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All Time XI
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Join Michael and Louie as they discuss their all time Liverpool FC XI's
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Introduction and Impact of International Break
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Louie Easton
Thank
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Liverpool podcast. You're joining me, Michael Lake, and we've got a guest here with Louis. And we're going to be doing something a little bit different now that we're on the international break circuit, where there is nothing to talk about for a while. i mean, there's a big build up to being next season that there might be three weeks of international break at the start of the season, which would be killer.
00:00:37
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But i as I said, i am now joined by Louis. Louis, how are you doing?
00:00:41
Louie Easton
Yeah, good, mate. I'm really worried for these next couple of weeks just because the content is going to be very creative, but I'm sure we'll get plenty of great stuff coming to you guys as well.
Chelsea Game Reflection and Draft Preview
00:00:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, we're were we're written not scraping the bottom of the barrel, but obviously with the Chelsea game, we don't really want to be dwelling on that too much.
00:01:03
Louie Easton
yeah
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It was not a good not a good result.
00:01:04
Louie Easton
Definitely not.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm sure the boys have ah talked that to death. So we're going to put that to the back of our minds, look to the future. Well, look to the past more specifically. ah We're going to be talking about our all-time best 11 draft.
Draft Format and Initial Picks
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Global Sports Podcast Network
So how this format is going to work. One of us is going to take it in turns to pick a player in each position. So we'll start with goalkeepers, defenders and so on. And then we'll move our way through through the positions and then we should end up with our all-time best 11.
00:01:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we can debate and we'll kind of go through and make some good good good choices, I hope. um So first of all, we're going to start with goalkeepers. Louis, do you want to go first?
00:01:45
Louie Easton
Well, we'll do a heads or tails. I've got...
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Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll do heads or tails. We'll do heads or tails first.
00:01:48
Louie Easton
Yeah, um this is actually a ah Danish kroner that I just found in my wallet that from my trip to Copenhagen a few months ago, and I haven't got any sterling in there.
00:01:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Wow, flexing.
00:01:56
Louie Easton
Well...
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Flexing, you're travelling there.
00:01:58
Louie Easton
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Did you go and see any Copenhagen games while you were there?
00:01:58
Louie Easton
yeah No, I didn't, actually. I didn't get time.
00:02:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair.
00:02:02
Louie Easton
It's a bit of out of the centre, the thing. and was i'm ah And I'm annoyed, actually, because Bromby were playing against Copenhagen, which is...
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Copenhagen Trip and Goalkeeper Selection
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, that's a good game, that.
00:02:10
Louie Easton
ah It's a huge derby and they weren't allowing any away fans because it all kicked off the last time they visited each other.
00:02:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Really fair. Yeah, when I...
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Louie Easton
Don't sleep on the Danish derby.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, when I was in Copenhagen, I went and saw Nausealand versus Copenhagen. and That was a good game.
00:02:24
Louie Easton
Oh yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
it was it was It was a surprisingly empty stadium for how like big you think Copenhagen, the club is, but it was a good game in the end. I think Copenhagen won in the end.
00:02:34
Louie Easton
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it was 3-2. But yeah, anyway, flip that coin.
00:02:36
Louie Easton
Yeah.
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Louie Easton
Heads or tails, Michael?
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Tails now fails. Okay.
00:02:43
Louie Easton
That's heads. Okay. ah So in that case, I'll go first. ah So we're starting with goalkeeper and then working through a defense midfield attack.
00:02:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we'll work we'll work our way up.
00:02:53
Louie Easton
Are we saying 4-3-3 for this?
00:02:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can do any any any formation you want, but I'm going to go for 4-3-3. Yeah.
00:03:00
Louie Easton
um I'll go 4-3-3 as well, just to make it easier.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
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Louie Easton
um and one holding midfielder so let's go goalkeeper first I kind of just want to Allison I know it's listen you can talk about the injury record all you want but you've got a goalkeeper there who is just positionally one of the best if not the best ever coming off the line and just not making any fuss about the saves I'm on a previous podcast we did on GSPN where we did a crossover for the Arsenal game, um Jesse just completely broke down how um incredible Alison is in goal and just how comfortable you feel watching Liverpool, knowing that he's the safe pair of hands. And time and time again, he's you just look at him and just think, there are certain matches.
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Louie Easton
um i mean, recently the Palace game, where you think, oh, if there was another goalkeeper in there, like Simon Mignolet, for example, not to put any slander on his name, but um you just think with a different goalkeeper of a bit less quality, this could have been Liverpool out of the game a lot earlier.
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Louie Easton
But
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
Defender Selections and Debates
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Louie Easton
not just even not even just his shot stopping, but his distribution as well, because he could kick a ball far.
00:04:20
Louie Easton
and up to Salah. And, you know, you think of the Man United goal he scored at the cop end where he took off his shirt and Alisson came running after him. um So, yeah, you look to Alisson and I'm going for him.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair I mean you mentioned Simon Mignolet I mean i was going to say him but now you've slandered him so I can't i was going to say him yeah you've ruined it for me um yeah you've thrown me off now I've got ah gotta to scramble I mean some other honourable mentions I mean for the I've got to kind of caveat this XI is that like
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Louie Easton
dear. I've completely thrown you off.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm going to base it off sort of name recognition for the players that I haven't seen. So like was born in the two thousands, so I am relatively young.
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Louie Easton
and
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Louie Easton
As was Yeah,
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So I have not seen the likes of Ray Clements, Bruce Gobler, those sort of players play. Um, But like I can kind of, I understand what my dad and my granddad, how they would talk about them.
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Louie Easton
exactly. exactly
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Global Sports Podcast Network
So that's kind of, for players older than my ages, i might not know them too well, but I'll kind of give them my best but my shout to do it. or And it might be a little bit of recency bias in terms of the overall history of Liverpool, just because that's what I've seen.
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Louie Easton
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
That's what I've grown up with. um So you've gone with Alison for your first pick.
00:05:35
Louie Easton
Yeah. Yeah.
00:05:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, I'm going to write that down so I don't copy.
