Jamie Carragher has highlighted Jamie Redknapp and Michael Thomas as the players he looked up to during his time as a youngster at Liverpool.
Carragher started out as a midfielder when he first played for Liverpool's first team, before establishing himself as a defender in the Reds' team and for England.
Before that, Carragher was a promising striker as a youth, but he has admitted that he always wanted to play in midfield.
Speaking on Sky Sports' Off the Script, he said: "I wanted to run either the game or my team, and I can assure you I was still telling people what to do, even in my early days up front.
"I always wanted to be involved in every part of the game as a kid and as time went on, and I went back to Liverpool, my game evolved and I began dropping deeper to link up play, and then again into central midfield."
And Carragher has said that he looked to try and emulate former Arsenal midfielder Thomas and Redknapp, who was in the Liverpool first team before him, but later went on to play for Tottenham.
"When I started playing in Liverpool's first team, I was in central midfield and would look at the players I was around," he said.
"At that time, John Barnes was central midfield, then Jamie Redknapp and Michael Thomas - they were the ones I was trying to emulate."
