'Too strong': Former Real Madrid player suggests he might actually pick Steven Gerrard over Zinedine Zidane
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Liverpool fans will arguably never see a better, more complete player at their club than Steven Gerrard.
Not only was Gerrard a phenomenal player, but he was also a local lad and captain of the football club.
He was arguably even better than conventional thinking suggests.
Those who played with him in the Liverpool academy, the first team and with the England national team all know how good he was.
One player who falls into all three of those categories is Michael Owen, who has now made a comparison between Gerrard and his former Real Madrid teammate, the legendary Zinedine Zidane.
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Owen’s opinion may not be taken too seriously by Liverpool supporters after his ill-advised decision to join Manchester United in 2011.
Nevertheless, Owen’s pedigree in the game is inarguable.
A Ballon d’Or winner with Liverpool, the former striker also played in a star-studded Real Madrid team in the early 2000s.
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Zidane was part of that side, and when asked by Rio Ferdinand to pick his five-a-side team of all-time teammates, it was no surprise to hear Owen pair the Frenchman with Gerrard.
With Ferdinand wanting to know more, the pundit said that while Zidane may have been better, his former captain at Liverpool was the player he’d pick for ‘the biggest game of his life.’
“The best player I ever played with was Zidane,” Owen said.
His goal scoring, his vision.”
While Gerrard and Zidane were very different types of midfielders, the former Liverpool No.
Liverpool fans loved Gerrard, Scholes was the Man United supporter’s pick and Lampard was the Chelsea choice.
And when asked by Ferdinand on how Gerrard stacked up against his two former England teammates, Owen sat on the fence a little.
“They all offer something different and I just wish we’d [England] played more with all three of them in midfield,” said the 45-year-old.
“I genuinely think we’d have won a World Cup.