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Liverpool went into decline because I left - Zenden

ESPN staff
March 18, 2011
Bolo Zenden left Liverpool in 2007 after two years at the club © PA Photos
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Bolo Zenden has highlighted his departure from Anfield as the moment when Liverpool's decline took hold.

The Dutchman exited the club in 2007 after two injury-blighted years, having started the Champions League final against AC Milan months earlier.

Liverpool have subsequently fallen from grace dramatically, with a series of boardroom wrangles harming their pursuit of both a 19th league title and a new stadium.

But Zenden, who will face the Reds as a Sunderland player this weekend, believes there are signs of recovery under Kenny Dalglish.

"When I was at Liverpool, I played in a Champions League final, we were in the top four, there was no instability and everything was fine," Zenden told the Daily Star. "Then because I left everything collapsed!

"In Rafa's last years and then when Roy Hodgson came in, everything went a bit wrong. One week there was meant to be a takeover, the next it was all off. As for a new stadium, the first stone should have been laid two or three years ago.

"It was turmoil and that is why results suffered. But King Kenny has come back and Liverpool are playing again. There is a really positive vibe about the club. There is still a long way to go, but at the moment Liverpool are only going in one direction."

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