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  • I'm gonna go Petr Cech in goal.

  • He did everything, pretty much.

  • He was a leader as well, he was incredible.

  • Great goalkeeper for me.

  • So I'd have to say big Pete.

  • I'd go left-back, I don't even think

  • there's an argument - Ashley Cole.

  • I think, for me,

  • the best left-back of all time, personally.

  • I feel he doesn't get the credit really

  • that he deserves,

  • for what he's done for the game.

  • He was the point of attack

  • when I was with Chelsea,

  • at Arsenal he was top-class, part of The Invincibles.

  • Won I think the record amount of FA Cups,

  • won the Champions League, won the Premier League.

  • In Team GB we played against Brazil, Thiago Silva was good.

  • It was about who's the smartest, can we outsmart each other?

  • And I think he was good that day. Caused him some problems of course.

  • But that's not the point.

  • Vincent Kompany. Great man off the park,

  • on the pitch he's a leader.

  • Very strong, quick.

  • Can pass the ball very well.

  • If you think about what you want a defender to be,

  • you'd probably look at him and how he plays the game.

  • It's hard to probably look past JT, to be fair.

  • What you've achieved in the game,

  • what you've done, how long you've led a club to success.

  • He's won everything with Chelsea, every single thing possible.

  • Midfield...

  • Stevie's got to go in there obviously.

  • Had the pleasure of playing with him

  • for a few seasons. He's a striker's dream,

  • someone who could pick a pass out

  • from, you know, from 40, 50 yards

  • onto your toe. Like, you don't even have to break stride.

  • I'd probably put Pirlo in there.

  • We played against him in the World Cup

  • towards the end of his career.

  • And I can only imagine what he was like in his prime.

  • Some of the passes he was doing was out of this world.

  • I'm dead serious, it was out of this world what he was doing.

  • I look at midfielders and think, "What could they do for me as a player?

  • "If I was playing with them, why would I enjoy playing with this person?"

  • And as I said, some of the passes he was doing was a joke,

  • and I was thinking, "I'd probably score a lot of goals if I was playing with him."

  • Even though he's an ex-United player,

  • you've got to put Ronaldo in there.

  • All bias aside. I've got to keep it real too,

  • obviously there's probably a lot

  • of Liverpool fans out there thinking,

  • "Really, Daniel?

  • "You're gonna put a United player in there?"

  • You have to respect someone's abilities

  • and what they've done for the game,

  • for the culture, and he's done a lot for football.

  • Broke barriers and things like that.

  • Of course you've got to put Messi in there as well for the same reasons.

  • Again, done some great things in the game,

  • outrageous stuff, the pair of them, to be fair,

  • so both of them have to make the cut.

  • It's only right.

  • Growing up I was an Arsenal fan,

  • and Anelka was my favourite striker at the time,

  • so I've got an affinity to him,

  • not only as a footballer but as a man.

  • I feel he helped me out a lot, gave me a lot of advice.

  • I love the way he plays the game,

  • he's just so elegant on the pitch,

  • the way he ran, the way he passed the ball,

  • the way he used to chop defenders,

  • which was something that I took from him.

  • He's probably the best player I've seen at faking to shoot

  • to create himself a yard,

  • which in the box is everything for a striker, really,

  • you have to create yourself a yard.

  • He could run past people and score goals,

  • he could create goals, he could do everything.

  • I think Didier was ridiculous.

  • I can't lie - as targetmen go,

  • he was unstoppable, to be fair.

  • I think he scored in

  • every single final he played in,

  • and you can't look past a man if,

  • on the biggest stage possible...

  • That's why I say, for me, it's a difficult one,

  • but I learnt a lot from both those centre-forwards,

  • Didier and Anelka, because they both helped me

  • to become a better player when I was at Chelsea.

  • That's why I'd have to put them two in.

  • The midfielders, I've got two great passers of the ball.

  • I know my four strikers probably aren't going to defend,

  • so in a 4-2-4 formation I think we'd probably lose!

I'm gonna go Petr Cech in goal.

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