"If you take Gerrard and Torres out of the Liverpool team then it is ordinary to say the the least, " the 53-year-old told BBC Sport.
Surrounded by Arsenal and Liverpool team posters on either side of the walls, the blue-shirted workers meticulously cut and stitch pieces of leather.
Gerrard's Liverpool team-mate Jamie Carragher, who came out of international retirement to play in South Africa, has already announced that he will not play for England again.
In addition to Owen, there is his Liverpool team-mate Heskey.
It could have been so much worse for Sunderland in a first half totally dominated by a Liverpool team oozing with the confidence that had been so starkly absent for much of this season.
He had last started a match on 28 December for Newcastle and, although he was not lacking in effort or commitment, he and the Liverpool team could not find a way through the resilient rearguard of Braga.
Fellow English team Liverpool almost staged a memorable comeback to beat Zenit St Petersburg .
The Liverpool-based team had spent most of the previous decade in the bottom half of the Premier League.
Henry is also the principal owner of English soccer team Liverpool FC.
Arsenal is probably Africa's most popular club, Man Utd dominates in southern Africa, Chelsea is gaining ground in west Africa, while Liverpool is the team most Googled.
Meanwhile, Formula One constructors Renault beat off competition from the likes of 2005 Champions League winners Liverpool to win the team award.
"Liverpool were the better team and created the better chances, " he said.
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Liverpool brought on youth team star Jack Robinson, aged just 16 and eight months, who became the club's youngster-ever first-team player but they failed to find a way through.
And Mourinho insists that Liverpool were not the best team in the competition last season.
"If we can get everyone from Liverpool here to support the team, anything is possible, " Skupski told BBC Radio Merseyside ahead of the tie.
"English players aren't scoring goals because there aren't enough of them playing regularly in the Premier League, " said John Barnes, a former Liverpool and England national-team player.
Professor Alexander Trees and his team from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Liverpool's faculty of veterinary science, found that killing bacteria which are abundant in the worm tissues leads to its death.
However, he may still have to appease some fans after saying that his failure to land his top five transfer targets before the season - including United's very own Robin van Persie, Chelsea's Eden Hazard, Javi Martinez (Bayern Munich), Lazio's Daniele De Rossi and Daniel Agger of Liverpool - had cost his team its chance of glory this year.
"Having progressed through the ranks at Liverpool to make my first team debut at 17, before embarking upon spells at Real Madrid, Newcastle United, Manchester United and Stoke City, not to mention representing my country on 89 occasions, I now feel it is the right time to bring the curtain down on my career, " he wrote in a statement on his website.
Liverpool FC was represented by first team manager Brendan Rogers and managing director Ian Ayre.
When I came to Liverpool I was in the first team after six weeks.
One of Team GB's Liverpool-born equestrian gold medallists previously competed for Ireland.
The result means Martin O'Neill's team, who defeated Liverpool at Anfield in the Premier League on Monday, miss out on Friday's draw for the inaugural Europa League.
Fulham had beaten Liverpool last Saturday and were a team high on confidence, while Roma showed the struggle for form their 14th place in Serie A indicated.
Former Liverpool star Harry Kewell, a team-mate of Neill's in the Australia team, and ex-Aston Villa striker Milan Baros are already playing at the Ali Sami Yen Stadium.
Gillett, together with Hicks, lost control of Liverpool FC in recent weeks, unable to stop the Royal Bank of Scotland, which financed their original purchase of the team, from selling Liverpool FC.
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Arsenal moved above Everton into fifth with a 1-0 win at Sunderland as Santi Cazorla scored the only goal, while Swansea went above Liverpool in seventh after beating bottom team Queens Park Rangers 4-1 thanks to two goals from Michu, who now has 15 in the EPL this season.
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