Topic: Why did Peter Beardsley leave all those years ago? What would he be worth today?

[Dench57]

Spooky fuckin' doyle.

[Crosby Nick]

John Barnes was my absolute hero growing up. But Beardsley wasn’t far behind. He was such a live wire, and one of the best dribblers I’ve seen. Different to Barnes who was all Grace and impossible to knock off the ball. Beardsley was just really direct and had a great shimmy, like no one else I’ve seen for us apart from maybe Benayoun.

Scored all types of goals too, as well as being a brilliant provider in the classic Liverpool number 7 mould.

[MonsLibpool]

He ball control and dribbling were magnetic. He was so "twitchy" that he could wait for the defender to make the first move.

He scored a volley from a tight angle against a team in blue that baffles me. Anybody that has played football knows how difficult it us to do that with your weaker foot.

I think the commentary was "Beardsley! What a lovely goal! What a lovely goal!

[Crosby Nick]

He ball control and dribbling were magnetic. He was so "twitchy" that he could wait for the defender to make the first move.

He scored a volley from a tight angle against a team in blue that baffles me. Anybody that has played football knows how difficult it us to do that with your weaker foot.

I think the commentary was "Beardsley! What a lovely goal! What a lovely goal!

Against Everton. My 4th ever game at Anfield.

“and he gets a kiss for it. From a man, incidentally wearing a blue striped shirt!”

About 3.10 in here: https://youtu.be/XeXtp2v9MTE

[MonsLibpool]

Against Everton. My 4th ever game at Anfield.

“and he gets a kiss for it. From a man, incidentally wearing a blue striped shirt!”

Really? Wow!

What was it like watching the '88 team live?

[Wingman]

Really? Wow!

What was it like watching the '88 team live?

The best. Thankfully I went more than once that season, because the first game I went to I spent watching John Barnes for most of it.

[paulrazor]

Beardo was a great player!  As others have said, was a huge mistake when we sold him!

I'll never understand it

[Eeyore]

I'll never understand it

We paid £2.9m for Dean Saunders and sold Beardsley for £1m. I blame FSG.

[Keith Lard]

We paid £2.9m for Dean Saunders and sold Beardsley for £1m. I blame FSG.

Souness was such a disastrous manager for us - he sold so many quality Reds and replaced them with dross. Just had a massive ego and was really destructive. Some ex-players just aren't cut out for elite management

[Solomon Grundy]

Souness was such a disastrous manager for us - he sold so many quality Reds and replaced them with dross. Just had a massive ego and was really destructive. Some ex-players just aren't cut out for elite management

I wonder how it would have been for us if we'd just held on till the end of the season and appointed John Toshack instead.

[Statto Red]

Souness was such a disastrous manager for us - he sold so many quality Reds and replaced them with dross. Just had a massive ego and was really destructive. Some ex-players just aren't cut out for elite management

Souness had to sell players to meet the 4 foreigners rule, problem was he replaced them with utter dross.

Saunders was unfathomable one, Souness signed him as a striker, but Souness played him on the left & not surprisingly Saunders struggled, then Souness sold Saunders to Villa a year later,  quite a few were sold to Villa.

Beardsley was another one, great player, but bizarrely sold to Everton, fair enough if Beardsley wanted to leave, but the clubs you don't sell to, are Everton & United, & Beardsley would never have gone back to Newcastle at that time, Newcastle were in the second division then & struggling big time

[kaesarsosei]

Spooky fuckin' doyle.

He'd be worth a 6-egg omelette topped with some lovely, lovely runny fuckin poachies and a couple of hard boilers on the side. Aah he's a good lad our Peter.

[Crosby Nick]

He'd be worth a 6-egg omelette topped with some lovely, lovely runny fuckin poachies and a couple of hard boilers on the side. Aah he's a good lad our Peter.

They’d better be propah fookin’ runny.

[William Regal]

Peak Barnes and Beardsley together was as good as it gets, 2 outstanding creative players with a telepathic understanding

[paulrazor]

We paid £2.9m for Dean Saunders and sold Beardsley for £1m. I blame FSG.

you have to ask where Pogba was in all this

Souness had to sell players to meet the 4 foreigners rule, problem was he replaced them with utter dross.

But with Beardsley being English it makes even less sense to sell him

We could have got another 6 years out of him

[Crosby Nick]

Peak Barnes and Beardsley together was as good as it gets, 2 outstanding creative players with a telepathic understanding

The amount of goals we score that started with them playing a one-two to get Barnes away in space down the left.

[El Lobo]

you have to ask where Pogba was in all this

When we signed Dean Saunders? He was ripping it up for Sheffield Wednesday. Surprised Souness didn't sign him as a Souness replacement.

