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  • mertens replied to the thread Top 10 greatest players of all time.
    How would you rank below players in terms of being "technically gifted"? Modric Kroos Berbatov Scholes Ozil Xabi Alonso Ronaldo
  • mertens replied to the thread Top 10 greatest players of all time.
    Platini was considered the best player in the world up until 1986. And, no way Maradona winning a Ballon D'or over Platini even he was European until after the WC. Platini won 3 Ballon D'ors between 83-85. Napoli finished 8th in Serie A in his...
  • mertens replied to the thread Top 10 greatest players of all time.
    Ronaldo is not even the 2nd most talented player since Italy'90. Just thinking about players from Brazil in the last 30 years, he's below R9, Ronaldinho and Neymar. There are many more in that period who are technically superior to Ronaldo...
  • mertens replied to the thread Top 10 greatest players of all time.
    Van Basten retired in 1993. He really shot to fame with that iconic Euro'88 and back to back European cups between 1988-90 with legendary AC Milan, therefore I I would not call him the best player of 90s . During that period, I'd say his...
  • mertens replied to the thread Top 10 greatest players of all time.
    So one can't rank greatest commanders of all time and include Napoleon, Caesar, Hannibal, Genghis etc. unless they had personally witnessed their military tactics & victories? wondering how their names made this far with that logic..
  • mertens replied to the thread When will England win another World Cup?.
    so FIFA did that by giving France two penalties in a WC final so that France can equalize twice and take the game to penalties so that Argentina can win... FIFA is just too smart..
  • mertens replied to the thread Top 10 greatest players of all time.
    I agree about the biased nature of polls, the thing is most people know or care about internet polls especially among casuals. Pele and Maradona for most are solid top-3 along with Messi for most that knows football history as in this thread...
  • mertens replied to the thread Top 10 greatest players of all time.
    How can a player with half billion followers not fill even 20% of the stadiums on a regular basis? Big portion of them are bots on social media, many with almost no football knowledge, spending few minutes on X, youtube and Insta will make it...
  • mertens replied to the thread Favourite players: current and retired.
    1. Pedri 2. Yamal 3. Ronaldinho 4. R9
  • mertens replied to the thread Top 10 greatest players of all time.
    Other than his diehard fanboys, no one says that anymore. Even many of his former teammates like Modric, Rooney, Sergio Ramos, Giggs, Scholes etc. rate Messi the greatest player ever. This thread is evidence of that, he's not rated even top-5 for...
  • mertens replied to the thread Top 10 greatest players of all time.
    :+1: As a Bayern fan, would you agree that had Gerd Muller had those accolades, records & stats he had in Bundesliga, European Cup, World Cup and Euros in today's stat obsessed generation (if he played in this era), he would be considered a...
  • mertens replied to the thread Top 10 greatest players of all time.
    Tier 1: Messi, Pele, Maradona Tier 2: Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Di Stefano
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