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  1. 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

  2. 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 first season in 1985 and won their first title in...

  3. 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 including many of his teammates at Real and United. And...

  4. 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 popularity was comparable to or even higher than that of...

  5. 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..

  6. 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..

  7. 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. Similar to basketball, if you leave it to teenagers...

  8. 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 clear...

  9. Favourite players: current and retired

    1. Pedri 2. Yamal 3. Ronaldinho 4. R9

  10. 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 most at a United forum. The argument that "he...

  11. 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 rival to Messi as a GOAT candidate? I'd think he...

  12. Top 10 greatest players of all time

    Tier 1: Messi, Pele, Maradona Tier 2: Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Di Stefano
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