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In 2013/14 Liverpool and Brendan Rodgers created a team that would come close to winning the Premier League. Luis Suarez was their star. When he was sold for over €80million to Barcelona Liverpool had a rebuilding job.
Who did they sign? How did they do? Where are they now? Written by Seb Stafford-Bloor, illustrated by Philippe Fenner.
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#LFC #Liverpool
As an LFC fan I've learnt to accept "The Slip" Without it Rogers probably wouldn't have been eventually fired, then No Klopp and everything he brought us. Just a part of our history.
Not adequately replacing Suarez who absolutely carried that side was more significant. Even had Liverpool won the league he was off to Barca based on his form that season. Ultimately most of these players absolutely flopped. Also as ridiculous as it sounds that Being Liverpool series damaged his reputation too as he became a figure of mockery for quite a while.
So instead of a PL title, you traded it for a PL and a CL in 7 years. Not that great of a deal as you make it sound.
@@nekituzanlik105 yeah completely ignore that Liverpool is playing astonishing football since Klopp arrived. It's not all about titles. Liverpool had 2 of the best 2nd place finishes of all time.
@@nekituzanlik105 Well tbf its more like trading being an inconsistent laughing stock to being one of the best teams in the world
Yeah, it took time to heal but it did eventually. I don’t feel that devastated anymore when Chelsea post that slip (which they constantly do every year).
Adam lallana is one of the greatest what-ifs in Liverpool history. He was an absolutely terrific player and perfectly suited to klopp's system. I look up to lallana as a footballing role model. I absolutely adore that guy. I wish he had remained fit. He would have absolutely become a Liverpool legend.
But fairly he's doing well in brighton. Watched the newcastle and united game analysis and he was absolute presser
He was one of our best player in the early days of klopp. Shame the injuries got the better of him.
When he was at Southampton he was so good, he could just glide past players, totally two footed player aswell.
2016 was the year of Lallana. Instrumental in our Europa League run, England's POTY, and was at his peak from Aug to Dec when it looked like we had a real shot at winning the league. Sadly after that he was struck down by injuries and by the time he was fit again Ox, Keita and Fabinho had all been signed.
Spot on mate. I think him and Oxlade-Chamberlain are massive what-ifs. Neither of them really started well but both of them really found their stride, won over the supporters and made themselves a place in the first team, and then suffered a string of injuries that relegated them to the periphery. Lallana is one of the best team-players I've ever seen and the sport needs more like him - just less brittle.
Insane how far we've come in such a short time. From Lambert and Balotelli to Salah and Mané
Credit to Liverpool for putting competent people in charge, same with Tottenham now have Fabio Paratici as DoF, a man with experience with Juventus and other clubs. Then you have Fletcher, Murtough who are learning on the job lol
Watfordman was a huge downgrade
@@ahrlj24 bro nice one 🤣. i feel we can actually be relegation fodder this season 😂.
Love how Liverpool fans still think mane plays for them
@@snipasnipa who do u support?
I thought “The Luis Suarez 8” was a reference to the number of footballers he’d bitten.
Loool
Can’t talk about Origi’s Liverpool’s career and his injury problems without that horror tackle by Funes Mori, which nearly ended his career and left his with injury problems for the rest of his career. He was going brilliantly up front for Liverpool till then
Origi was crucial to us during that run... What could have been that season if not for that tackle
I reckon we'd have won the Europa had he stayed fit, he was excellent in the second half of that season
Yep
I always forget that part and how well he was doing up until that injury
Ramiro funes Mori had blood on his hands for that. I still remember him grabbing the Everton badge after the red card, all proud of doing what he did.
origi's signing was just like you found a shiny distinct unique dime, but, it's a dime. So you lend it to your friend as a simple decorations for years but then after you found that it is priceful, you bring it back, and establish it as your greatest findings
A weird but correct explanation
Bro, write the book.
