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Liverpool needed Bellamy - Carragher

ESPN staff
September 1, 2011
Craig Bellamy scored nine times in his first spell at Liverpool © PA Photos
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Jamie Carragher feels new recruit Craig Bellamy will prove a "great" signing for Liverpool, because the club lacked depth in wide areas before the Welshman's arrival.

Bellamy joined Liverpool on a two-year deal on Wednesday after leaving Manchester City, where he found himself frozen out under manager Roberto Mancini.

The transfer means that the Welshman has another chance to make an impression at Anfield, four years after leaving the club following a season that featured nine goals and a controversial bust-up with John Arne Riise.

"It's a great signing. As a kid he always said he was a Liverpool fan," said Carragher to liverpoolfc.tv. "I think he was quite disappointed with how it finished, with how he left. He'd have liked to have done a lot better and hopefully this gives him the chance to do that.

"For the last few years at Man City he has been excellent, not just as a striker but as a wide player. In the squad we've probably only got Stewart Downing as an out-and-out wide player. I think Craig prefers to play as a striker but he could certainly do that job for us."

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