00:05:37
Louie Easton
Wow. What
00:05:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, so but the choices are, I've got a list in front of me. The five in front of me are Ray Clements, Bruce Garbala, Jersey Dudek, or Pepe Reina.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Or obviously there's honourable mentions for Karius, Mamadash Vili after his good few appearances.
00:05:57
Louie Easton
yeah wow what a great... but a great showing.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
i mean, or Cueven Kelleher. he's um He's actually had a bit of a...
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Louie Easton
Oh, yeah. Just for that Carabao Cup final alone.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
e could He could get in it. Come on. um so
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Louie Easton
Clinical penalty taker.
00:06:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, we're we're obviously were joking i around. I think they're contenders for me. Pepe Reina was the one I actually grew up with in terms of He was our goalkeeper.
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Louie Easton
Yeah, same.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, think Pepe Reina, he was the club for, what, nine years, wasn't he?
00:06:23
Louie Easton
Yeah. I think... Pepe Reina was the goalkeeper of all goalkeepers in Liverpool history that you would that you would want in a penalty shootout as well. Because he was so good at those.
00:06:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah i think yeah i think pappireina being like he was was at the club for what nine years wasn't he um won an FA Cup and a and a League Cup in that time.
00:06:42
Louie Easton
Yeah, nine years. Mm-hmm.
00:06:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
like I think he's i mean he was kind of imperious when he was playing.
00:06:46
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:06:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
um and i always remember every time I saw a so him at a new club after he left us, he would just bounce around.
00:06:51
Louie Easton
Mm-hmm.
00:06:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
He never seemed to have that stability because he realis that he was basically a Liverpool player, wasn't he? um Just throughout his whole career. Is he still playing? think he might we still be playing.
00:07:05
Louie Easton
i think I think he just recently retired but he was I think yeah yeah yeah exactly he's 43 now and he's only just retired this year so yeah what I love him I absolutely love Reyna
00:07:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Has he just recently retired? Because he was playing for Como or someone like that art recently, wasn't he?
00:07:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
43 is a good shift. But, I mean, so my choice, I think for me, it's kind of got to be Jersey Dudek just for 2005.
00:07:27
Louie Easton
really
00:07:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, even though I haven't, like, obviously he kind of, I was, what, six when he left Liverpool something like that. Like, it was it was early on, but like, just for that whole like wobbling and stepping off his line and say even that saving the penalties in the penalty shootout.
00:07:43
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:07:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think, although Reina had such that long career, yeah.
00:07:46
Louie Easton
And in the Man United, the Man United League Cup final in 2003. Yeah.
00:07:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, like he's so he's got... He has won important trophies for us. I think the Champions League being the biggest one, but obviously the League Cup as well.
00:08:00
Louie Easton
yeah
00:08:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, yeah, I think for me, I'm going to go for Dudek, actually.
00:08:02
Louie Easton
yeah
00:08:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
um i mean... Honourable mention for Ray Clements, Bruce Grobler, Tommy Lawrence, and those sort of players who all have kind of won trophies in the past. But I mean, some of these players played in the seventies.
00:08:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, that is 30 years before I was even born.
00:08:19
Louie Easton
Ray Clemens played for Liverpool 14 years by the way yeah
00:08:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
14 years is a very, very good shift. And maybe, maybe as an honourable mention, we can kind of put him in, but in terms of how, who i who I feel like is in my all time 11, if I can't pick Alison, cause it,
00:08:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let's face it, would be Alisson. um I think I would go for Jersey Dutek just for the Champions League kind of alone, really, for me.
00:08:39
Louie Easton
hmm
00:08:46
Louie Easton
Yeah, that Champions League final, that point-blank save against Shevchenko. Oh my gosh. I've never seen and save like that ever. It's just, I don't i think think he even knew anything about it, but he was strong enough to...
00:09:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
just just got something on it.
00:09:04
Louie Easton
Yeah, and he's living off that Champions League final for the rest of his life. and I can't blame him. What a performance.
00:09:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, rightly so.
00:09:11
Louie Easton
Okay, um so I'll let you pick the first right back then.
00:09:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
for for For the right back, okay.
00:09:17
Louie Easton
Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, there is Trent Alexander-Arnold, who is a very, very obvious person to say. i mean, another player who has also had a long career and did play at right back at one point is Jamie Carragher.
00:09:24
Louie Easton
yeah
00:09:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I'm going to, I think for me, between those two if we're if we're picking an out-and-out right back. Yeah. But now putting those two next to each other, I think it kinda has to be kind of has to be Trent, doesn't it?
00:09:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think academy graduate, even though he left on a bit of a sour note, I think like he's won league titles, won Champions League, he's won FA Cup, he's won League Cup. He's literally won everything he can at Liverpool. And I think if if he'd gone on to kind of finish his career at Liverpool and not leave such a way as he did, I mean, leaving on a free, you can't really.
00:10:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Can't really knock him for it because obviously like he's got an opportunity to go to Real Madrid.
00:10:08
Louie Easton
Yeah, I know.
00:10:12
Louie Easton
I think the dust has settled now.
00:10:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's a Coutinho situation again. Yeah, it's a Coutinho situation again where it's like he's gone to Real Madrid and he's now just another player. He's a bench option. like He's not that big brand that...
00:10:22
Louie Easton
It's been a rocky start to his career.
00:10:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he's not that big brand that he thought he would be when he changed
Midfield and Forward Lineup Choices
00:10:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
his name his name on socials to just Trent.
00:10:30
Louie Easton
Yeah, exactly.
00:10:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, he he's just another player. Like, he would have been a club legend if he had finished his career. Like, with that sort of, like, resume of league titles, Champions League, or two league titles now, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, like, all those sort of titles under his belt, I think, like,
00:10:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
it would like it would have been one of it would have been up there with Gerrard just in terms of like absolute club legend, homegrown, everything to do with him.
00:10:58
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:11:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think that is why it stung when he left. But in terms of like all time, there's not much better. In terms of like assist output and just general sort of how good he is, yeah, there's nothing.
00:11:09
Louie Easton
yeah
00:11:12
Louie Easton
you He did revolutionize that right back role that he, when he started playing as a hybrid for us, it was something unlike we've ever seen before stepping into midfield and pinging the balls forward.
