Liverpool's best ever XI ... The first forward 💥 | OneFootball

With the football on hold at the moment, we’ve been thinking about who gets in Liverpool’s all-time XI.

Yesterday we completed our midfield. Today we’re choosing the first of our front three.

Here are the nominees …

3rd – Robbie Fowler

Robbie Fowler will always be held in high regard by Liverpool supporters.

A local lad, Fowler broke onto the scene as a teenager in 1993, scoring five goals in a League Cup tie against Fulham. He became one of the first to win the PFA Young Player of the Year award in two consecutive seasons, in 1995 and 1996.

Fowler also held the record for fastest Premier League hat-trick after netting three against Arsenal in four minutes and 33 seconds in the 1994-95 season. A record that stood until Sadio Mané broke it in 2015.

Overall, ‘God’ scored 183 goals in 369 games for the club during two separate spells.

2nd – Mohamed Salah

When Liverpool signed Mohamed Salah from Roma in 2017 supporters thought they were getting a nippy winger. What turned up was one of the greatest finishers in the club’s history.

Operating from a right-forward position, Salah broke an insane amount of records in his debut season at Anfield.

His total of 32 goals made him the Premier League’s all-time top goalscorer in a single season. While also breaking Fernando Torres’ record for most goals in a debut season for Liverpool. He was rightly awarded PFA Player of the Year for the 2017/18 season.

Salah retained the Golden Boot last season while also helping Liverpool lift their sixth European Cup.

A modern-day club legend that already has his name immortalised in Liverpool’s history.

And the winner is … Kevin Keegan

Kevin Keegan is widely regarded as one of the greatest players to pull on the red shirt.

Signed originally as a midfielder from Scunthorpe United in 1971, Keegan was moved up-front by Bill Shankly in pre-season after lacking the positional discipline to play on the right-hand side of midfield.

What a move that turned out to be.

Keegan struck up an almost-telepathic partnership with his strike partner John Toshack and went on to score exactly 100 goals in 323 appearances for the club.

His creativity and eye for goal guided Liverpool to three league titles, two Uefa Cups, one FA Cup and the 1977 European Cup.

He went on to break the British transfer record after sealing a £500,00 move to Bundesliga side Hamburg after that final.

Here’s how the team is looking so far …

GK: Ray Clemence RB: Phil Neal LB: Andy Robertson CB: Alan Hansen CB: Virgil van Dijk CM: Graeme Souness CM: Jan Molby CM: Steven Gerrard FW: Kevin Keegan

Check back tomorrow when we will be choosing the first forward!