Topic: Robbie Keane: Did he get a fair chance at Liverpool?

[Elisha S]

I`m seeing this guy getting rave reviews at Villa Park. MOTM for every match he`s started.

Did he really get a fair crack of the whip at Anfield?

I mean, he scored seven goals in 28 appearances, many of them as sub, in the few short months he was with us. Not a great return, but not a total embarrassment.

He was a starter in the team that got us to the top of the league, when Torres and Gerrard were both injured.

Was he really that bad? Could he have provided the few extra goals to push us towards the title in 2009?

[Mr Dilkington]

Yes. He was shite and a massive waste of money.

Gobshite.

[Trump's tiny tiny hands]

The really shitty thing is that he got A chance at all at LFC

[Hij]

I think it was more to do with the fact that as he was getting older we really couldn't afford to keep him on so we got rid the first chance we got. Who knows though.

[Moldyman]

He was shite. and still is shite.

[zero zero]

I mean, he scored seven goals in 28 appearances, many of them as sub,

He probably 'contributed' more air shots in his time here.

[liverpoolsox]

He was well on his way to getting his 15 in the season and thats all he's ever been, a 15 goal a year striker.
I was surprised when we were in for him but i was not surprised by his performance. He simply was not good for that team.

[Elisha S]

Yes. He was shite and a massive waste of money.

Gobshite.

This is the kind of comment that makes me despair of the modern football fan.

No debate, no discussion, just easy abuse.

[Trada]

Yes I like the easy questions.

[Phil M]

Pointless thread to be honest, no offense OP but really what are the merits of a discussion on a player for whom I'd guess 80-90% of us thought was a complete flop at Liverpool.
He wouldn't have been sold if he had been performing to the standards we expected of him and what he's achieving now elsewhere a few years on from that is irrelevant.

[Mr Dilkington]

This is the kind of comment that makes me despair of the modern football fan.

No debate, no discussion, just easy abuse.

Don't want to waste any of my time 'debating', as previously said a 'gobshite'.

If you do, then fire away. I'm done.

[Elisha S]

I was surprised when we were in for him but i was not surprised by his performance. He simply was not good for that team.

Yet that team got to the top of the league.

Btw, fifteen goals from him during that season probably would have won us the title.

[zero zero]

This is the kind of comment that makes me despair of the modern football fan.

No debate, no discussion, just easy abuse.

You're only three years late.

[Juan Loco]

Yeah. He got several. All about 4 inches infront of goal.

He missed the fucking lot of them. Then he sat down on his arse, held his hands up in the air and looked around for someone to moan at for being a fatheaded waste.

[Phil M]

Yet that team got to the top of the league.

Btw, fifteen goals from him during that season probably would have won us the title.

If Torres and Gerrard weren't injured we might have won it aswell. Ifs and buts don't win titles.
 (no Nicky Butt jokes pls)

[shelovesyou]

He scored goals, always has, and he may well have helped us in the long run but was never given the chance to prove how he could of helped the club.
He was only here a few months so how people can say he was shite after such a short period is beyond me.
We'll never know I suppose but he did ok.

[paddysour]

He scored goals, always has, and he may well have helped us in the long run but was never given the chance to prove how he could of helped the club.
He was only here a few months so how people can say he was shite after such a short period is beyond me.
We'll never know I suppose but he did ok.

Ironically those people would probably jump down your throat if you mention Carroll being a waste.

[Rohit]

Yes and he was a big time charlie.

[Phil M]

He was only here a few months so how people can say he was shite after such a short period is beyond me.

And why was he only here a few months?
I think people can make such a judgement using their eyes, I know I did.

[Elisha S]

He scored goals, always has, and he may well have helped us in the long run but was never given the chance to prove how he could of helped the club.
He was only here a few months so how people can say he was shite after such a short period is beyond me.
We'll never know I suppose but he did ok.

This is what staggered me at the time. We were top of the league without Torres and Gerrard. Keane was a starter and had a considerable influence on that team with his movement and energy on the pitch.

What happened?

[Loo Pan]

He didn't fit in well enough, and Tottenham made us an offer to take him back that was too good to refuse. Rafa knew he needed to sell if he wanted money to buy someone who would be a better fit. It's a pity H&G then reneged on their agreement with Rafa for him to have the money that summer for a replacement.

[Coolie High]

He scored goals, always has, and he may well have helped us in the long run but was never given the chance to prove how he could of helped the club.
He was only here a few months so how people can say he was shite after such a short period is beyond me.
We'll never know I suppose but he did ok.

Pretty much agree with this.

[shelovesyou]

And why was he only here a few months?
I think people can make such a judgement using their eyes, I know I did.

I dont know why, only he and some at the club at the time know that, but
it takes time for new players , doesnt it ?

[Phil M]

Ironically those people would probably jump down your throat if you mention Carroll being a waste.

Keane was 28, the Spurs club captain, leading Irish international goalscorer and a veteran of over 250 Premier league appearances, why then would it be fair to draw a comparison to Andy Carroll?

