Sanchez turned down a move to . Liverpool, a non-league football club set up by Liverpool F.C. John Aldridge was allegedly involved in the News of the World hacking scandal in the mid-2000s. Those who are easily offended, beware! John Aldridge, Liverpool. John Charles Bryan Barnes MBE (born 7 November 1963) is a former professional football player and manager. John Aldridge. ", "I wouldn't describe it as an altogether happy memory for me because I was leaving the club I loved – and the club I had always dreamt of playing for – but to get the chance to score at the Kop end in my last game was special. [11] His first goal for his new club came a week later on 28 February, in the 60th minute, the only goal of the game as Liverpool beat Southampton 1â0 in a league match at Anfield. John Aldridge: Liverpool should put in a cheeky £40m offer for an old target this month . The Liverpool fans I’ve spoken to are concerned about the club’s transfer policy and I have to agree with a lot of the things I’ve heard. His tally of 330 league goals is the 6th highest in the history of English football. The following season Rush was fully settled back into the Anfield groove and, with Dalglish reverting to a 4â4â2 formation with Rush and Beardsley as first choice strikers, Liverpool accepted an offer of £1million from La Liga side Real Sociedad in early September 1989, with Aldridge having played twice in the league for Liverpool that season. Aldridge's red-letter day. I have no idea why they should go after me. [20] Aldridge handed in a transfer request in 1991 to the newly appointed manager John Toshack â another former Liverpool striker.[21]. We never even had any set pieces really. A draw against the Gunners wouldn’t have been the end of the world but now it’s a game we really need to win. I'M pretty sure that Philippe Coutinho wants to join Barcelona - but the Liverpool owners have to stand firm if they are to quell a simmering mood of unrest among the club's . The response of former Liverpool striker John Aldridge today sums up the oft-taken view of many people: "Torres is simply a mercenary who has gone for a huge pay rise. 300k members in the LiverpoolFC community. Barnes won two league titles with Liverpool, with whom he also won two cup finals at Wembley. 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Tranmere, who were playing in the Second Division for the first time in more than 50 years, achieved a mid-table finish in the league. Found insideNone of us left in the pub can believe what we're seeing on the screen in front of us. ... I go to the Traynors' funeral to pay my respects and there are hundreds there, including John Aldridge and some other Liverpool players. John William Aldridge (born 18 September 1958) is a former football player and manager. In 889 career appearances, he scored a record 476 goals, a tally not matched by any goalscorer in post-war English football to this day. At the end of the game I was all over the place emotionally and it's really difficult to put into words exactly how I was feeling at that time. The Reds will discover their opponents in the group stage during the draw in October. Aldridge is fondly remembered by Oxford fans for his role in Oxford United's unprecedented years of success between 1984 and 1986. The immediate catalyst was the return from Italy of his Liverpool Football Club colleague Ian Rush, who had spent a year at Juventus in Italy before returning home. We seem to either lose out to a rival club or the player ends up staying put. Ian Rush, John Aldridge and Jamie Carragher were among those to pay tribute to Roger Hunt on Tuesday after he died aged 83. Aldridge had already been recruited to play for the Republic of Ireland by the time he was approached by Liverpool at the start of 1987, qualifying through his grandmother, who was from Athlone. Just get on You Tube and look for Liverpool 5 - Notts Forest 0 for a reason why he (and the rest of the team) was so brilliant. With Wimbledon 1â0 up in the final at Wembley, midway through the second half, Liverpool were awarded a spot kick when Aldridge himself was fouled. 442 interview with John Aldridge. And if people give me that kind of recognition when my Liverpool career is over, I’ll remember it as the greatest compliment of my life. Mamadou Sakho looks likely to leave Liverpool in January: Why it is best for all concerned. "Klopp has a slight shortage of attacking options, a situation that will be exacerbated as the AFCON rolls around and that could give Caoimhin Kelleher a chance in a more advanced role. He was then sold to[8] Oxford United on 21 March 1984 when the club were preparing for their Third Division promotion run-in under the management of Jim Smith. a) That Jurgen Klopp has been 'told' by one John Aldridge. I was disappointed we didn't get the ball out to him more in the second half, especially after Liam Ridgewell was booked. After that slow start, which yielded just four goals in the first half of the season, Beardsley would score 11 league goals in the second half, soon endearing . As Wimbledon get set to meet Liverpool in a nostalgia-inducing tie tonight, defender . A few months later, John Barnes and Peter Beardsley came to Liverpool. Forget all the goals, forget that he's a Kopite who played like it when he wore a red shirt, this was his moment. Despite not having a natural singing voice, Aldridge won the competition and in the process raised money for his nominated charity Temple Street Children's Hospital.[34]. If I had to leave the club then this was the best way to do it, scoring a goal at the Kop end and having the crowd show their appreciation for what I had given the club over the years. Found insideHe went on to play for Wealdstone, his local non-league club, after he left school, had a full-time job working in a ... Len Ashurst, Newport County manager at the time, remembers the background to the signing of John Aldridge to the ... Aldridge is a patron of A.F.C. A great interview with John Aldridge. . Found insideMONDAY 6th JUNE 1955 Goalkeeper Charlie Ashcroft leaves Liverpool to join Torquay United, having made 89 appearances ... Beardsley and formed a formidable partnership first with John Aldridge, and then Ian Rush, as the club went on to win. Why did we leave it so late to get our business done? [32] Aldridge finally scored his first goals at competitive level when he scored twice in a 2â0 win away over Malta, which sealed Ireland's qualification for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. LFChistory.net