01 Jan 2025 08:14:05


- Something Red - has written an article entitled, Worst Liverpool FC XI

1.) 01 Jan 2025
01 Jan 2025 09:57:10
Some stinkers there for sure. I’d personally have Nicky Tanner ahead of razor. Julian Dicks pushing for selection at LB.
Aquilani and Ferri (as well as several Houllier signings) coming into midfield contention
And one of the worst players I’ve seen Paul Stewart for a striker birth.

2.) 01 Jan 2025
01 Jan 2025 10:17:18
I don’t agree with all of your choices and that’s not a shock given there’s hundreds of options to choose from but all of your suggestions are fully deserving of being in the debate. Can I also say that this was absolutely brilliantly written. Funny and articulate throughout. Hope you’ll write more. I’d rather read these than Shappy’s latest defence of the indefensible!

On who I’d have in there; Adam Bogdan in goal. I swear he let in a howler every time he played. I vaguely remember a corner going straight in but might be mixing him up.

I’d also have found places for Oussama Assaidi, Iago Aspas and Danny Wilson. Aspas is in just for that corner!

Great article mate. Best thing I’ve read all year ?.

3.) 01 Jan 2025
01 Jan 2025 10:33:53
Great read Sr and can’t believe Voronin didn’t even get a mention after our conversation the other night.

Mk thanks for letting us know Bogdon once conceded from a corner. Utd have this minute put a bid in to sign him.

4.) 01 Jan 2025
01 Jan 2025 10:41:55
I’d give Loris Karius the number 1 jersey to be honest.

5.) 01 Jan 2025
01 Jan 2025 11:33:23
@SR, I must say that I have near NO complaints with your selection there even tho I think like @Razor said, Karius could easily replace Jones cos Jones actually won a title with Feyenoord when he left us so not that bad.

Bravo, sir and hopefully it did not take you too long to get to this article.

6.) 01 Jan 2025
01 Jan 2025 11:35:01
Not only should Aquilani be in the team, he should be captain. For me he epitomised everything a Liverpool shouldn’t be.

7.) 01 Jan 2025
01 Jan 2025 11:49:17
Good lost something red, though Karius in GK for me, he was truly awful. Was Xavier that bad? I can’t remember now as I was young.

8.) 01 Jan 2025
01 Jan 2025 11:51:43
Shame that Aspas was bad for us, he is one of my favorite non-liverpool players ever, i have a soft spot for Celta and I think he only left because they needed money?

9.) 01 Jan 2025
01 Jan 2025 12:16:01
If you agree or not that is a terrible team and just shows what a good job FSG and Klopp did to turn us around
Up the pool.

10.) 01 Jan 2025
01 Jan 2025 13:42:31
Good to hear alternative opinions, the worst Liverpool XI is just as open ended as our best XI.

I tried to keep it to players I actually saw play, so that ruled out Tanner and Dicks (as well as the likes of Piechnik and Kozma) cos they were a year or two before my time. I forgot Ferri, cos although I was supporting the club at the time, I didn't see any of his presumably outstanding 45 minutes for us. Certainly a good call though, as it was alleged Houllier signed him as a dressing room spy and not for his ability to play footie.

Jones in goal might be a harsh call tbf. My thinking is that he failed to displace Migs, and looked wretched when he was given a chance, so he must've been worse than him. I rate Karius above Migs, cos at least when Karius wasn't making an obvious error he'd still save a shot that wasn't straight at him and could kick a ball. Whereas when Migs wasn't making an obvious error, he still couldn't save any sort of decent shot whatsoever. Apart from Cavalieri, who was decent, most of Reina's understudies were just 'meh' and never got chances outside of the cups.

So really the only other option was David James. And whilst James made about 10 million mistakes in the 90s, and according to Mark Wright cost us the title, he would still pull off some good saves in the middle of it. I suppose logically, the true 'worst keeper' in my time is probably either Tony Warner or Jorgen Neilsen, who were 2nd and 3rd choice in the mid 90s and failed to displace David James. They didn't even play in the cups, so presumably they can't have been any good. But as they didn't make a solitary appearance, what could I say about them?