But one stands alone when the legendary former No.10 discusses which of those players he considers to have had most influence on the great Reds teams he graced.
“Alan Hansen: get him in any world team, any time, any era. [He was] so far ahead of his time,” Barnes states.
“Alan could play now. In fact, he wasn’t necessarily the strongest centre-back in terms of getting a broken nose and being physical with a big centre-forward, which he had to be when he was playing against [the likes of] Mick Harford, John Fashanu - the centre-forwards of the old days.