Pundit claims Steven Gerrard was on ‘another planet’ to Frank Lampard and Paul Scholes

The Aston Villa boss has come in for some high praise from one talkSPORT pundit
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TalkSPORT pundit Jamie O’Hara has claimed that Aston Villa manager and Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard is the best midfielder the Premier League has seen - above the likes of Paul Scholes and Frank Lampard.

O’Hara has dismissed suggestions that Manchester City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne is English football’s greatest-ever midfielder as ‘ridiculous’.

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Speaking on the Sports Bar show, Jason Cundy said the Belgian ‘could be one of the greatest midfielders this country has seen’ - but this was shot down by O’Hara.

KEEPING POSITIVE: Aston Villa boss Steven Gerrard. Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images.KEEPING POSITIVE: Aston Villa boss Steven Gerrard. Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images.
KEEPING POSITIVE: Aston Villa boss Steven Gerrard. Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images.

Cundy said: “I think Kevin De Bruyne could go down as possibly the best midfielder this country has ever seen.”

“Ridiculous.” O’Hara said in response.

“There have been so many amazing players in the Premier League. You’re just thinking [that] because you’re seeing him now. You’re not looking back on the great midfielders that have been in the Premier League.”

“Gerrard goes down for me as the best midfielder the Premier League has ever seen,” O’Hara added.

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“I played against Scholes, I played against Gerrard, I played against Lampard. For me, Gerrard was on another planet to any other player that I walked on a football pitch with.

“Steven Gerrard, he was unbelievable, he was a machine.

“I walked off the pitch when I played against him and was like, ‘Oh my word, I’ve come up against a player that I couldn’t get near in any single form of the game’. Heading, crossing, passing, strength, decision-making, awareness, pace, ability – he had everything. He carried the club [Liverpool] on his back for how many years?

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