Carra is a great guy to explain things. Dude hit all the important points straight up without dilly dallying telling useless stories etc. Great pundit.
I’m a United fan but this deserved more time .. I always like hearing about players that I know the name of but not why they’re loved or how they got there ..
If Suarez stayed on and has less issues, I believed with his quality he would be one of the greatest striker for Liverpool. He will always have a special place in every Liverpool fans heart for his exciting football instincts and flair on the field.
woulda, shoulda, coulda. Suarez is a footnote in liverpool's history, and given his behavior thats how it should be. disgraced the club multiple times. people excused his behavior because he was an excellent footballer. im happy with his place in obscurity.
@@VarietyVideoGamer If you're judging purely on talent, then Suarez is probably Liverpool's best ever. He attempted - and pulled off - things I've never seen before. The only player to get close to Messi and Ronaldo when they were at their peak.
not true, Jamie only remembers his playing time. not all time. he doesn't have a clue about things outside of Liverpool and England. he also prepares days in advanced for the program.
For me John Barnes was the greatest player I ever saw in a Liverpool shirt and you know you are great when Kobe Bryant said John Barnes was his first sporting hero as a kid in Italy. He was KDB mixed with CR7 and the only reason he isn’t remembered more is because in 1991 he got a bad injury robbed him of his speed and he was only half the player after that and in 1992 the Premier League was created and coverage of soccer exploded around the world most people missed John Barnes at his peak, because Liverpool were also banned from Europe during his peak years.
Totally agree. Still my all-time favorite player. In my humble opinion from 1987 to 1990 Barnes was the best player in the world. Sadly never got to show it on the European stage and wasn't properly trusted by England managers who played to a much more rigid system than Liverpool. Even in 1986 before his move to Liverpool he was the equal of Maradona but was only given 10 minutes on the pitch to show what he could do in the world Cup. Had Barnes started the quarter final against Argentina, or even come on at halftime England would have won the match and possibly the whole tournament.
@@telmolicious source was Kobe Bryant in an interview he gave the BBC where he said Liverpool was the team he supported as a kid in Italy and reason was he related more to John Barnes this star Black player than the Italians players at AC Milan his local. Dr Dre became a Liverpool are seeing John Barnes on TV during a UK tour in the 1980s with NWA.
Having watched Liverpool since 1965 I would have to agree with this great selection. Honourable mentions must include Roger Hunt and Kevin Keegan - great players and won lots of trophies. I would put Daglish ahead of Gerrard for Liverpool’s greatest player although if Suarez had won that title, had stayed a few more years and hadn’t got involved in unsavoury incidents he would have to be in that team and also be in the running for greatest player.
Kenney wouldn't have influenced single handed the team success like Gerrard did had he played with the lack of quality Gerrard had to, that puts Gerrard top. I agree with your analysis of Saurez though, he was, along with CR7 in his respective best year at Utd the best player ever to play since George Best who is of course better than all the rest.
He's 100% right about Barnes between 1987-91 there wasn’t a better player in Britain. Also I have to mention Peter Beardsley together they were formidable.
@@ChocolateMilk.. 50/50 , Barnes was more attacking. Gazza was something else , put him in that Liverpool and we most likely won’t be having this conversation.
Liverpool fan from Bremen here. Liverpool FC was always my second love besides Werder, ever since i first saw them in the early 2000s with Hamann, Gerrard, Owen, Babbel, Hyypiä, etc. Stevie G will always be my favorite English player of all time. It's a shame he never won a league title with Liverpool.
I started watching Liverpool because I wanted to see Steven Gerrard play. I was just a fan of Stevie G at first but quickly it grew into full love for the club.
Asks Jamie Carragher his all time Liverpool XI, a difficult and complex question. Harasses him when he isn't done after 12 seconds. Great work, you can see why this channel is challenging Sky and BT
Emlyn Hughes has to be in there. Liverpool captain, England captain, multiple leagues and European cups and could play virtually any position. Shankly built his team around him and said he might be the best player in world football. Wasn't primarily used at LB in his Liverpool career but surely has to go in over Steve Nicol.
