Harry Kewell's Liverpool nightmare could've ended career before transfer call sparked U-turn

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It was not until his 2008 move to Galatasaray, who the Reds face in the Champions League on Tuesday, that Kewell was able to overcome the lows he had experienced at Liverpool.FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE! All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook page"I was going through a bad moment towards the end of my time at Liverpool, because I didn't know what was happening with myself," Kewell told SBS Sport in 2017.

I wasn't feeling great; every time I was playing, my body was breaking down."We decided that I had to move to get a fresh start and break out of England ... my adventure started in Istanbul and I remember just falling in love with football again because I had gone through such a horrible time."At Leeds I felt great, then I won a lot of things at Liverpool but on an individual level it just wasn't great for me and I just didn't really love football that much. While his only trophy came in the Turkish Super Cup, the joy Kewell felt at Galatasaray was worlds apart from the injury misery he faced during his Anfield spell.“I’ve had 14 operations and the majority were at Liverpool,” Kewell said in 2016.

You fix one area and something else goes.“The bottom of the world is when you’re sitting on the end of the bed crying, and you’re going ‘Am I ever going to play again?’ You’re sitting there going, ‘What’s wrong with me?’”Despite contemplating whether to hang up his boots during his spell at the club, he has also discussed the positives from his time working under Benitez. Kewell, who is currently in charge of Vietnamese side Hanoi, has previously reflected on his ups and downs at Liverpool.“If you look at the time I had [at Liverpool], three of those years I was injured,” the former Notts County manager told the Nottingham Post in 2018.