Ian Rush

There we go.

[coughs] Right, so if anyone asks you to name the top 15 Liverpool goal scorers in the Premier League era Uh, it is Mo Salah, Robbie Fowler, Steven Gerrard, Michael Owen, Sadio Mane, Bobby Firmino, Luis Suarez, Fernando Torres, Dirk Kuyt, Daniel Sturridge, Diogo Jota, Ian Rush, Phil Coutinho, Steve McManaman, and Emile Heskey.

Yeah.

I can just marvel at my own brilliance for a while.

And again, I'm lucky that I've been going since I was five years old.

So I've seen Ian Rush, I've seen Mark Hughes play, I've seen some great, great old from the 80s and 90s when centre-forwards were the big thing.

So it's a really tough question to answer.

But was it R9 for you?

Yeah, good shout.

Got two Liverpool ones to throw in there.

Obviously, Ian Rush, because I saw him as a kid and he was just in that team where...

You know, when Liverpool came to town, they steamrolled everyone, absolutely anyone.

Yeah.

So he was loving the Ian Rush, the Kenny Dalgleish, that era.

Before then.

Ian Rush weren't playing in the 70s.

Ian Rush was playing in the 90s.

Right.

Do you know what I mean? Kenny Dalgleish maybe back then.

Rushie as well.

How could I forget Rushie? So I can't pick a forward because the answer is probably Ian Rush if we're looking at the numbers.

The answer is Ian Rush.

but there's too many, and I've loved them all, by the way, you know, I love John Barnes as a winger for us, I loved Robbie Fowler, he's my favourite Liverpool player of all time, I loved Luis Suarez with a passion when he was here, so yeah, it's impossible to pick one there, so I'm sorry I'm sitting on the fence a little bit.

Right, number 14 is the first ball out, a Merseyside derby would be good, Brighton at home seems to be the Norm, but we have to play the other teams at some point to win the Cup.

Cavani was a good presser.

I'm just going to challenge the Sadio Mane pressing and Cavani pressing because as a Liverpool fan, Sadio Mane's pressing was immense, but Ian Rush was the ultimate presser.

He was next level, Ian Rush.

My goodness.

It made

And that was so many similarities when you look back to the exact same score, probably quite a similar time of year, but that's kind of what's happened with this squad.

The difference was that Dalgleish brought older players, very old players like Ian Rush and John Barnes, and he had the experience in the Premier League to be able to implement that better, whereas we've got the potential that yesler is building something is building a young team to do something across the course of the season so overall would you i'm going to throw back to something i said before you both If I give you a million pound chip, are you saying this is not something to get too worried about? You'd bet on us coming in like the top half of the table? Or are you saying this is a very worrying harbinger of doom and after watching the Leeds game you'd back us to come in the bottom half of the table? So come on, top, middle or the bottom? In the middle is not an option.

I think it very much depends on what the response is and whether it's a tactical change or whether it's, you know, we need to get more solid at the back effectively.

You don't win Premier League games by being sloppy at the back.

What year was that, 83? Right about then.

The strikers were Ian Rush and Kenny Dalgleish.

I think he also, Jock Steen I think was being incentivised, shall we say, to get him to Liverpool.

But Charlie knew that he would