There’s a lot of players who come to the prem with insane hype and fail, but im curious about the inverse of this.

  • Clem_Crozier@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Pretty much the entire youth/reserves set-up of the Benitez era.

    I remember that Liverpool reserve team of 07/08 utterly dominating. Won all but 5 league matches, only losing once, only conceding 8 goals across the whole campaign. The golden boot winner and runner up were both Liverpool forwards (Krisztián Németh and Jordy Brouwer respectively). It was a side tipped for big things, with the next generation looking bright.

    Not one of them became a first-team regular. Lucas had a decent career with Liverpool, and a couple of others like Péter Gulácsi and Emiliano Insúa had respectable careers elsewhere. But it was not Liverpool’s answer to the class of 92 that I had hoped.