00:11:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:11:26
Louie Easton
And, you know, there have been times this season where I've thought, God, I mean, we could have done with Trent in this game.
00:11:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:32
Louie Easton
but, So he he does you do notice a complete difference when he steps onto a pitch. um And also, he's ah he's a local boy as well, you know playing from the academy since the age of six all the way through.
00:11:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:11:49
Louie Easton
um That's something in itself.
00:11:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, he's he's one of those players that, like as you said, like we kind of need at the moment. like Our build-up is in desperate need of someone like him.
00:12:02
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:12:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm sure we'll come over that hill over that hump and we'll kind of deal with it. But, I mean, it's one of those things that we are um that we are a little bit missing at the moment.
00:12:07
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:12:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Okay, so we'll move on. Do you want to left-back?
00:12:16
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:12:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
you want to centre-backs?
00:12:17
Louie Easton
No, no. You picked your right back first.
00:12:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
all centre-backs?
00:12:19
Louie Easton
So I'll pick my right back first.
00:12:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:12:21
Louie Easton
I think we'll just do it position by position like that.
00:12:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no worries.
00:12:25
Louie Easton
And I'm going to go for the most decorated player in Liverpool's history at right back. And that is Mr. Phil Neal, um who played for Liverpool for 11 years and won 22 trophies, including scoring into European finals.
00:12:41
Louie Easton
So yeah.
00:12:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, that is a
00:12:43
Louie Easton
He can't really, he can't, listen to this, eight league titles, four European cups, one UEFA cup, and four league cups.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
wow
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Global Sports Podcast Network
that That's a resume.
00:12:53
Louie Easton
that is
00:12:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair.
00:12:54
Louie Easton
And by the way, those four league cups were a four-peat.
00:12:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair.
00:12:59
Louie Easton
I mean, you can't really knock that sort of but that sort of glory. He also three-peated the league in 82, 83 and 84. They also won in 1980 and 1986 as well.
00:13:13
Louie Easton
And, you know, that's one of the players that ah the older generation Liverpool fans will be able to appreciate. Obviously, I can appreciate it just by looking at those trophies that he won.
00:13:26
Louie Easton
um But I just look at a player like that who's made 365 consecutive league appearances but between 1974 and 1983 for Liverpool.
00:13:40
Louie Easton
That's reliability and that's consistency. And, you know, that that that's my pick at right back, basically. I think based on that, you might even be regretting picking Trent Alexander-Arnold at this point.
00:13:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah A little bit now. i've got to like I've got to admit, he wasn't really on my radar in terms of the ah fact that he kind of he won these titles between 74 and 85. As I said, he wasn't really on my radar, but i mean that is an incredible pick. and um yeah um I'm a little bit jealous in terms of picking Trent now. well the I maybe could have got away without picking him, ah but yeah that that is a very good pick.
00:14:15
Louie Easton
yeah I'm liking my team so far. I really am.
00:14:19
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Yeah, you've got Alison. That is a good team. Alison and Phil Neill.
00:14:25
Louie Easton
Yeah. And now ah you went first for right back. So I'll go first for centre back.
00:14:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah You can go first for this time.
00:14:31
Louie Easton
um I mean, I think it just has to be Van Dijk, doesn't it?
00:14:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, good choice.
00:14:36
Louie Easton
It just does.
00:14:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Very, very good choice.
00:14:38
Louie Easton
I mean, you've it's it was either going to be Van Dijk or it was going to be Alan Hansen. And, you know, Alan Hansen was at Liverpool for 14 years, won eight league titles, three European Cups, two FA Cups, four League Cups.
00:14:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:14:51
Louie Easton
um But I'm picking Van Dijk just because that is a player that was our glue at the back. You know, he's had to make um partnerships with loads of different players at centre-back like Matip, Gomez, Canate, Lovren, Lovren.
00:15:09
Louie Easton
But with Hansen, it was always Hansen and Lawrenson for all those years. I mean, I could be wrong about that. He might have had some good partnerships with other players and he wasn't there for 14 years. But I just look at Van Dijk and I just think how, if if you're an attacker, how do you beat him?
00:15:28
Louie Easton
Because his frame is massive and he'll give you the time and space, but then he'll just close you down as soon as you're about to take a shot. And, make you look really foolish and he's tall he wins every header um he's so physical as well it's it's it's the perfect center back i honestly think he might be the best center back of all time it's him maldini nesta they're the top three maybe you could put some other players in the conversation like i don't know bobby moore yap stam some of them but
00:15:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:00
Louie Easton
i de um I'm leaving Van Dijk at the top because I'm a Liverpool fan and I've watched him week in, week out for ah ever since he came to us in 2017-2018 season.
00:16:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. yeah I think, yeah.
00:16:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:08
Louie Easton
paying Van Dijk.
00:16:10
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the VVD is an incredible pick. i think i think clearly, even if it was a best 11 of all time football, I think he makes a, as you said, he makes ah he makes a case for being in there.
00:16:18
Louie Easton
um'm paying van dyck
00:16:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I think having him in the all time 11 is just a given. and I think it was whoever got lucky with the draw and went first kind of, got him and got got him it got the punch in first.
00:16:29
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:16:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
But as you said, i think it was between him and Alan Hansen. I'm going to have to go for Hansen. I cannot let you have VVD and Hansen at the back.
00:16:39
Louie Easton
Yeah, no.
00:16:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
that That would be, i think I'd lose straight off the bat.
00:16:43
Louie Easton
Well, you get to pick both of your players, so you might just want to go for Hansen and Lawrensen.
00:16:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, guess.
00:16:49
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um um So I'm picking Hansen. Hansen won eight league titles, three European Cups, four league cups, very similar to Neill, sort of a similar sort of timeframe, slightly ah slightly different though.
00:16:54
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:17:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But I'm got i'm actually going to not go for Lawrenson. I'm going to go for Hippier.
00:17:06
Louie Easton
Okay, he's great.
00:17:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
but I think that's more just my sort of, like, that is a player that I actually did watch and, like, is a player that i like, he was, what, he was captain, he captain in Liverpool for, what, two years before Gerrard did?
