I should have heardLiverpool completed a transfer deal for the speedy winger in the summer of 2006.
Craig Bellamy has admitted joining Liverpool in 2006 was a mistake and should have taken the advice of Manchester United hero Mark Hughes.
The Reds have completed the signing of Bellamy, who has become a youth supporter of the club after activating the £6m release clause in his Blackburn Rovers contract.
But Bellamy spent just one season at Anfield and Rafa Benitez said he was delayed when he returned home from Athens after the club lost to AC Milan in the 2007 Champions League final.
The decision came before the famous incident with the club of golf between Bellamy and John Arne Rees, for which the former expressed deep regret. Blackburn manager Hughes did his best to stop Bellamy from moving to Liverpool, telling him it would be the wrong move as the Reds’ style of play did not suit him. The forward heel ignored this advice and regretted his decision.
Aaron Ramsdale’s dad ‘ate too much’ on boys’ holiday, Jamie Carragher has spat.“Every year I had a Liverpool poster on my bedroom wall. Is it a Toys R Us poster? Yes, I was there. “To give them (Liverpool) the edge of the game I felt I had to do it, although I was very happy at Blackburn,” the former Wales international explained to The Overlap.
“I spoke to Mark Hughes and he wasn’t very happy with me. He said something very interesting: ‘I know who you are, I know how Liverpool play and I know this is not a good move for you…’ enjoy “It wasn’t too hard.”Bellamy went on to represent West Ham United and Manchester City before returning to Anfield in 2011 to play under Sir Kenny Dalglish.The retired winger, who began to realize his potential late in his career, believes this was down to his unprofessional attitude during his youth. “I did everything to ruin my football as a kid. ‘I’m going to be a £42-a-week dad when I’m 17,’ he said. ‘If you did that, I should have done something.’ felt the pressure, was, was pressure. At the time injury had its own set of pressures. I was a child who could hardly take care of myself. Now it’s not so good. I had no choice. Sorry. I was ready to blame everything. “My story was already written. I didn’t play much in the youth team and I blamed the manager. I thought I could go back to Cardiff and blame everything and be a good park player and be loved by my friends or take responsibility and give him everything I had and I had to leave for him, from my friends. So everyone hated me, but that was okay. I became more determined, more focused, ate better, slept better, drank more water, lived like a pro and became more and more productive.
