Top Ten Overrated players

[Bjornebye]

Nah Lahm was ace. 

 

Arbeloa is over-rated by many on here. 

[Jairzinho]

57 minutes ago, No2 said:

Alves was better than him. Lahm was good but there are a few fullback that were better than him.

No. Hope this helps.

[aRdja]

2 hours ago, No2 said:

Dani Alves has been the best fullback since Maldini.

Thuram was probably better than both if I’m honest.

[No2]

48 minutes ago, aRdja said:

Thuram was probably better than both if I’m honest.

I forgot about him in fairness although I'd still say Alves was better. Nobody was better than Maldini.

[No2]

56 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

No. Hope this helps.

Alves, Thuram and Ashley Cole all better than Lahm.

[Tony Moanero]

7 minutes ago, No2 said:

Alves, Thuram and Ashley Cole all better than Lahm.

Nicol > Alves, Thurman, Cole, Lahm

[Bjornebye]

Thrum was before Alves right? 

 

I think Alves might be a tad over-rated. Cafu if were talking Thuram. Ashley Cole and G Neville were arguably better. Andy Robbo has been better than Alves ever was for the last 12 months. 

[VladimirIlyich]

1 hour ago, aRdja said:

Thuram was probably better than both if I’m honest.

For once I agree but I am sure Thuram also played at centre back on a few occasions too? Brilliant and classy player for a girl!

[No2]

41 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

Nicol > Alves, Thurman, Cole, Lahm

I was talking about full backs since Maldini. There careers no doubt over lapped but I only remember the old tubby Nicol. Fine player at that age but not in the conversation with the players I'm referring too.

[VladimirIlyich]

13 minutes ago, No2 said:

I was talking about full backs since Maldini. There careers no doubt over lapped but I only remember the old tubby Nicol. Fine player at that age but not in the conversation with the players I'm referring too.

What? Nicol was one of the finest full backs and utility players to grace European football. If his name was Stephan Nicolino you'd be hailing him as the new Ox.

[Lee909]

Gary Neville was not close to being better than Alves. 

 

Neville only got the caps he did cause Rob Jones got crocked. 

[No2]

7 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

What? Nicol was one of the finest full backs and utility players to grace European football. If his name was Stephan Nicolino you'd be hailing him as the new Ox.

I never said he wasn't, I only seen the tail end of his career when he was old and chubby.

[3 Stacks]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

Thrum was before Alves right? 

 

I think Alves might be a tad over-rated. Cafu if were talking Thuram. Ashley Cole and G Neville were arguably better. Andy Robbo has been better than Alves ever was for the last 12 months. 

Jesus Christ. Gary Neville better than Dani Alves? Am I reading that right?

[Grinch]

3 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Nah Lahm was ace. 

 

Arbeloa is over-rated by many on here. 

Not nearly as over rated as his useless 18m replacement. 

[Red House]

Lahm, Thuram, Zanetti, Cafu, Alves in that order for me.

Maldini and Facchetti miles ahead of the rest at left-back.

[TheHowieLama]

Maldini and Facchetti miles ahead of the rest at left-back.

 

Paul Breitner

[aRdja]

32 minutes ago, Red House said:

Lahm, Thuram, Zanetti, Cafu, Alves in that order for me.

Maldini and Facchetti miles ahead of the rest at left-back.

Thuram best right back I’ve seen IMO. Best defender of them lot by a long way. A bit of Virgil or Kohler about him in that he always looked dominant. 

[joe_fishfish]

The full back role has changed so much from the days of people like Breitner and Maldini. I'm not really sure it's worth comparing them. If there was a young Paolo Maldini coming through at a top club these days he'd be a centre back or maybe even a centre mid.

 

(And he'd probably need three loans to shit leagues followed by a transfer to a smaller club with a buyback clause before he actually made it, but that's another topic.)

 

 

[Trumo]

Any player who's had about 5 decent games in the Portuguese league with one of the big 3 automatically gets linked with a move for £30m or more to a Premier League club or one of the El Clasico cunts. The vast majority of these players end up joining a club like Valencia about a year after the hype for something like €5m.

[Red House]

15 minutes ago, joe_fishfish said:

The full back role has changed so much from the days of people like Breitner and Maldini. I'm not really sure it's worth comparing them. If there was a young Paolo Maldini coming through at a top club these days he'd be a centre back or maybe even a centre mid.

 

(And he'd probably need three loans to shit leagues followed by a transfer to a smaller club with a buyback clause before he actually made it, but that's another topic.)

 

 

 

The full back role changed with Facchetti. Don't think there've been that much change since. Maldini played around the same time as the likes of Cafu, Roberto Carlos and Zanetti, and he was/is widely regarded as the best of the lot. There's little difference between Cafu-R. Carlos and the Alves-Marcelo of today. Azpilicueta has arguably been the best PL full-back over the last five years and he is in a rather similar mould, albeit not as good, as Maldini.

Maldini broke through at 16, was good enough to be a definite starter alongside Baresi, Riijkaard, Van Basten, Gullit, Donadoni etc... at 17, won two European Cups/Champions League, made the best eleven for both a world cup and a European championship, accumulated over 100 Serie A games. And, then he turned 22. He would have made it in any era, in any league.

[TheHowieLama]

And he was a smooth bastard

[VladimirIlyich]

18 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

And he was a smooth bastard

Could he carry off a hat though?