00:17:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
He was, what, 2001, 2003?
00:17:22
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:17:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, though he he's one of those players that, like, He was just so imperious all the time. He was the big Finn being at the back. There's no real weaknesses to his game, I've got ah got to admit. so I think oh yeah I'm going for Hippier.
00:17:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:17:42
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:17:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah so I've gone for Hanson and Hippier, the double H at the back.
00:17:46
Louie Easton
Yeah. That is, I mean, that's, that's, that's absolutely fantastic.
00:17:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Who are you going for? I'm
00:17:51
Louie Easton
Well, I'm going to go for Mark Lawrenson. um
00:17:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
going to go for Mark Larenson.
00:17:54
Louie Easton
Yeah. I mean, five league titles. I mean, it's just that partnership with Hanson he had, and he was so good on the ball as well. And he was so quick. Yeah.
00:18:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:18:06
Louie Easton
and it's just I just love that partnership and I don't think I think Mark Lawrenson has gone so under the radar throughout football history um so I think it explains itself really yeah
00:18:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
ye
00:18:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, he he also won five league titles, European Cup, f FA Cup League, three League Cups. like he's got like Even though we're comparing him to the likes of Hansen and Van Dijk and stuff, I mean, he's got got a CV vote to ah kind of rival Van Dijk and obviously Hippier.
00:18:34
Louie Easton
yeah
00:18:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But I think that's a good that's a good set of players right there. um But yeah, it's your turn to pick your your left back. Who are you going for?
00:18:47
Louie Easton
Okay, I'm going for... Well, for me, it was a toss-up between Robertson and Alan Kennedy. And ah just based on the fact that he scored the winner in the 1981 European Cup final and the decisive penalty in the shootout in 1984, I have to go for Alan Kennedy.
00:19:11
Louie Easton
Also, the fact that he did play for Liverpool for eight years and won five league titles to Europe.
00:19:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:16
Louie Easton
He was part of the glory. day i don't I don't have to keep on throwing these numbers because I can just say the dates of when he was playing for Liverpool and everyone just like, oh, so he was part of that success.
00:19:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you know.
00:19:26
Louie Easton
um
00:19:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:27
Louie Easton
So, yeah, I'm going for Alan Kennedy. um
00:19:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair enough. I mean, it's a good choice. so you've got He's obviously got the silverware to back.
00:19:34
Louie Easton
Scoring the winner against Real Madrid in the European Cup final and being the last player to do so, by the way, is unbelievable.
00:19:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. Fair enough. I mean, um um the the two options for me that's left out are fairly modern options for me. It's Andrew Robertson and John Arnaresa.
00:19:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think honor John Arnaresa is kind of just I mean, he's ah he ah he basically a left midfielder, kind of.
00:19:53
Louie Easton
racism show Yeah.
00:20:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, he was the big Norwegian. Oh, I'm not that big Norwegian.
00:20:02
Louie Easton
And he was he did play on the left-hand side of midfield in the 2005 Champions League final as well, because it was, unfortunately, Jimmy Traore at left-back.
00:20:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:13
Louie Easton
I mean, God, he had a horrific first half.
00:20:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
okay Yeah, I mean, my team is very much either 2005 team or the modern day team.
00:20:16
Louie Easton
word. my what
00:20:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've only got Hanson, who wasn't part of either of those teams. I think like, um so I'm going to go for Andy Robertson out of those two, but John Arisa, honourable mention.
00:20:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think also an honourable mention would be to Jamie Carragher. I know maybe he wasn't the best in terms of like his actual ability.
00:20:38
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:20:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
He doesn't really compare to any of the centre-backs we've said, but in terms of just being that one-club man, um he got that award from Bill Ball recently, didn't he, um to do with being a one-club man.
00:20:50
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:20:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, I'm going to go for Andy Robertson.
00:20:52
Louie Easton
Yeah. Fair enough. And now I would, ah I'm seriously wondering who your first choice in midfield could possibly be.
00:21:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think it has to be.
00:21:04
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:21:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's only one player and that is Naby Keita.
00:21:07
Louie Easton
Yes.
00:21:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
um mean um you know I mean, it's and steve it has to be Stevie G.
00:21:10
Louie Easton
was thinking the same thing. you read my mind.
00:21:15
Louie Easton
yeah
00:21:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
It has to be. I mean, there's no real other choice in there. I mean, obviously there are other real choices, but in terms of just like Mr. Liverpool, like that is who I think of.
00:21:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
So like it has to be and I'm glad I got the first pick on that.
00:21:32
Louie Easton
Yeah, that's the one you were looking forward to, isn't it um
00:21:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:37
Louie Easton
it?
Team Composition Review and Manager Selection
00:21:38
Louie Easton
OK, I'm going to go for my two midfielders as well, Graham Souness, I'm going to go with. um I mean, just looking at his highlights, it's just like, God, I would have absolutely hated to play against him.
00:21:54
Louie Easton
I mean, what's a horrible, horrible man.
00:21:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:21:56
Louie Easton
ah He only played for Liverpool for six years, but he won five league titles, three European Cups and the three League Cups. That is...
00:22:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, fair enough. That's ah it's a decent return, that.
00:22:06
Louie Easton
um Yeah, that's not bad at all. Also, that this is the man that ah put down the flag of, was it Galatasaray or Fedobacca?
00:22:16
Louie Easton
I can't remember who it was he managed, but he puts down the flag in the centre circle of the opposition team as a manager.
00:22:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah. Was it Galatasaray?
00:22:23
Louie Easton
i
00:22:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
think it was Galatasaray, wasn't it?
00:22:24
Louie Easton
ah Yeah, whoever it was, i mean, that is a man who just does not care about how people feel about him. Yeah.
00:22:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think he would back himself to against any of them, to be fair. He'd back himself to win in a fight.
00:22:35
Louie Easton
yeah Oh, yeah, God. And he's Scottish as well.
00:22:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:22:41
Louie Easton
Says it all. um So, yeah, I'm going to go for Souness. I think he also captained Liverpool in the 84 final um um as well.
