Currently Active Footballers with Merseyside Origins

[Maharajkumar of Vizianagram]

Truthfully, our club has had a shocking record producing local players for the first team since Steven Gerrard made his debut in 1998, with only TAA become a first team regular for us in that time.  Wheareas Everton have had a few first team contributors from the area in that time of varying quality.

But I was curious to see how Merseyside as a region has stacked up against other regions for producing talent since that time.  From memory the England team at the last World Cup had a few guys from Yorkshire, while London seems to be the origin point for some of the better younger talent in the England set-up.  There seems to be a few players from Manchester performing at premier league standard as well.

Off the top of my head, these are some of the players getting games at the top level:

Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool)
Curtis Jones (Liverpool)

Leighton Baines (Everton)
Tom Davies (Everton)
Anthony Gordon (Everton)

Jonjoe Kenny also appears to have played 31 games on loan at Schalke, which is a big club in an elite league.

Others:

John Lundstram (Sheffield United)
Jack Robinson (Sheffield United)
Connor Coady (Wolves)
Scott Dann (Crystal Palace)
Ross Barkley (Everton)
Aaron Creswell (West Ham)
 

That's ten players playing at the top level, and some decent talent.  If they played a wing-back formation they'd give anyone a game.  Are there any that I've missed?

How does that stack up against other regions?  Can someone English make lists for London, Manchester, the North East, Yorkshire etc. and see how our club's region compares?

I've done enough for now, frankly.

 

 

Edited July 21, 2020 by Aritro

[muleskinner]

Neil Danns played in the Premier league for Blackburn under Souness

[cymrococh]

I think Merseyside is massively represented in the Football League, not so much in the Premiership.

[antona]

Jack O'Connell, best Sheff Utd defender in my view,  is from Liverpol and he is also a big Liverpool fan.

[Maldini]

Jack Rodwell treated like a dog here! Anthony Driscoll-Glennon who's on the fringes of the Burnley first team is from Bootle, he was with us til he was 18.

[_00_deathscar]

Martin Kelly? 

[Hassony]

Wayne Rooney 

[Maharajkumar of Vizianagram]

On 25/07/2020 at 11:17, Maldini said:

Jack Rodwell treated like a dog here! Anthony Driscoll-Glennon who's on the fringes of the Burnley first team is from Bootle, he was with us til he was 18.

Left him out on purpose as he's only played once this season according to Wiki.

9 hours ago, _00_deathscar said:

Martin Kelly? 

Ah yes, this one just occurred to me today.

On 24/07/2020 at 19:20, antona said:

Jack O'Connell, best Sheff Utd defender in my view,  is from Liverpol and he is also a big Liverpool fan.

Had no idea about this one.

There's no shortage of defenders anyway.

[Maharajkumar of Vizianagram]

This Driscoll-Glennon chap looks like a Beatle

 

[Tommy Cockles]

One of the more prosaic thread titles, this.

[Maharajkumar of Vizianagram]

It's got nothing on footy 18/19 & 19/20

Also "Ched Evans"

[Maldini]

David Nugent is still playing. Dunno if Jordan Rossiter or Jon Flanagan count? They were both recently released by Rangers. 

[PhilM]

Purple Nathan Ake?

[Maharajkumar of Vizianagram]

From Wiki

Quote

Style of play

Flanagan has earned numerous plaudits for his style of play since his breakthrough into the Liverpool first team in November 2013; most notably, the World Cup-winning former Brazil captain and full back Cafu heralded Flanagan as his "successor", applauding his "speed, strength and determination" and stating he "has everything required to be one of the best full-backs in the world".[38][39][40] This has led to fans dubbing Flanagan as "the Scouse Cafu".[41][42]

We were lucky to have him for as long as we did.

[DonRafa]

Was scrolling through this forum recently, and at first glance I thought this title said 'Currently Active Footballers with Merseyside Organs'.