For me Henry has to be up there. Pure quality to watch
Roque Santa Cruz too as I just loved his name. Didn’t realise he was actually mediocre
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For me Henry has to be up there. Pure quality to watch
Roque Santa Cruz too as I just loved his name. Didn’t realise he was actually mediocre
Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona
Maradona.
Gerd Muller....no f*cking about, he just put the ball in the net. Hell of an attribute for a centre forward.
Karl Hienz Rumourmonger
Original Ronaldo, what a player
Alan Tate
George Best
Johan Cruyff.
Jairzinhoooooooooooooooooooooo
Trevor Brooking
Osvaldo Ardiles
Aren't most footballers not Welsh and haven't played for Cardiff City? It doesn't exactly narrow down the choices!
Roy Race
Roberto Rivelino
Edson Arantes do Nascimento
Maradona. 86 World Cup. Nothing else comes remotely close to what he achieved that tournament.
Messi for genius at the top level for so long but he did have the advantage of playing in some unreal sides.
Ronaldinho probably my favourite player though. The things he could do with a football and play with a smile on his face. You can’t put a price on that.
Totally left field, but Michael Barrantes. Virtually all of you would be thinking who the fck is he? He was a centre/attacking midfielder with my favourite Norwegian side, Aalesund. Costa Rican international. Think Peter Whittingham but with pace and energy and an even better left foot. Scorer of unbelievable goals while being the heartbeat of the side. Was lucky to meet him when they played Neath in a Europa qualifier a few years ago. I would have loved him to have played for us.
Too many
Berkamp sublime
Rodney Marsh, outrageous
Pele, a joy to watch
Peter King, everything you want from a player
But there’s only one Peter Whittingham
More a childhood thing I guess, but for me it’s the two Peters - Osgood and Bonetti
I loved watching Thierry Henry. He was so sublime on the ball. Salah has come close to making the game look as easy as he did.
Bobby Moore.
paolo rossi
Favourite is definitely Pirlo
Best players I’ve seen live;
Gheorgi Hagi
Messi
De Bruyne
Maradona.
Alan Shearer. A brute, beyond clinical and scored his fair share of absolute sh*t-pingers too. That Newcastle team at the turn of the millennium was great to watch.
Mine would be Georgi Kinkladze. I first remember him from Georgia's 5-0 demolition of us in 1994, then he went on to join Citeh. They were pretty average then, but some of his goals are incredible. Some good clips on here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1T_MJP0FIA
George Best all day long ⚽️
Bastian Schweinsteiger. Kept it simple but so good technically, struck the ball so well.
Mark van Bommel
Sir Les Ferdinand
Matt letissier, before he went full Icke
Jimmy Dickinson MBE.
Wing half
Won two successive Div 1 Champion medals (ie Premiership) for the mighty Pompey 1948-50
Capped 48 times for England
A one-club man, he played 846 times for Pompey.
He was NEVER booked.
I first saw him in 1952.
He spoke to me after I played in a Cup Final at Fratton Park.
Robert Pires or Henry for me. Pires just about shades it. So comfortable on the ball, could spot a pass and a fantastic finisher.
Always thought the biggest sign that wenger had lost the plot was when he messed him about over a contract extension because he was over 30.
Far wider range of responses on here than I imagined