The "Where Are They Now" Files

[el-capitano]

With this I'm not going to limit it to ex-Liverpool players, and you can mention anyone who you think has good novelty value- like this one.

I actually got inspired by someone mentioning Leeds in the Other Teams thread. So I thought I'd look up to see how they were going and saw that currently playing League 1 football was........

Tore André Flo

Most famous for his four years with Chelski, he has since moved onto Rangers, Sunderland, Siena, Vålerenga and now Leeds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tore_Andr%C3%A9_Flo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/815000/images/_815896_flo300.jpg

[el-capitano]

And now onto an old Liverpool boy. He apparently 'played' as a left or centre back, and is most famous for his time here for an 'own goal' against Burnley knocking us out of the FA Cup.

He is also a Champions League winner, I present........

Djimi Traoré.

First of all, can you believe that he spent almost 7 years on our books with Gérard Houllier paying £500,000 for him in February 1999?

After a stop start career with us he was sold to Charlton Athletic for £2 million on 8 August 2006.

He then got sent off in his Addicks debut, before breaking his leg, and then being sold by new manager Alan Pardew, joining Harry Redknapp's Portsmouth F.C. for a fee believed to be in the region of £1m.

He played 9 games for Portsmouth last season, and 3 more this season, before in the transfer window just gone, he was loaned to Rennes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djimi_Traor%C3%A9

http://www.carling.com/media/player_images/player-image-32384.jpg

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Nigel Clough
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38523000/jpg/_38523897_clough300_emp.jpg

Started his career in '84, and is currently a player-manager for Burton Albion at the age 41.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Clough

[Gandalf The Red]

cant be ass'd posting a picture but Riggy Song just lead Cameroon to the African Nations cup Semi's last night by beating Tunisia 3-2 in ET.

[liverbird]

With this I'm not going to limit it to ex-Liverpool players, and you can mention anyone who you think has good novelty value- like this one.

I actually got inspired by someone mentioning Leeds in the Other Teams thread. So I thought I'd look up to see how they were going and saw that currently playing League 1 football was........

Tore André Flo

Most famous for his four years with Chelski, he has since moved onto Rangers, Sunderland, Siena, Vålerenga and now Leeds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tore_Andr%C3%A9_Flo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/815000/images/_815896_flo300.jpg

Reminds me of the Celtic joke about Rangers having the three worst strikers in Europe -- Tore, Andre, and Flo:D

[adammac19]

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One of the great cult hero's Igor who played an important part to our UCL run of 2005. He was often the whipping boy of the team but there were a few who still loved the big Croatian CM.

After the Champions League win he went to Greece to play for Panathinaikos FC where he made 36 apperances and scored 3 goals. After a 2 year sint with the Greek side he went back home to play for NK Dinamo Zagreb.

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[ForeverRed]

Neil Mellor. He had a very good record for Liverpool reserves but he was known more two goals, one against Arsenal in stoppage time and the other in that incredible comeback against Olympiakos. After he scored that dream goal to win it against Arsenal and that vital second goal against Olympiakos in 2005 I thought this guy would be around for a while.

He was soon loaned out to West Ham and then Wigan before signing for Preston North End.

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ForeverRed you beat me to the punch

[el-capitano]

And for the stats men, so far Mellor has scored 4 goals from 24 games in two seasons for Preston.

Doesnt seem like his scoring rate has increased- strange considering his reserve goal rates for us- at one point he got 10 in 4 games?

[el-capitano]

cant be ass'd posting a picture but Riggy Song just lead Cameroon to the African Nations cup Semi's last night by beating Tunisia 3-2 in ET.

After us he played for West Ham, Cologne, and RC Lens before settling in Galatasaray S.K., where he has played over 120 games, scoring 4 goals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigobert_Song

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40373000/jpg/_40373151_song270.jpg

[el-capitano]

Stig Inge Bjørnebye

One of the 90's brigade, Bjørnebye played as our left fullback for 9 years, including a couple of loan periods, one at the start and one at the end.

He then left us for Blackburn having been supplanted by Steve Staunton & Dominic Matteo.

After injury forced his retirement, he became the Assistant manager to the Norwegian National team, before giving club management a go with I.K. Start in Norway. He lasted a year before being sacked for poor results.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stig_Inge_Bj%C3%B8rnebye

http://www.uefa.com/multimediafiles/photo/competitions/uefacup/437144_mediumsquare.jpg

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Sander Westerveld.