Luis Suárez, even though he lacks the consistency and longevity of the other 2, his career highs are way more impressive than Benzema and Lewandowski…some of Suárez’s accomplishments.. - Won 2 Golden Boots with 2 different teams in 2 difficult leagues whilst competing against prime Messi and prime Ronaldo.. - Won Copa America with Uruguay in 2011 by being the Best Player of the Tournament and also scoring a brace in the Semis and also scoring in the final, neither Benzema nor Lewandowski have impressive International accolades.. - Won Laliga with Atletico Madrid (far less talented team when compared to Barça or Real) at age 33 by scoring some very crucial goals for them - Top 5 in Most Assists in Football History Not only can he easily adapt but also has the versatility in his prowess to keep performing at the highest level, not to mention Suárez is more complete as a player when compared to Benz and Lewa..
Let's hope he balls in this world cup
Lewandowski going to barca though is just as good if not better than when Suarez went to Barca it has come full circle.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld Let us see if Lewa can do wonders in Laliga.. If not then Suárez should definitely be considered as a “Greater” Player than Lewandowski..
@VB23 bro love your comment but c’mon he’s more consistent than benzi. Sure he died down but man dude could score
And probably would have won the La Liga golden boot in his first year with Atleti if it wasn’t for injury iirc
Even though many of them weren't great, they will be fondly remembered. Rickie Lambert was never meant to be a starter at Liverpool, but brought a feel-good feeling towards the club. Adam Lallana was fantastic (when he wasn't injured), Klopp even tried (unsuccessfully) to re-train him as a 6 in his final months there, as he was no longer in contention for any of the attacking positions. Many of them, like Moreno and Lovren, became crucial members of the dressing room. Even if they weren't being played regularly, their attitudes were always brilliant and supported the team with a lot of passion. As for Origi.. well, everyone knows what he's done for the club. 4 of the 8 became key pieces for the foundation of present-day Liverpool, and as a Liverpool fan, I can't thank them enough
@@tremensdelirious haha I never said that they’re the best team in the world though 🤷🏻♂️ 4 cups after years of mediocrity! I couldn’t be happier
@@tremensdelirious we would’ve won more but we’re competing against a mega team that’s funded by an entire state
@@tremensdelirious no
@@tremensdelirious Do you not remember how bad we used to be? Being as good as we are right now seemed impossible only a few years ago
@Tremensdelirious Always challenging? Nah man after that 13/14 season we couldnt even touch champions league football until 2017/18, city on the other hand won the league multiple times during that period, and additionally many domestic cups. Dont forget we hadnt won a trophy since 2011 until that 2019 champions league final.
Put all the biting and the trouble making aside but the Liverpool Luis Suarez was such a joy to watch
Yep facts.
wish daddy suarez would bite my shoulders 😫
Suarez, Best player I've ever seen play in a Liverpool shirt when he was with us. Unbelievable player.
Giving all the biting & trouble making I was surprised anyone wanted him in 2014.
@@r4h4al Nearly every club in the world would of took him, except maybe United, Chelsea and Juve, for obvious reasons lmao
I know from the moment he left that replacing him was impossible. He was on the level of Ronaldo and Messi at the time and they tried to replace him with Lambert and Balotelli.
And there were players like Higuain and Cavani available
Although maybe we should have tried to buy a right winger. 4231 Sturridge Sterling Coutinho +New RW
@@otto_jk To be fair, they had aready tried to sign Salah in January 2014, but lost out on him to Chelsea. Then Markovic was probably for that purpose as well. I think the reason they signed Lambert and Balotelli was a sign that they didn't fully trust Sturridge, either because he was injury prone or because he couldn't have replicated the link up play that Suarez offered.
Balotelli probably was on that level but had a bad attitude?
@@r4h4al honestly when that man locked in he looked world class but he was an on his day typa of player
I will always love Moreno for his heart and love for the club. "SIEMPRE, SIEMPRE, LIVERPOOL!! MY HEART!"
