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Only four players have enjoyed two separate playing stints with Liverpool Football Club - Ian Rush, Steve Staunton, Robbie Fowler and Craig Bellamy.
Fabio Aurelio technically did too, finding himself released by Rafa Benitez in the summer of 2010 only to re-join under the Spaniard’s successor, Roy Hodgson, within a couple of months. You could also include Jay Spearing, after he returned to the club as an academy player-coach in 2022, though his second spell with the Reds obviously does not include first team-responsibilities - despite the injury crisis currently engulfing Jurgen Klopp’s senior squad.
Consequently, the aforementioned quartet are the only players to boast a place in such an exclusive club, having left Anfield once for pastures new only to later return for a second stint in the first team.
Yet there could have been a fifth qualifying member if Sir Kenny Dalglish had had his way during his own second stint as Liverpool manager. Replacing Hodgson on an interim basis in January 2011, the Scot quickly decided to discard Paul Konchesky and was consequently in the market for a new left-back.
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The England international appeared only once in the Scot’s first five 18-man matchday squads - in a shock 2-1 defeat at Blackpool - before being sent on loan to Nottingham Forest on January deadline day. Such a move was admittedly overshadowed by Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll’s club-record arrivals up against Fernando Torres’ controversial £50m departure to Chelsea.
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