The slowest Liverpool player you've ever seen

[redhorizon2]

Alberto, Crouch and Molby are in my mind exceptionally slow, are there others?

 

[Halmeister]

Lucas is ridiculously slow. As was Hyypia, but he never needed it.

 

[Halmeister]

Alonso was dead slow too

 

[refugee]

Kyrgiakos and Meijer

 

[Ryan]

Mauricio Pellegrino.

Milk turned quicker.

 

[Leo]

Pellegrino is a great shout.

Morientes looked like he was wearing wet cement boots too.
I remember him having a ten yard head start on Phil Neville from the halfway line one day and Neville took the ball from his feet before he could get a shot away.

 

[Halmeister]

Mauricio Pellegrino.

Milk turned quicker.

Ah forgot about him. He was incredibly slow.

 

[Halmeister]

Fowler in his second stint

 

[Gary25]

Henchoz was very very slow. And looked out of breath 10 minutes into a game. Boy he could defend though.

 

[leftpeg]

Josemi

 

[KopRed]

Recently, Lambert. I had found myself screaming to him "run", then realised he already is. He is just that slow.

 

[Red Mullet]

How come no ones mentioned the keepers? Haven't seen any of them run.

 

[gene hughes]

Jason McAteer

 

[localny]

Slosemi

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

Mauricio Pellegrino.

Winner. End of thread.

 

[Dirkus_Circus]

Hyypia near the end was slower than slow but as @Halmeister said you never really noticed b/c he never needed to run.

Charlie Adam was slow as shit.

 

[davud graham]

Poulsen

 

[mark1975]

Jason McAteer

Haha, I nearly argued against this, then the penny dropped.

 

[Oliver Twist]

How come no ones mentioned the keepers? Haven't seen any of them run.

The second answers the first.

 

[tony]

There can only be one winner here - Jan Molby. Fantastic close control and good positioning ( and cracking teamates ) made up for his lack of pace

 

[Shadey]

Igor biscan Zzz Zzz

 

[gkmacca]

Gareth Barry is officially the slowest player in the league (well done Everton!) so he's the benchmark.

 

[cloggypop]

John Barnes when he moved into the middle must be up there.

 

[Judge Jules]

Another vote for Josemi. Maybe it's because he usually played fullback, so his lack of pace was more exposed than that of some of these other (fully worthy) candidates, that he sticks in my mind. Though he did show a smart turn of pace to get himself in the photos after the final whistle in Istanbul.

 

[FoxForceFive]

There can only be one winner here - Jan Molby. Fantastic close control and good positioning ( and cracking teamates ) made up for his lack of pace

I was staggered this thread took so long to get to the right answer.

Jan Molby often didn't seem to move from the centre circle for an entire match. He had a turning circle akin to the cranes sticking that big roof thingy on anfield, & yet still ran the match, testament to his ability with the ball, & his mastering of the 'Dalglish arse block'.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Bolo Zendan the slow f&ck

 

[dee]

Jason McAteer

Beat me to it

 

[gkmacca]

The slowness issue has become one of the foggiest topics in modern football, as the average punter seems to think that everyone slower than Usain Bolt 'lacks pace'.

A more interesting subject IMHO is: which players aren't/weren't anywhere near as fast as they were said to be? In this context, Cisse and Babel figure high on my list - both arrived as supposedly lightning fast attacking players and I rarely saw either really leave a defender behind them.

 

[dee]

I was staggered this thread took so long to get to the right answer.

Jan Molby often didn't seem to move from the centre circle for an entire match. He had a turning circle akin to the cranes sticking that big roof thingy on anfield, & yet still ran the match, testament to his ability with the ball, & his mastering of the 'Dalglish arse block'.

The expression 'lack of pace' just doesn't encapsulate his immobility.

 

[dee]

The slowness issue has become one of the foggiest topics in modern football, as the average punter seems to think that everyone slower than Usain Bolt 'lacks pace'.

A more interesting subject IMHO is: which players aren't/weren't anywhere near as fast as they were said to be? In this context, Cisse and Babel figure high on my list - both arrived as supposedly lightning fast attacking players and I rarely saw either really leave a defender behind them.

THe Chilean bloke we signed for the wing, Gonzalez, was the worst culprit for that. Watched several of his games in Spain whilst he was on loan waiting for his passport clearance in the UK and he looked aces down the wing. When he finally turned up he looked totally pedestrian