The Liverpool defender Jamir Carragher is approaching his 600th game for the Reds, and is only the ninth player in their history to reach that landmark figure, but he admits that he is not sure if he can carry on playing at the highest level for much longer.

He said: “I wouldn’t want to get to 34 or 35 with Liverpool and have people thinking, ‘He’s well gone.”’ he added. “So I do think about whether it would be better to go while I’m still at a decent level and play out my days at another club.

“I do worry about maybe playing in big games for Liverpool and perhaps costing the side, and I also think about not playing every week and whether I could do that.

“Over the next year or two I’ll probably have a decision to make. I’d love to stay at Liverpool – that’s what I want to do – but there are different things that I think about that may compromise that.”

But whatever he decides, he has cemented his place in the Liverpool history books as a legend.