What happened to eye-catching Liverpool XI that started at Napoli 12 years ago

You'll have seen the team photo again by now. It was trotted out before Liverpool's Champions League visits to Naples in 2018 and again in 2019.

And it is a side that is easily mocked. So too is the reign of the man who was in charge of it.

So much has been said and written about Roy Hodgson's time at Liverpool before, and so much of it is utterly irrelevant now.

The Reds have moved on enough that they don't need to dwell so much on the mistakes of the past any more, and so as they head to Naples again this evening - for the third time under Jurgen Klopp, who lost on both his previous visits - minds won't be heading back to Hodgson's time in charge.

But for all his faults, and there were many, Hodgson is in fact the only Liverpool boss to avoid defeat in Naples, drawing 0-0 with this thrown together team in 2010.

"Resignation has never once entered my thoughts and never will. I'm here for the long haul," he declared after the match, with this game coming days after a 2-0 defeat at Everton - still their most recent at Goodison Park - and with the team down in 19th place in the table.

"I came here believing I can help Liverpool rebuild. The players are behind everything we're doing."

Well it didn't seem that way.

A dull, goalless draw left the Reds with work to do in their Europa League group, and proved to be just another stopping off point in Hodgson's brief Reds reign.

He was sacked some 10 weeks later, but what about his XI that night?

Here's what became of them.

Pepe Reina

Having starred in the side that ran Manchester United close to the league title in 2008-09, Reina then saw things nose dive under Rafael Benitez the following season, which then bled into this mess.

He did make a good save from Marek Hamsik early on, but this was largely a quiet evening for him during a season when many started to detect a decline in his displays.

He would eventually move to Napoli, initially on loan and via a brief spell at Bayern Munich, and after periods at Milan, Aston Villa and Lazio he's still going age 40, these days at Villarreal.

Martin Kelly

This would be the season that would see local lad Kelly's most appearances for the Reds over a campaign with 23.

Always quite highly thought of, the right-back was unlucky with injuries and was never truly able to show his quality consistently.

After leaving in 2014 he would go on to play 148 times for Crystal Palace, after after being released from his contract at south London this summer he moved on to West Bromwich Albion.

Jamie Carragher

Needing no introduction, Sky Sports pundit Carragher was believed to be on the way out in his later years at Liverpool, only to fight back and win his place back under Brendan Rogers for the tail end of the 2012-13 season before retirement.

Hodgson named him as skipper for this evening in Naples, but he was forced off at half-time with an injury.

Martin Skrtel

One of the Liverpool players who arguably got better under Hodgson, perhaps the only one come to think of it, the Slovakian was the kind of rough and ready centre-back that the manager liked.

He was a solid performer for him, and won Liverpool's player of the year the following season before going on to play under Rodgers and Klopp.

Spells in Turkey followed before he saw out his career in his native Slovakia, where he retired this year.

Paul Konchesky

One of Hodgson's most infamous signings, left-back Konchesky arrived from Fulham and... well... wasn't very good. He'd also infamously produced a candidate for the worst shot of all-time in that Everton loss just before this.

He would play 18 times for the Reds before he was put out of his - and everyone's - misery when he joined Nottingham Forest on loan.

Later spells at Leicester, QPR, Gillingham, Billericay and East Thurrock took him towards retirement, and he's now West Ham Women's manager.

Christian Poulsen

Another less-than-stellar Hodgson signing, Danish international Poulsen was supposed to anchor the midfield following his signing from Juventus.

Instead, "anchor" was a pretty accurate description of how quick he was.

Having previously played under Hodgson in Denmark, and had spells in Germany, Spain and Italy, he would only stay at Liverpool for one season, before moving on to Evian, Ajax and then back to Copenhagen where he saw out his career. He's now the assistant manager of Denmark.

Jay Spearing

Still only 21 at the time of this game, there were high hopes for Spearing at Liverpool based largely on his enthusiasm for playing for his local club.

He'd play 55 times for the Reds all in all, including in the 2012 FA Cup final, and after a decent career in the lower leagues saw him make over 100 league appearances for both Bolton and Blackpool, he's now back at the Reds in a player-coach capacity for the club's academy players.

Jonjo Shelvey

There has never been any questions about Shelvey's qualities, but it was always his mindset and temperament which came into question when he was at Liverpool.

He was one of the Reds' brighter players on this evening, but couldn't force a goal from his attacking midfield position.

He'd make 69 appearance for the Reds before moving on in 2013, initially joining Swansea and then moving onto Newcastle, where he has home a home for six years.

Milan Jovanovic

Always one of the staples on those "Liverpool's worst/weirdest ever signings" list, Serbia's Jokanovic didn't exactly hit the heights at Anfield after joining on a free transfer from Standard Liege in the summer before this game.

In fact he didn't really hit anything, leaving after 18 games and two goals and heading back to Belgium with Anderlecht, where he'd retire two years later.

Ryan Babel

Making one of his final appearances for the Reds, Dutch forward Babel failed to make the most of a one-on-one and gave away possession cheaply as he struggled in attack on a night of few chances.

He would leave for Hoffenheim a few weeks later, but after a tour of the world including stop offs at first club Ajax, Deportivo La Coruna, Besiktas, Fulham and Galatasaray, he's still in Turkey aged 35 with top-flight cub Eyupspor.

David Ngog

A player Liverpool persevered with as Fernando Torres' understudy for quite some time, French forward Ngog occasionally showed flashes of what he could do, but then you wouldn't see them again for weeks.

He did score against the likes of Arsenal and Manchester United during his Reds career, but it simply wasn't to be for him.

He'd move on to spells at Bolton and Swansea as well as in France, Greece, Scotland and Hungary before finishing his career in Lithuania in 2020.

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Brad Jones, Fabio Aurelio, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Danny Wilson, Joe Cole, Maxi Rodriguez, Nathan Eccleston

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