The BEST Free Transfer Of All Time? #shorts

Is James Milner the best free transfer of all time?

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00:00Now the biggest football transfers aren't always the most expensive.

00:03James Milner is living proof, right?

00:05Hear me out.

00:06He made his debut in the Premier League at 2002 at just 16 years old for Leeds.

00:102002, that's 23 years ago.

00:13Bear in mind he's still playing at the top level for Brighton.

00:16He's actually the oldest ever player in the Premier League's history.

00:19Only Gareth Barry's played more games than him at the top level.

00:22That's more than Gerrard, Scholes, Lampard, you name it, James Milner comes out on top.

00:26In 2015 he joined Liverpool from City for free, right?

00:30No hype, no headlines, nothing.

00:32Prime Milner way.

00:33But what he did there was priceless.

00:34Machine in training, a leader off the pitch and someone that Klopp could trust in nearly any position.

00:39From full back into midfield.

00:41He won it all.

00:41He won the Champions League, the Premier League, playing anywhere at any time.

00:45Milner hasn't just played in the Premier League, he's become an icon in the Premier League.

00:4923 years at the top is absolutely mind-boggling.

00:52True meaning of what it is to be a proper, old-fashioned professional player.

00:56Not many players can last that long playing at one club, let alone playing at the top level.

01:00And Liverpool got it all for free.

01:02All right.

01:02I'll be right back.

01:05What are you going to do here?

01:07You're going to do a game for me.

01:07I'm going to do a game.

01:09I'm going to try to see you in the next couple of years.

01:12I'm going to do one.

01:13There's no game for you.

01:14We're going to do one.

01:14There's no game for me.

01:16I'm going to do one.

01:17Do you want to do this?

01:18I'm going to do two.

01:18I'm going to do one.

01:20I'm going to do one.

01:21And we're going to do one.