His first professional match was for the Enschede club FC Twente in 1994. After two seasons at Enschede he moved to Vitesse Arnhem where in the course of three seasons, he developed into a goalkeeper of national stature.
Following the 1998/1999 season, he earned himself a transfer to Liverpool, where he succeeded David James. In the two seasons he was with the Liverpool club, he was often subjected to criticism from the media. After a major mistake in a game against Bolton Wanderers in 2001 he was put on the bench by then-manager Gérard Houllier, who promptly signed two new goalkeepers - the Polish international Jerzy Dudek (who became a Champions League-winning hero) and the injury-prone but impressive Englishman Chris Kirkland. Westerveld was then sold despite being part of a team that had won three trophies the previous season. A move abroad saw a successful spell with Spanish side Real Sociedad culminating in Champions League participation and finishing as runner up in La Liga of the 2002/2003 season.
In July 2005 he moved back to England, being signed by Alain Perrin at Portsmouth where he was to be first choice ahead of Jamie Ashdown and Greek keeper Konstantinos Chalkias. In February 2006 he was allowed to move on a short term loan to Everton F.C., rivals of his former club Liverpool, because of a goalkeeping crisis which saw Nigel Martyn, Richard Wright and Iain Turner all unavailable. Westerveld played only two games.
Once he returned he was still kicking his heels on the sidelines, and was promptly released by current Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp, in May 2006.
During the summer of 2006, Westerveld signed with Spanish Second division club UD Almería for one season, where he helped them reach promotion to the Spanish First division before leaving the club at the end of his contract.
In September 2007, he joined Sparta Rotterdam on a short-term contract.

[el-capitano]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1320000/images/_1323306_westerveld300.jpg

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1320000/images/_1323306_westerveld300.jpg

Thanks for pointing out that I am too lazy to put up a picture. :D

[adammac19]

http://classic.liverpoolway.co.uk/magicmoments/maderik2.jpg

Another cult hero, Erik Meijer or as some would call him "Mad Erik" was really a bust at his time in Liverpool when he came in 1999. He was most known when he drank with Liverpool supporters before the UEFA Cup final in 2001. After his time under Liverpool (he was loaned out one season to Preston North End) he went to HSV where he scored 11 in 58 games. After that he went to second division Alemannia Aachen where he scored 19 goals in 92 games. He took on a post in the management of Alemannia Aachen. But after a very short time he was appointed assistant coach of the newly arrived Bundesliga team, working with Michael Frontzeck

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Meijer_(footballer)

[el-capitano]

Thanks for pointing out that I am too lazy to put up a picture. :D

Hehe :D

Here's a quirky where are they now file.........

I went to interview the subject of this segment, and he only had one thing to say to me.......

"I did cross the line"

I present.......

THE BALL used in the 2nd Leg Champions League Semi Final 2004/05 v Chelsea from Anfield.

He was a good ball- his diameter being a match ball, and a size 5 Adidas Finale, was 22cm (or 8.8 inches).

And here is the Ball's favourite pic, when he crossed the line, moments before William Gallas claimed to have stopped him from doing what he says was his proudest moment as a ball.

http://www.overcast.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/lfc/media/gallas4.gif

"I've been a Liverpool fan even before I was a size 5 soccer ball. It was my dream to be used at Anfield, and it felt like my destiny to cross the line, to enable Liverpool to make the Final. To say I didn't really annoys me."

My favourite quote is from Dr Mike Spann, a lecturer at Birmingham University's School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering and an expert in motion analysis and 3D shape modelling. "It was a goal."

http://www.overcast.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/lfc/garcia-gallas.htm

The ball currently resides on Usscouse's mantlepiece, after his cousin's sister's gardener's best friend, bought it from a guy down the pub in Liverpool.

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I have to spread it around...that was classic!!! :D :D

[Matt Clark]

http://classic.liverpoolway.co.uk/a-zofplayers/r-s/stewartpaul.jpeg
Paul Stewart

As the article from which I nicked this picture ponders, the worst signing in Liverpool history?

[Red Bird]

http://classic.liverpoolway.co.uk/a-zofplayers/r-s/stewartpaul.jpeg
Paul Stewart

As the article from which I nicked this picture ponders, the worst signing in Liverpool history?
I won't have that! There was Phil Babb. But then, again ...

[Matt Clark]

There was also this chap ...

http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/kozma.jpg

In fact, the entire Souness era is a goldmine. Or should that be a crapmine?