“Many times I have apologised to him… Now I know how selfish I was as a player… I am not ashamed to say that I made a lot of mistakes.”
Albert Riera’s Liverpool career was only brief, but that didn’t stop him from making his presence felt. Signed from Espanyol in an £8m deal on transfer deadline day in September 2008, in his first season at Anfield he’d quickly establish himself as first-choice on the left-wing as the Reds fell narrowly short of the Premier League title.
Yet as Liverpool’s fortunes plummeted in 2009/10, so did the winger’s. Two injuries had already derailed his start to the campaign before he was suspended by the club in March 2010 after slamming manager Rafa Benitez in the Spanish press, having grown frustrated at his lack of game-time. Transfer-listed as a result, he was frozen out for the final two months of the season.