As much as it pains me from the bottom of my heart, Liverpool post-Suarez/Rodgers is an example of how to run a football club properly. Appointed Klopp, had a proper football structure behind the scenes, bought player profiles to suit the philosophy of the club, and as a result, were winning the UCL within 4 years and the elusive PL in 5. As a United fan, I hope the appointment of Ten Haag brings out a similar change in culture at my much beloved though derided club in recent times.
You forgot Jordan Ibe. He was also a great player, very strong and skillfull.
Euro 2012 Mario Balotelli was peak quality, honestly nearly carried Italy to the championship
Luis Suarez is not only a great Striker but also a good playmaker.
Prime Suarez under Klopp would've been something
Prob
I would absolutely love Tifo to make a new "Finances of Liverpool" video because United just signed Antony for £85M and that has just taken their spending to £220M this summer. Liverpool nearly matched United for commercial revenue, but also played every single game of football possible to them, won 2 trophies and got to a UCL final along with finishing 4 positions above United and playing CL football. Yet they are splashing the cash (again) and we are being told that theres no money (again). I am in equal measures confused, upset and very annoyed at the whole situation, as are most of the fanbase. Would love for you blokes to shed some light into the situation if possible.
I am super late on this but United made a net loss 115 million pounds last season, meanwhile Liverpool made a profit of 2.4 million pounds. So unfortunately it really is as simple as one group of owners being willing to lose money while the others are not.
Lovren was good defender. He and Modric lead Croatia winning sliver medal at 2018 WC
Still remember his tackle on Ronaldo or bale (UCL final) I don't remember but that tackle is definitely world class
Brilliant when he played well, awful when he played badly. Just inconsistent.
Ahh Markovic! The 'Salah' that never was.
God, Suarez was incredible that year. His '13-'14 deserves it's own video. I'm sad he left Liverpool because I am a fan, but even more so because he deserved to always be the star of his own team. He was easily the 2nd or 3rd best player on the planet from 2012 - 2018 and should have been the superstar focal point of his own team rather than being Pippen to Messi's Jordan.
Origi was worth every penny
This is the most entertaining LFC side I have seen, before every match I knew we are going to score 4 and concede 2
Love the narration and the smooth jazz playing in the background. Its all very peacelful.
Alberto Moreno has redeem himself after beating man utd in europa league final
1:07 *31 goals (0 penalties) + 17 assists from 33 matches!* Best _EPL_ season for an individual outfielder to date and a record that will take some beating.
33 games he misses almost 8 games I think add him to pk duty guy scores 40 goals easily and adds at least 5 assists
As a Liverpool fan, the summer of 14/15 was quite weird, every Liverpool fan knew what they were gonna miss when we sold Suarez, but there was a hope that the new signings would eventually come good and maybe balance the team altogether like coutinho transfer would do in 17/18. And Brendan rogers’s inability to do so kind of finished his stint at Liverpool and told everyone it was mostly suarez’s brilliance that so nearly won Liverpool the title. We defensively actually did became better in 2014/15, but in attack we were so much worse now, balotelli only scored 1 or 2 league goal, sterling has had a good season, but he left for city thereafter, Lallana was still a bright spot, we lost to stock 6-1 in the farewell game for gerrard, you could see the potential in coutinho, the loss to arsenal at emirates was quite damning too, and the transfer of markovic or his failure at Liverpool had so much effect on us Liverpool fans that now a KZhead compilation isn’t enough to tell us about the player’s quality or his talent. That 2014/15 season was quite like an arsenal seasons of late, so much expectations but not much in the end
Respect to lambert for working hard up the divisions after his initial dismissal from the Liverpool academy
Yes same
LAMBERT GOT TO LIVE HIS DREAM SALUTE HIM FOR THAT
Rogers playing Sterling and Markovic as wingbacks will never not be funny
Worse, he played Jordan Henderson and Joe Allen as wingbacks, with 35 y/o Steven Gerrard at CF
@@stevendchu Rodgers was way out of his depth at Liverpool. His deficiencies were glossed over by the 13/14 season in which a "determined to get Barca's attention" Suarez and a luckily-not-as-many-injuries Sturridge carried the whole team for him.
