Football Special Report: Liverpool Football Club’s Most Disappointing signings (Part 2)
Article Continued from Part 1.
Fernando Morientes is also a player that was cup tied for the Reds Champions league campaign but he did not make an appearance in the final fixture against AC Milan that came as a win for the Reds.
Morientes was a player that came to Liverpool with a spotless reputation and history he left with a rather disgraceful one. He only managed to score three goals in the whole 2005-06 season when playing for the Reds and neither did he make any improvements
the next season.
He did manage to showcase minor glimpses of quality play but they were too rare to make a difference for this player’s future at Anfield.
He did score in the match against Aston Villa and netted the opening goal, the match ended with the score boards reading two to zero. He scored against Middlesbrough and after this only managed to score five more goals in the next twenty eight league matches
that he played.
When the 2005-06 season ended then he was sold off to Valencia and in his complete tenure with the Reds and he found the net only twelve times in sixty one appearances even though he was a part of the 2006 FA Cup winning squad and the 2005 UEFA Super Cup
squad.
He appeared in his final match with Liverpool only as a substitute and most Liverpool fans were relieved to see him go.
Fernando Morientes also served his part in International duty for Spain as he was part of the national team from the under eighteen team and started with them in 1993.
He made the first team squad of the national team in 1998 and in the next nine years, he made forty seven appearances and netted twenty seven goals.
He finally announced his retirement from professional football on the thirty first of August 2010.
Robbie Keane
Robbie Keane is the Thirty year old Irish footballer who plays as a striker and is currently a part of Tottenham Hotspurs.
Ever since Fernando Torres signed with the Reds in 2007, Rafa Benitez had been looking for a partner for him upfront.
He signed with Liverpool in 2008, was with them for a year, and moved to Tottenham Hotspurs in 2009.
Rafa Benitez and most Liverpool fans initially thought that they had finally found Torres’s partner when they signed him from the Lily Whites in 2008. Every Liverpool fan hoped that Robbie Keane would continue his form at Anfield and will keep giving amazing
performances.
However, this player quickly proved himself as a disastrous player with the Reds, when Fernando Torres was injured at the start of the season then Robbie Keane was played as a front man when this was definitely not the role that this player was designed
for or why he was signed.
When Torres returned and the partnership was given a test trial, they failed as the two players did not seem to develop that kind of understanding on the football field.
Robbie Keane’s confidence took a major hit when he missed numerous easy opportunities and failed to score a goal every time, when this happened then Keane was always the player that was seen either sitting on the bench, coming off the bench or walking towards
it, as he was constantly only substituted.
A number of reasons were put forward to be the root cause of this Irish mans failure at Anfield and easily Rafa Benitez was the man to be blamed.
Rafa wanted Robbie Keane to play a certain way in the team and Keane constantly kept failing to do what the coach wanted him to do.
Article Continued in Part 3.
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