Xabi Alonso's Liverpool FC story | In his own words

As he confirms his retirement at the end of the season, watch how Xabi Alonso reflects on his Liverpool FC career from the beginning, through the memorable night in Istanbul and beyond.

[lusciouslou]

Dude was a magician. The most underrated player in the history of the Premier League. He's one of the best midfielders I've ever seen.

[IanLeoMusic]

Miss the Alonso & Gerrard partnership

[DC-znoo]

Xabi was the reason I started supporting Liverpool

[JohnMcMahon.]

A fantastic footballer,
Fantastic passing,
Fantastic vision,
Fantastic defensive positioning,
Great eye for a killer pass,
Great ball winner,
Great tackler,
Left foot, right foot,
The goals he scored from his own half,
A perfect midfield player,
A real nice guy,
It was a pleasure to watch you play for Liverpool.

Xabi Alonso, we salute you. YNWA.

[stephaniefarid]

Xabi will always be a legend. Always and forever

[rahmanarifiansyah]

Our hero, our mate.

Thanks to Rafa for brought him.

[HartatySirait_hidamari]

Once a Red always a Red. Enjoy your retirement, Xabi. Thank you for the beautiful football you gave us.

[Diolusion]

I love how he refers to liverpool as 'us' and 'we' <3 Xabi YNWA

[gjeocurognfo]

The man the myth the LEGEND
We love you xabi
We will never forget you

[fulltimescouser]

Benitez made a huge mistake when he sold him. Imagine him playing now as our CDM and becoming our captain. Best of Luck Xabi, you're a living legend!

[ianw]

Love this man so much! Was gutted when he left, would've loved him back for a season or two before retirement. Happy retirement Xabi, YNWA ❤️

[Jim]

What a talent, Benitez and Klopp both share that ability to find real gems of players that come to Anfield and flourish.

[Jftynwa]

What a footballer he still is. One of my favorite players.

[bispybristol]

a pleasure watching you play live sir, YNWA, thank you .

[monaldo]

One of Favourite players of all time. Really wished we brought him back when he left Real. Would of easily walked into our team.

[Eliteshade]

this dude really stuck with us for 5 solid years, what a legend for so many teams!

[ayanchakrabarti]

One of the best ever in his position, respect! Will miss u xabi!

[Fed-npez]

Above all this, what's most amazing is what a decent and classy human being he is

[faithwild]

When he left it was such a huge blow for us, one of our biggest mistakes as a club
Absolute legend ❤️

[Suiram]

With all due respect of our current players. Some of the players we had under Rafa were among the best in the world in their positions. And some of them have moved on and achieved great things later in their careers. It's such a shame the club and Rafa's project was destroyed by those horrible people that came in 2007.

Rafa made his own mistakes too of course, particularly with Xabi, but having such a great player play for the club was an honour and a pleasure to watch.