In hindsight, the summer of 2014 was the beginning of the end for Rodgers. We sold Suarez and initially wanted Alexis Sanchez to swap, but he preferred London and Arsenal. So we moved onto Loic Remy, but found out he had a knee issue that could be a problem. Then Sturridge gets injured so the board was forced to panic buy Balotelli, who BR had explicitly stated he did not want. Lambert and Borini were always meant to be backups. There was a mid season bump when BR stumbled on Sterling as a false nine of sorts, but there wasn't enough goal threat. It got so bad that in Stevie G's last ever game for us, he played CF.
Tbf we tried to sign Salah too in summer 2014 but he choose to go to Chelsea with Mourinho managing them. Its not easy finding a Luis Suarez replacement available when Liverpool also not as much attracting players back then like it is now. The club at that time lacks CL football, low player salaries, and also the squad is not really great either. Its always struggling being left by one of the best striker in the world
@Nancy Pelosi "Suarez was a shadow" and "Salah is the greatest player in the PL" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Nancy Pelosi You really aren't smart on any level are you!
Liverpool even knew at the time that Suarez couldn't be replaced. Given the rebuilding process that had to happen (seeing as our title challenge that previous year was almost solely down to the forwards (one being suarez who departed, the other sturridge who spent the rest of his time at anfield injured)) it made best sense to acquire young promising players rather than an outright superstar. Inevitably with this strategy there is a good amount of unpredictability in terms of hits and misses. Overall I think Liverpool recovered pretty well.
You should do one on the Gareth Bale group of players that were brought in after his world record sale
It's around
What an amazing Season. Suarez was phenomenal. Sterling, Couthino, Flano,.... what a season
our defence let us down big time
@@asianwarrior2193 I cried when Crystanbul happened
Great video, though…what’s missing about Lazar Markovic is his time at Benfica. His one exciting 2013/14 season at Benfica was the main reason why they signed him, yes he was good at Partizan but was even better at Benfica. Imagine a 19 year old immediately making an impact at a club like Benfica, those few that do so have a lot of potential (think Darwin Nunez, even he was older in his breakout season). David Luiz (who played for Chelsea at the time and played for Benfica previously) said it would be a mistake if Chelsea didn’t sign him. Markovic even got comparisons to a young Lionel Messi, probably because of his great dribbling and the long hair. And he was FAST, probably amongst the fastest 30 players in the world at his peak. Unfortunately, we never got to see him live up to his potential, and to say he didn’t have it would be wrong, he almost scored the goal of the season at Liverpool when he hit a flying half volley off the crossbar. A flash in the pan is how I would describe him, really exciting when on it, but that style was never consistent enough to make it at a club like Liverpool.
This was a really cool video, would love to see more like it for other clubs whose stars left
Interestingly, Michael edwards didn’t have full access to the transfers back then. Lots of transfers were forced by rodgers as well. Which led to their own rift. Firmino & benteke was the result of it.
Are you saying Firmino is a bad signing?
@@royvandermarel3953 Firmino was a signed by Edwards but Rodgers didn't want him and signed Benteke at the same time
Rodgers has a calamitous transfer record. The Firmino & Benteke debacle and some of Leicester's signings recently shows that.
@@cinder15 Thank you for the clarification. I guess I misread/misunderstood what the OP was saying
Yep. Rodgers did not want Firmino and wanted Benteke instead. So the club had to compromise by buying both of them. LOL Its almost a carbon copy of Liverpool's Suarez and Carroll signings in January 2011. It made no sense. LOL
That 13/14 team is probably just behind the 08/09 team and definitely far behind the 19/20 team for best LFC teams I have seen.
