Jurgen Klopp has used some interesting players during his time as Liverpool manager. Obviously, rather a lot of the dross came at the beginning of his tenure.
After picking his best Liverpool XI (have a read after this, will you?), we have compiled a team full of the worst players to play for him at Anfield.
Adrian was horrendous for Liverpool and cost them in the Champions League against Atletico Madrid, but no matter how bad he was, we couldn’t not pick Karius, who cost the Reds against the other Madrid team in a much more important European fixture.
We might be blinded by that performance against Gareth Bale and Real Madrid, as well as the incredible signing of Alisson, but Karius was the first name that came to mind when the brainstorming for this team started.
Flanagan only played nine times for Klopp but that was enough for us. After a decent start to life as a youngster at Anfield, the Liverpool-born full-back left his boyhood club for Rangers in 2018 and his career proceeded to fall off a cliff.
The 31-year-old retired in 2022.
CB: Ozan Kabak
The first of three shocking loan deals in this team, Turkish defender Kabak was signed by Klopp in February 2021 to try and help combat a defensive crisis. He played 13 times as Liverpool somehow finished fourth in the Premier League.
Kabak missed the last five games of the season through injury and it will shock you to learn that the Reds won all five, conceding three goals.
Being in the Villarreal squad that beat Manchester United in the 2021 Europa League final was the best thing Moreno did for Liverpool.
He couldn’t defend for toffee and was replaced in Klopp’s starting XI a few months after he signed Andy Robertson from Hull.
Klopp chased Keita for quite some time before signing him from RB Leipzig for around £53m in 2018. The fact he is the only big-money signing in this XI speaks volumes about the job the German boss has done at Anfield.
Despite the silly number of injuries he picked up during his time in the Premier League, Keita – who wore Steven Gerrard’s famous No. 8 shirt – made 129 Liverpool appearances, scoring 11 goals and providing seven assists.
He was a massive disappointment and a rare miss from Klopp in the transfer market. Leaving for Werder Bremen on a free transfer made it all a little bit worse.
There was a reluctance to include players who barely kicked a ball for Klopp but Arthur’s time at Anfield was so miserable it was impossible to ignore. There also weren’t a lot of midfielders to choose from, believe it or not.
