NUMBER 2 – Steven Gerrard – Liverpool (669 appearances)
Gerrard was honoured as the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year and won the Ballon d’Or Bronze Award, and has always been loyal to Liverpool, despite much interest from clubs like Chelsea and Real Madrid, once stating that if he hadn’t loved Liverpool as much as he did, he would have accepted Jose Mourinho’s offer to join Chelsea.
Mikel Arteta formerly of Arsenal always put up a big display of loyalty to the club. That was until his contract was not renewed at the end of last season (actually he had not been playing for a couple of years). Then he couldn’t get on the road to Manchester fast enough to take up with his new loyalty to Manchester City, as an assistant of some kind. Now he is often seen during Man City matches sitting as close as he can possibly get to Pep! Perhaps full of advice for Pep on how to play his old buddies at Arsenal?