Quote Originally Posted by neilw65 View Post
To be honest, I agree with Lardy. Some people, including Bobby Robson and Jimmy Greaves, rated John Charles as the greatest they had ever seen, and he never won a World Cup. If the criteria is that to be the best player in the world you have to have won the World Cup, that would restrict it top players from around 8 countries only
Agreed the World Cup is won by the best Countries not the best players, if you're the best player in the World and from Pakistan you can't sign for Argentina or Brazil.

I'd say the best player is Messi followed by Maradona.