00:22:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:22:50
Louie Easton
So he was a proper leader. now I'm really torn here between my next two between two players for my next pick I'm either going to go for Ronnie Whelan just based on longevity um oh god I really like Jan Mulby as well I've just remembered him I think no I'm going to take my first pick I'm going to go for Terry McDermott um ah don't know why you're
00:23:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair.
00:23:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
You've never mentioned two names then gone for a completely different name.
00:23:21
Louie Easton
Yeah, no, no.
00:23:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair enough, yeah.
00:23:22
Louie Easton
Yeah, Terry McDermott. Because i had I had two in my mind, and then I saw Jan Mulby, and I just... I don't know why. I just absolutely love Jan Mulby. I know his stories that he tells, it's just... They're so funny. But, no, Terry McDermott, I'm going to go for...
00:23:38
Louie Easton
um ah just it's just, again, he was at Liverpool for eight years and he, it was between 74 and 82. I'm going to leave at that because that tells you everything.
00:23:50
Louie Easton
ah But just the way he played, because he was just, he had lungs of a horse, that man, ran around the pitch.
00:23:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:55
Louie Easton
And um that header against Tottenham in 78 that ah ah my dad told me about, it was like the most beautiful team play, just fantastic. ping the ball around everywhere and then the ball just came to him, he headed it in and that's just one of the the iconic Liverpool goals of that era.
00:24:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:24:15
Louie Easton
Back when Tottenham were really good as well, back in 78. I think Oziati, was he there at that point?
00:24:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:19
Louie Easton
i can't remember.
00:24:22
Louie Easton
So yeah.
00:24:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Yeah,
Conclusion and Draft Reflection
00:24:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, they very good choice, very good midfielder. You've got Souness McDermott in midfield at the moment. um
00:24:32
Louie Easton
I've seen Asim McDermott.
00:24:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
You didn't... Yeah, that's ah I mean, it's good too. So my second midfielder...
00:24:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've got two picks, haven't I? Because it's my second one.
00:24:41
Louie Easton
Yeah, yeah.
00:24:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Then I've got first pick.
00:24:42
Louie Easton
This completes your midfield.
00:24:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, so i can fit i can finish off my midfield.
00:24:43
Louie Easton
They've got Gerald already. Yeah.
00:24:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've got Gerrard. I think I'm going to go for a midfield two after that of Ronnie Whelan and Xabi Alonso.
00:24:54
Louie Easton
I knew you were going to go with Xavi Alonso. I just had a feeling.
00:24:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
love a bit of Xabi Alonso.
00:24:58
Louie Easton
Don't we all love Xavi Alonso?
00:24:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Love the man.
00:24:59
Louie Easton
Oh, my word. The fact that he said ah that he didn't really want to leave Liverpool to go to Real Madrid, even though he's Spanish and he grew up in Spain and Real Madrid were the Galacticos that he was growing up with, by the way, of you know those late 90s teams with Figo and R9 and all of those players.
00:25:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:20
Louie Easton
um And the fact that he loved Liverpool.
00:25:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, yeah.
00:25:24
Louie Easton
I love that man so much.
00:25:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I mean, when he came back with Leverkusen, went for a little jog around Liverpool and stuff, didn't he? So he obviously likes the likes the area enough, which is always good.
00:25:34
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:25:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
and It seems to be a thing for Spanish players liking Liverpool because Rafa Benitez has a house still in Liverpool, doesn't he? He's just one of those things.
00:25:41
Louie Easton
Yeah. And Torres still absolutely loves us as well, even though he had a bit of a rocky end to his career at Liverpool.
00:25:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Of course, of course.
00:25:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. But yeah, so that's my midfield three of Gerrard, Xabi Alonso and gle i'm Robbie Whelan.
00:25:55
Louie Easton
That's not bad, that at all.
00:25:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
good three of that.
00:25:58
Louie Easton
So I have one more pick, and that will be...
00:26:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:26:04
Louie Easton
it's So to complete the midfield... Oh, damn, I really wanted Ronnie Whelan. I just really wanted him. Do I dare go for Jordan Henderson? Or do No.
00:26:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, like, I was subtly thinking it just because of, like, the captaining when we won the league, like, after 30 years...
00:26:20
Louie Easton
I mean, the thing...
00:26:24
Louie Easton
And he was so, so good for us in that season where he won the league.
00:26:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. know Yeah.
00:26:30
Louie Easton
Ian Callaghan, is that ah He was a bit of a winger and then he became a central midfielder later in his career.
00:26:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:26:38
Louie Easton
ah Obviously watching him back in the late 1950s myself. um
00:26:45
Louie Easton
Okay, I've got two in mind. I'm either going Sammy Lee or I'm going for... um
00:26:53
Louie Easton
or I'm going for Jan Molby. ah Just based on the fact that I love him so much, I think I'm going to go for Jan Molby. I know he joined sort of towards the end of Liverpool's success.
00:27:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. there
00:27:05
Louie Easton
um i mean, he joined in 84 and the summer after we won the ah fourth European Cup. So he didn't have European success for us, but he did win three league titles and ah two FA Cups. One of them was the 86 one where...
00:27:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:27:23
Louie Easton
um I mean, that's just such an iconic match, the 86 final. But it's his passing. You know, he could put it on a nickel from 60 yards.
00:27:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
A nickel.
00:27:32
Louie Easton
And yeah, and put it on a nickel from 60 yards.
00:27:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Put it on a nickel. Come on.
00:27:37
Louie Easton
ah own And also the fact that he is Danish, but he sounds so Scouse when he's speaking English just makes me like him even more.
00:27:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
We love it.
00:27:44
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:27:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:44
Louie Easton
So, OK, I'll go for Jan.
00:27:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
i mean, when those players have twerking.
00:27:47
Louie Easton
Yeah, I'll go for Jan Moby to complete the midfield before we move into the attack shot.
00:27:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair enough. I mean, that's it that's it that's a good a good a good midfield. So before we go on to the attackers and then run through our overall team, we'll have a quick break and hear from the sponsors.
00:28:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Welcome back. um So we're now going to move on to our attackers. I went first to pick for the last midfielder. So it's now Louis turn. you want to start with left wing or right wing or striker?
