Liverpool's Thiago Alcantara during the Premier League match at Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton. Picture date: Saturday December 4, 2021.
Planet Football16th July 2022
Liverpool and Barcelona are two of the most renowned football clubs on the planet - and just a select number of players have played for both.
The two offer a lot in like manner, for example, a prize loaded history and a specific optimism that catches the creative mind of fans across the globe. There's likewise been some high-profile experiences between the two, none not exactly the 2019 Champions League semi-last.
We've recognized the nine players to have played for the two clubs and have recorded them in turn around sequential request.
Thiago Alcantara
At his best, Thiago can direct football coordinates with his clever passing and development. Best case scenario, he can seem to be an extravagance that cutting edge groups can sick manage.
Furthermore, that is the conundrum. Making his Barcelona debut in 2009, Thiago played more than 100 times while never making certain about a beginning spot prior to leaving for Bayern Munich.
Seven years in Germany established his standing prior to moving to Liverpool in 2020 where he got through a physical issue hit debut season in a struggling side.
Be that as it may, after a splendid 2021-22 season, no one is addressing Thiago any longer.
Philippe Coutinho
Coutinho turned into a legend figure at Anfield following a £8.5million move from Inter Milan in 2013.
Sparkling under both Brendan Rodgers and Jurgen Klopp, the Brazil global was a wellspring of motivation during a few lean times at Anfield and contributed a few huge exhibitions.
In any case, Liverpool couldn't avoid Barcelona's £142million offer in January 2018 - and fell off far superior from the arrangement.
While Coutinho flopped at Barca, Klopp reinvested the cash in Virgil van Dijk and Alisson and looked as Liverpool won both the Premier League and the Champions League.
It's not difficult to fail to remember how great Coutinho was at Liverpool yet he's not been missed since leaving.
Luis SuarezJavier Mascherano
Subsequent to dunking his toe into European waters at West Ham (record: eight appearances, eight losses), Mascherano moved to Liverpool in January 2007.
Anfield ended up being a phase more befitting of his gifts. Laying out an organization with Xabi Alonso, the Argentina global charmed himself to the Liverpool fans for certain full-bloodied shows.
Subsequent to completing second in 2009, Liverpool sold Alonso and saw their different stars become unsettled as the group slipped to seventh spot. Mascherano communicated a longing to leave and was offered to Barcelona in 2010.
Playing in one of the best sides ever didn't stage the midfielder and Mascherano wound up showing up for the Catalan monsters, including a lot as a changed over focus back.
He was a player who performed eminently for the two clubs and is properly recognized as one of the best players of his time.
Pepe Reina
It's memorable's difficult Reina playing for Barca, yet he showed up for the club somewhere in the range of 2000 and 2002 - remembering two against Liverpool for the 2001 UEFA Cup semi-finals.
The goalkeeper was offered to Villarreal where he burned through three seasons assembling his standing before Liverpool marked him in 2005.
He immediately turned into a legend at Anfield, saving three punishments in the 2006 FA Cup last shoot-out and burning through eight years as Liverpool's best option under a progression of supervisors.
Reina left for Bayern Munich in 2014 in the wake of playing 396 games for the club.Bolo Zenden
A frequently neglected piece of the incomparable Netherlands group around the new thousand years, Zenden played for a large group of huge clubs during a mysterious vocation.
Endorsed by Louis van Gaal in 1998, Zenden turned out to be important for an immense Dutch contingent at Barcelona and burned through three years at the Camp Nou prior to joining pre-Abramovich Chelsea.
A noteworthy spell at Middlesbrough followed before two years at Liverpool where Zenden won the FA Cup and assumed a focal part in the side that arrived at the 2007 Champions League final.Mauricio Pellegrino
Hands up whenever recollected this one?
Pellegrino didn't cause disturbances at Liverpool or Barcelona yet had brief spells with the two clubs during his 16-year vocation.
In reasonableness, the future Southampton chief won the association at Barca subsequent to being purchased in by Van Gaal in 1998 and obviously did what's needed to procure a transition to Valencia a while later.
The safeguard burned through five fruitful years at the Mestalla prior to joining old supervisor Rafa Benitez at Anfield in January 2005.
He was the main Argentinan player to address Liverpool however was delivered after just a half year.
Luis Garcia
Garcia got through the positions at Barca however tracked down a home in Liverpool, turning into a fan's number one at Anfield - and it's not hard to see the reason why… Jari Litmanen
A phenomenal footballer who was tirelessly harmed, Litmanen couldn't recreate his Ajax structure at either the Camp Nou or Anfield.
In a meeting with FIFA.com in 2008, Louis van Gaal, his supervisor at Barcelona, said: "There are a few extraordinarily capable players who lack character or the character to suit my strategies.
"Litmanen, for instance, was an alternate player at Barca than he was at Ajax. You need to adjust to another culture when you move to an alternate club, and only one out of every odd player can do that."
He would encounter comparative disappointments at Liverpool. Gerrard Houiller was glad to sign Litmanen yet appeared to be hesitant to utilize him, frequently favoring Emile Heskey.
After his delivery in 2002, following two years in England, Litmanen said: "It's bizarre that he was so satisfied when he marked me and afterward chose to not utilize me. I can't make sense of it myself."
In spite of this, his expertise and capacity to create game dominating minutes charmed him to the Liverpool swarm, who were left contemplating what could have been.
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