Not a chance Hughes was better player than Steve Nicol playing LB. Nicol was superb football player. Scored goals, had assists and the partnership with Barnes was unstoppable.
Get a grip! Stevie Nicol was a fantastic footballer and even playing full back managed to score a hat trick against Newcastle one day. Crazy Horse was too slow to play full back in a modern era.
I am lucky enough to have seen every Liverpool player since '73 & I'm absolutely certain the midfield is as good as it gets when you talk about balance with Barnes on the left with Gerrard on the right & Souey sorting out the middle but I can't see a 4 man midfield it has to for me be a 4-3-3 especially as the defence is so imposing with the king in the hole linking the midfield to the front with Salah in a floating role across the line feeding the goal machine that is Rushie,the only change I would make would be Allison for Clem as in 1 on 1 there's no-one better also his distribution is second to none then in the hot-seat you can't look any further than 3 × European Cup winner 6× League winner 1× Uefa Cup winner 3× League Cup winner 1× Uefa super cup winner 6× Charity Shield winner In 9 seasons Sir Bob Paisley. Just my opinion 🤷 YNWA
Kevin Keegan transformed Liverpool from a good team into a great team. His achievements have faded away in the minds of many pundits over time, but I will always remember him as the greatest player to put on a Liverpool shirt.
@@Theoneandonlyadammurphyryan I always find it interesting that Emlyn Hughes is never mentioned in these discussions. I know why, and it's political in nature, be had all of the energy of Robertson up and down that left wing, and he was also excellent in defence and in midfield.
@@pappy374 Good ole Crazy Horse I have always felt it was a shame he and Tommy Smith never got along they were both great for liverpool but Emlyn definetly should be in the conversation somewhere certainly top 5 I feel
@@Theoneandonlyadammurphyryan He was a wonderful player for us, and he and King Kenny are probably the happiest goalscorers you'll ever see: nothing but huge smiles and joy. I'd say that, at minimum, Hughes is one of the first names for the bench.
Pity Jamie didn't get to talk about the best goalscorer and the first line of defence...Rush is always overlooked yet no one doubts his place in this, Britain's greatest 11.
@@_biggaz None of that defence or midfield would make a Britain's greatest 11. The only names who would be seriously considered for a Britain's 11 are the 2 up front!
If Liverpool win some more trophies this year (either the CL/EPL or both) then Robertson would go into LB for me. Nicol and Kennedy are the more accomplished right now, but Robbo's a better all-round player imo.
How is Robertson a better all round player than Nicol ? Nicol played all across the back 4 and also played in midfield.He also scored 46 goals compared to Robertson's current 6
The one player ignored (even as honourable mention) is Emlyn Hughes. He could play left back centre half and midfield. I would put him in at left back as he could do everything Nicol and Robertson could do and more. Captain under Shankly and Paisley and first captain to lift the European cup for Liverpool.
@@leepatrick9432 I agree! I absolutely love Robbo, but Stevie Nicol is just ahead of him as our greatest ever LB! Maybe by the time Robbo retires he could surpass him, but right now, its Nicol
Personally I'd put Robbo in ahead of Nicol already, mainly because Robbo actually plays LB full time, whereas Nicol usually played right-back or right mid, then moved to CB later on. Kennedy/Staunton/Beglin/Burrows were our LBs whilst he was at the club. The argument really should be more Neal/Nicol ahead of Trent, not Robbo.
So did Dalglish and Rush and they stayed at Liverpool for 15 seasons, and carried them to trophies. Lol. Don't speak bullshyt when you only hop onto Liverpool bandwagon since Suarez.
@@Dante-vf4sd Suarez played like 4 seasons and didn't win a thing. Greatness for a club ain't about peak performance. It's about how great you are for how many seasons, that's what being a club legend's about. Kenny and Rush both played 15 seasons for the club, won many trophies and Kenny even become a great manager for LFC. Both EASILY ahead of Suarez who ran to Barca the moment they asked.
I agree with this team though Allison is knocking on the door. Every other position seems right. TAA to get into this team at such a young age is remarkable.
