Liverpools best ever player

hounreable mention for robbie 

1. Dalglish
and any number of players from the 70's and 80's

Emlyn Hughes

Dalglish, Sourness, Salah, Slippy G, Clemence
Keegan, Barnes, Rush, Fowler, Kennedy, and so many more

No Jan Wobbly

How did I forget Peter Beardsley.

Possibly only player on books of liverpool
man utd, Newcastle and man citeh

Tommy Smith, Callaghan, Ian St John, Big Ron Yeates, Peter Thompson,Geoff Strong,Roger Hunt all great players

God will always be my favourite, but let's put that to one side for a sec.

1) The King
2) Barnes
3) Souness

suarez is the best player Ive seen at Anfield
Great player in a good team.

Others named were great players in great teams

Billy Liddell.

the King

Two Ballon D'Ors cant be wrong.

Andy Carroll deserving of a mention from my perspective.

Good shout storm.

Dalglish
Kennedy
McDermott

Alan or Ray ?

Crouch

When I was younger I used to deliver papaers to Steve Heighway. He used to be a teacher so always had the Times Educational Supplement every week - Really thick and heavy.

Needless to say I never ever got a tip off him at Christmas - tight sod

Decent footballer mind

May 3, 2024 -- 10:34PM, TameTheTiger wrote:

Alan or Ray ?

Ray.

My word they have had some great players for a period I thought rush was on a level of gerd muller for putting the ball in the net

Rush gets constantly massively overlooked in these lists. Which is ridiculous really.

I got him in top 3 PP -what a striker he was if we had him now we had have won a lot more trophies for sure. Goal scoring machine

I remember him coming on against West Ham at villa park I couldn’t believe how good he was .

Rush was some "presser" before it became the buzz word, very hard worker, closing defenders down, it was called back in the day.

very true MALAY he was amazingly fit and if I remember correctly was hardly ever injured.

When he was around it was in the early days of live football on the tv the bookmakers would bet on live games they got it badly wrong with rush for a couple of years always around 6/1 to be first goalscorer nothing lasts forever.

May I add to that they didn’t have the technology they have now you could get plenty on doing the leg work.

Rush was possibly the most prolific goal scorer I ever saw.

Ian James Rush MBE (born 20 October 1961) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the best strikers of all time and one of the best Welsh players in the history of the sport.[6][7][8] At club level Rush played for Liverpool from 1980–1987 and 1988–1996. Additionally, he is the club's all-time leading goalscorer, having scored a total of 346 goals in all competitions at the club. He also holds the records for being the highest goalscorer in the history of the EFL Cup and the finals of the FA Cup. At international level, Rush made 73 appearances for the Wales national football team and remained the record goalscorer with 28 goals between 1980 and 1996, until the record was broken by Gareth Bale in 2018.

Regarded as one of Liverpool's greatest ever players,[9][10] Rush came 3rd among Liverpool players in an official Liverpool fan poll, 100 Players Who Shook The Kop.[11] He also had short spells with Chester City, Juventus, Leeds United, Newcastle United, Sheffield United, Wrexham and Sydney Olympic. Since retiring as a player in 2000, Rush has had a stint as manager of Chester City (2004–05), and has worked as a television football pundit.[12]

Rush was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1996 New Year Honours for services to association football

suarez is the best player Ive seen at Anfield


Correct. Salah couldn't lace Suarezs boots. Suarez is the best Pool player of my lifetime.

Honourable mention for Ian Callaghan. 857 appearances between 1960 and 1978. What a ride he had !

No Google does anyone know who scored Liverpools first goal in a yellow shirt and on which ground ?

I cannot believe there's not a single mention of Gerrard

mnast 10 May 24 16:20 
No Google does anyone know who scored Liverpools first goal in a yellow shirt and on which ground ?

Tough question I will go Dalglish, Old Trafford.

Malay

Right player right opposition but wrong ground

Maine Road ?

I was actually going to say goodison initially and I don't really know why, goodison came into my head for some reason

As Brentford correctly says it was Maine road as it happens Malay the replay was at goodison.

I wouldn't have got it without the clue from your answer and Jimnasts response..but think that's right..

i thought it was man u opposition obviously because of colour clash, i thought about forest but they wore white at city ground when lost 2 nil in europe

My Grandad always said Billy Liddell, and he saw Barnes, Dalglish etc.

So that generation are now all but gone, but everyone one of them would say Billy Liddell, so it must hold some credence.

As he was way before my time Daglish and Suarez

So my top 5

1- Daglish
2- Suarez
3- Barnes
4- Salah
5- Rush

great question jimnast, i'm quite happy with my attempt, and obviously the goodison thing being in my mind pleased at, loved english football back then.

John Aldridge worth a mention at least.

Was only there a couple of years but was basically prime Rush level both seasons.

Kicking him out was maybe the 1st mistake in their decline as he would have had 3 or 4 more years at top level IMO

They kept Rush, who was obviously the greater player over their careers, but his best seasons were all pre Juventus.

From 1987, to 1994 (when they were both coming to the end) Aldridge was superior.

1. Gerrard
2. Suarez
3. Torres

Malay

I came across the question yesterday when watching a program on great Liverpool United games and Brian Moore said when the players were coming out Liverpool play in yellow for the first time,of course nowadays it would be no big deal as teams turn out in all sorts of gear and colours.

Fa cup replays were a great thing the fans loved them in the fact the greatest ever fa cup goal was scored in a replay but sadly they are no more.

As you say English football was great back then the program started at the 77 cup final and the teams been proudly led out in front of a stadium buzzing with excitement they were very happy days then the world moved on we now have var which without question has spoilt the game more than anything else could ever do.

would that goal be ricky villa jimnast ?

Agreed game is fcuked I only watch LOI live now.

Watch for draws in that  league, very competitive, no VAR, no stupid handballs awarded, and some tasty challenges. I enjoy it.
GL

No Malay but that would be probably 2nd this goal was at villa park it was Manchester v north London

Good luck to you also

maleuk01. 10 May 24 19:05 
My Grandad always said Billy Liddell, and he saw Barnes, Dalglish etc.

So that generation are now all but gone, but everyone one of them would say Billy Liddell, so it must hold some credence.



My memory of Liddell was seeing him score an equaliser against West Ham in a second division game at Upton Park in 1958.

Sparrow

My old school teacher was a fanatic to be honest over the top with Liverpool but a good person,he always said billy liddell was the best .

He was very highly rated but as I said jimnast I only really remember seeing him in the second division. Mind you he scored that day with a great free kick and as you know those old footballs were not anything like the balls they play with now and you couldn't bend them round a defensive wall.

Jimnast apologies misread you're post, yes Giggs goal was special alright, serious, serious player.

serial player more like

watched the sky programme on fernandez torres the other day.. in his prime he was bloody good

John barnes + Steve McMahon

Nap: Terry McDermott - a scorer of great goals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRMJT187wxs

NB: John Barnes

uncle
good shout 2 brilliant players, but not up there with King Kenny.

The 3 of them, management structure, ended up bossing Celtic for a while in Scotland, never worked out, but Rangers were real good side at time.