Top Ten Overrated players

[aRdja]

58 minutes ago, Nolongerathletic said:

Mmmm....I kind of agree....Noel Gallagher raving about Silva a few years back - the passes "he saw"...let him sleep with my wife crap....the greatest player he's ever seen etc...such utter tosh for attention and all knowledgeable! 

 

Silva great player etc, but when the Spanish public look back over their success in the last 15-20 years, his name will be not be anonymous...but will be a long way down the list!

 

This article is a case in point.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/sports/manchester-city-liverpool-david-silva.html

 

The author suggests because of his longevity he should be in the conversation re the best PL import ever. What utter rubbish. 1) He’s penalising Suarez, Ronaldo for being too good for the league at their peak 2) He’s never even been the best player in his own team.

[Josef Svejk]

26 minutes ago, dave u said:

Agree about David Silva. Lovely little player, great touch and vision, but give me a choice of which players from City I would have liked to see playing for us (in their prime) and he's not even close to Aguero, De Bruyne and even Sane.

I think Silva has achieved more than De Bruyne.

 

Speaking of whom, he might be the answer...

[aRdja]

1 minute ago, Josef Svejk said:

I think Silva has achieved more than De Bruyne.

 

Speaking of whom, he might be the answer...

Of course he has, but in he career, he’s never reached De Bruyne’s peak IMO.

[dave u]

Just now, Josef Svejk said:

I think Silva has achieved more than De Bruyne.

 

Speaking of whom, he might be the answer...

He's achieved more because he's been around longer. In terms of who I'd rather have in our midfield, I'm taking a 25 year old De Bruyne over a 25 year old Silva all day every day.

[Josef Svejk]

Not that De Bruyne is bad, obviously. But what the fuck has he actually done relative to his recent reputation?

[Josef Svejk]

De Bruyne has had one good season in his career, I reckon.

 

Fuck all of you, I think Silva is underrated. Would have him at the same age any day...

[dave u]

Just now, Josef Svejk said:

Not that De Bruyne is bad, obviously. But what the fuck has he actually done relative to his recent reputation?

Arguably the best player in the league last season. Mo's phenomenal goal return edged De Bruyne out of the individual awards, but there wasn't much in it. 

 

Looks like he might have dodgy knees though, which is a shame for him but good news for us.

[Josef Svejk]

Last season. One season. In the most expensive English team ever assembled.

 

And he's ginger.

[SammyAftershave]

On 1/27/2019 at 8:53 AM, aRdja said:

I was a huge fan of Redshadow’s essays and his random bolding. For a while I thought I could discern some sort of pattern, but to no avail.

I held a suspicion that Redshadow is/was the Zodiac killer based on nothing more than his writing style.

[dave u]

3 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

Last season. One season. In the most expensive English team ever assembled.

 

And he's ginger.

The longevity thing is valid, I can't argue with you there. Silva has been very good for a long time. De Bruyne has to do it for longer, but in terms of who I'd rather have I'm still taking the pre-knee trouble De Bruyne.

 

And I'd probably take Sane over both!

[TheHowieLama]

19 minutes ago, aRdja said:

 

even been the best player in his own team.

You are doing it again fella -- please deal with facts, not fiction

[Josef Svejk]

Anyway, speaking of overrated...

 

[Trumo]

Anyone remember Kerlon? He of the 'seal dribble' which involved running at defenders while bouncing the ball on his head before inevitably getting clattered for being a cunt? I remember loads of twats wanting him to sign for their club, ours included, based on little more than about a minute of Youtube footage showing all the above, and absolutely zero end product.

 

Also, Robinho. When he first burst onto the scene at Santos, he looked raw but full of potential. Then he cry-arsed himself a move to Real Madrid and often flattered to deceive despite posting a reasonable goal total. Then he cry-arsed himself a move to Manchester and, no matter what anyone says, he must have thought he was going to the red half rather than the newly oil-rich blue half. He phoned in most of his matches, took the mega money and cried off injured for the rest of the time before the club flogged him to Milan. Robinho was the original flaky cry-arsing Brazilian before they turned it into their official national pastime in 2014.

[Boss]

27 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

De Bruyne has had one good season in his career, I reckon.

 

Err no. His last season in the Bundesliga he was the best player in the league by an absolute country mile and got 10 goals and 20 assists in the league alone.

[Josef Svejk]

20 minutes ago, Boss said:

 

Err no. His last season in the Bundesliga he was the best player in the league by an absolute country mile and got 10 goals and 20 assists in the league alone.

Err ok.

 

Two.

 

Still ginger.

 

And still no Silva.

 

Err!

[Hades]

4 hours ago, Boss said:

 

He's one of these players that always gets high ratings on whoscored, even though he's crap whenever you watch him. Alberto Moreno is another one like that. Very odd. 

That's because the most important thing as a defender is to be psychologically stable and not have any major flaws the opponent can target like one-footedness or an inability to leave your box as a keeper.

[Hand Shandy]

Silva has 125 caps for Spain in a period where, you know, they've been pretty good...

[aRdja]

10 minutes ago, Hand Shandy said:

Silva has 125 caps for Spain in a period where, you know, they've been pretty good...

He’s a good footballer, just as Paul Scholes was a good player. But people now are talking about him as probably PL import of all time. 

[Nolongerathletic]

The class of 92...

 

Giggs and Scholes top players in fairness..

Beckham made most of his ability...

Gary Neville - a prick of highest order and not a patch on some of other FBs in PL but fawned upon by so many...Denis Irwin miles ahead for one at Utd alone and Mr cryalot Evra

Phil Neville and Nicky Butt....i'd nearly take Moreno instead of both

 

That class of 92 were a success due to likes of Keane, Cantona, Hughes, Schmeichel to name but a few...cant stand them...

 

 

 

[aRdja]

2 minutes ago, Nolongerathletic said:

The class of 92...

 

Giggs and Scholes top players in fairness..

Beckham made most of his ability...

Gary Neville - a prick of highest order and not a patch on some of other FBs in PL but fawned upon by so many...Denis Irwin miles ahead for one at Utd alone and Mr cryalot Evra

Phil Neville and Nicky Butt....i'd nearly take Moreno instead of both

 

That class of 92 were a success due to likes of Keane, Cantona, Hughes, Schmeichel to name but a few...cant stand them...

 

 

 

You’re gonna hate me for this, but Roy Keane. He was a very good player, but not as good as Gerrard or Vieira.

[Hades]

Beckham without question. Jordan Henderson with set-piece ability. The extent to which England relied on him showed how weak that team was.

[liverpoolsno9]

Eric Dier. He’s shit and, yet, is always being mentioned with some big moves. I just don’t get it. 

[Grinch]

My whole list would be English if I could be bothered. 

[Trumo]

3 minutes ago, liverpoolsno9 said:

Eric Dier. He’s shit and, yet, is always being mentioned with some big moves. I just don’t get it. 

 

Where? Even the best current Spurs players rarely get linked to moves elsewhere.

[Trumo]

Every single player to come through the Man Utd youth system and into the first team squad since the fabled class of 92. Some absolute dross like John Curtis, Luke Chadwick, Kieron Richardson, Federico Macheda, Tom Cleverley and Rodrigo Possebon all got hyped up as the next big thing simply because they were at that club. Then there are those who were in that youth team group with Pogba where the hype was taken to the next level, such as Adnan Januzaj and Ravel Morrison.