 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Murairidzi wechikwata chokutanga Ronnie Moran akatora mutoro wezvinhu zvechikwata kwemavhiki anoverengeka Graeme Souness asati adudzwa semutsivi waDalglish. Pasi paSouness, Liverpool yakakunda FA Cup muna 1992, asi hapana chimwezve. Akaita nzira yaRoy Evans, uyo akakundawo mukombe mumwe chete, League Cup, Gérard Houllier asati agadzwa semutungamiri pamwe naEvans muna 1998. Urongwa uhwu hwakangogara mitambo gumi nemasere chete Evans asati arega basa, achisiya Houllier - Liverpools wekutanga asiri-British maneja - ari ega mutariri. Houllier haana kuhwina chinhu kusvikira treble muna 2001, inoumbwa neFA Cup, League Cup uye UEFA Cup. Houllier akaitwa kuvhiyiwa kukuru kwemoyo mumwaka wa200102, asi chikwata hachina kukanganiswa uye chakakwanisa kubata nzvimbo yechipiri. Kunyange zvazvo Phil Thompson akapindira semutungamiri wenguva pfupi apo Houllier akanga ari kupora kubva pakuvhiyiwa kwemoyo, mitambo yakatambwa pasi paThompson inosanganiswa mubhuku raHoullier. Imwezve League Cup yakakundwa muna 2003, asi ichi chaizova mukombe wekupedzisira waHoullier semurairidzi weLiverpool sezvo iye nekirabhu vakaparadzana nekubvumirana pamagumo emwaka wa2003-04, kuti vatsiviwe nemurairidzi weValencia, Rafael Benítez. 