00:28:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
How way do you want to
00:28:52
Louie Easton
I mean, I'm looking to the right wing for obvious reasons. um
00:28:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair. Yep.
00:28:57
Louie Easton
i don't But I kind of want to make it a bit interesting. So I'll start with a winger.
00:29:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:29:05
Louie Easton
heads Heads is left, tails is right.
00:29:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:29:09
Louie Easton
Okay, heads. ah Okay, i'm going to the left wing first. Damn it, damn it. Okay. um Right, so two players come to mind for the left wing. um Or three if you want to put ah Kennedy, Ray Kennedy in there, but I...
00:29:26
Louie Easton
I think I'm going to rule him out just based on the fact that the other two are, well, one of them I watched and was just absolutely phenomenal for us. And the other one I didn't watch, but I've met.
00:29:38
Louie Easton
So there's a bit of bias there. ah The one that I've met, and this is honestly the biggest flex of all time, John Barnes. And I'll ah'll tell you the story of how I met him because I don't think I've actually told it on the podcast before.
00:29:52
Louie Easton
This was a school trip in London and we went to the theatre for it ah in Marlebone for Immersive Great Gatsby.
00:29:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
fair
00:30:02
Louie Easton
It's very, it's a very nice,
00:30:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Wow. Immersive great Gatsby.
00:30:04
Louie Easton
Yeah, the immersive greats Gatsby experience in Marlebone. We were queuing up outside. By this time, I'd had some pre-drinks. um And yeah, this was college, by the way.
00:30:16
Louie Easton
This this wasn't high school.
00:30:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
was about to say, like, what, Capricorns?
00:30:17
Louie Easton
and they Yeah, they weren't giving us...
00:30:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:30:19
Louie Easton
i should have... No, um so we were in sixth form college. We're queuing up and John Barnes just walks past us. And at first I didn't recognize him because I just thought, well, he looks a lot like John Barnes, but he's got a beard.
00:30:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Wow.
00:30:32
Louie Easton
And then I realized, hold on, he looks a lot like John Barnes. But if he had a beard, I didn't know he had a beard at this point. And then I just shouted, John Barnes.
00:30:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair.
00:30:40
Louie Easton
He puts his hand up. I sprint after him. bite By the way, I'm tipsy and I run away from the school trip that I was on. Around the corner, follow him.
00:30:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, not the best thing to do.
00:30:50
Louie Easton
Yeah, probably not. And yeah, I got a picture with him. I told him I was a massive Liverpool fan. He called me good lad. um
00:30:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Good lad.
00:30:57
Louie Easton
So really immersed himself in Scouseland since moving from Watford.
00:31:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair.
00:31:03
Louie Easton
ah You know, he is, he's Gerrard's idol as well. um And he dominated that Liverpool, like that Liverpool left-hand side in the late 90s as well. Captained us as well.
00:31:20
Louie Easton
But the other one is Sadio Mane.
00:31:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sadio Mane!
00:31:24
Louie Easton
He's the best football player in the world. um
00:31:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
In the world.
00:31:29
Louie Easton
God, who do I go for here? I think. This is so hard. This is really OK. I'm going to go for. umm I'm going to go for Sadio Mane based on the fact that I watched him.
00:31:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sadio Mane!
00:31:45
Louie Easton
Yeah, I'm going to go for Sadio Mane.
00:31:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair. ah
00:31:48
Louie Easton
I mean, just so underrated, wasn't he?
00:31:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean...
00:31:52
Louie Easton
I mean, he had everything. He had absolutely everything apart from the goal scoring of Mo Salah, who he just unfortunately happened to be in the but same team as at the same time.
00:32:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:32:03
Louie Easton
But then again, he got his own back at AFCON, didn't he, when he took that penalty?
00:32:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, like all good choices. I mean, the depth of attackers that we have to pick from here is just insane. I think I might have to go for a non-traditional left winger, just looking at the options. I mean, we have Mane, Firmino, Suarez, Torres, Owen, Fowler, Aldridge, Beardsley, Barnes, Rush, Dalgleish, Keegan.
00:32:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, these players, that is a...
00:32:33
Louie Easton
Ugh.
00:32:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Roger Hunt, even.
00:32:37
Louie Easton
There's no bad shouts there at all.
00:32:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, it's not. and i like And the fact that it's going to have to be a long list of honourable mentions, like that is what we're going to have to kind of tackle that.
00:32:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, I think Sadio Mane is a great shout. I think maybe because he's only left in recent years and still playing, he doesn't get the plaudits that maybe a John Barnes does. But I think that's a tremendous shout. And I think he...
00:33:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
deserves to be in the start in the, in the 11, uh, where I've written right wing twice on here.
00:33:08
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:33:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Um, left wing money. Um, okay. So who are, who am I going to go for? I mean, I've listed all those players. I need someone to kind of lock down that left wing. Who do I want to get that?
00:33:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't want to lose.
00:33:30
Louie Easton
Hmm.
00:33:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
think I might go for King Kenny.
00:33:33
Louie Easton
You're putting Kenny on the left?
00:33:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Kenny on the left. I mean, the striking options, I think that's how deep we are.
00:33:37
Louie Easton
ah Oh.
00:33:41
Louie Easton
Damn, I really wanted Kenny for my striker.
00:33:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
That like, yeah, I like i want Kenny.
00:33:43
Louie Easton
I really wanted him for striking.
00:33:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
And don't want to like risk it because I'm going second at striker.
00:33:48
Louie Easton
And i want...
00:33:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I'm wanting him. I'm wanting Kenny. But I know the choices at striker are so deep that like I would also want maybe like a Rush or Suarez any one of them in in my team. So, yeah, I'm going to have to go for Kenny. I'm going to have to stick him out on the left. But he's going to be a left striker.
00:34:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's going to be ah King Kenny.
00:34:12
Louie Easton
Okay, so your left winger is Kenny, and now...
00:34:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
can it king kenny
00:34:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
My right winger, I'm going go for...
00:34:19
Louie Easton
Wait, you're going to the right wing now rather than striker?
