With Manchester United welcoming table-toppers Liverpool to Old Trafford this weekend, Phil Thompson dismissed the notion that any player available to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would make it into Jurgen Klopp's first-team plans.
The German manager has steadily transformed Liverpool's fortunes across his four years in the Premier League.
Champions League winners last season, they now look primed to launch a serious challenge for what would be a first title success since 1989/90.
A period of time where Manchester United overtook Liverpool as the dominant force in English football, Phil Thompson, a central figure in the successful Liverpool sides of the 1970s and '80s, now believes the tables have once again turned in favour of the Merseyside club.
"No, not one," he responded to the suggestion that any Manchester United player would feature in Liverpool's starting XI.
"I've great admiration for Harry Maguire and I think he might have been one that could sneak in, but how Joel Matip has performed in the last third of last season and this season, he has been nothing short of sensational.
"I thought Joe Gomez was going to be the way forward for Liverpool but no, I'm sorry, there's no player at Manchester United who would get in."
A damning indictment of United's lavish spending for very little reward, Phil Thompson retained a certain sense of foreboding as Liverpool prepare for this weekend's clash.
"It's never job done," he admitted when it was put to him that Liverpool would be comfortable winners.
"Some of the Manchester United players will turn up this weekend I've no doubt."
The one game many Manchester United fans will be hoping Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's charges can turn up for, should results at Old Trafford and elsewhere go in Liverpool's favour this weekend, Jurgen Klopp's men may well open up an 11-point lead at the summit of the Premier League table.
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