Liverpool has seen some of the best players in history come through the club throughout the years.
From the all-conquering 1980s team to Jurgen Klopp’s latest Champions League and Premier League victories.
Liverpool, one of Europe’s most decorated teams, has a long history of genuinely outstanding players.
Some of them even make their way into Klopp’s current first-team group. Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk, and Alisson Becker will be remembered as some of the greatest football players of all time.
However, while the Reds currently have several incredibly talented players on their roster, they cannot compare to the previous generation. Not according to Gary Lineker.
Gary Lineker praises Steven Gerrard’s ‘completeness’
It remains a sadness in Liverpool’s recent history that Klopp was never given the opportunity to coach perhaps the club’s best ever player.
Steven Gerrard left the Reds barely four and a half months before the German took over as manager.
If Jurgen had arrived a little sooner, Gerrard might have stayed beyond his 2015 departure and helped to create the new manager’s team. Unfortunately, that did not happen.
Nonetheless, there’s no denying how wonderful Stevie was. Gary Lineker, appearing on The Rest Is Football podcast, has now hailed the Liverpool academy graduate as one of the two most ‘complete’ footballers of all time.
Lineker and his co-hosts, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards, were asked to choose the best complete footballer. After Shearer chose Wayne Rooney and Richards chose Yaya Toure, Lineker paired the Reds’ former No.8 with German legend Lothar Matthaus.
“Someone like Steven Gerrard or Lothar Matthaus, those types of players. “They could do a little of everything,” exclaimed the pundit.
Can Steven Gerrard still manage Liverpool?
Gerrard’s name has been raised in passing as Liverpool seeks to determine who will succeed Klopp as manager this summer.
Arne Slot of Feyenoord is now expected to be named the Reds’ next manager.
However, before Slot emerged as the front-runner, Gerrard was touted as the ideal candidate by his former Liverpool teammate Dirk Kuyt.
Neil Jones, a journalist, recently stated that he was’surprised’ that Stevie G was not receiving more attention. It appears that his spell at Aston Villa ruined 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.