00:34:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll go striker, I'll be nice. i We'll go straight, we'll go across the front line.
00:34:25
Louie Easton
Okay. Because I was thinking if you've got Kenny, then you might want the guy who played with him for all those years.
00:34:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
look
00:34:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
um'm gonna I think I have to kind of go for rush. I think I have to go for rushy.
00:34:34
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:34:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I think...
00:34:36
Louie Easton
And now this has given me a headache. Yeah.
00:34:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
he said Yeah, so now you've got to kind of pick someone else to play strike.
00:34:42
Louie Easton
ah
00:34:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, there's still very good choices. There's obviously Fowler, Owen, Suarez, Torres, all the Esses.
00:34:49
Louie Easton
Yeah. Firmino up there as well.
00:34:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
You could probably make a shout for John Barnes playing up front as well if you really wanted.
00:34:55
Louie Easton
No, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do that. We've got too many great strikers already that I'm not going to go for Barnes up front.
00:35:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fair enough.
00:35:05
Louie Easton
um Keegan's such a shout, isn't he? Keegan is such a shout. But i just it's the way the way he left and then was just immediately replaced by Dalglish, our greatest ever player, maybe.
00:35:24
Louie Easton
And this is a headache. like Or Suarez. But the one thing that's throwing me off about Suarez is the fact that he only won the League Cup with us and he was only at Liverpool for like three years.
00:35:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
but those were a good three years
00:35:37
Louie Easton
and they were the best three years in the Premier League of any player that played for three years in the Premier League.
00:35:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think, did he score, is this right?
00:35:45
Louie Easton
I mean, how do you...
00:35:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Did he score 82 goals in 133 games? That's Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:35:50
Louie Easton
something like that it's crazy and he's got 31 goals in a season in 2013-14 bearing in mind he was coming back from a ban at the start of the season and didn't even take penalties I mean that his performances against Norwich were just man against boys it was like watching those videos of our senior players playing with the academy players and I may
00:35:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
that's crazy
00:36:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah
00:36:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, especially when we played Norwich.
00:36:18
Louie Easton
Yeah, Torres, I just, I just, I mean, that first season, three hat-tricks carried, he carried the attack, and that partnership with Gerrard in midfield was incredible.
00:36:31
Louie Easton
And I may upset some people, but Owen is so up there.
00:36:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:36:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I mean, he's only play it like Liverpool player to win a Ballon d'Or while playing for Liverpool, wasn't he?
00:36:36
Louie Easton
I mean,
00:36:45
Louie Easton
Yeah, and to and he was he was the first English player to win the Ballon d'Or since Keegan, which is...
00:36:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm pretty sure that's the case.
00:36:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, there
00:36:54
Louie Easton
Oh, I don't know what to do. I do not know what to do, Michael. Okay.
00:36:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
you go. Well, do you want to have time to think about it and you can move straight to your right wing because I think we know who going to pick for your right wing.
00:37:04
Louie Easton
Yeah, obviously Salah. I mean, do I need to even explain? I mean, this season aside, he's been unbelievable for us every single season. And, you know, player of the season last year came fourth in the Ballon d'Or race, which he should have probably finished higher than Jamal, in my opinion.
00:37:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:37:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:22
Louie Easton
um
00:37:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
All PR that.
00:37:24
Louie Easton
So, yeah.
00:37:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
All PR that your man got higher than Salah.
00:37:26
Louie Easton
Yeah, yeah. We all know. We all know. Yeah, Salah is straight in the right wing position.
00:37:33
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Fair.
00:37:33
Louie Easton
Maybe top five, maybe, Liverpool players ever. i mean, he's definitely up there.
00:37:39
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id I'd say top four. I think he's Mount Rushmore.
00:37:42
Louie Easton
Well, you'd put Gerrard above him.
00:37:43
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I think there's a case for him to be on Mount Rushmore.
00:37:44
Louie Easton
You'd put Dalglish above him. You'd put Rush above him.
00:37:46
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Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:48
Louie Easton
Then you've got the headache with Souness and Hansen and maybe Van Dijk as well.
00:37:53
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I'd still say Salah is up there, especially if he carries on.
00:37:53
Louie Easton
You know, you can't...
00:37:57
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like if he, if he, if he managed, cause he's in top, top scoring list, he's up there anyway. And he's definitely our, he's a case from being our best foreign player.
00:38:03
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:38:07
Louie Easton
Oh, yeah, easily.
00:38:08
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Yeah.
00:38:09
Louie Easton
Unless you count Welsh as foreign and then... Or Scottish as foreign, actually, for that matter.
00:38:12
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Or Scottish, Scottish, that's the one. Fair.
00:38:15
Louie Easton
Best Liverpool player to not come from the British Isles.
00:38:19
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Fair. Yeah.
00:38:20
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:38:21
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Yeah.
00:38:22
Louie Easton
Okay.
00:38:23
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But then Stryker you still need to pick.
00:38:23
Louie Easton
Uh...
00:38:26
Louie Easton
like i I really want to say Suarez, but logic is screaming. like He was there for three years and won a League Cup. ah But he was just unplayable.
00:38:35
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Yeah, but the three years that he was there, like, the League Cup is actually quite good.
00:38:38
Louie Easton
Okay. okay i'm i'm gonna okay i'm gonna i'm gonna go for suarez i'm gonna go for suarez just those those three years were just insane and i he was my favorite player to watch at liverpool and he was probably the everyone's least favorite player who he played against because he was just so horrible
00:38:50
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Fair.
00:39:02
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Yeah.
00:39:06
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, very good team that you've got there. My right wing.
00:39:12
Louie Easton
If you can excuse the... No, I can't say that. iconics I can't say that.
00:39:17
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Excuse the racism biting. I think he's great.
00:39:20
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:39:22
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and But we don't we don't excuse those things, just clarifying.
00:39:24
Louie Easton
We don't excuse racism on GSPN.
00:39:26
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to Yeah, just just clarifying.
00:39:26
Louie Easton
I just want to make that absolutely clear.