[Crosby Nick]

When we signed Dean Saunders? He was ripping it up for Sheffield Wednesday. Surprised Souness didn't sign him as a Souness replacement.

Can we not knock it?

[paulrazor]

The amount of goals we score that started with them playing a one-two to get Barnes away in space down the left.

Barnes crossing for Aldridge to knock it in then

[kaesarsosei]

All joking aside, Beardsley is one of the great forgotten players not just of Liverpool but footbal in general. Barnes was just about that slight level above him, but Beardsley for 2-3 seasons was easily one of the best 11 players in the league. Also very unorthodox - he practically invented the no-backlift finish.

[Crosby Nick]

Barnes crossing for Aldridge to knock it in then

Or Ray Houghton away at Goodison in the cup.

[paulrazor]

Or Ray Houghton away at Goodison in the cup.

WHAT A TEAM

[rewood]

He's at Carlisle Golf Club tomorrow. 

[Barrow Shaun]

In today's market, a hundred million quid.

Brilliant footballer.

[SinceSixtyFive]

I'm sorry but just not a good looking fella so has benefited from that with people over-compensating and overrating his actual footballing ability.

Absolutely no David Beckham in any way, shape or form.

[Red-Soldier]

Souness was such a disastrous manager for us - he sold so many quality Reds and replaced them with dross. Just had a massive ego and was really destructive. Some ex-players just aren't cut out for elite management

He was a total calamity!

I remember watching him tear up the great side we had - absolute self-destruction!

[Red-Soldier]

I wonder how it would have been for us if we'd just held on till the end of the season and appointed John Toshack instead.

We probably wouldn't have sunk like a stone and had the heart ripped out of the squad.

[SinceSixtyFive]

I'm sorry but just not a good looking fella so has benefited from that with people over-compensating and overrating his actual footballing ability.

Absolutely no David Beckham in any way, shape or form.

Not a single bite. I'm giving up this fishing lark for good.

Another bloody night with no dinner on the table 

[norecat]

Peter Beardsley was a footballing genius. That front line of Barnes, Aldridge and Beardsley was astonishing. His sale was one of many screw ups by Souness which rendered us irrelevant to the title race.
I watched highlights of Newcastle 5 MU 0 from October 1996 and Beardsley at 35 was still producing magic. Souness had found his managerial level with Southampton. Fergie didn't knock us off our perch we simply imploded by employing Souness.

[Jack_Bauer]

Peter Beardsley was a footballing genius. That front line of Barnes, Aldridge and Beardsley was astonishing. His sale was one of many screw ups by Souness which rendered us irrelevant to the title race.
I watched highlights of Newcastle 5 MU 0 from October 1996 and Beardsley at 35 was still producing magic. Souness had found his managerial level with Southampton. Fergie didn't knock us off our perch we simply imploded by employing Souness.

Wasn't Beardsley in the England squad from Euro '96 as well? Just makes the decision to sell him even dafter. Souness honestly has to have the worst transfer record of all our managers just so many flops.

[paulrazor]

He didn't make the final squad for 96 but was in contention

As I said above we easily could have got another 6 years out of him

[Red-Soldier]

Peter Beardsley was a footballing genius. That front line of Barnes, Aldridge and Beardsley was astonishing. His sale was one of many screw ups by Souness which rendered us irrelevant to the title race.
I watched highlights of Newcastle 5 MU 0 from October 1996 and Beardsley at 35 was still producing magic. Souness had found his managerial level with Southampton. Fergie didn't knock us off our perch we simply imploded by employing Souness.

He replaced a title winning squad, with a sack of shit.

In the top two of the worst LFC managers during my life time.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

He replaced a title winning squad, with a sack of shit.

In the top two of the worst LFC managers during my life time.

I've sat here thinking that can't be fucking right,struggling to make the argument that it isn't though.

Saved by the fart sniffing Owl.

[Judge Red]

Remember the day he was sold. In an era before texts and internet on the go, i was on a day trip to Blackpool and there was a guy selling caricatures of players he’d drawn. Said id have Barnes, Beardsely & Rush to which he replies, “do you want Beardsley in his Everton kit?”  I was like wtf why would I want that? He then tells me he’s been sold. Gutted. Got Saunders instead. Never forgave myself or Souness for that the bastard. Found the caricatures in my loft the other day as it happens. Still not over it. 

[paulrazor]

it was difficult getting used to players leaving

start following in 1990, we didnt sell anyone that summer

then all of a sudden, Dalglish resigns, Hansen retires, then Speedie, Beardsley, Staunton, Gillespie gone, not long later McMahon was gone too

felt weird. Not helped by Barnes, Whelan and Rush always being injured that year