Curtis Davies hailed Liverpool midfielder James Milner as the ‘machine’ and the ultimate professional, as he told Stadium Astro.
The duo played alongside each other during their days at Aston Villa and Davies claimed that the Liverpool stalwart is ‘as strong as anything’ and he can ‘run like the wind’.
At the age of 35, many players are hanging up their boots or finding it tough to keep up to pace with today’s game. But not Milner!
Davies, who is now playing for Derby in the Championship, shared what Milner was like during their days with Martin O’Neil’s Champions League-chasing Villa.
“James is a machine,” said Davies. “He can run like the wind, He’s strong as anything, so when he goes to the gym he can work really hard and recover well.
“Whereas other players might not have that recovery, so they feel they want to conserve their energy to make sure when they get onto the matchday pitch they are giving everything and still performing.
“If I had two comparisons in one squad, Ashley Young never went in the gym and James Milner went in the gym and they both had comparable careers in terms of one went to Manchester United, one went to Manchester City and they both won league titles.”
Milner has won everything there is to win on the domestic scene and he will go down as one of the Premier League greats when he retires.
The list of clubs he has played for also sums up the quality of player he is because he has played for giant club after giant club.
From starting his career at his boyhood clubs Leeds, being part of an Aston Villa side that was chasing Champions League football in the late noughties to now playing for the champions of England.
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