Best ever player
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?
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?
Comments
Messi
Maradona
Zidane
Ronaldo 9
Ronaldo 7
Van Basten
Maldini
Ronaldinho
Henry
Weah
;lol Made me larf Trev - Clyde just missed out! Was a good servant for our club tho.
Cruyff the best of his.
I don't feel you can compare players of different generations.
For me Beckham, Ronaldo and Puskas didn't make my top ten and as I said they are in no order.
You need to think of a player who has played all round the world !
Maradona
Messi
with the others behind
Moore and even Moore
Because I like players who are committed to the cause.
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
;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.
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?
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.