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There are two mysteries surrounding Sean Dundee's season long spell at
Liverpool, the first relating to who actually bought him. Arriving in
the summer of 1998 when Liverpool appointed Gerard Houllier as Roy
Evans' co-manager it was never revealed which one of the two had given
the go ahead for the club to spend £2 million to get the German
international striker from Karlsruhe. And perhaps there is good reason
for this as in probability neither one of the two wanted the blamed for
one of the worst signings in Liverpool FC's history. Dundee,
un-originally nicknamed Crocodile in Germany, had been a key figure of
the Karlsruhe side that became a fixture in the highest reaches of the
Bundesliga in the mid-nineties.
In 1996 he scored sixteen times and
followed it up with seventeen goals the following season. Such was his
reputation that Berti Vogts was forced to cap the player after it was
feared that he might opt for his native South Africa. Such statistics
might explain his transfer to Merseyside, as does the fact that
Liverpool knew that Robbie Fowler would be missing through injury for
the first half of the season and as such needed a replacement. Yet
Dundee himself had just missed the previous season through a serious
injury and no one knew whether he had fully recovered.
Which leads to
the second Sean Dundee related mystery: what was he actually like? His
three Premiership appearances were too brief to reveal any talents or
lack of. Those who saw him more frequently for the reserves - when he
wasn't injured - tell of an extremely slow player with no discernible
technical ability. Unsurprisingly, at the end of his one and only season
at Anfield, Houllier decided that Dundee was free to go. Somewhat
surprisingly, Stuttgart were willing to part with £1 million for the
player and, back in Germany, he proved to be quite a regular scorer,
although never reaching the same heights as those he set with Karlsruhe. (Paul Grech)
1992–1994 Stuttgarter Kickers 7 (0)
1994–1995 TSF Ditzingen 34 (24)
1995–1998 Karlsruher SC 85 (36)
1998–1999 Liverpool 3 (0)
1999–2003 VfB Stuttgart 77 (25)
2003–2004 Austria Wien 18 (0)
2004–2006 Karlsruher SC 52 (14)
2006–2008 Kickers Offenbach 15 (0)
2007 Stuttgarter Kickers (loan) 5 (1)
2008–2009 AmaZulu 4 (0)
2013 VSV Büchig 16
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