Ray Clemence, Phil Neal, Alan Hansen, Virgil Van Dijk, Andy Robertson, Steven Gerrard, Graeme Souness, John Barnes, Mohammed Salah, Ian Rush, Kenny Dalglish.
@@andrealagravinese6498 you CANNOT swap Souness with anybody. Souness is possibly the first name on the sheet. Alan Kennedy wasn't particularly good, if not famous. Robertson is a much better player.
@@QuickyA2011 the first name ahah he was a good player, but he has done a lot of fouls and he wasn’t brilliant like Xabi Alonso at Liverpool, even if he won more trophies Kennedy is absolutely a Liverpool legend and deserves to be in the starring xi, maybe in a few seasons robertson will overtake him Remember Kennedy’s scores 2 winning goals in a champions league final.
@@andrealagravinese6498 slightly disrespectful to Souness, who was one of the best passing, goal scoring, dominant midfielders to ever play the game. More to his game than tackling.
"Imagine if" Owen. Fowler, Jones didn't suffer their injuries. If Torres, Suarez, McManaman, didn't leave. This could have been a lot lot harder to pick. If Owen and Fowler had stayed fit at the same time... wow... Then, if Torres had stayed, as Suarez was signed before he left, Torres and Suarez together... scary... Macca, on his day, unplayable. Macca, Owen, Fowler, then along comes Gerrard, all in the same team??? We have as many "could have been" team, as we do great teams.
@@brentmeistergeneral6074 Macca, I'm guessing you meant, spent as much time as a right wing, and attacking mid, as he did on the left. Also played central at times, for Real Madrid, in. mid 3.
Torres was done by the time he left the club. If he had stayed, he'd have been as ineffective for us as he was for Chelsea. We sold him at the right time and for good money.
@@tonyb9735 he wasn't done, he was coming back from inj. He had a much stonger connection with Gerrard, than any other Chelsea players. I could see the energy that Suarez brang, reigniting Torres as well.
Nah, Gerrard. To be the greatest, you need adversity. Kenny played in the best squad in the world at that time the whole time he's a player at Liverpool. Gerrard had to carry scrubs, he had Dijimi Traore, Igor Biscan on his team and still solo carried them all the way to Champions League and FA Cup trophies. Greatest all-around player in world football and greatest captain in world football. To put it simply, Kenny is like a beautiful icing on an already marvelous cake. Gerrard is the cake itself.
The full backs are debatable, but other than that it's spot on for me. The fact that almost every single position has about five players competing for it shows the club's stature. I mean, you can have full squad of just legendary Liverpool strikers!
@@tonyb9735 I absolutely agree and that's one of the reasons he definitely shouldn't be there. Trent had 2 amazing season for Liverpool but over the last 2, his standards have dropped quite a bit. Last season he was poor and since mid Jan, he's had 2 assists in over 120 crosses in PL. He's probably liverpools 6th or 7th best performer this season but carragher makes sure to very rarely criticise him. Liverpool have been phenomenal this season and Trent has still been good but in the all time 11 is embarrassing after 4 seasons
Not a Liverpool fan but can't really see the obsession with Trent. Yeah good going forward but he can't defend. Maybe going forward midfield would be an option for him. I'd stick Mark Lawrenson or Tommy Smith ahead of him at right back. You could go 433 and stick Keegan up top with Dalglish and Rush and what about Jimmy Case, a terrific player.
John Arne Riise, could hit a ball like a rocket. I'm not a Liverpool guy so I can't say he is their best ever LB, but he is the one who always comes to mind whenever I think of underrated left backs
Without Shankly there would be no Paisley tho. Shankly transformed the club from a football club to a cultural movement. And without these two, there would be no Klopp either.
As a Boro fan i remember going to Ayresome Park circa 1990 waiting to see John Barnes... but he was injured and didn't play... so Peter Beardsley and the rest of the Liverpool Team took pity on us and only beat us 0-3 and the whole of the Holgate clapped Liverpool Off at the end... and the Liverpool Players Clapped Back
Clemence; Neal, Lawrenson, Hansen, Nicol; Salah, Souness (C), Gerrard, Barnes; Rush, Dalglish (Subs; Grobbelaar; Trent, Hyppia, Van Djik, Robbo; Callaghan, Wark, Molby, Ray Kennedy; Suarez, Mane) This squad would win the quadruple and blow everyone out of the water. Note- Nicol did play at left back for a couple of years in the late 80s, very effective and scored quite a few goals too.
