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No one is checking on John Aldrige

Tbh he was the first name I thought of when I went down the road of late 80s / early 90s Liverpool players. It was him or Steve Nicol but if I accidentally wished it into being I quite like Nicol because of Notts. Sorry Alan.

I'd gone for Lawrenson myself. I mean, I don't wish him ill or anything, just the next name that would've sprung to mind.

Wasn’t Hansen in a bit of a tangle already?

Another one I thought had died five years ago.

Dalglish famously replaced Keegan in 1977. Barnes signed in 1987, which is around the time Dalglish had become mostly a manager with the occasional game as a player, Barnes left in 1997, so what we are looking for as the next victim is an attacking player who came to prominence in 1997. Bad news for Michael Owen.

Didn’t we used to sing Alan Hansen what a wanker? Think he said we’d be shit in Europe in the late 90s but might be wrong on that.

He wasn't wrong

His most famous quote is "you can't win anything with kids" about the 1995 Manchester United team. The mockery of which always overlooks the fact that the mainstays of that team were Schmeichel, Irwin, Bruce, Pallister, Cantona, and Keane, all of whom had many top flight seasons under their belts already. Of course the shiny young stars of Beckham, the Nevilles and Giggs were important, but they started and played fewer games than the veterans.

Yeah, there’s a really good episode of the “it was what it was” podcast about that season which makes that point.

Being the last team in Europe, I’d suggest he was.

Yes, but Dalglish replaced Kenny Keegle as manager at Noocassul in 1997.

Meanwhile John Barnes eventually hung up his boots in 1999(ish) to manage Celtic, was really, really shit and was then repaced by... Dalglish. (I think) .

So, the answer is obviously Terry McDermott and his action packed tache who served as assitant beside all three and also played for the dippers in the 80s.

A Ukrainian builder is a bit of a come down from the KGB Novichok agents in Salisbury.
Are Russia that badly off for assets? Or did they think it wouldn't take much effort to off Keir?
Or did they really not want to succeed?