We've all done it, spent hours aloft hours debating with friends, ancestors and alike complete strangers, on aloof who accept been the greatest players to accept anytime played for your team. But if you had to actualize an ultimate aggregation to represent your club's colours, allotment alone the bald 11 players, who would accomplish the cut?
Do you accede or disagree with my choices?
Liverpool F.C.
GK: Ray Clemence (1967 - 1981)
Clemence is one of English footballs best busy goalkeepers from his aeon with the Red's acceptable 5 leagues titles, 3 European Cups, 2 UEFA Cups and the FA Cup all in a 9-year period. His arresting consistency, athleticism, positional faculty and quick reactions saw him appear to Liverpool's accomplishment abounding times during a awful acknowledged period, extenuative basic penalties and abstinent goalscoring opportunities. This additionally led him to breach abundant annal including acceptance the atomic bulk of goals in one analysis (16) and alone 4 at Anfield. During his Liverpool career he kept an outstanding 335 apple-pie bedding in 665 appearances.
RB: Phil Neal (1974 - 1985)
As with Clemence, Neal is additionally one of English footballs best busy players acceptable 8 alliance titles and an alarming 4 European Cups for the Red's, scoring three in two of those finals (albeit alert during a amends shoot-out). He denticulate an absorbing 60 goals during his time at Anfield - all from his ambulant fullback position. Energetic but composed, he was generally the antecedent of abounding attacks during the best acknowledged aeon in Liverpool's history.
CB: Ron Yeats (1961 - 1971)
The Scotsman was captain for 10 years and was a belfry at the affection of the defence which began Liverpool's transformation from analysis two also-rans, into the apple acclaimed club they are now. It all started beneath Bill Shankly's advice who abundantly Claimed Yeats to be '7ft tall!' on signing him.
CB: Alan Hansen (1977 - 1991)
Probably Liverpool's best anytime defender, 'Jockey', as he was Affectionately accepted as to his teammates, was a attenuate brand of defender, decidedly advancing from the British Isles - absolutely abounding would analyze him to Franz Beckenbauer in his arena style. It is conceivably best larboard to the abundant Bob Paisley who summed him up best: 'Alan Hansen is the apostle with the full-blooded of an all-embracing striker. He is absolutely artlessly the best accomplished centre-half I accept anytime apparent in the British game. He is a joy to watch. Alan has consistently been an accomplished footballer, a beautifully counterbalanced amateur who carries the brawl with ascendancy and grace. He has a actual measured, continued stride and is abundant faster than he looks. He has both the adeptness and the backbone to barrage attacks from abysmal positions.'
CB/LB: Emlyn Hughes (1967 - 1979)
Hughes has accepted claims to slotting in at two added positions in this team, such was his versatility. He started out as a midfielder but fabricated his name at centre-back, although he active the full-back position at times for both club and country, to ablaze effect. Hughes was angrily able and had immense stamina, accompanying with bucket-loads of activity which led to his nickname: Crazy Horse. Hughes is additionally the alone Liverpool captain to accept aerial the European Cup twice...in alternating years - a accomplishment actual few players accept accomplished in the history of the game.
RW/LW: Steve Heighway (1970 - 1981)
'Stevie Heighway on the wing...' as the song goes, Heighway is absolutely Liverpool's finest anytime right-winger. Pace, bridge precision, and an beatnik dribbling appearance saw him leave abounding a apostle abaft in his deathwatch as he flew up the right-hand ancillary of the angle for over a decade at the club. Never a abundant goalscorer, he instead provided abounding a adventitious for the brand of Keegan, Toshack, and after Dalglish.
CM: Steven Gerrard (1998 - )
Current captain and homegrown, Gerrard has become a Liverpool fable through abounding immense displays and advancing to the teams accomplishment on abundant occasions. The actuality that he makes this team, admitting the actuality he has yet to win a alliance title, tells you how abundant of a amateur he has been. He has additionally not benefitted, like the others on this list, from arena in absolutely outstanding abandon - which is added to his credit. Gerrard can do it all; pass, shoot, tackle, account - and does so to such levels, that he has alike been voted Liverpool's second-greatest anytime player.
CM: Graeme Souness (1978 - 1984)
A amateur in the Gerrard mould, Souness was always added alarming during his time. Opposition would agitation back lining up to face him, but Souness was so abundant added than intimidation; he was a amazing passer of a brawl as able-bodied as actuality a scorer of some absurd goals. He is additionally yet addition Liverpool captain to lift a European Cup.
LW: John Barnes (1987 - 1997)
Probably Liverpool's best technically able and accomplished amateur ever, John Barnes oozed chic from the moment he pulled on a red shirt. He was the advancing brilliant in one of the best exciting, attack-minded, flair-filled teams apparent on English shores, and it was a abashment that he (and that team) were clumsy to pit their experience adjoin Europe's finest - which is possibly why he isn't captivated in college attention about the world.
F: Kenny Dalglish (1977 - 1990)
The King. It is as simple as that. Kenny Dalglish is Liverpool's greatest anytime player. From his deeper-lying assiduously position he provided abundant assists to whoever he played alongside. That compassionate belted on clear-sighted back the being he played alongside was Ian Rush. Dalglish could additionally account goals, and account them he did from all kinds of positions and angles. Not alone a abundant goalscorer, but a scorer of abundant goals as the adage goes.
F: Ian Rush (1980 - 1987 & 1988 - 1996)
Who abroad could you put upfront for Liverpool added than their greatest anytime goalscorer? Who abroad could you put in a advanced band to accomplice Kenny Dalglish? Nobody, that's who. Pace, goals and workrate - Rush had an affluence of all three, and was apparently summed up best by the abounding commentators who saw him play: 'Rush....goal!'
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