07 Oct 2026 19:01:00
Which one past player would fans choose that would improve or transform this team. Just one player that you'd think would make the greatest improvement to what we have.
I'll go with Alonso.
07 Oct 2026 19:07:38
Which Alonso?
Marcus Alonso? Too slow for Premier League.
07 Oct 2026 19:25:55
Prime Mo Salah.
07 Oct 2026 19:39:38
Souness.
07 Oct 2026 19:44:15
Yea Robbie prime Mo Salah ??, will never ever so no to that!
Miss seeing him week in week out.
07 Oct 2026 19:52:48
Sorry Mr Funk, I misread the original post.
Didn't read "past" player.
So I'd go with Ian Rush. A bona fide goal machine. Who presses relentlessly.
I was tempted to go for The King but in this team I think a goal machine would transform it.
07 Oct 2026 20:37:43
Fabinho or Darwin Nunez - it's a coin toss.
07 Oct 2026 20:41:55
I thought Mo Salah but without midfield, I feel like Alonso improves the entire machine.
07 Oct 2026 20:57:48
Gerrard. It's not open to debate.
07 Oct 2026 22:25:17
I think the man needed now is a Souness or a McMahon. Sick and tired of reading about our "soft midfield" ever since Fabinho left.
07 Oct 2026 22:42:26
Mascherano.
07 Oct 2026 22:28:25
100% Gerrard. I agree Rome it's not even up for debate.
He'd massively improve any team in the Premier League and probably even Europe in today's game.
He might not have won the trophies of a Rush or Dalglish but he was a better player than both and I love both, especially Dalglish.
I really don't think Alonso is on the same planet as Gerrard.
07 Oct 2026 22:50:56
God would be unstoppable.
07 Oct 2026 23:42:07
Fabinho Fabinho Fabinho.
08 Oct 2026 02:16:27
The team would be an awful lot better with Fabinho playing behind he who must not be named according to @666 ?
There are loads of 'better' players than Fabs, but in the context of the current team he would be the best. No debate required ?.
{Ed666's Note - ha ha..I would have gravy playing deeper and not let him go past the halfway line and everyone he does he gets docked 6 months wages and then our midfield would improve exponentially and then have King Kenny supplying the bullets to Isak and Barcola..Don’t forget Kenny was no slouch as a Villa scorer himself..and who better than the king to educate Florian?
08 Oct 2026 06:32:44
With our current team and the lack of some well needed grit in midfield it has to be fabinho if we had a proper hard 6 already then i'd say Gerrard or a prime Salah but its Fabs all day long for me its what the current team is crying out for big time.
{Ed666's Note - How are people looking past King Kenny Dalglish???
08 Oct 2026 07:00:51
Gerrard, the best midfielder I have ever seen play.
Suarez as a wildcard, unplayable and never injured.
{Ed666's Note - Dalglish would us win the premiership!
08 Oct 2026 08:17:17
In this team: Souness.
He could do what Fabinho did and pass like Gerrard.
08 Oct 2026 09:23:28
Gerrard or Suarez.
08 Oct 2026 10:03:19
Prime Mo Salah or Luis Suarez.
08 Oct 2026 10:34:08
Souness every day. Heart says the King, but head says prime Souness would boss the midfield and be captain and bust anyone who didn't meet the standards required.
08 Oct 2026 10:56:01
That's a big statement Rio to say that Gerrard was a better player than either Dalglish and Rush. I'm only assuming that you never saw them playing week in and out.
Gerrard was indeed a brilliant player and a certainty in our all time 11 but those other two boys were head and shoulders above everybody else to have played for LFC and there's zero debate about that!
08 Oct 2026 11:19:51
Can you all stop saying "and there can be no debate about it/that". Very clearly, there is.! ?.
08 Oct 2026 12:25:36
That's debatable ArAy.
08 Oct 2026 12:31:12
Souness, by a mile. Either him or Effenberg. This team needs a midfield general that demands the best from their teammates, and backs it up with their own great performances.
08 Oct 2026 13:04:20
You won't get any argument on that @ArAy.
08 Oct 2026 13:25:48
For me Gerrard was brilliant, he carries us for years and he stood out in a team of decent players.
Kenny and Rush stood out in a team of great players, multiple championship winners, multiple European cup winners and those 2 stood out.
I'd pick Rushie because we create a lot of chances already and he would be banging them in for us.
08 Oct 2026 13:38:20
I say no debate, ArAy, because I'm a self opionated git!
08 Oct 2026 13:46:54
To be fair, Rio's meant Gerrard was a better player than both Paul Dalglish and Jennifer Rush.
08 Oct 2026 15:44:07
ArAy, there can be no debate about your comment.
08 Oct 2026 15:51:52
Effenberg? Effenberg??? Of all the players to have ever played professional football who picks Stefan Effenberg?
08 Oct 2026 16:11:08
Has to be Souness.
08 Oct 2026 16:38:11
I think for THIS TEAM, what is needed Souness would sort it out.
08 Oct 2026 16:51:14
Yes, Effenberg, the CL-winning captain of an excellent Bayern team? What a daft retort, Fifth Element.
08 Oct 2026 17:33:20
Any player from history, even non-Liverpool players?
I'd always choose Diego Maradona.
08 Oct 2026 07:21:27
But if we took in daglish ed666 we would have to leave out wirtz!?.
{Ed666's Note - please see my answer above ?
08 Oct 2026 10:05:54
But ye couldn't play King Kenny Instead of Wirtz Ed. King Kenny's not the"profile"of player Florian needs around him to help him flourish.
{Ed666's Note - I knew this would happen ??