Liverpool's best ever XI ... The team in full ✅ | OneFootball

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

We are now proud to reveal the team in full …

Goalkeeper – Ray Clemence

Ray Clemence is one of the most decorated players in Liverpool history.

Clemence was the last line of defence in a Liverpool team that won five league titles and three European Cups.

In the 1978/79 campaign he conceded just 16 goals overall and just four at Anfield, which was an English top-flight record until Petr Čech and Chelsea beat it (15) in 2004/05.

Right-back – Phil Neal

Phil Neal represented Liverpool for over a decade and made the right-back spot his own in a team that dominated English football.

Neal remains one of the most successful English players of all time with 23 titles to his name.

Liverpool won the European Cup four times between 1977 and 1984 with Neal playing a pivotal role.

With eight goals from defence in 1982/83, he wasn’t bad going the other way either.

Left-back – Andy Robertson

Andy Robertson arrived for just £8m from Hull City in a move which will go down as one of the greatest bargains in the club’s history.

24 assists in under 100 appearances. One Champions League. One Club World Cup. One UEFA Super Cup, and eventually, a Premier League title. It’s been one hell of a start to his Liverpool career.

Centre-back – Alan Hansen

Alan Hansen was a defender who was just as classy on the ball as he was in defence.

The Scottish international made 434 appearances in his 14 years at Anfield, scoring eight goals and was a pivotal cog in the machine behind Liverpool’s dominance of European football in the 70’s and 80’s.

Eight league titles, two FA Cups and three European Cups. An incredible career for one of Liverpool’s greatest centre-backs.

Centre-back – Virgil van Dijk

Virgil van Dijk has transformed Liverpool.

His strength and dominance of the Liverpool backline has turned Jürgen Klopp’s side from flakey challengers to one of the best teams in the world.

The quality of his performances led to him winning the Player of the Year award last season, and then came the club’s sixth Champions League.

At some point, Van Dijk will lift the Premier League title. Liverpool’s first league title in 30 years.

Without Van Dijk, maybe Liverpool would be waiting even longer.

Midfield – Graeme Souness

If it wasn’t for Graeme Souness, it’s possible Liverpool wouldn’t have achieved the success they did in the 70’s and 80’s.

The Scot had the box-to-box engine of Roy Keane and the passing range of Xabi Alonso. He was the complete midfielder.

His trophy cabinet holds five league titles and three European Cups. A dominant midfielder for the dominant force of English football.

Midfield – Jan Molby

Jan Molby had the skill to run a game of football without really moving freely around the field. Think Xabi Alonso but without the legs.

He didn’t need it. His brain and football intelligence were enough to see him through.

The original Liverpool pass-master that defined the ‘pass-and-move’ game that was the fulcrum of the club’s success in the eighties.

Three league titles and two FA Cups were to show for one of Liverpool’s most technically gifted footballers.

Midfield – Steven Gerrard

One of the best players to ever wear the red shirt, if not the best.

Steven Gerrard could pretty much do it all as a footballer.

Fans will remember how he spurred his team on to pull off the most stunning of sporting comebacks in the Champions League final in 2005.

Then there was the ‘Gerrard final’ in the FA Cup final victory over West Ham a year later, where his 30-yard piledriver in added time levelled a match that looked to be slipping away from Liverpool.

A 17-year spell at the club saw Gerrard win every trophy except the holy grail – the league title.

Forward – Kevin Keegan

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.

Forward – Ian Rush

Liverpool paid a record fee of £300,000 for a teenager to sign Ian Rush from Chester in 1980.

Rush scored 346 goals in his two separate spells at the club.

If that wasn’t enough to etch his name in Liverpool folklore, scoring four goals in a Merseyside Derby in 1982 helped, as well as scoring a brace against Everton to win the 1989 FA Cup.

His eye for goal helped the club win five league titles, three FA Cups and two European Cups.

Forward – Kenny Dalglish

Dalglish won 18 trophies playing for the club, including six league titles and three European Cups.

The Scot then took over the reins to win three league titles and two FA Cups in the manager’s seat.

His ability to drop into pockets on the pitch and impose his creativity on the game was second to none. The technique and creativity of Suárez mixed with the movement of Fernando Torres.

Dalglish arrived from Celtic in 1977 for a British transfer fee record of £440,000 but Liverpool got a lot more than they bargained for, the forward scoring 141 goals in 449 appearances for the club.