Topic: Your personal favourite players-ever.

[Billy The Kid]

Moeller

Great shout. Purely for this:

[AndyMuller]

I modelled myself on Lilian Thuram back when I was playing in the defence years ago.

He was fucking boss him.

[elsewhere]

Great shout. Purely for this:

That team with Koehler, Moeller and Chapiusat was fun to watch. I think he was one of the most underrated player of all time.
Great technic, amazing vision, makes the game look easy, fantastic player to watch.

[Xabi Gerrard]

I modelled myself on Lilian Thuram back when I was playing in the defence years ago.

He was fucking boss him.

Love how your post has been bookended by a pic of your namesake!

[El Lobo]

Thierry Henry was very likeable as well

[Sir Psycho Sexy]

[Mahern]

Simple.  Which players have you most loved, admired, respected?  Obviously in most cases these will have been skilled and talented, but there may be other reasons why these players are special to you (if there are personal reasons please say.... also say why you love these guys).    I think we should all nominate 2 players, one of ours, and someone from another club.

I have the easy task of going first.

Both players wore a green 7 on their shorts.

Each has had, in my opinion, the highest loyalty, morality and honour of any player in my lifetime.  Both incredibly talented, both the finest human beings possible.

So I give you:

1. King Kenny  (Kenny Dalglish)
2. The King of Kings (Henrik Larsson)

Over to you lot.

John Barnes. The best the world has ever seen.

[monkeyharris]

Going on favourite only and all for different reasons

Liverpool -Kenny, Big Jan, Hansen, God , Mad Luis and Craig Johnson
Have loved what Salah has brought this season and a few more season series doing the same and I reckon he could join that list

Not ours - Maradona, Messi, Iniesta, Falcao the 82 version, Gazza,Pirlo, Hagi
I’ll get killed for this but I always used to love watching Merson and wish we’d signed him back in the day

To bring it back to sanity my arl fellah used to name the 4 greatest he liked as Billy Liddell, Di Stéfano, John Charles and like others in here said Duncan Edwards

[Djozer]

Going on favourite only and all for different reasons

Liverpool -Kenny, Big Jan, Hansen, God , Mad Luis and Craig Johnson
Have loved what Salah has brought this season and a few more season series doing the same and I reckon he could join that list

Not ours - Maradona, Messi, Iniesta, Falcao the 82 version, Gazza,Pirlo, Hagi
I’ll get killed for this but I always used to love watching Merson and wish we’d signed him back in the day

To bring it back to sanity my arl fellah used to name the 4 greatest he liked as Billy Liddell, Di Stéfano, John Charles and like others in here said Duncan Edwards

Useless idiot (although quite funny because of it) as a pundit, but I think he had flashes of brilliance as a player. I'd never go so far as to say I'd wished we'd signed him though...

[cowtownred]

 

Getting better now!

Don't intend to make it all about brilliance, though obviously that's a prerequisite!

It's about loyalty, decency and genuinely good eggdom as well.

Which is why, for me, I guess in LFC terms there is only one candidate (and SG a long way second...but still wonderful for his genius and his loyalty).

I loved Larsson because he gave his best years (and he was some player) to Celtic when he could have joined any team in the world. And thenkept his promise to finish at his hometeam club even when Man U wanted to keep him. And not too many players turn a European Cup final around off the bench as he did for Barca against Arsenal.

But I suppose in terms of class, loyalty, and likeability you'd have Baresi, Maldini, Buffon in there.  Totti and Giggs/Scholes too (class, loyalty.... but certainly not likeable)

[Betty Blue]

Gheorghe Hagi -

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/ZJbiCi_vSFw&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/ZJbiCi_vSFw&amp;</a>

Roberto Baggio -

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/InShjwXOfsE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/InShjwXOfsE</a>

Michael Laudrup -

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/CkwoNViAI1k" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/CkwoNViAI1k</a>

And of course Zidane -

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2006 vs Brazil was also probably the greatest individual performance I've ever seen in a football match -

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/ywkMlK89Ibk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/ywkMlK89Ibk</a>

As you can see, I love a good number 10 and a bit of a nutter 

[Djozer]

Legend.

Have to say though, I preferred him in the purple of Fiorentina. Why don't more teams have purple strips? It's a wicked colour.

[Crosby Nick]

Hagi is a good shout. Only really used to see him in major tournaments but was always a pleasure. That Romania v Argentina game from ISA 94 was brilliant.

[Billy The Kid]

Roberto Carlos deserves a shout too, just for the sheer audacity of some of the goals he scored

Same with David Ginola, Tony Yeboah, and Paulo Di Canio

Yeboah scored an absolute belter against us at Elland IIRC

[elsewhere]

Legend.

Have to say though, I preferred him in the purple of Fiorentina. Why don't more teams have purple strips? It's a wicked colour.

yep, and how good was that strike in the CL against United!

[Mumm-Ra]

Legend.

Have to say though, I preferred him in the purple of Fiorentina. Why don't more teams have purple strips? It's a wicked colour.

That's just reminded me, this is a real hipster shout, but I used to LOVE watching Lombardo play. That Sampo team with him and Vialli, when they started doing the Serie A games on Channel 4 was boss. Loved them and Fiorentina

[deFacto please, you bastards]

Liverpool:

Owen [before he became a tit]
Alonso
Agger
Fowler
Gerrard [before he contemplated going to Chelsea]

Non LFC

Luiz Nazario de Lima Ronaldo
Messi
Roberto Baggio
Henry
Ronaldinho
Maldini
Boban
Suker
Matthaus
Elber
Bergkamp

[Betty Blue]

Hagi is a good shout. Only really used to see him in major tournaments but was always a pleasure. That Romania v Argentina game from ISA 94 was brilliant.

