Best ever player

HantshammerHantshammer
in Football Chatter
With Johann Cruyffs untimely passing today it got me to thinking who are the top ten all time players in your opinion? Some we may not have seen but are acknowledged as true greats.
My choice in no order (which will undoubtedly change when I remember others!):

1. Pele
2. Di Stefano
3. Messi
4. Maradona (as much as I don't like him!)
5. Cruyff
6. Moore
7. Beckenbauer
8. Eusebio
9. Best
10. Charlton

Also rans: Puskas, Beckham, Ronaldo

Yours?
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Comments

  • CleverTrevorCleverTrevor
    Not sure I would put Clyde Best in the top ten ;wink
  • chicagohammerchicagohammer
    Very tough, I like the list above but feel that Dennis Bergkamp would be in my top ten somewhere
  • VorselaarhammerVorselaarhammer
    based on players I've seen play.

    Messi
    Maradona
    Zidane
    Ronaldo 9
    Ronaldo 7
    Van Basten
    Maldini
    Ronaldinho
    Henry
    Weah
  • HantshammerHantshammer
    CleverTrevor said:

    Not sure I would put Clyde Best in the top ten ;wink


    ;lol Made me larf Trev - Clyde just missed out! Was a good servant for our club tho.
  • CleverTrevorCleverTrevor
    Do you remember when Clyde took ballet lessons to improve his balance - now that was funny ;lol
  • SwissironSwissiron
    I watched him score at the Boleyn against Man Utd, the best goal of the game. Unfortunately we lost 6-1 (sometime around 1969)
  • SwissironSwissiron
    edited March 2016
    I would put Messi first and Ronaldo second tbh, and I dont really think Charlton would make the cut
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Swiss - our 6-1 loss at home to Man U was back in May 1967, two years before Clyde Best joined. John Charles scored our goal.
  • SwissironSwissiron
    ah so, thanks! I was 10..
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    There is no way Beckham should be anywhere near this list. Even he himself would be honest enough to admit that
  • TwistandShoutTwistandShout
    Messi for me, the best ever IMO ;ok
  • AligibsonhamAligibsonham
    Ronaldinho
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Pele
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Messi the best of his generation

    Cruyff the best of his.

    I don't feel you can compare players of different generations.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Slightly off topic but C&H have a 2 minute trailer of the new "Bo66y" film. It made my eyes water. I'm not sure I would survive the entire film. ;weep
  • HantshammerHantshammer
    I admit this is difficult to do, the idea was just to come up with 10 players of all time. Just a bit of fun.
    For me Beckham, Ronaldo and Puskas didn't make my top ten and as I said they are in no order.
  • imagelostimagelost
    Messi no never
    You need to think of a player who has played all round the world !
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    In my view when assessing such a question I look for those players who make a team considerably better by themselves (a bit like Payet has done for us this season), and then you look at those who have done the very same thing at the highest level for club and country, and so for me it would be today (probably different if you asked me next week)

    Maradona
    Messi

    with the others behind
  • whupathmanwhupathman
    Moore
    Moore and even Moore
  • HainaultHammerHainaultHammer
    Repka.
    Because I like players who are committed to the cause.
  • HammerexHammerex
    Hainault, in that case it would have to be Billy Bonds.

  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    HainaultHammer said:

    Repka.
    Because I like players who are need to be committed to the cause an institution.

    Fixed it for ya! ;wink
  • McHammerMcHammer
    Everything considered I would have to pick Ronaldo 7.
  • SarawakammerSarawakammer
    Maybe this would be easier if you did it in eras - to 1970, Pele, Charlton & Beckenbauer, with any other Brazilian from the 70 team. Then the Cruyff Maradonna Muller era. Since 2000, Zidane Messi Ronaldo7. And a Dutch player to round it all off, probably one of the AC Milan trio. Maybe.
  • chicagohammerchicagohammer
    A Dutchman like Bergkamp perhaps ;wink
  • chicagohammerchicagohammer
    Austin - I agree, maybe slightly off topic, but if this was about the nicest player I have met, then Beckham would top my list.

    I had the good fortune to be up graded to Virgin Upper class on a trip to New York, Beckham was on the flight and he was simply a really nice guy to talk to, Brooklyn was just a toddler and although he was looking after him, he found time to speak to all who wanted to chat to him without any airs and graces whatsoever.

    He went up a load of notches in my book after that flight
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    edited March 2016
    chicago

    ;ok

    I've always felt a lot of the negative press about him stemmed from prejudices about working class southerners: if you don't talk proper you must be fik, and there's something distasteful (and frankly unfair) about 'oiks' making tons of money while one toils away, genius unrecognised.

    Whenever I've heard either of the Beckhams interviewed, they cone across as thoroughly nice people who have had the good fortune to make a stash of money without it seeming to have affected their core values.

    Perhaps he isn't a top 10 world's best player, but the clubs he played for, and the medals he collected, are testimony to just how good he was.
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Well said Grey ;clap
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    Hammerex said:

    Hainault, in that case it would have to be Billy Bonds.

    Committed to the cause could be Billy's epitaph and no one comes near for me.

    I would like 3 statues and an empty plinth at the four ends of the new stadium, the existing statue of Bobby, one of Billy Bonds and one of John Lyall the last one left empty for now as an invitation to those who follow in those footsteps, perhaps Slav when he wins the champions league?
  • HammerexHammerex
    I can remember Brooking giving an interview regarding training.He said when they had to do cross country, he used to jog along near the back of the pack and put a bit of a spurt on to get away from the stragglers at the end. Whereas Billy Bonds was right at the front determined to win, slugging it out with the youngsters.
    He also said he remembers playing an away match over the Xmas Holiday, it was freezing cold, they was getting stuffed, and all he wanted was to have a hot shower and go home with about ten minutes to go. Whereas Bonds is ranting at his
    team mates, crunching tackles and giving 100%. That was Billy as know him.
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