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Our defense started shipping in the goals when we let Hyypia go. He was our rock and cool head for so many years.

From a playmaking perspective, Alonso was a huge loss.

Luis Garcia is the most recent played i have missed.

And i'll get slaughtered for this, Pennant, because i have always rated him as a winger and we have never had enough of them.

Our soul to Hicks and Gillet - but all is well that ends well - we've bought it back with Kenny.

Beardsley, much?

everyone that Souness sold off or shipped out, still recovering from his giant ego destroying a winning team, also regret the [oops] he bought in on big wages as well.!

Current players Alonso and Fowler(first time around)

Xabi Alonso without diubt

I was gutted when Luis Garcia left as he had a real eye for goal and for £5m proved to be great value for money - but that was down to the deal to get Torres and we did well enough the next couple of seasons to negate his departure

I also thought it was a mistake selling Stephen Warnock - a promising young England left-back - and strikers Craig Bellamy, Peter Crouch and evenm Robbie Keabe (who after spending a couple of months or so firing blanks started to show some form in front of goal)

But none of these had the same impact as Alonso, who was our ever-present creative force in the centre of the park amd provided he was partnered with a physical aggressive tough-tacker - in the mould of Sissoko and Mascherano - he would pull all our strings in midfield, almost virtually controlling games

As much as i like him - Rafa has to take the blame for that one - as if Xabi hadn't have left I am absolutely positive we would have been in that top 4 last season

Trying to sell Alonso to Juventus against the players wishes - in a crass attempt to prize the overrated mecenary Garry Barry away from Villa - was without doubt the worst decision Benitez ever made, and the one which ultimately cost him his job

Arbeloa deseves a mention.

He wad a Spanish international and a solid defender and we let him go for a paltry £3m and got in Glen Johnson - whose no better - for £18m

One of the most puzzling pieces of business liverpool had ever done although after that bust-up with Carragher it was clear Alvaro wanted out

worse thing about arbeloa was, he was garbage, he slowly turned out to be quite good, and as soon as he got the hang of things, they sold him. drove me nuts (bloody raffa )

You serious?

Don't get me wrong - I love Fowler more than anyone and at his peak he was a much deadlier striker than Michael Owen at his - which is saying something

But it was clear when he was sold that his form was on a permanent decline - and Houllier did give him a couple of seasons to see if he could return to his former self but sadly it never happened

Selling him to Leeds - rivals at the time - was strange but I think the £10m we got for him wasn't bad business

Alonso. First day of the season after selling him we lost to Aston villa, when we beat em 5-1 (if i remember correctly) the season before and that is when the downward spiral started. Though i personally think we should have kept Arbeloa and Hyypia as well