Ronaldo vs Juve CL final 2017, simply because it’s the best player we’ve ever seen (in terms of prime/ peak) delivering again despite playing another world class team that knew exactly what he was going to do. I don’t think we’ll ever see a player at that level again.
Honestly is this Defoe thing a joke? Who gives a fuck about a transfer from 15 years ago for a bang average player that achieved nothing.
If it was that serious, someone would have said something in the past 15 years.
Give them a fine and use it on the FA Christmas party.
Most records have been set in the last decade or so and all Italys strikers have been utter shit since 2006.
Mum sure they’ll have someone break through up front at some point in the next 10 years and break the record.
Isn’t he incredibly simple? He has almost no personality or public presence, I assumed it stemmed from stupidity and awkwardness.
With him being the face of the MLS surely he should be speaking English and on the talk shows like Zlatan was.
Gerrard is best. Most well rounded to ever play in the league and there’s no other player that could have achieved what he did in the same situation.
It’s a shame we didn’t get to see him in a better run football club/ better team (we kind of got a look with Torres, Alonso and Mascherano for 2 years). No player will ever win the CL with a team of that quality again.
After that it’s Lampard, De Bruyne, Vieira, Keane and Scholes.
Scholes is always a tough one to judge because he never faced any adversity and when he did, with England, he just gave up. So it’s hard to imagine him playing in a worse team or really judge his impact.
Guys like Fabregas, Alonso, Silva, Kante and Yaya as the next group down.
Yaya Toure will definitely go down as the most overrated. Yaya was basically a less well rounded Lampard and he only did it for 1 season. His struggles in the CL highlighted all the shortcomings he had as a midfielder (as well as in City’s horrific 442 system). It would have been great to see Yaya in his proper position as a KDB/ Lampard type in a 433 with two supporting midfielders (like Fernandinho and Silva) for a few years to see if he could consistently repeat the 13/14 figures. Anyone that says Yaya Toure is “well rounded” or compares him to Vieira has never watched him play.
I can say with 100% certainty that nobody cares about FFP.
Chelsea, City and Newcastle becoming good teams has benefited the Premier League.
Look at how other leagues have died because of a lack of investment. Leagues like Italy, France and Germany are closer to the Championship in terms of quality than they are to the Premier League.
As somebody who is an expert in money, they will both be fine.
PSG and City both got fines a few years ago from UEFA when less rich teams were banned from the Europe.
Chelsea and City don’t have money problems, they have revenue problems. Their owns can burn £50 mil and not care, the issue is getting it on the books to buy new players. So a fine is perfect.
The line will still be in a pin point location and we’ll have the same issue.
There’s no problem with the current system. “You give a retard a calculator and he’s going to try and turn the TV on with it” (or whatever the quote is from whiplash). The tech works fine, it’s just been misused in a few instances.
I loved Southampton jumping on board with this too.
I’m sure Everton building a stadium and overspending on players cause Southampton to be the worst run football club in England for 2/3 years. Did part of Everton’s budget include paying the wages of Nathan Jones, Ruben Selles, Che Adams, Theo Walcott, Jan Bednarek and Gavin Bazunu?
Man United because they have some world class players (or players that recently were). If they hadn’t had an utterly brain dead transfer window they should have been competing this season.
Chelsea have no world class players and no one really looks like getting to that level. Maybe Nkunku will be a total game changer but Chelsea are a couple of transfer windows from even being top 4 contenders.
Only difference is that Poch is the better manager but they’ll probably sack him before the end of the season.
Because of the team he’s in. Obviously any striker will score loads of goals in that system, let alone a player as good as Haaland.
It’s not like with Kane doing it for 10 years in a piss poor spurs team.
Gullit.
At different points in his career he was world class in every position across the midfield and attack (and also played in defence a little).
He won the Balon d’Or playing as a striker scoring 25 goals and he was runner up in PL Player of year 10 years later at holding midfield.
He’s one of the players I’d love to see in todays game to see how he’d be used in a more tactical era.
Take away the pens and it’s pretty much nothing right? He cost £40 mil let’s not get too carried away.
Literally just made a 90th minute mistake to lose against United.
He’s always been a decent shot stopper if he’s facing a lot of shots, he just not a top keeper and makes too many mistakes.
The argument against Ole was the lack of tactics, he was an outstanding man manager but it was hero ball where you just hope Rashford or Bruno win the game.
Since sacking him they’ve had Ragnick who was arguably the worst manager I’ve ever seen. He had no tactics and no man management skills.
Now it’s ETH who should be a tactician but appears to be an absolute moron and picks players like Lindelof and Antony and has ended up with hero ball but centered around McTominay.
We’re all aware Man United have an utterly abysmal squad and that Bruno Fernandes and Rashford pretty much destroy 95% of footballing systems but Jesus Christ, I’d expect more in the way of tactics/ gameplan from someone like ETH.
Still not sure how United aren’t playing the Poch Spurs/ Conte Chelsea 3-4-3 which is the simplest way to get the best out of attackers.
Mount and Havertz transfers just seemed like money laundering by Chelsea.
Shitty players that didn’t fit either team being bought for stupid prices.
Havertz isn’t worth £10 million then all of sudden Arsenal, who are trying to challenge for the title, set £65 million on fire.
United signing Martinez and Antony for £160 mil was a joke as well. It’s the Dutch league?
I just can’t see why people rate Messi so far clear as the best player of all time. Especially when his career post 2015 is just not that good. There are so many gaping holes but people just seem content that he’s basically been a flat track bully for 8 years with 0 CL success.
Messi 2009-12 and 2015 was unbelievable and arguably the best player of all time. Messi from 2016 to 2022 was just nothing compared to the greats and consistently failed in big games, despite having a much better attacking cast than Ronaldo, Ronaldo dominated football for 3 years like nothing we’ve ever seen but people pretend that it didn’t happen.
Messi might be the best passer, dribbler, playmaker, goal scorer, free kick taker and all those things, just so long as it’s not world class opposition and it’s not a big game. So how does that end with him being this unanimous goat? In 2018 he went out of the CL to Roma, Roma then played Liverpool and were 4-0 down in the first half.
2019 was the perfect example, a brilliant first leg and then he needs one goal to basically win the Champions League and he turns up with nothing against Liverpool. He still won the Balon Dor? Ahead of VVD, who was on the pitch in the biggest game of the season and kept a clean sheet against Messi, then did it again in the final while Messi watched on TV.
A couple of years ago he won’t the Balon Dor for a glorified friendly against Brazil where he didn’t even do anything?
This year he won despite being the 3rd best player in the world (at best) and not even close to the treble winning goal machine who didn’t move to play in America after struggling in France all year.
Messi vs Bayern in 2015 might be the best player ever, nothing after that ever even came close but people pretend he had this insane longevity as the best player in the world. He was closer to the 3rd best player in the world than he was to Ronaldo during 2016-19.