came across as a slap in the face to LFC fans.

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Itā€™s one of those youā€™ll never know, people will go he won the CL but for me his Chelsea time was pretty much a disaster on a performance front and he never returned to his Liverpool form.

Same goes for so many, Alonso is one who probably went on and improved, Mascherano remained good and then their is Sterling but on the flip side Suarez and Coutinho I donā€™t think have reached the heights they would have done, in fact the latter has to regret the way he moved.

I have no doubt if he hadnā€™t done the back injury stuff and the dissing of Klopp by family members that he may have considered him back on loan at certain points.

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Suarezā€¦surely he reached the heights?..

that Luis Enrique team that won the CL was pretty tastyā€¦and isnt he like third time highest scorer for Barcaā€¦

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