I know, I know, the answer is who cares but here u are anyway.....
There are some players who gain a kind of footballing immortality by regularly cropping up in the conversation when fans discuss their club’s worst signings. Their fame outlasts a lot of solid performers who gave excellent service to the club; for Liverpool Sean Dundee is one such player.
Dundee came from the Bundesliga- so far so good. However, he joined from Karlsruhe, recently relegated and never one of the powerhouses of German soccer. The striker had contributed just 3 goals to the campaign though there were injuries as a mitigating circumstance. His overall record at the club was 36 goals in 86 games.
Roy Evans paid £2 million in 1998 to get the South African born but naturalised German striker as back up to Owen and Fowler.
In his one season at Anfield Dundee never hit the target. In fact he played in only 3 League encounters and 1 League Cup tie, always as a sub. Gerard Houllier very quickly decided that the slightly tubby striker wasn’t what he wanted and after a year Liverpool managed to offload him to VFB Stuttgart for half of what they paid.
In four years at VFB he started 11 Bundesliga games with 10 sub appearances. He proved effective when he did play though, as he hit the net 11 times and also did some good work in an Intertoto Cup run. His frequent injuries let youngster Kevin Kuranyi in and he took his chance to become the club’s top frontman.
In 2003 those 11 goals persuaded Austria Vienna to keep him in employment, although they did get him on a free. At the time the coach described Dundee as his number one target in the transfer market. At the end of his first season Dundee missed the final penalty in the shootout to decide the Austrian Cup Final and the club didn’t take up the option of a second year.
They offloaded the striker back to Karlsruhe who gave their prodigal son a two-year contract, although the club are in the second tier in Germany now. He’s now in the second year of that contract and scored in a recent game with Alemania Aachen.
Sean Dundee didn’t help himself when he told the Anfield fans that he was “as fast as Michael Owen”, on his arrival. After seeing him many fans agreed but only in the queue for the pie shop. His peak years have been dogged by injury and he probably wasn’t fit when he came to the Premiership but many Reds fans will be astonished that his career has continued at such a high level.
