After a 15-year playing career that included stints at Liverpool, Real Madrid and Manchester City, Steve McManaman has seen many of the world's most celebrated players in the flesh.
As such, the former England international is the perfect man to select an Ultimate XI of Madrid and Barcelona greats. McManaman spent four years with Los Blancos, experiencing several editions of El Clasico from the hallowed grounds of the Santiago Bernabeu and Camp Nou.
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While many of McManaman's choices were obvious selections, the 46-year-old omitted the two biggest names of the game today: Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
How could he have left the two biggest stars of the current generation off his list? McManaman explains why Ronaldo and Messi were excluded, and which players did make the cut, in an exclusive chat with DAZN:
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