Ousmane Dembele picked out Liverpool heroes Steven Gerrard and Sadio Mane as he chose a star-studded list of his six favourite players past or present.
The Barcelona winger also hailed Camp Nou legends Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta as his "idols" and rounded off his selections with two forwards, one of whom thrived for Manchester City and one of whom still plies his trade at the Etihad. Dembele, 25, played alongside Iniesta for one year following his £135million transfer from Borussia Dortmund in 2017, winning the double of La Liga and the Copa del Rey in his debut campaign.
He was teammates with Messi for a further three seasons and won two more major honours before the Argentine moved to Paris Saint-Germain. As a Barca player, it is no surprise Dembele included Messi and Iniesta in his list of the players he looked up to as a child or continues to admire today.
