Liverpool have had some of the best players in history pass through the club over the years.
From the all-conquering team of the 1980’s, right through to Jurgen Klopp’s brilliant Champions League and Premier League winners of recent times.
As one of the most decorated teams in Europe, Liverpool’s history is full of truly legendary players.
Some of them even take their place in Klopp’s current first-team squad. The likes of Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker will go down as amongst some of the best to have ever played the game.
But although the Reds do have some extremely good talent on their books right now, they can’t compare to one from the last generation. Not according to Gary Lineker, anyway.
Gary Lineker hails Steven Gerrard ‘completeness’
It remains a regret of Liverpool’s recent history that Klopp never got the chance to coach perhaps the club’s greatest ever player.
There were just four-and-a-half months between Steven Gerrard leaving the Reds and the German taking over as manager.
Had Jurgen arrived just a little earlier, you’d imagine that Gerrard would have stayed beyond his 2015 exit and helped to build the new boss’ team. Alas, that did not happen.
Nevertheless, there’s no getting away from just how good Stevie was. And speaking to The Rest Is Football podcast, Gary Lineker has now hailed the Liverpool academy graduate as one of the two most ‘complete’ players of all time.
Lineker and his co-hosts Alan Shearer and Micah Richards were asked to name the most complete footballer. After Shearer went with Wayne Rooney and Richards chose Yaya Toure, Lineker named the Reds former No.8, along with German icon Lothar Matthaus.
“Someone like Steven Gerrard, Lothar Matthaus, those kinds of players. They could do a bit of everything,” raved the pundit.
Could Steven Gerrard still manage Liverpool
As Liverpool look to nail down who will succeed Klopp as manager this summer, Gerrard’s name has been mentioned here and there.
The Reds now look likely to appoint Feyenoord’s Arne Slot as the man to follow Jurgen.
But before Slot came through as the front-runner, Gerrard was suggested as being the ideal candidate by his former Liverpool teammate Dirk Kuyt.
Journalist Neil Jones also recently claimed to be ‘surprised’ that Stevie G wasn’t being talked about more. It seems that his spell at Aston Villa really wrecked his chances.
With Gerrard doing better in Saudi Arabia now though, maybe we’ll see him back in Europe before long. If he can get on track again at a better level, maybe the chance will still be there at Anfield.
