12 Sep 2024 05:53:54
Ed2, I believe I've asked this question before, but I'm not sure if it ever got posted.

I'm curious to know your favorite players of all time. You provide so much info about transfers, but I'm interested to know who you enjoyed watching the most.

{Ed002's Note - There are plenty who were well worth watching - the likes of Johan Cruyff, Rivaldo, Ruud Gullit, Zico, Rivellino, Enzo Scifo and Ronaldinho.}

1.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 08:48:04
Scifo was an amazing player, one of those players who could dribble past an entire team from deep, I only got to watch him near the tail end of his career when he played for Monaco but what a number 10!

2.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 08:57:13
My first ever watching of a World Cup was Mexico ‘86

Michael Laudrup- who I think was close to joining the reds at one point - was a fantastic player.

3.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 11:01:23
I remember ed001 shared exactly how close Laudrup was to joining us and how we messed it up, wasn’t he supposed to join us straight from Denmark and somebody thought he wasn’t worth the money?

{Ed001's Note - no mate, Laudrup himself didn't feel he was good enough to play for us at the time. Strange for a self-confessed Liverpool fan, but that was the big issue.}

4.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 11:24:24
For me my favorite players of all time are all defenders lol- cafu, aldair, zanetti, maldini, desailly, and Virgil haha
The exceptions to this list would be mcmanaman and God.

5.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 12:17:18
Instead of Laudrup, we ended up with Barnes, Beardsley, Aldridge and Houghton, so it didn't end too badly, as great a player as he was.

6.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 12:54:28
Good point Rome.

7.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 13:21:15
Loved Hyypia, Patrik. Such a graceful defender. If he'd been a little quicker across the gound he'd be the best ever, imo. Scored a couple of bangers with his feet too.

8.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 14:15:38
I might be romanticising him here and it could purely be nostalgia clouding my memory, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen Sami lose an aerial duel in our box lol, when I was young I was in awe of how dominant he was, a colossus indeed.

9.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 14:58:49
Paul McGrath has to be up there with the best of defenders. USA 94 against Italy is possibly the best performance from a defender I have ever seen.

10.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 15:09:06
Johan Cruyff for me. From an LFC point of view Patrick Berger Craig Johnston and Tommy Smith were some of my favs.

11.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 19:56:37
I might be wrong rome77 but I think we close to buying Laudrup around 83/ 84, few years before that brilliant front 4 u mentioned.
He would've been some player for us in any era or any team.

12.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 19:58:44
Hyypia was an absolute beast, near unbeatable in the air and positioning was immense. Proper defender, you rarely get the like of him nowadays. As said above if he'd of been a bit quicker he'd of been on Virgils level but he comes second to him IMO as best CB in red that iv seen play. The 80's were a tad early for me unfortunately.

{Ed025's Note - he was very good Westwood, not Jarred Branthwaite good but not far off it mate.. :)

13.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 20:09:54
Apart from the obvious Dalglish I idolised Ray Kennedy and Terry McDermott. Terry Mac's highlight reel is simply ridiculous.

{Ed025's Note - all great players them Flash..

14.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 20:13:30
Digger10, reading up on it, he was indeed linked to us in 83/ 84, according to reports, which say it was a difference in the length of contract which stopped him joining. I just remember watching a video of the 87/ 88 season and whoever it was who did the voice-over saying, that we once courted Laudrup but turned to Barnes and Beardsley instead. We may both be right. He certainly wasn't established back in 1983.

15.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 18:22:42
A poster earlier on mentioned patrik berger as one of his favourite players. i remember him being good with a cracking left peg but as i was young i don't know how good he was. so ed01 what you think.

{Ed001's Note - I have to be careful what I say here, my ma is in love with him so to say anything other than good things will get me in a lot of trouble. He was a very good player, worked hard, quick, good left peg, could hit a shot but did have a few injury problems.}

16.) 12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 22:01:44
John Barnes and Steve Heighway two of my favorite Liverpool players to watch. Trevor Francis and Henry two of the best non reds I have seen at Anfield. I know who thought there was football before 1992.

17.) 13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 00:52:06
I love to watch ronaldinho I'm his prime, never has a player played with the same level of joy as ronaldinho. I also think Ronaldo nazario is the best attacker I've ever seen play.

But my absolute favourite player ever is Roberto Baggio for a variety of reasons. I was also pleased to find out he's one of the nicest people on earth and generous to a fault.

18.) 13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 01:05:11
I like the fact Ed002 picked mostly traditional number 10s.
From a personal view (outside of Liverpool) to add to those mentioned I loved Zidane, Van Basten, Iniesta and Baresi. but Maradonna was the best!

19.) 13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 01:47:20
Cruyff, my favourite ever player to watch but for Liverpool? Dalglish, without a shadow of a doubt. There's obviously quite a few but if I'm picking a number one then it's 100% Dalglish.

20.) 13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 02:02:21
I had limited matches to watch growing up, usually random Champions League matches on ESPN. I loved watching AC Milan. Was a huge Maldini fan, as well as Nesta and Kaka. Always loved watching Shearer and Bergkamp.

21.) 13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 06:52:12
Rome77. Wasn't trying to act the know it all, what I was getting at it was that he would've been in a previous team and wouldn't have effected us so much of buying 1 of that front 4,as that front 4 a joy to watch and for many a football supporter around my age that is why they fell in love with football and lfc.

22.) 13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 09:01:37
Agree Digger

We signed Aldridge when Rush went to Juve and then brought in Barnes and Beardsley later, and Houghto

Laudrup was linked prior to the WC ‘86

And of course, we weren’t competing in Europe at that stage either.

23.) 13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 09:06:40
BenRichards, I noticed that too, It think Ed002 has a type! My favourite players to watch as a kid (away from the obvious Torres and Gerrard) were Totti, Del Piero, Seedorf, Kaka, Nedved, Pandev and Ronaldinho. I just loved Italian football around that 2005-2010 era because they had so many good Attacking Midfielders and Second Strikers. Seedorf was the only anomoly as he played slightly deeper but he was just a monster.

Great picks Ed002.

24.) 13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 09:42:59
The list is long for me but here are my faves in no particular order; Ronaldinho, Maradona, Batistuta, Socrates, Rai, Barnes, Gascoigne, Waddle, Rijkaard, (Brazilian) Ronaldo, Zola, Hagi, Et'o, Weah, Stoichkov, Maldini, Baresi, Valderrama, Zidane and I will stop at Buffon.

25.) 13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 11:33:11
Laudrup said that a deal was agreed with liverpool, over a 3 yr contract. As he was about to sign, the board came back and said they wanted it to be over 4 yrs.
Laudrup was upset with the way the club tried to change there agreement and decided not to sign.

26.) 13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 16:22:00
I remember that was what he claimed himself, but it seems pretty bogus if you ask me, why would he kick up such a fuss about an extra year?

27.) 13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 18:00:28
Domestically Barnes was my favourite. Loved watching foreign football, for some reason always like Jean Pierre Papin and Basile Boli from Marseille, waddle Hagi Stoiichkov Baggio. Boban, Rui Costa.