Reds legends Jamie Carragher, Phil Thompson and Jim Beglin compare the class of 2022 with the greats that have gone before.

Another trip to Wembley, another chance for this Liverpool team to prove it belongs among the very best in Anfield history.

The quadruple dream may have faded somewhat in the past week, but that’s OK. Hopes of a treble are still very much alive and kicking.

With the Carabao Cup in the bag, Jurgen Klopp’s side can secure the FA Cup with victory over Chelsea on Saturday. All the while, the prospect of another Champions League win, the club’s seventh in total, looms large. Real Madrid await, in Paris’ Stade de France on May 28.

No wonder Reds fans are smiling. “Imagine being us,” reads one of the newer banners on the Kop, and you know what they mean. What a time it is to support English football’s most successful club.

In the space of four years, Klopp has led them to unimaginable heights. Three Champions League finals, a first league title since 1990, the UEFA Super Cup and Club World Cup, domestic cup success and record after bewildering record, as they have gone toe-to-toe, and pretty much point-for-point, with Manchester City.

Anfield has witnessed some wonderful football teams down the years, and while comparing across eras is difficult, and probably unwise, it is surely fair now to ask where this Liverpool side ranks among the best in the Reds’ glittering, 130-year history.

Jamie Carragher is second on Liverpool’s all-time appearance list, having played 737 times for the club between 1997 and 2013, winning nine major trophies along the way.

Phil Thompson is the Kirkby lad who went on to make 477 appearances for his boyhood club, captaining the club to victory in the 1981 European Cup final and picking up no fewer than 15 major honours. He later returned to Liverpool for a successful spell as assistant manager to Gerard Houllier, their team winning a treble of their own in 2001.

And Jim Beglin was part of the first-ever Reds side to win a league and FA Cup double in 1986, a left-back of class and distinction whose career was unfortunately cut short through injury.