TRIBUTES TO A TRUE ICON OF ANFIELD
JURGEN KLOPP (Liverpool manager, right)
MAYBE more of us should try to be like him. In him we had the perfect role model. I am sure nobody can, or will, forget him. It’s a sad day, but on the other hand it is a day where everybody thinks about him and thinks about his very, very special story. I had the honour of meeting him last year around the League Cup final. Obviously I am not from Liverpool, I am not from England, and so I needed a little bit of help but when I heard about this very special story then it was really nice to meet him. It was a big honour.
PHIL THOMPSON (Former Liverpool defender)
He was truly wonderful, inspirational, our guide. Sometimes as a young man you’d think, ‘Nothing satisfies this man’, but without him we would not have won half the trophies. Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley... great. Ronnie Moran is up there with those two greats.
STEVEN GERRARD (Former Liverpool captain)
RIP Ronnie Moran. He gave me some great advice over the years. The reason our club has a fantastic history is because of people like him. My thoughts are with his family at this sad time.
JORDAN HENDERSON (Liverpool captain)
The reason being captain of Liverpool is such a huge honour is because legendary figures like Ronnie Moran held it before I did. I had the great fortune of being in his company on the occasions when he came to Melwood to walk around the training pitch, and although we all regarded him as a true great he was as humble and down to earth as anyone you could ever come across. The greatest tribute we can pay to him is to give everything we’ve got for Liverpool just as he did each and every single day during the 49 years he spent here.
RAY HOUGHTON (Former Liverpool midfielder)
Ronnie was such a key member of Liverpool for so many years. He would have done anything for the club. He just loved everything about Liverpool Football Club. He was a very humble man but a very honest one, who would give you 100 per cent every time.