00:39:30
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ah Great footballer, not the best person. just
00:39:33
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:39:34
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but
00:39:35
Louie Easton
but
00:39:35
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So moving moving swiftly on, yeah, moving swiftly on, my right wing, who am I going to pick?
00:39:36
Louie Easton
wouldn't Wouldn't trust him with the kids. Yeah.
00:39:42
Louie Easton
I'm interested to see who you go with here.
00:39:45
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Because I think i' um i've i mean I've got the option of already playing Kenny on the wing. I may as well have the option of playing a striker on the wing. So I've got Barnes. He could probably give a shift at right wing. Fowler, God himself.
00:39:55
Louie Easton
Cut in.
00:39:58
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Owen. Or Torres.
00:40:00
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:40:01
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Or even Firmino, maybe. You can make case him.
00:40:02
Louie Easton
No shout for Stevie Highway. know we didn't watch him much, but I mean, was there for a while.
00:40:06
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Yeah, I mean, outside the song, I've got to admit, off the top of my head, don't really know much, so I'm going a bit recency bias for players that I've either been told about or, like, I've i've seen...
00:40:19
Louie Easton
It's been 11 years with us.
00:40:20
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I
00:40:21
Louie Easton
Unbelievable.
00:40:23
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don't think I saw them.
00:40:23
Louie Easton
would Bill Shankly say?
00:40:26
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Yeah, a bit before my time. Yeah. think i'm gonna go for god himself i think there's a reason why he was nicknamed god um that robbie fowler for anyone who doesn't know um i think i'm gonna go for front three of fowler rush and kennedy and kenny kennedy kenny i think that's a i think i think that's a solid front three um so i'm i'll run through the the teams just so that we have uh an overview are we doing managers oh
00:40:44
Louie Easton
and That's pretty good.
00:40:50
Louie Easton
Wait, one more thing. I need to pick a manager. And do you get the first pick.
00:40:56
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Do I get the first pick, manager?
00:40:58
Louie Easton
You get the first pick.
00:41:00
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There's three.
00:41:02
Louie Easton
Yeah. wait Which three could you possibly mean?
00:41:06
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yeah There's three. I'm going to go for
00:41:10
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Shankly.
00:41:12
Louie Easton
Okay. Well, I'll go for Paisley then.
00:41:13
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Yeah.
00:41:14
Louie Easton
Fine. Not my problem. We'll have the two Gates as our managers.
00:41:18
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Yeah, there we go. And then Paisley.
00:41:21
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:41:23
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So, okay.
00:41:23
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:41:24
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So I'll run through your team first.
00:41:24
Louie Easton
Can you come up with shout, obviously?
00:41:26
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So in comments or on socials or anything, I've i've written the the teams out. Here you go. Bad handwriting, but I'll run through.
00:41:36
Louie Easton
my word. That's a mess. That is a mess. Mm-hmm.
00:41:38
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i will run through. ah Manager, you've got Bob Paisley.
00:41:44
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Goalkeeper, you've got Alisson, back four of Neil, Lawrenson, VVD and can and Kennedy.
00:41:46
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:41:53
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Then midfield three of Molby, McDermott, Souness and a front three of Mane, Suarez and Salah.
00:41:57
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:42:01
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It's very good team, that balanced team, I'd say.
00:42:02
Louie Easton
That's a very modern... i didn't realize how modern the front three was. All three still playing.
00:42:07
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Front three is quite modern, but then the rest of it has got a good sprinkling of like old school, to be fair.
00:42:12
Louie Easton
Yeah. I'm paying homage to the greats.
00:42:13
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ah Mine is yeah mine's either big names or modern.
00:42:14
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:42:17
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i think so For mine, I've got manager, Bill Shankly. um
00:42:22
Louie Easton
yeah
00:42:24
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Goalkeeper, Jersey Dudek. Back four of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Alan Hansen, Sammy Hippier and Andrew Robertson. Got very modern full-backs.
00:42:35
Louie Easton
her
00:42:36
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Midfield three of Ronnie Whelan, Xabi Alonso, Steven Gerrard. And a front three of King Kenny, Ian Rush and Robbie Fowler.
00:42:42
Louie Easton
and
00:42:48
Louie Easton
You're asking a lot of those front three. I feel like they're going to be quite narrow. Yeah.
00:42:52
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I feel like they're going to score a lot of goals though.
00:42:54
Louie Easton
Yeah, you could argue that.
00:42:55
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I think they're not going to create much. That's what Xabi Alonso is there for, but they're going to score.
00:42:58
Louie Easton
ah Hey, leave Kenny at. Kenny will create. He can come back.
00:43:02
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Yeah, he'll give it a go. He'll be able to do it.
00:43:04
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:43:05
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But yeah, i think I think they're very even teams.
00:43:05
Louie Easton
Him and Fowler playing off each other, I'd imagine, pretty well.
00:43:11
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I don't think there's much in them to kind of to to say to say any difference.
00:43:12
Louie Easton
Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:16
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But I mean, it'll be interesting to see if we can do on socials like a poll or something like that.
00:43:21
Louie Easton
Yeah. A poll.
00:43:22
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See if anyone anyone can...
00:43:25
Louie Easton
And we'll ask the GSPN group chat and they might...
00:43:27
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Yeah, I'll send a picture this in.
00:43:28
Louie Easton
I feel like they'll say something about Ray Clements.
00:43:29
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Yeah.
00:43:31
Louie Easton
Say something about Ray Clements not getting into either of our teams.
00:43:34
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Yeah, we should maybe write a list of honourable mentions just so that we don't get shouted at.
00:43:40
Louie Easton
Oh, come on. Everyone knows great Liverpool players. It's just who makes the 11 and who's got the better 11?
00:43:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, who makes it that
00:43:44
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:43:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, um there we need mean and like we've put we've said the caveat of we're going for people that either we know or we've heard of or we've been spoken to about. So out of them, these are our 11s.
00:43:57
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um That is the end of the podcast today. um We've had a lot of fun doing this. I mean, we've waffled on for a good period of time now. um But thank you, Louis, for doing this with me.
00:44:06
Louie Easton
Yeah. Yep.
00:44:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And see you next time.
00:44:11
Louie Easton
Cheers.
00:44:27
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you