Former Liverpool star claims he disliked playing the Reds’ style of football

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“People ask where did you fail to perform to the level expected of you?’ And I say, ‘Liverpool.’ I always think about it and say it was my fault, it was my mistake because, at that point, I was desperate to leave Real Madrid. I was at odds with everyone and I wanted out,” he said.“I made the decision more with my heart than my head.

And I thought, wow, playing for Liverpool!” READ MORE: Bradley Barcola has one major issue at Liverpool which Andoni Iraola can easily solve “But afterwards, I realised how stupid I’d been not to speak to Rafa Benitez and ask him, ‘How does this team play?’ For example, after Liverpool I went to Valencia, and that time I made the decision more with my head than my heart. When I arrived at Liverpool, everything was the opposite, it was football played centrally.

“When I think about it that was my worst moment in a team, at Liverpool. I wasn’t comfortable for many reasons, but for that reason, for not having analysed it properly, I would say it’s not football that I feel comfortable with.” Had Benitez supplied Morientes with some wingers who liked to beat their full-back and whip crosses into the box, he could easily have ended up being a superb signing for Liverpool.