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Hamann/Speed second half of the 98/99 season.

 

I don't really recall much of us doing much under Dalglish other than when he guided Keegan's team to 2nd place after he resigned, but Hamann was such a good player. It's just a shame we were a shambles at the time and he got poached by Liverpool. Don't know if Kenny looking after his old club had anything to do with it, but Didi was one of the few all round box to box midfielders we have had in the last couple of decades.

Wasn't it against Juventus in a friendly when he scored that thunderbastard?

 

Yeah I remember watching that and thinking what a player we have got here. I think he got stifled under Kenny's formation where we seemed to be playing with four central midfielders most games that season.

 

Hamann played, at most, two games under Dalglish before he was sacked. Your brain's got some imagination, like.

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Hamann/Speed second half of the 98/99 season.

 

I don't really recall much of us doing much under Dalglish other than when he guided Keegan's team to 2nd place after he resigned, but Hamann was such a good player. It's just a shame we were a shambles at the time and he got poached by Liverpool. Don't know if Kenny looking after his old club had anything to do with it, but Didi was one of the few all round box to box midfielders we have had in the last couple of decades.

 

Hamann mainly played under Gullit. Dalglish only had him two matches.

 

There was me thinking Dalglish signed a really good player and it was Gullitt after all that. :lol:

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Hamann/Speed second half of the 98/99 season.

 

I don't really recall much of us doing much under Dalglish other than when he guided Keegan's team to 2nd place after he resigned, but Hamann was such a good player. It's just a shame we were a shambles at the time and he got poached by Liverpool. Don't know if Kenny looking after his old club had anything to do with it, but Didi was one of the few all round box to box midfielders we have had in the last couple of decades.

 

Hamann mainly played under Gullit. Dalglish only had him two matches.

 

There was me thinking Dalglish signed a really good player and it was Gullitt after all that. :lol:

 

Well. No.

 

Jesus fucking Christ.

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Is that for real? :lol:

 

Hamann was signed by Dalglish after World Cup 98.

Dalglish was sacked August 98.

Hamann was available for two games under Dalglish and 36 under Gullit.

 

Not hard? :lol:

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Is that for real? :lol:

 

Hamann was signed by Dalglish after World Cup 98.

Dalglish was sacked August 98.

Hamann was available for two games under Dalglish and 36 under Gullit.

 

Not hard? :lol:

 

I saw Hamman's debut for us against Bray Wanderers in a pre season. Scored an absolute belter from near the halfway line.

 

He'll always be seen as a Judas for going to Liverpool, on the flip side.. he was given a copy of mein kampf for a xmas present by the players. I'm not surprised he wanted out.

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I don't have a list of names for you - although I could give it a try later on - but with the money in the PL, Rafa's name etc, I thought we'd be setting our sights a bit higher than Tom Lawrence and Tammy Abraham on loan.

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Is that for real? :lol:

 

Hamann was signed by Dalglish after World Cup 98.

Dalglish was sacked August 98.

Hamann was available for two games under Dalglish and 36 under Gullit.

 

Not hard? :lol:

 

Thank fuck for that. One of my few positive memories about Dalglish has always been that at least he signed Hamann.

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Dalglish signed quite a few good players, amongst many crap or over the hill ones, Shay Given, Gary Speed, Didi Hamann, Nobby Solano, Nikos Dabizas.

 

True. If he'd been able to trust his flair players a bit more it would have got the best out of the ones he did sign. That midfield of Hamann, Speed, Batty and Lee was chock full of quality, but they were all central midfielders so he wasn't doing them any favours by playing them together imo.

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Dalglish signed quite a few good players, amongst many crap or over the hill ones, Shay Given, Gary Speed, Didi Hamann, Nobby Solano, Nikos Dabizas.

 

True. If he'd been able to trust his flair players a bit more it would have got the best out of the ones he did sign. That midfield of Hamann, Speed, Batty and Lee was chock full of quality, but they were all central midfielders so he wasn't doing them any favours by playing them together imo.

 

Speed spent a lot of time on the left for Leeds, so it wasn't a huge stretch to play him there for us. Better in the middle, no doubt

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Dalglish signed quite a few good players, amongst many crap or over the hill ones, Shay Given, Gary Speed, Didi Hamann, Nobby Solano, Nikos Dabizas.

 

True. If he'd been able to trust his flair players a bit more it would have got the best out of the ones he did sign. That midfield of Hamann, Speed, Batty and Lee was chock full of quality, but they were all central midfielders so he wasn't doing them any favours by playing them together imo.

 

Speed spent a lot of time on the left for Leeds, so it wasn't a huge stretch to play him there for us. Better in the middle, no doubt

 

Who was on the other flank for Leeds? Strachan? No doubt Speed could do a job on the left but he never struck me as someone who was a natural wide player. Maybe if you had a natural outlet on the other flank or some pace up front it would work better. Just our team under Dalglish was very one paced and turgid. None of them were bad players, just too many of the same type.

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