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“Is it too iconoclastic to say that Alonso wasn’t the same player at Liverpool after Lampard broke his ankle?” says Niall Mullen. “Don’t get me wrong, he was better than Christian Poulsen but, in my worthless opinion, he became a much better player after leaving Anfield (possibly because of the slower pace of La Liga). Then again I was there (and utterly bamboozled) when he did this so what do I know?”
Wasn’t the leg break halfway through his first season? He achieved a fair bit after that, including that marvellous assist (very Cole Palmer) and at least 48 goals from inside his own half. But you’d know better than me as a Liverpool fan.
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