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Elliott Jackson

Jamie Carragher and Graeme Souness both agree on Liverpool best-ever striker

Former Liverpool legends Jamie Carragher and Graeme Souness have both named Kenny Dalglish as the club's best-ever striker.

The Scot is an icon at Anfield, having managed the club and played an ambassador role as well as playing for the club.

Dalglish scored 172 goals in 515 appearances and whilst there are strikers with better conversion rates, Carragher and Souness were both in clear agreement about Dalglish's standing in that list.

"I think so, certainly striker-wise, I would say," Carragher told Sky Sports' The Football Show.

"Kenny (Dalglish) isn't just seen as a player but a figure at Liverpool for what he has done there. In terms of management and as an ambassador too, he's almost seen as the number one figure with Liverpool.

"There are lots of idols in terms of Steven Gerrard, but in terms of strikers, he's number one. There are more strikers who scored more goals than Kenny but it's what he did for the other team and what he did for other players.

"Winning that first European Cup in '77, I don't think it can get any better and then the year later he gets the winning goal and they went on to dominate European and British football for the next few years."

"He saw a different picture to everyone else. In those days you were fighting to get hold of the ball and half the time, you don't have the time to get your head up," Souness explained.

"If I won the ball in the final third and I didn't have much time on the ball, I was just looking for his feet. I had one intention when I played with him, he would park himself up against the centre-halves and then they were in desperate trouble.

"The minute he could feel them with his touch and control, he could get shots off or dink it around the corner for someone else. One of his biggest assets was his bravery, he's not the biggest.

"He was up against some big men and in those days, they would get two goes at trying to sicken the centre-forward they were playing against before even getting a telling off from the referee.

"I maintain, and it's the same today, the bravest players are your strikers."

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