[RayPhilAlan]

We tried Keane playing with Torres, playing just off Torres, playing with Kuyt, playing in a 3 man attack, playing up front on his own. There were times he did okay, normally against the lower-ranked teams, and one cracker of a goal against Arsenal, but otherwise he was a bit of a letdown. I can't help thinking the final straw for Rafa was when we went to Newcastle, and with Keane on the bench throughout we thumped them 5-1 (and it could have been 10) going clear at the top of the table. Afterwards, all the media seemed interested in was, "Why did you leave Keane out?" "Does Keane have a future at LFC" etc. He wasn't worth the aggravation, so when Spurs came in with a decent offer we took it.

The only annoying thing was that he wasn't replaced. That was the first of our four successive transfer windows where we made a profit. Given Torres' injury problems, it would have been good to have had someone other than Ngog to come in in his absence.

[shelovesyou]

This is what staggered me at the time. We were top of the league without Torres and Gerrard. Keane was a starter and had a considerable influence on that team with his movement and energy on the pitch.

What happened?

Dunno, but no doubt soon enough there will be plenty who will offer 'their' versions of events.

[zero zero]

This is what staggered me at the time. We were top of the league without Torres and Gerrard.

http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Appearances/118

[RayPhilAlan]

Oh, but if you go back and look at the official season review DVD for his time at the club, he looks like a brilliant player!

[Elisha S]

He didn't fit in well enough, and Tottenham made us an offer to take him back that was too good to refuse. Rafa knew he needed to sell if he wanted money to buy someone who would be a better fit. It's a pity H&G then reneged on their agreement with Rafa for him to have the money that summer for a replacement.

I think we would have won the league in 2009, if we had stuck with Keane until the end of the season.

[Phil M]

This is what staggered me at the time. We were top of the league without Torres and Gerrard. Keane was a starter and had a considerable influence on that team with his movement and energy on the pitch

His movement consisted of him wandering around in no mans land with a face like a smacked arse waving his hands in the air at every single thing that went against him or us as if he was desperate to show how much he cared for his 'boyhood club' before he'd attempt to latch on to an inch perfect cross only to miskick, fail to kick or just miss it which ultimately frustrated Rafa who coincidentally didn't want Keane here in the first place and he sold him back to Spurs first chance he got.
That's about it in a nutshell.

[shelovesyou]

I think we would have won the league in 2009, if we had stuck with Keane until the end of the season.

We'll never know mate. Too many variables.

[justsean]

He did alright but his attitude was all wrong.

Things were actually going so so smoothly at LFC while he was here. When you think that in the 6 months he was here he scored that cracker against Arsenal, a brace against West Brom, a goal or two against Marseille or PSV!? and had a few assists as well then he wasn't all that awful.

Wasn't to be anyway.

[Elisha S]

http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Appearances/118

Torres and Gerrard were injured for large sections of the first half of that season.

[Loo Pan]

I think we would have won the league in 2009, if we had stuck with Keane until the end of the season.

I don't think it made a difference at all, we finished the season really strongly. Our form without Keane was better than our form with him.

[Juan Loco]

This is what staggered me at the time. We were top of the league without Torres and Gerrard. Keane was a starter and had a considerable influence on that team with his movement and energy on the pitch.

What happened?

I don't think any of that was true. I don't believe we were even top of the league by the time he was sold.

He was fucking atrocious. His movement consisted of lashing out at thin air then sitting on his arse. The only energy he mustered was his constant fucking moaning in the direction of anyone who'd fucking listen. Christ knows about what. Presumably his inability to hit a barn door with a machine gun.

There's been a lot of shit players since the 90s, but Robbie Keane stands out like a beacon amongst the most useless.

If the prosecution needs any evidence beyond his miss away to Bolton then they can find it themselves.

[shelovesyou]

His movement consisted of him wandering around in no mans land with a face like a smacked arse waving his hands in the air at every single thing that went against him or us as if he was desperate to show how much he cared for his 'boyhood club' before he'd attempt to latch on to an inch perfect cross only to miskick, fail to kick or just miss it which ultimately frustrated Rafa who coincidentally didn't want Keane here in the first place and he sold him back to Spurs first chance he got.
That's about it in a nutshell.

He did want him, but not for that money and he wanted Barry first.

[Phil M]

Next up: El Hadji Diouf: Where did it all go wrong?

[Juan Loco]

I don't think it made a difference at all, we finished the season really strongly. Our form without Keane was better than our form with him.

It was almost as if we were unburdened by having to deal with how to fit in the fathead who couldn't even finish from 2 yards out, had fuck all guile and spent far, far more time both hands in the air, head on a swivel trying to catch anyone's attention, than he did following the ball into the box.

[GrkStav]

He scored goals, always has, and he may well have helped us in the long run but was never given the chance to prove how he could of helped the club.
He was only here a few months so how people can say he was shite after such a short period is beyond me.
We'll never know I suppose but he did ok.

The heck he wasn't.

Constant whinging and moaning, always blaming someone or something else for his eff-ups.

On his day, he can be a devastating weapon but he's too much of a legend in his own mind most of the time.

[shelovesyou]

I'll do the honours