caught up with Aldo to have a quick chat on his colorful career at Liverpool. Writing for the Sunday World, he blamed Jordan Pickford's tackle on Virgil van Dijk in the first Merseyside derby of . Fact. Found insideA new South Liverpool emerged in 1935, the Liverpool County FA ruling that New Brighton did not own the name, so the two clubs ran in tandem, playing each other in the Lancashire Combination after New Brighton left the Football League ... In 1998, he asked Hyder Jawad to ghost-write his autobiography. This has happened in the past with players - think Luis Suarez - who look for a touch and then go down. He was substituted shortly afterwards as Liverpool lost 1â0. Found insideIt is important to hang on to the bits that were good, and that was a critically important part of Liverpool's sustained success in ... He certainly did. ... Later still, John Aldridge left Liverpool to become the first ever nonBasque to. The long urge to provide some cover for Liverpool's much-famed front three has finally been answered with the Portuguese's arrival. "I've been surprised that Shaqiri has played so little in recent weeks. Obviously the police were informed, the letter was passed on to forensics and it was a worrying time. As one of the top strikers in the league and with Rush leaving, it shouldn't have been surprising that Aldridge signed for Dalglish for £750,000 in January 1987 but it was. John Aldridge was eight years old when he went to his first Liverpool match. I had thought my left-wing days were over." It only took Barnes nine minutes to create a goal for Aldridge on his Liverpool debut at Arsenal on Highbury on 15 August 1987. He was the third-highest scorer in the division (only surpassed by Gary Lineker and Frank McAvennie) and netted six goals in United's League Cup-winning run in 1986, which culminated in a 3â0 victory over Queens Park Rangers in the final at Wembley. Suarez, who had asked for a move away from Anfield over. If we had beaten West Brom we would have gone into the Arsenal game this Saturday buoyant. Liverpool legend John Aldridge reckons Philippe Coutinho will 'wave goodbye' to the Reds next summer - but has backed the Brazilian to knuckle down in the meantime.. Coutinho was left disappointed . (Rush has since denied that he ever uttered the phrase most famously associated with him, ' I couldn't settle in Italy; it was like living in . Police have provided an update on the three teenagers under investigation. Up to 2009, Aldridge was in a partnership in a bar called Aldo's on Victoria Street in Liverpool. Sterling has come on so much in recent months. He spoke in depth about his career with 60 minutes presenter David Knight and later took part in a major signing session, signing 2000 copies of the CD in support of the Everyman appeal charity.[35]. He attended the funerals of many of the victims, gave support to the injured and the bereaved, and publicly contemplated giving up the game. By the time of his transfer to Liverpool in that 1986â87 league campaign, Aldridge had already scored 15 goals for Oxford in the space of 25 games. Aldridge was a crowd favourite everywhere he went, especially on Merseyside where being a local lad helped his cause. Share ; By. 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When at Somerton Park, "Aldo", as he came to be known, played 198 times scoring 87 goals, a goal every .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}2+1⁄4 games, including 7 goals in just 12 FA Cup matches. If we keep Ozil and Cazorla quiet we will keep Arsenal quiet. The bar was a firm favourite with Irish Liverpool fans coming over to watch the Reds play. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. What a team that was, we sold Ian Rush to Juventus & brought Peter Beardsley, John Barnes & John Aldridge, & signed Ray Houghton as the 87/88 season started. During his early career, he worked his way up through the lower leagues, playing in every league from the old . Perhaps not surprising as he came on as a substitute in all but two of his ten appearances for the Reds in 1986/87. Found inside â Page 11John Aldridge, who would later antagonise United in the colours of Liverpool, got the first goal of the Ferguson era from the penalty spot ... And if Ferguson didn't appreciate the scale of his task before, he most certainly did now. John Aldridge reacts on Twitter to Liverpool versus Leeds pairing . JOHN ALDRIDGE: 'Klopp's team-talk for Everton emerges, but Ibrahima Konate is a concern' OBITUARY: Ray Kennedy was Bill Shankly's Liverpool parting gift who became Bob Paisley's most wanted player PETER Beardsley cost a British record transfer fee of £1.9million when he was lured to Liverpool in July 1987. Aldridge continued to play for Ireland in the qualifying stages of Euro 96. His first season with County, 1979â80, had been highly promising with 14 goals from 38 games as his side won the Welsh Cup and gained promotion to the Third Division. Aldridge made his debut for Rovers aged 32 on 17 August 1991 scoring both the goals in the 2â0 victory over Brighton & Hove Albion at the Goldstone Ground. Aldridge resigned in March 2001 just before Rovers went down, and almost 20 years on has not returned to management.[26]. The former Liverpool and England international passed away on Monday following a long-term illness. There seem to be conflicting stories about what happened with Yehven Konoplyanka. 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John Aldridge said the Uruguayan "behaved like a rat" with his actions and Fowler has accused the former Liverpool striker of showing the club "no respect." "I have a big problem with the way the fans love him," Fowler said on BT Sport's coverage of the second leg of the semi-final between Liverpool and Barcelona. John Aldridge. [2][3] His career for the Republic coincided with their most successful period in International football, and he played at two World Cups.[4][5]. He ended up playing 141 times for the Us, scoring 90 goals[8] â a goal every 1+1⁄2 games â including 14 League Cup goals in just 17 ties. John Aldridge arrives with a broken hand. What did he say? And that’s not the first time that’s happened over the past couple of years and it’s very frustrating. I really mean it. He also scored one of the two Oxford goals that defeated Manchester United in Alex Ferguson's first game as manager on 8 November 1986, maintaining his fine form into the 1986â87 season. 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