Condition: 9/10 Superb

Size: Adult’s Extra Large (loose fitting)

Chest Measurement: 49-51 Inches / 125-130 CM

Manufacturer: Reebok

Colour: Ecru, black & red trim

Material: Polyester

Seasons: 1996/1997

Player: Steve McManaman

Patches: Premier League

Official Reebok Liverpool away football shirt from the 1996/97 season. Complete with Mcmanaman #7 on the back of the shirt in official flock lettering, and original Premier League patches on the sleeves.

Condition of this vintage football jersey is 9/10 - Superb (see photos).

McManaman had been noted for his versatility in his free role, switching from right to left wings, and his ability to play in central midfield, behind the front pair, or as a forward, with many notable managers including then Ajax coach Louis van Gaal, describing it as a role few could pull off the way McManaman had. McManaman was credited for making the role manager Evans gave him work, with the result being that Liverpool were playing some of the most aesthetically pleasing attacking football at the time in England. 

McManaman was also said to have been one of only a handful of so-called "talismanic" players along with Eric Cantona and Gianfranco Zola in the league at the time believed to have the charisma to lift supporters from their seats each time they got the ball. Managers would deploy a man-marker specifically to follow him for an entire game, with Gianfranco Zola noting that McManaman was the player the Italian national players monitored the most. Howard Wilkinson said McManaman was "virtually unstoppable" at times, while then Middlesbrough manager, Bryan Robson, was quoted as saying that "everyone in the Premiership knows that if you stop McManaman, you stop Liverpool." 

Roy Evans, attempting to diminish the attention on marking McManaman, stated "I would hate to think we are no more than a one-man team." German coach Berti Vogts named McManaman as one of only three Premiership players in his select European XI Team.

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