#5 Daniel Agger
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The big Dane could have achieved so much more if his body had co-operated with him. At his peak, Agger was a joy to watch and defending seemed to come naturally to him.
He joined Liverpool in January 2006, but by the end of the season, he had only played four games. Soon, he was competing for two spots with three others – Martin Skrtel, Sami Hyypia and Jamie Carragher.
Agger went face-to-face with Roy Hodgson as Liverpool were in the ruts and the Dane didn’t agree with the methods of Hodgson.
In the 2013/14 season, every clean sheet that Liverpool kept was with Agger in the starting eleven. Considering that, it was inexplicable that Brendan Rodgers let him go at the beginning of the following season.
He endeared himself to the Liverpool fans and he was considered as one of their own. The love was reciprocated from both ends as Agger got his knuckles tattooed with the letters “YNWA” to honour the song “You’ll Never Walk Alone” which has become the club’s anthem over the years.
If not for injuries, Daniel Agger could have scaled some unimaginable heights but those injuries plagued him throughout his career and eventually forced him to retire at the rather young age of 31.