emre can is kinda underraterd he was our best midfielder for years and even now (after losing form), he would be ahead of chamberlain, milner, jones and keita in our midfield
As a Partizan Belgrade fan, and big Lazar Markovic fan since he burst into the scene... I remember the commentator stating on the debut, as Markec was to come in from the bench, that the young boy is faster than wind. Never really lived up to the hype. You mentioned that he is currently playing in Partizan, but, he's contract ended and the club didn't want to offer him a renewal, since he hasn't scored a single goal in the league besides being the club captain and playing on the wing... Now he signed for a Turkish Premier league club. His career was ruined by injuries and Rodgers played him as a wing back on those rare occasions when he had a chance to play, he was actually one of the best Benfica players, hence why Liverpool payed 25m € for him. I'm still a huge fanboy thought :D
It was the last time Daniel Sturridge was a proper baller, linking up with Luis Suarez.
Great video man origi is so clutch
Lovren was a great rotational cb just wasn't a starter but was a decent player and both helped klopp build Liverpool
Moreno and Lovren were the cause of many headaches during their time with LFC, my club.
Spot on
Racist. Loveren was great defender
Lovren was immense in the 2018 CL final against Madrid. Got an assist and some important tackles.
Moreno never really looked comfortable, so I kinda agree with you there. But we had much worse CDs than Lovren over all those years. Coates, Sakho (I was really hyped about signing him), Ilori, Cissokho, Klavan (decent, but no Lovren), Kabak... We actually paid money for all of these guys
@@DUNDOM5 racist is when someone say something I don't like
I am so glad Lallana seems unanimously well liked by Liverpool Fans and the press for his time with us. There was one season in particular were he was very impressive
Was injury prone but was a monster for about 2 years for klopp before injuries finished him
I honestly thought this was a video about all the footballers named Luis Suarez, and I'm disappointed that its not
I can listen to this narrator all day.
Recognise change. That wasn’t an unnecessarily destructive piece at all. Well played. 👏
To be fair except for Balotelli all the other 7 weren't too bad, just that selling Suarez was like giving away the magic ability of a wizard
Darwin nunez today head popping a defender and get send away, gave me a flashback on Luiz Suarez beating days😂
Can scored one of the craziest bicycle kicks I’ve ever seen, must be said
80 million for luis Suare, makes so much sense pre neymar
I liked this video very much, well done everyone.
‘Member Bale 7? I ‘member.
Make more videos with this format of cartoon-faces etc, we enjoy it. Keep it up !
U would like that BS, they should not do black players if you're not gonna do them right.
They def could have spent the money better ... but as an Arsenal fan, I loved the post Suarez era... im glad we no longer had to worry about him, and instead had to deal with Rickie Lambert and an incosistent Balotelli 😁😋
@Trolling Deep i know your kind, your life is so depressing and pathetic that the only thing you can take pride in is a team whose achievements have nothing to do with you 🤣
You dealt with Lambert and Balotelli for one season......and even then you couldn't even win at Anfield lmaooo As soon as Klopp came in, Firmino Mane and then Salah took turns scoring for fun against Arsenal.
SAS was amazing
I've secretly been waiting for this video
I will forever love Lallana!
Don't go, please stay with me. I don't know where you came from, I don't know y u chose me... Hahaha... We used to banter my Liverpool supporting bro with this song around the time Suarez left for Barcelona. Memories.
These Tifo videos are like therapy
what a season
Can you make a video about the defenders who played next to Jose fonte. They have almost a combined value of 200m VVD, botman, Diaz, shaw, clyne, lovren, chambers, Gabriël
Add in international level and you get Pepe, Ricardo Carvalho, and Bruno Alves. Plus legends like Jos Hooiveld, Mark Hudson, and James Collins.
@@tomwantshelp I mean who developed next to fonte
that's a lot of words for "Origi's the GOAT"
2:04 GOAT ALERT!
Love these, the real question now is would you rather your club spent (in 2013ish) 110m on the Bale seven , or 134.5m on the Suarez eight?
