I'm 28, he's one of the best players I've ever seen in a Liverpool shirt. He's certainly the best defender. Gerrard will always be untouchable for me, then your Suarez/Xabi/Salahs in the rung below. He's actually fucking unreal. Just watching him shrug off the fastest/strongest forwards in the league on a regular basis. He doesn't give a fuck because he knows he's better. He has 0 shortcomings. Leader, communicator, rapid pace, technically proficient, dominant in the air, unfeasibly capable at every aspect of defending. Brilliant, brilliant business to just go out and drop £75m on this guy, eyebrows were raised everywere at the time.
We've known it for a while, but now everyone else is waking up to the reality that this guy will be the key player in the back 5 - the defence, the calmness, the solidity - the lack of which killed us in 13/14. Liverpool haven't had a title-winning defence in my lifetime. Now they do, and in my opinion that's mostly down to this guy. He will be the basis for everything this Klopp team achieves. And believe me we're gonna fucking win something with this lad.