players gone from squad this summer

[kopite]

Also added to the list the latest outgoing Jan Kronkramp to PSV
who else dya think
Stephen warnock ???????????????

[Shaggy]

By my reckoning that's 24 players who've left the club this summer. Twenty four!

[REDSCOUSER]

If Neill signs we will have a very strong squad of 23 players not counting any of the ressie youngsters.

[# 5]

Brannagan?

Does he qualify for Ireland?

[lfc4ever]

Just reading newsnow, and came across this:

http://www.talklfc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=24649

By Eric Kluitenberg for Talklfc.com

A lot has been said about Dirk Kuijt, Jermaine Pennant and Craig Bellamy since they came to the club. As always, the main focus has been on those players who came to the club but what about the outgoing few?

Well, "the few" actually make up a full squad of players. Twenty one players have left Liverpool over the summer which once again shows that Rafa Benitez is not one to linger when he thinks a player no longer has added value to his future plans.

Now let's have a look at the leavers...

Jan Kromkamp: Kromkamp's deal to take him to Anfield seemed good business at the time since he'd just moved to Spain in a deal worth six million pounds and it allowed Benitez to allow Josemi, who had failed to settle in England, to move back to his native country. Six months later though, Kromkamp decided he needed to play and Benitez decided that he would not be doing that on a regular basis for Liverpool.

Neil Mellor: Mellor always reminds me of John Newby...I think it was "John" anyway. Great striker in the reserves but not mobile enough to make it with a top team like Liverpool. Mellor could do fine for a team which sits back and allows him to play as a static targetman. However, in a team in which the strikers need to be mobile and able to play as well as move towards the ball rather than the other way around, players like Mellor just don't cut it.

Florent Sinama-Pongolle/Anthony Le Tallec: The gems...possibly the best example for the fact that young superstars do not necessarily make the step up to the big boys. Often our forum members lament the fact that we have not signed "the next best thing". In the case of Kaka they were right. For every Kaka, there is one Anthony Le Tallec however. This should also be a reality check for the expectations people have for the likes of Paul Anderson and Godwin Antwi.

Darren Potter: Was going to be Steven Gerrard, ended up being John Welsh.

Daniel O'Donnell: o'Donnel is very calm at the back and is a good distributor of the ball. He's also prone to lapses in concentration however so he is allowed to go and learn at Crewe. In possibly the most one sided alliance in world football, Crewe are again bailed out by the Reds. With Antwi, Roque, Palleta and the impressive Daniel Agger still at the club, fans should not expect to see Danny in Red again.

Djimi Traore: Came to Liverpool, outlived Frode Kippe, won a Champions League medal and one season too late left the Reds. A good purchase for Charlton though and certainly not without quality.

Michael Nardiello: Couldn't cut it at Manchester United and didn't fare much better at Anfield. Could make a name for himself in the Championship however and I won't be surprised to see him at the likes of Boro and Blackburn some time soon.

Calum Woods: Was at Liverpool before Benitez and was deemed not good enough once the Spaniard decided he needed more pressure on the first team from the reserves.

Carl Medjani: Could be labelled, the third Gem. Brought to the Reds with a lot of fanfare from France as the then U-18 captain. But much like the Ireland U-18 European Champions of 1998 ended up as a Stephen McPhail rather than a Robbie Keane.

Djibril Cisse: A three year pursuit saw Gerard Houllier splash out 24 million pounds on Cissé with only one year left on his contract. The fee for the Frenchman was 14 million but considering that the stop gap solution Houllier had found in his desperate attempts to replace Robbie Fowler, was the ten million pound flop El Hadji Diouf, that can easily be added to the total investment it took to take Cissé to Anfield. Now, two years on, Benitez has no room for the player in his squad as he doesn't like superstars with crazy haircuts. Rafa needs men at his club, not fashion statements.

Dietmar Hamann: Up until now, Rafa's worst ever transfer decision. Hamann, a Liverpool legend, should have been allowed to have his swan song at Anfield. In stead, it will be the City of Manchester stadium which means little to Hamann or football as a whole. None the less, it may have been Hamann's own wish to play more football in his final year. If that's the case, one can only hope that the good people on the board of Liverpool FC have enough sense to realize that Hamann's testimonial can only be in the colours of one club and that's not Bolton either.

Chris Kirkland: Gone on loan again and immediately earning himself an England callup. Will probably be rated at around five million come Christmas just before he breaks a finger in a freak guitar playing accident and is sidelined for the rest of his season. With Scott Carson out on loan as well and another England U-21 goalkeeper at the club, it is hard to imagine Kirkland will ever become a permanent feature at Liverpool again.

Fernando Morientes: Nando should have never left Spain. Touted by many, including myself, as "made for the Premiership", his lack of understanding with his midfielders caused his goal scoring to be limited. Too old to keep out the incoming Craig Bellamy and Dirk Kuijt, El Moro had to move.

David Raven: Another academy youngster who made it to reserves but then got pushed out by Antwi and Roque. Three years older than the Ghanean and Spaniard, his choice was regular football which was probably for the best.

Bruno Cheyrou: Someone actually bought Bruno Cheyrou and it wasn't even Gerard Houllier. No one actually cares for how much so let's just never mention him again and quickly forget that we ever had the next Zidane at our club. Couldn't play like the legendary Zizou and doesn't pack much of a headbut either.

Calum Woods: Only a few youngsters ever make it into the first team, Stephen Warnock being the last to manage the step up, Calum Woods will be one of those that haven't.

Zak Whitbread: Zak was going to be the next Hyypia. Certainly not without talent he decided that he was too old to be waiting for his starting place. He was probably right and Millwall isn't a bad club to be playing for. If you enjoy slumming.

Ramon Calliste: Much like Michael Nardiello but not as good. Managed to move from Man United and showed right away why they did no longer need him. Scored less goals as a striker than Emile Heskey and that's just what we're trying to move away from.

Robbie Foy: Looks like he could be Gary McAllister. Plays like he couldn't. In fairness Foy is a handy little player but suffers from Ritchie Partridge or Vladimir Smicer syndrome. Plays a few great matches in a row and picks up an injury shortly after.

Paul Willis: Got the message as soon as Benitez started shopping at goalkeepers 'r' us. The Reds can now boast five international goalkeepers in their squad and four of them are well under 25. Don't be surprised to find two of them in this same list after the next transfer window closes.