Every club has had those former players that, when you see them pop up in a Twitter clip or appear on telly playing in the Europa Conference League, you think, ‘Oh, sh*t, I remember him’. Liverpool seem to have had more than most.
They went through weird players at a rate of knots in the late 2000s and early 2010s, and, believe it or not, some of them are still going now.
Here, we’ve looked at seven former Reds who somehow haven’t retired yet.
Aly Cissokho
After some time in Turkey’s second tier and the French fourth division, Cissokho managed to find himself one last payday as a pro by moving to Thai League 2 side Lamphun Warrior in 2021 – and he’s still there erratically jerking up the left wing (we imagine) a year later after helping them to promotion.
He won a cap for France and played for Porto, Valencia and Lyon, so he can’t have been terrible all the time. But he was so bad at Liverpool we reckon they should make a film about it…
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Emiliano Insua
Insua played 44 games for Liverpool in Rafa Benitez’s final season in charge, but then Roy Hodgson arrived and that spelled the end.
“It was sad for me to leave because I was feeling really well at Liverpool,” Insua told the Guardian in 2019.
“I wanted to stay but Hodgson told me I will not play [under him]. I was young and I wanted to play, so I left. Hodgson then signed Paul Konchesky to be the left-back but Konchesky did not do well for Liverpool… maybe I should have stayed.”
Despite Hodgson getting the heave-ho a few weeks later, Insua never played for the Reds again, moving on to play in Portugal, Spain, Germany and the USA.
Now 33, he is turning out for Racing Club in his homeland.
Pepe Reina
Reina now seems like a player from an entirely different era of football. He made his professional debut for Barcelona in a game in which Pep Guardiola also came on as a sub and Rivaldo started on the right wing.
But aged 40, he’s still getting paid to play football. He moved back to Spain to play for Villarreal in summer 2022 and is being used as their ‘keeper for Europa Conference League games.
Daniele Padelli
We might have ranked him as Liverpool’s worst goalkeeper of the Premier League era (if you don’t remember, he made one terrible appearance for the Reds in 2007) but Padelli has carved out a very long career, albeit one that hasn’t involved playing football all that much.
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