Liverpool FC Forum

[azriahmad]

The reviewer must have been blind or only saw the usual stats on paper without seeingthe actual performance. That he managed to score some goals at all last season was almost a miracle itself, seeing all the time how awful he is!

I don't know abour the plausibility of the story but I had alwasy wondered exactly why he cost us £5.5 million in the first place.

[A.B.]

This is the most ridiculous thing I've read all week.

Tudor signed for Juve way before we signed Biscan in the same year and HOW IN THE F#CK DO YOU AGREE A DEAL WITH A PLAYER BY A MISTAKE? How on earth is that possible? Load of bullsh1t. Biscan was worth 5.5 million because he was good, he did his job for his past club and led them as a captain in the Champions League.

There's a reason why Juve and Madrid were after him. Unfourtanetly he turned a flop for us because Houllier played him in eveyr position but his prefered one and no wonder he's been sh1t

[XSD]

And flourish he did, playing almost 40 games for the Reds in the absence of the likes of Stephan Henchoz during 2003/04. His only low-point was a decisive red-card in his team's UEFA Cup Foruth Round exit at the hands of Marseille.

only??

[L-type]

source?  there is no way we could have just bought the wrong player.  simply crazy thought.

[laza]

While simple f..k ups can happen anywhere this does sound like an urban myth

[siti_zaiton1982]

i dun think the story is true coz its so much of impossibility that we bought the wrong player.

[LFC #1]

When are autobigorpahy's always a source of truth anyway?

If Ron Yeats fell out with GH it's possible that was written out of spite rather than concrete eveidence.

[JBG]

It wouldn't happen.

Liverpool would not shell out £5.5million and a 4 year contract for a player they signed by mistake.

They would have watched him a lot by sending scouts out and also getting videos of the player.

However, there is probably some truth in the story. It could have happened that one of the times the scout went out he watched Igor Tudor by mistake and gave a glowing report of Igor Tudor and not Biscan. I'd believe that and I'd say that happened, but there is no way Liverpool bought Biscan after only watching him once.

Houllier was not an idiot. The guy was a complete workaholic who got by on 4 hours of sleep a night. During his time off he would fly out abroad and scout players. Of course, he made a lot of wrong decisions and bad calls but I bet he had Biscan watched a few times (probably saw him play himself) and watched loads of videos of him. I reckon that the story CGGY posted is an exaggeration and what really happened was that one of the times Houllier had Biscan watched, the scout watched the wrong player and reported Tudor back to Anfield thinking it was Biscan.

Occasionally teams make mistakes, most famously of all that amateur player Southampton played in a first team match for 10 minutes after the guy and his "agent" conned Graeme Souness into thinking he was George Weah's cousin! That was sheer stupidity, but Southampton paid no transfer fee for the guy.

[Sparky]

Also heard of an instance (dont know if this is true!) that ged signed diao when really he wanted Diop (the wardrobe! Fulham)!

Was Gerald Houllier dyslexic!!!? would certainly explain some of his dodgy decisions!!

[116-1104673748]

Igor...The name reminds me of those creepy hunchbacked squeaky voiced lab assistants who work for mad scientists in those large creepy castles that you see in movies.Be grateful Houllier didnt sign any of them.

The guy was a complete workaholic who got by on 4 hours of sleep a night

No wonder,he was too sleepy to tell the difference between Tudor,Biscan and those Frankenstein-style lab assistants.

[Pablo_Escobar]

Igor...The name reminds me of those creepy hunchbacked squeaky voiced lab assistants who work for mad scientists in those large creepy castles that you see in movies.Be grateful Houllier didnt sign any of them.

Thomas, no more questions asked Rotfl

[JBG]

[115-1073096938]

yeah lyndsey, for sake. How stupid these people are.

The some people believe is rediculous.

[JC_81]

Find this story hard to believe, interesting anyway though.

Don't think if we signed igor tudor it would have made a huge difference anyway.  He looked decent a few years back but is pretty cr@p these days and was loaned out by Juve last season.  Word is that he may be joining Bolton next season, either on loan or for a nominal fee

[joependo]

Word is that he may be joining Bolton next season, either on loan or for a nominal fee 

Bolton don't have that monweey for a good player unless free transfer