Cant agree with left back ...Nicol best right back liverpool ever had...and Robbo best left back ..think I'd play 4 3 3...clem nicol hansen vvd Robbo...stevie g Souey and Barnes ...Kenny in the hole and Rushie and Salah
Left back should have been Emlyn Hughes. Probably the best player of the Shankly era. Hard not to pick Phil Neal at RB but you have to have something to talk about, I guess. Nicol might more appropriately have been a RB candidate than LB as well.
@@Freedomboy006 yeh but on ability alone, Suarez is the best player I have seen put on a Liverpool shirt. His short time at LFC will keep him out of all time great teams, but his ability was first class
@@jacksmith4460 His behaviour stops Suarez from getting the plaudits, at least for me. Amazing player, but dragged the club's name through mud and even tried to engineer a move to Arsenal. Torres is underrated and deserves a mention. At his peak he was untouchable. He glided on the pitch.
Can’t argue with that side although I’m sure people have their own best ever Liverpool 11, the only thing I’d say is as a few others have done already… our greatest ever player is was and will be John Barnes …. Words won’t do him justice so I’ll leave it there ✌️👍
I agree with you. I was totally in love with John Barnes when I was a kid in the 80's. Barnes had everything. Class, speed, strength, great dribbler, great shot, great cross, great passes, could use both feet and was a good header of the ball.
Paisley over Shankly for me - assistant to both Shankly & Dalglish as well as Liverpools all time most successful managers & one of only three managers to win 3 European Cups / Champions Leagues - the only manager to win it 3 times in it's European Cup format - and won the first 2 League title's the only time Liverpool won 3 League titles in a row (something only something that has only happened 5 times in the history of English football). And I'd have Kennedy at Left Back - hard to disagree with his other picks.
Leaving Phil Neal out shows how much he is blinded by the current liverpool side. 8 league titles, 4 European cups and 4 domestic cups with over 650 appearances. No doubt trent is fantastic but that's a little embarrassing from carra there.
Notable mentions( btw lfc wingers are a bad read. Best winger after barnes i can think of is luis garcia😮) Defense: andy roberston, hypia, carra Midfield : xabi alonso Striker : keegan, fowler, owen, suarez , torres
come on Kenny is and always will be the greatest Liverpool player, and Graham was better than Gerrard. as they say show me the medals Kenny was voted the best post war British footballer, and with what he won with Celtic and as manager with Liverpool and Blackburn no one has won more
Don't know who he would replace, but Luis Suarez HAS to be in there. His last season at Liverpool was the BEST performance I have EVER seen from ANY player in ANY team in the English top division.
In terms of overall quality, Suarez was the greatest player to ever play for Liverpool but wasn’t here long enough to be established as our greatest player of all time
@@Cartierian I believe in 2 years time, in terms of overall quality, Virgil Van Dijk will be the greatest to ever play for Liverpool. Last season without him we didn’t perform up to our expectations and this season with him we are still competing for all titles in the last month of the season.
You know you are historic when guys as great as Robbie Fowler, Michael Owen and Fernando Torres don't even get a mention, I think Fowler was a better striker than Rush, but Ian is linked with an overflow of success in England and Europe so it's ok if he gets the nod
You have to remember English clubs were banned for 5 years in Europe otherwise Liverpool would have won more. In one season they annihilated the second place team N. Forest 5 - 0, regarded as one of the greatest performances of all time. This team couldn't compete in Europe. Torres and Surez were great but Dalglish was one of the best players of all time.
As someone who regularly went to Anfield and away matches throughout the 1990s, I don't have any problems with Carragher's line up. Steve Nicol was a midfield player who became a defender. He also played on the wing, right midfield and left midfield. He scored 46 goals including a hattrick against Newcastle.