Loved that mad bastard. I know few will agree, but I've never been able to love Messi in the way that I did a player like Hagi. Lionel is clearly the better player (not even a discussion), but those imperfect geniuses will always hold a greater place in my heart.

Talking of, one for AWWUC -

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/wCNvUHtHIbo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/wCNvUHtHIbo</a>

[gerrardisgod]

Liverpool - Fowler

Non-Liverpool - Juninho

Can remember being devastated when we were linked to him for a whole summer and he wound up at Middlesbrough of all places.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

Liverpool - Fowler

Non-Liverpool - Juninho

Can remember being devastated when we were linked to him for a whole summer and he wound up at Middlesbrough of all places.

That reminds me of the other Juninho, that played for Lyon. Loved watching him play. Probably scored more free-kicks than any other player in his era

[elpistolero7]

That reminds me of the other Juninho, that played for Lyon. Loved watching him play. Probably scored more free-kicks than any other player in his era

The good old days, when Juninho scored a cracking freekick every CL matchday, and we were one of the most feared sides in Europe.

[Sir Psycho Sexy]

Gotta be honest

I love Alexis Sanchez

[Betty Blue]

Not much love for defenders. One of my favourite ever -

[DangerScouse]

Non Liverpool- Ronaldinho and Rivaldo.

[The North Bank]

Romario Hagi Mathaus Zidane Zola Totti,  Gazza Lineker (back when I cared about England)

From my club. Henry, Bergkamp, Wright (before he became a mug analyst)

[esw2003]

Terry McDermott was always my favourite when I was a nipper.His header against Spurs still brings a tear to my eye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOB7pcqBH-Y

[goalrushatgoodison]

Despite being old enough to have supported the seventies and eighties sides, Fowler is my fav LFC player.

Outside of LFC, it's Diego, Paul McGrath and Roberto Mancini in that order.

Honourable mentions to Djorkaeff and George Best.

[vladis voice]

For us Fowler, cos he is one of us..just a godlike one

Non Liverpool Fernando Redondo, just made everything he did look easy (plus bonus of that backheel for Rual’s goal at Old Trafford)

[Coolie High]

Liverpool Fowler.

[goalrushatgoodison]

Simple.  Which players have you most loved, admired, respected?  Obviously in most cases these will have been skilled and talented, but there may be other reasons why these players are special to you (if there are personal reasons please say.... also say why you love these guys).    I think we should all nominate 2 players, one of ours, and someone from another club.

I have the easy task of going first.

Both players wore a green 7 on their shorts.

Each has had, in my opinion, the highest loyalty, morality and honour of any player in my lifetime.  Both incredibly talented, both the finest human beings possible.

So I give you:

1. King Kenny  (Kenny Dalglish)
2. The King of Kings (Henrik Larsson)

Over to you lot.

From memory, Dalglish wore number 9 in his days with the Celts. Not saying he never wore 7 as there were no squad numbers back then, but mostly it was 9, iirc.

[BER]

Lizarazu. Just seemed the perfect fullback plus i played in the same position and he had a cool name.

[The North Bank]

Generally speaking, players of the past are a lot more likeable than players nowdays.

[elsewhere]

Lizarazu. Just seemed the perfect fullback plus i played in the same position and he had a cool name.

Great player, also Salihamidzic and Mehmet Scholl comes to mind from that team.

[Alf]

As a kid I loved watching Roberto Baggio, he was outstanding for Juventus, for Italy during the US World Cup and for a good while after.

I always thought Rivaldo was pretty special between 98-2002 in particular.

[Crosby Nick]

As a kid I loved watching Roberto Baggio, he was outstanding for Juventus, for Italy during the US World Cup and for a good while after.

I always thought Rivaldo was pretty special between 98-2002 in particular.

Good shout. Barca underachieved at that time but loved watching Ricardo. Anyone got a clip of his ridiculous hat trick against Valencia. Think it was the last game of the season and essentially a Champions League play off and he scored an amazing hat trick, topped off with a late overhead kick to win it.

Here we go. Amazing: https://youtu.be/r0qi0jeyWGM

[Xabi Gerrard]

Good shout. Barca underachieved at that time but loved watching Ricardo. Anyone got a clip of his ridiculous hat trick against Valencia. Think it was the last game of the season and essentially a Champions League play off and he scored an amazing hat trick, topped off with a late overhead kick to win it.

Here we go. Amazing: https://youtu.be/r0qi0jeyWGM

Strange shout mate. I mean, he covered alrightish for Barthez I suppose but still a little leftfield.

[elpistolero7]

LFC - Stevie, Mascherano.

Non LFC - Gundogan and Xavi.

[JP!]

Suarez, Mascherano, and Fowler, for me.

[50 Pence]

For me, Marco Van Basten

The perfect centre forward. Great touch, skill and a devastating finisher.

Such a waste he had to retire just as he would have been hitting his peak

[Crosby Nick]

Strange shout mate. I mean, he covered alrightish for Barthez I suppose but still a little leftfield.

Those gloveless shoot out saves mate!...