There are plenty of great options: Giggs, Scholes, Baresi, Maldini, Facchetti, Puyol, etc.
For me though, the greatest is Francesco Totti. The others above played for clubs who won multiple trophies, and all won the champions league at least once. Aside from a smattering of Coppa Italias and one Scudetto, Totti didn’t win anything with Rome.
For me, it’s easier for a top player to stay at a top club, rather than be a top player like Totti and stay at a club that was rarely considered the best in Serie A. For my money, he is the greatest one-club man of all time.
Who would you choose?
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Paul Scholes.
I instantly thought of Totti.
For me its Lahm. Spent his whole carrer in his home town club. Won everything. Club Legend.
Kranjčar
Reus, Zanetti, Gerrard, Muller, etc.
Does Del Piero count? Takes some balls to stay with a relegated club when almost every elite club in the world would happily take your signature.
How would Del Piero count he didnt even start at juventus,
I love del piero but that juventus team was fire. Even after relegation they had Trezeguet, Nedved, Chiellini, Buffon
Baresi and Maldini
What? Aside from winning the league and two Coppa Italia he won nothing? Wtf is this?
Give me a Mark Noble over those glory hunters any day of the week. 😎
Genuine question, was Noble ever approached by bigger clubs?
He was, yes.
Arsenal were once interested apparently
Could say similar things about Scholes and Giggs.
No one approached scholes or giggs? 🥴
Maybe because noble wasn’t too good for West Ham
He definitely was when they were in the Championship.
Thing is Mark Noble wasn’t covered by other clubs, Matt le.Tissier could have gone to any of the biggest clubs in England at one point for most of his career
Other clubs were of course interested in Noble. That’s plainly untrue.
But Matt Le Tissier is another good shout.
Well … I mean I don’t think he had the CL clubs knocking on the door consistently let’s put it that way, and outside the ‘successful’ (hate the word big, West Ham got more fans than city) clubs why would anyone move from West Ham anyway.
Because we got relegated.
Itl probably be an Italian player
Totti away from Rome would have failed
never
Some of this takes in this thread are fully backward.
Based off of what
Is called opinion. It s not the first great player who needs a specific environment and condition to perform. He was snart enough not to leave Rome to become a legend
Rogério Ceni
3x Brazilian Championship 1x Copa Sudamericana 2x Copa Libertadores 1x Club World Cup 1x Fifa World Cup 1x Best Goalkeeper in the world
All of that with 131 goals scored, in 1237 caps for São Paulo F.C.
And he was a Goalkeeper
Rogerio played for Sinop before São Paulo.
H…how?
He was an amazing free kick and penalty taker.
He was an outstanding free kick taker. From his 131 goals, 61 were via free kicks. He was also São Paulo’s main penalty taker and captain throughout most of his career.
Probably his most iconic goal was his 100th, were he converted a perfect free kick against SPFC’s fiercest rival Corinthians.
https://youtu.be/WU1Vum9cDbE?si=DFTB-PjreRnUS2-8
That is probably my favorite goal of all time. I was a kid when it happened and I went nuts (I’m a São Paulo supporter).
Killed everyone with that last line.
Not a one club man… played senior games for Sinop.
Do goalkeepers score goals now?
Now? Not really. But back then, Rogerio did. A lot. He was Sao Paulo top scorer in both 2005 and 2006, with 21 and 16 goals.
Giroud does.
My favourite goalkeeper ever, at least one of them. His free kicks were the only reason I watched Librtadores. Imagine how difficult was that, living in Kazakhstan.
They’re not ready for this conversation
Is Vardy on that list?
Jamie Vardy? The bloke played for four clubs
The ones that immediately come to mind:
Totti (Roma)
Zanetti (Inter)
Gerrard (Liverpool)
Gerrard played for LA Galaxy mate
Zanetti played for 3 clubs and Gerrard 2
If Rogerio Ceni had played for a European club, no one would even be having this discussion here. The man scored almost half of Totti’s goals as a goalkeeper and played more for São Paulo than any player for any club. And I’m a supporter of a rival team.
If Rogerio had played for Arsenal ou Man Utd he would be the GOAT goalkeeper alongside Neuer and Buffon, and nobody would even think twice.
Paul mcstay