Yeah, Suarez in a Liverpool shirt was one of the most spectacular players I've ever watched. Imagine that Suarez playing under Klopp today. That would be amazing.
Carragher seems to have it in for Robertson, idk why, when picking Liverpool/Utds combined 11 he picked Irwin over him too... Robertson can defend unlike TAA so I don't know what's gone on there.
Solid selection tho i think would have gone for John Arne Riise for the left back position. Mouth waters at the thought of Hansen and VVD together alongside each other.
I like that starting eleven. Strikers on the bench will be a battle to choose from Hunt, St John, Keegan, Toshack, Aldridge, Owen, Fowler, Torres, Suarez, Mane, Firminho & Origi 🤣
@@craigdewhust4729 Apart from Dalglish Suarez is the best player out of everyone in the team but bc he was at Liverpool for a short period of time he doesn’t make it
@@youngbae5187 Alonso was the man who started every play and controlled the pace of the game. Of course you see stats to try and compare but he was the back of the spine of the team workhorse that’s always goes under appreciated. That’s why Real Madrid and Bayern wanted him aswell. Watch the iconic champions league comeback against AC and just watch Alonso. He always won the ball and start the play
My Team - Bruce Grobbelaar, Phil Neal, Alan Hansen, Ron Yeats, Steve Nicol, Ray Kennedy, Graeme Souness, Steven Gerrard, John Barnes, Kenny Dalgleish, Ian Rush... Kevin Keegan sub 2nd sub Peter Beardsley
Made a Liverpool all time 11 myself recently before even seeing this video with 8 of the same players included. The only differences being Neal for Trent, Robertson for Nicol and Mané for Barnes (who I completely forgot about!)
. Allison TAA Hanson VVD Robertson Alonso Souness (C) Gerrard Suarez Barnes Torres Manager: Jurgen Klopp SUBS: Clemence, Babble, McAllister, Keegan, Salah, Dalglish, Rush It wasn't easy, I've been watching my beloved reds for 40 years and remember awesome players. I've tried to pick players that can play in each position and subs that can play in more than one.
Like me, you'd be of the right vintage to remember McEnroe's famous refrain: 'You cannot be serious'. Kenny Dalglish is Liverpool's greatest player. What did Pool win with Torres in the side, or Suarez. 1977-1984, four European Cups and countless First Division titles.
@@xav9258 This is all about personal opinions, Dalgish was fantastic BUT Suarez in that last year was unplayable and in that year Dalglish wouldn't come close to the audacity, guile, skill, assists and goals that Suarez created. In respect of Torres, he may not have won anything as this is about your best XI and for me he had it all, pace, guile, power, awareness and finishing. I so wish I could have seen him play in his prime with Suarez in his prime, they would have wiped Dalglish and Rush..... But as i said this is all about opinions.
@@kam7269 Individual talent aside Rush and especially Kenny accomplished so much more for Liverpool compared to Suarez lol. Dalglish inspired Liverpool to 3 European cups and 8 league titles for gods sake. Its ludicrous to not include them in an all time Liverpool XI
@@oJaZz93 This is all about opinions. Dalglish and Rush had an awesome team around them, Suarez was a one man battering ram...... Gerrard was past his prime, Whilst Sterling and Coutinho were still in the incubator. The defence was shot as was our goalie.
Carra say that there was no real world class left back to play for Liverpool but I would argue that Robbo at his best is up there. However a much overlooked left back that was part of the dynast was Alec Lindsey who successfully played for LiVerpool during Shankly's reign in the early 70's and was class, Agree that Souness should be captain but I think Mark Lawrenson deserves serious thought for a centre back spot. You have to have Kenny in the team, and although Suarez is probably the most skillfull centre forward I have seen play for the reds I would agree that Rushie's partnership with Dalglish was phenomenal and given his work rate he would have loved playing under Klopp.
Other than the full backs, I can't really argue with this team ...... Phil Neal has to be in ahead of TAA, because he could defend and was more consistent, an 8 out of 10 every week. Left back is up for debate, and Nicol isn't a bad shout, but I'd give it to Alan Kennedy.