Lallana was the 'trigger' for Liverpool press under Klopp. The first to really take to it. Klopp adored him. I always hated the Lovren signing tbf. Moreno was great at Sevilla. I wanted him, Shaw or Sandro. Any one would have been fine. Great debut but yeah, that is about it for Liverpool. Markovic got mugged by Rodgers at a crucial time in his career. It made little sense. If Rodgers didn't take to you, like Nuri Sahin too, he made sure everyone knew about it. Not working on Sanchez much sooner cost Liverpool big time, at least for the Rodgers era.
Now that Salah got the attention from pretty much everyone I think it was best for Lallana to leave. He don't think he would start every game Migolett should've stayed though. That's for sure.
Adam Lallana is of Spanish descent which probably explains his style of play and so far has been in good form for Brighton & Hove Albion this season
Right this comment probably wont be seen but about markovic he actually left partizan belgrade in the summer and has joined Gaziantep FK in Turkey
Thanks mate
Can you do a video on statistics & "sabermetrics" and how the premier league uses them?
Impressed in the correct pronunciation of Kirkby I can’t lie
LFC gave Rodgers a proper time unlike MU to Jose Morinho. And we also gave Klopp a longer time to succeed.
Best no 9 in the last decade. The only player that can challenge Messi/CR7 dominance.
On paper, other than lambert they were all pretty good signings at the time
Nice vid
Luis Suarez, Ate.
So you could say that Suarez and Carroll are the “Torres 2”? Weird title of a video.
Great video, Tifo. If i may request, can you make a video about "The Eden Hazard 8", which are Kovacic, Mendy, Werner, Havertz, Ziyech, Chilwell, Silva, and Sarr?
Suarez that last season was something else.
Alot of more successful than I thought If half your transfers, when you buy multiple inone window, are successful thats really good
Without Klopp as coach Mane, Salah and Firmino would have struggled.
Adriano: I am the biggest wasted talent in Football Balotelli: Hold my antics!
Kids nowdays will never know how good Lazar Marković was
Suarez in 2014 was the best player in the world, but since it was during the peak of Messi-CR7 and CR7 won it all, no way Suarez would ever win. Only way to beat prime Messi-CR7 was by winning it all and making others look like amateurs, something Sneijder and Ribery were never able to do. Suarez did, but he had no accolades to support his Ballon d'Or case.
Emre-chan was the third best Japanese player in premiership history after Kagawa-san and Aguero-kun. Little overfamilier if you ask me ho-ho-ho
I literally remember watching “The Slip” I felt so bad for him
Lambart, Lovren, Lallana, Can, and Origi were all good signings. The other three… not so much.
Suarez was irreplaceable, a one in a generation talent, and liverpool knew it, but back then we did not have the money to hold him from going to barcelona. The 31 goals were without shooting a single penalty btw.
Some of those transfers were what Rodgers wanted while others were what the transfer committee wanted. The result was a disjointed vision.
Especially so considering Rodgers' later firing
Can someone explain the numbers on the jerseys in the thumbnail? Transfer prices?
Prime *Luis Suárez* >>>>>>>>>> Prime *Robert Lewandowski*
Prime Suarez even competes with prime Ronaldo. Only if Suarez played with a better team than Liverpool
Hey tifo football, who do you think Liverpool should have bought to replace suarez at CF in 2014?. Apart from Sanchez at the time was there anyone else
Brendan Rodgers played left-winger Markovic at right wing back. Unsurprisingly, Rodgers today still can't set up a defence to save his life.
@Nancy Pelosi I don’t think there were many what ifs with Markovic, never looked good enough and never proved himself when he went out on loan
lallana still ply his trade with brighton
Paaaaaain!
Bit harsh leaving Gerrard out of what the team was built around it clearly was still built around Gerrard just in a deeper position.
I had more fun watching that’s season than any klopp season. Suarez was genius who won games single handedly and the shoot outs had me on the seat all the time watching on tv.
"Kirby" lmao
Lambert got better every season by eating the opposition and stealing their powers
Do Chelsea hazard next
We wouldn’t be in the same position today if that 13/14 season didn’t play out like it did
Luis Suarez will surprise everyone this world cup.
Still the best no. 9