Overview
- Jamie Carragher released a Sky Sports top‑ten of Premier League central midfielders on Tuesday, placing Steven Gerrard at No. 1 ahead of Roy Keane.
- Carragher defended the call by pointing to Gerrard’s eight PFA Team of the Year selections and said swapping him for anyone else on the list would not have delivered Liverpool a league title.
- Four former Chelsea players made the cut, with Kevin De Bruyne third, Frank Lampard fifth, N’Golo Kanté sixth, and Cesc Fàbregas tenth.
- Carragher praised De Bruyne as the best passer to play in the league and said he was the difference for Manchester City in tight title races with Liverpool.
- Hours after the list aired, Gary Neville called Carragher biased, named Keane as his No. 1, and said he judged more traditional box‑to‑box midfielders over No. 10 types.