Guinea against Guinea. The almanac states its case, the crowd votes, you decide.
Guinea · 2015–22 · CM
Liverpool triggered his release clause on 28 August 2017 and then waited ten months for him, agreeing there and then that he would not walk into Anfield until 1 July 2018. The Champions League in 2019, the Premier League in 2020, the Club World Cup and Super Cup the same year, FA Cup and League Cup in 2022, back-to-back doubles at Salzburg, and Guinean Footballer of the Year in 2015 and 2021. Career record: 58 caps and 12 goals for Guinea; club career at FC Red Bull Salzburg, RB Leipzig, Liverpool.
Guinea · 1999–2004 · ST
The morning after his father died in Guinea he played anyway, scored the winner against West Ham at Anfield in October 1999, and dropped to his knees in tears in front of the Anfield Road end. Marseille had taken him to the 1999 UEFA Cup final, Liverpool's supporters voted him into the 100 Players Who Shook The Kop, and Guinea got 27 goals in 57 caps, three of them in the group stage of the 2004 Nations Cup. Career record: 38 caps and 23 goals for Guinea; club career at AS Saint-Étienne, R.C. Lens, Olympique de Marseille.
The almanac puts Naby Keita ahead by 2 rating points, 87 against 85.
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