Jordan Henderson, James Milner and Steven Gerrard all feature in Georginio Wijnaldum’s perfect composite midfielder.
In an interview with Sky Sports, Liverpool’s No.5 was asked to pick one player for each of seven key midfield attributes: leadership, engine, passing, strength, football brain, skill and goalscoring.
And the Dutchman selected Henderson’s leadership, Milner’s engine and Gerrard’s passing, in conjunction with the strength of Clarence Seedorf, football brain of Xavi Hernandez, skill of Andrea Pirlo and goalscoring of Frank Lampard.
Read Wijnaldum’s reasons for plumping for two of his teammates and a legendary Reds captain of the past below…
On Henderson’s leadership…
I've played with a few players who have great leadership, I have to say Kevin Strootman and Jordan Henderson were, I think, above the other ones.