Our greatest ever goalkeeper

My grandad always used to say Clemence was the best he's seen, so I'll have to trust his judgment and the record books.

Fingers crossed Ali isn't going to be far behind come the end of his time with us though.

Clem all day every day twice on Sunday,  this fella was head ,shoulders & nipples above anyone else and i include Shilton, Bonnetti, Pat Jennings and even Gordon Banks,
He was robbed of many many England caps by England manager's preferring golden bollocks Shilton rather than a 'Scouse ' Clemence,
There is No doubt in my mind that the goons at the FA had influenced their managers at the time and most definitely seen Shilton as the perfect little Englander,
He was a great keeper of course but Clem was better, and I'd put him right up there alongside your Dino Zoff's and Lev Yashin,

As for Allison,  he's a way to go yet for legendary status but he's definitely on the right path and will get there, but not quite yet .


YNWA

Clemence for me, great keeper and the first keeper to pick up the role of sweeper,

And people are allowed an opinion. Chill.

the opinion is set by the thread title otherwise why bother.

I can top that with a Patrice Luzi, but where's the mentions for Pegguy eh?



Probably in all seriousness it has to be Clemence.

Alisson though looks a big time keeper and already I'd have him as the best keeper we've had in the prem era.

Patrice Luzi!! That's a name I've not heard in a while. Didn't he make a substitute appearance for us and that was it? It may have been that match where Cheyrou scored the winner against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge? And then we loaned Paul Jones from Saints to cover for a couple of months didn't we? Crikey - the stuff you remember?!

Why no mike hooper or Steve oggie?🤣,seriously though Dead easy’clemo’for me brilliant goalie
For all those reason mentioned by those who like me are old enough to have seen him play.
As Walt mentioned goalies where fair game back in the day & any forward going in at clemo had a set of knees planted in there chest because he always claimed the ball out the air with his knees up.

RIP Tommy.

Chances of this?

https://youtu.be/0U_PUbQGA4U

I was actually at that match that Tommy referred to,it was at Goodison and that little tw*t Alan Ball scored the winning goal.Shanks tried a few goalies (3) before giving the job to Tommy.Ray Clemence always stood out as a top of the class goalie for me followed by Pepi.I will throw another hat into the ring and it was a goalie my old Dad idolised -it was Elisha Scott.

RIP Tommy.

Chances of this?

https://youtu.be/0U_PUbQGA4U

How weird is that? Seen that before mate,  it's on Church St looks like,

No steve Staunton

Virgil.

Favourite goalkeeper, Pepe.
Best goalkeeper, Clemmence without a shadow of doubt.

See Ray is far out in front in the poll.must be s lot of old farts like me voting 😂

I was actually at that match that Tommy referred to,it was at Goodison and that little tw*t Alan Ball scored the winning goal.Shanks tried a few goalies (3) before giving the job to Tommy.Ray Clemence always stood out as a top of the class goalie for me followed by Pepi.I will throw another hat into the ring and it was a goalie my old Dad idolised -it was Elisha Scott.

Just had a butches on his profile on lfchistory.net and it says he signed in 57 but didn't debut until 62. Also didn't realise how young he was when he actually established himself as our number one. At 22/23, that's a really young age for a keeper.

What were those before him like Bill? The likes of Tommy Younger and Bert Slater?

Seen them all from the Flying pig onwards.
Yes Clem was great ..... but if you want the truth from an al fart ....... already you can see that Alisson has got the lot.
Going to have a monster career with us.

No Sanders westerveld option?

the opinion is set by the thread title otherwise why bother.

Why you trying to shut down what’s developed into an interesting topic?

People are allowed to state their own opinions regardless of what the stats say.

And much to the frustration of Walt, Clemence was way before my time so it’s been Pepe and Allison to me and as much as I loved Pepe, Allison wins that hands down.

Dudek ! JK

Clemence, but Alisson might overtake him in the near future.

Just had a butches on his profile on lfchistory.net and it says he signed in 57 but didn't debut until 62. Also didn't realise how young he was when he actually established himself as our number one. At 22/23, that's a really young age for a keeper.

What were those before him like Bill? The likes of Tommy Younger and Bert Slater?

Tommy Younger was coming to the end of his career when Shanks arrived at Anfield and the boss swapped Tommy for Bert Slater.Berts problem was his height ( just like Pickford of Everton.Shanks saw the problem and bought Jim Furnell from Burnley in 1962.Furnell was not a success and he was sold .In came the late great Tommy Lawrence and thanks to Tommy we won the league in 1964 So Tommy took over from Furnell

We are lucky to once again have a keeper in this discussion after the years of crap from Mignolet, Bogdan, Doni and whoever else.

Lots will say Clem and rightly so but then lots haven’t actually seen him play properly. But for every bit as great that Clem was, it’s hard to think of a keeper thats come in and had such an impact on the team as what Alisson has. The game has also changed a lot and the way keepers play now is different to back then, but if Clem is currently viewed as the greatest then once Alisson has been here for another 2 or 3 years, there’s every chance that opinion could change to him.

We are lucky to once again have a keeper in this discussion after the years of crap from Mignolet, Bogdan, Doni and whoever else.

Lots will say Clem and rightly so but then lots haven’t actually seen him play properly. But for every bit as great that Clem was, it’s hard to think of a keeper thats come in and had such an impact on the team as what Alisson has. The game has also changed a lot and the way keepers play now is different to back then, but if Clem is currently viewed as the greatest then once Alisson has been here for another 2 or 3 years, there’s every chance that opinion could change to him.

Things could very well change in 2 or 3 years time but this thread was only started yesterday.So opinions voiced are current.

No Sanders westerveld option?

Nope.

Whether he'll ultimately stay long enough to be considered alongside Clem, Tommy Lawrence or even Brucie time will tell.

But - of this I'm certain in my opinion......

The most complete and fundamentally sound keeper I've seen in my nr 50 years following the Reds is Alisson Becker.

Seen them all from the Flying pig onwards.
Yes Clem was great ..... but if you want the truth from an al fart ....... already you can see that Alisson has got the lot.
Going to have a monster career with us.

Just said self same thing mate. He's an absolute beast.