On the 29th of March, Anfield will host the Liverpool All-Star Charity Match,
featuring some of Europe's best players.
I'll be captaining one team and Jamie Carragher will lead the other,
so I've invited him to Melwood to start putting together our squads.
Jamie, welcome to Melwood, good to have you back.
It's time to get down to business, the All-Star game.
These are just the squad players.
There's gonna be academy players
and current Liverpool players that are non-international
added to these squads, but we obviously have to pick sides
and get down to business.
Well, I know who I want, I've already picked out a few I think who I fancy.
Are you all right with me being first pick?
Go on, you're the captain.
I'm gonna be loyal to Brad Jones, he's still a current teammate, so...
Thank God for that, I can have Pepe then?
I'll have to leave Pepe out.
Even though he's a top keeper, I'm staying loyal to Brad.
I'll go Pepe obviously, top keeper, best keeper I've played with.
so I think my team looks a lot better at the start already.
The best centre-half I've played with and...
I'm manager of the team, you know!
..and one of the best centre-halves England's ever seen,
- I'll go for the top man... - He can't run.
JT.
I'll have to go for myself, won't I? Carried the back four at times for Liverpool,
John will know that himself, played in that Chelsea game at Anfield, the semi-final.
He couldn't quite keep that clean sheet that you're after, but this fella did.
Am I all right leaving this fella to you, have yous made up after that scrap yous had?
Yeah, yeah, he knows now, he knows I was right.
- Are yous friends again? - Yeah.
I've nearly fought with all of them.
I'll go for Riise then, he'll do me a job up and down the left.
Yeah, he'll go forward, he can't defend, so I'll go for Arbeloa.
Reliable defender, no messing about, wish we still had him, playing for Real Madrid.
I think he's struggling to get a game in the Cypriot league or something like that,
so I think Arbeloa will do me, Madrid man.
Real Madrid's back-up, yeah? No problem.
OK, I'm gonna bring a little Scouser in as well to toughen us up.
Well, I'll go for Kells, and I might put Arbeloa at left-back and put Kells right-back.
Nice bit of balance, a right-footer can play on the left, a left-footer can't play on the right.
Onto the midfield, I'm going to go for the best midfielder I've played with.
Same here, same for me, yeah.
Top passer, he'll get us playing, control the tempo of the game,
I know I've got you worried already. Thinking of the spine.
Well, I'll go for Raul Meireles, wasn't here that long but a good footballer,
and he could actually get called up by his international team,
which shows he's still a very good midfield player.
And I've got someone else up my sleeve who might sort Alonso out.
I want the chance to play with Xabi again, I've missed him that much,
I'm gonna move him over slightly and play alongside him.
So there you go, bit of energy for Xabi, cos you said he couldn't run, didn't you?
Don't think the two of yous can run now!
I'll do his running for him.
I'll go Jonjo. Bit of a lunatic at times, him, but with these two trying to get on the ball
I'm thinking they can play and it'll be a slow tempo. But he'll be in there,
I'll let him know in no uncertain terms that it's not a friendly, it's a proper game.
I'm sure he'll ruffle a few feathers there against a couple of has-beens.
- Can't buy experience. - LA Galaxy did!
Me and Xabi can't run anymore, so...
Bring Kevin Nolan in!
We'll get another runner in Kev, he'll get us the goals from midfield.
He won't have to defend, we'll do that for him, he can play behind my front men.
I'll go for Garcia.
Is he the man you used to shout at every game?
Exactly, for scoring goals, important goals.
There's not many goals in there now, he'll get a goal in the game, no doubt.
OK, I'm looking for a bit of width and pace, someone to get a few assists...
What have you picked him for then?
Right, I'm going for a bit of width in Babel. Great assist for me against Real Madrid,
hopefully he can do the same, if I can get to the edge of the box these days.
I'm going to go for a local lad, Craig Noone. You've got Babel, but I think I'd take
this fella at the moment without a doubt. Local lad, he'll know what the game's about.
He'll sort your roof for you as well.
Yeah, exactly, sorted yours. He won't be interested in headphones and things
before a game, like Babel, he'll have his head right on the game.
Onto the exciting bit, the forwards. There's some top names there.
I'm going to go for the man in form, six in four for Barca,
he can play just slightly off the centre there, because I've got something up my sleeve
for a partnership with him.
Ooh!
Well, I think I know what you've got up your sleeve, you want to look at a little partnership
between Suarez and Torres, maybe the two best strikers you played with...
- Correct. - But it's not for me to worry about.
I'll go for this fella, Drogba, up against John Terry,
knows him well, knows his weaknesses.
But yeah, my partnership I'm going to go for is the two best strikers I've played with,
I would have loved them to be in the same team, I'm sure you would have as well.
We'll go for a little partnership of probably the two best players
I've played with in a Liverpool kit as far as forwards are concerned.
I'm sure the two of them will be delighted that Kevin Nolan is feeding them from behind,
have you told them that, yeah?
Well, he'll be getting missed out, because two of the best passers
the Premiership has ever seen are there sitting in the middle.
Who? Alonso? Yeah, I'll have that!
I've got a bit more flair than you in midfield. I'm gonna go for Kuyt.
It is a big game, he always delivers in the big games, same as Luis Garcia,
there's no way I could pick a team and not have Dirk Kuyt in it.
Great player for Liverpool, great lad.
I'm gonna do you a favour and put you up against Henry again.
Put you through another torturous 90 minutes. I'll just put him there.
I'll have to go Bellamy, won't I? I'm just thinking who he'll be up against.
He's up against Riise! Hope there's no golf clubs or nothing like that!
Or JT, they could be fighting.
No, you've obviously gone for the superstars, the egos, the big names, the Flash Harrys,
I've gone for a proper team, looks balanced, I think mine will do the job.
There may be some more big names added to them squads as well.
- Well, you'll need them. - Which we can sort at a later date,
and obviously current Liverpool players that don't go away on internationals,
some of the really good players from the academy as well,
so it should be a good afternoon.
- All the best to you. - All right, good luck.