The best Liverpool players have been revealed in the brand-new Football Manager 2022 video game, with Sadio Mane losing his spot as Liverpool's best player in the game.
Football Manager is used by a big handful of clubs around the globe to scouting and recruit players and staff in real life due to the accuracy and detail of its database, with the football simulator known as the most realistic football game currently available. In FM22, the database contains over 800,000 players and staff, and a chunk of the best players in the game are in the current Liverpool squad.
Liverpool had a difficult campaign last season as Jurgen Klopp's side went trophy-less for the first time in three seasons, with injuries plaguing the Reds squad as they scraped a UEFA Champions League spot on the final day of the Premier League season.
Mohamed Salah was the star player at the Reds once again, a season-long injury sustained by Virgil Van Dijk saw the defender remain absent for the majority of the campaign and Mane failed to consistently hit his usual standards - therefore seeing a change of best player at the Reds in FM22.
So in the latest version of Football Manager, FM22, who are the best players at Anfield this year?
The best players at Liverpool ranked by FM22
In the Football Manager series, each player in the FM database is given a value out of 200 for both Current Ability (how good they are now) and Potential Ability (how good they can become).
We have taken the Liverpool players who have been given the highest Current Ability rating on FM22 and ranked them in order.
- Mohamed Salah – Current Ability is 184/200
- Virgil Van Dijk - Current Ability is 180/200
- Sadio Mane - Current Ability is 177/200
- Alisson - Current Ability is 174/200
- Thiago - Current Ability is 164/200
- Fabinho - Current Ability is 164/200
- Roberto Firmino - Current Ability is 162/200
- Andrew Robertson - Current Ability is 159/200
- Trent Alexander-Arnold - Current Ability is 159/200
- Jordan Henderson - Current Ability is 159/200
- Joel Matip - Current Ability is 156/200
- Diogo Jota - Current Ability is 155/200
- Joe Gomez - Current Ability is 153/200
- Naby Keita - Current Ability is 152/200
- Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain - Current Ability is 151/200
- James Milner - Current Ability is 150/200
- Divock Origi - Current Ability is 146/200
- Takumi Minamino - Current Ability is 142/200
- Kostas Tsimikas - Current Ability is 137/200
- Curtis Jones - Current Ability is 137/200
- Adrian - Current Ability is 136/200
- Ibrahima Konate - Current Ability is 136/200
- Harvey Elliot - Current Ability is 131/200
- Loris Karius - Current Ability is 131/200
- Ben Davies - Current Ability is 128/200
- Caoimhin Kelleher – Current Ability is 127/200
- Nathaniel Phillips - Current Ability is 122/200
- Sheyi Ojo - Current Ability is 122/200
- Sepp van den Berg – Current Ability 116/200
- Neco Williams – Current Ability is 116/200
After his magnificent season just gone and his incredible start to the 2021/22 campaign, Salah has overtaken both Van Dijk and Mane to become Liverpool's best player in FM22, with his current ability ranked at 184 out of 200.
Van Dijk remains at 180/200 after missing most of last season, whilst Mane drops in his ability from 180 to 177 - making him the third-best player at the club.
Do you think the Liverpool squad was rated fairly? Let us know in the comments!
Football Manager (FM) is the world’s leading football management simulation title.
The Xbox edition of Football Manager 2022 is now available, as is the PC/Mac version and FM22 Mobile, with Football Manager 2022 Touch only being available to play on the Nintendo Switch.
FM22 and FM22 Xbox Edition are now available on Xbox Game Pass.
