‘I was very alone’ – Ex-Red makes honest Liverpool loan admission
‘I was very alone’ – Ex-Red makes honest Liverpool loan admission Liverpool’s loan system has come under scrutiny at times in recent years, and Neill Mellor has now offered a brutally honest insight into how isolating those moves can be. DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL EMPIRE OF THE KOP APP FOR ALL THE LATEST & BREAKING UPDATES – STRAIGHT TO YOUR PHONE! ON APPLE & GOOGLE PLAY The 43-year-old, who came through our academy and featured for the first team in the early 2000s, has opened up on his spell away from Anfield during the 2003/04 campaign, painting a picture that raises serious questions about player welfare.
Mellor reveals how alone he felt on loan Speaking on The Football Historian Podcast , the Sheffield-born forward didn’t hold back when reflecting on his time at West Ham, particularly the lack of contact from Liverpool during that period. He said: “I’d actually meet up with another player, I got him to move in with me, his name was David Noble, a young kid who left Arsenal. So we just lived together.
“We would have beers, that was it in the fridge. The diet wasn’t great. We weren’t allowed to go to bed until we did a Shangai on the dart board, which is a double, triple, and single on a number.
So, it took forever to master that. “Nobody spoke to me from Liverpool. Not one person got in touch with me from Liverpool.
So, I was very alone. Very alone. And then the manager changed.