Eriksen not for me, he's good but I wouldn't put him in that bracket. In the past sure, but he's definitely much less impactful on games and really his form has dropped off since his bright start IMO. Dalot if he keeps it up, but it's his first season like this.Eriksen?
If you put Rashford as very good then Dalot should be there too.
I really hope someone says that to him live on TV one day. The meltdown would be incredible.Has anyone asked Graeme yet for his thoughts on steady Eddie ?
Here’s a thought for him…Casemiro is a better player than Stevie Me was.
Shaw is 100% world class.Shaw is nowhere near world class, don't be ridiculous.
Appearing few games a season when you want your place back in the team with good performances doesn't make you world class. Putting him and Casemiro in the same bracket pretty much explains itself what it means to be world class and having potential to be world class but not having the consistency or attitude to be there. He was your average fullback who was at fault for goal with his pal Maguire every week just before the summer. 2 months of good football in 2 years(which weren't world class performances anyway) doesn't make you worls class.
Shaw is 100% world class.
He was playing injured, he's not fit and he's not making those mistakes. Saying he's only been good for 2 months in 2 years is frankly wrong.
Name me a better LB?
Yes i'm serious. If you underrate him that's up to you. When he's fully fit and motivated there isn't many better for me.I can't believe you are serious. He was not playing injured entire last year, he was simply shite and lazy entire last year and was dropped at start of the season for a decent young player coming into a new league. And in the years before he was dropped for the likes of Telles, etc.
You do realise you are putting Casemiro and Shaw in the same class of players? Andy Robertson is better and he is not that special, let alone the likes of Davies or Cancelo.
I am defending Shaw for years now and i have very high opinion about him but he is not world class. He HAS potential to be world class but he needs to play like he is playing now couple of years in a row, not like he was doing so far in his career. Mix of everything, from awful to fantastic.Shaw is 100% world class.
He was playing injured, he's not fit and he's not making those mistakes. Saying he's only been good for 2 months in 2 years is frankly wrong. He was great under Ole, he got the nickname Shawberto for a reason.
Yes last year he had a dip, but all players have them, and his was mainly due to the metal rod in his leg giving him pain (which he needed an operation to remove)
Name me a better LB right now?
He was a silent guardian at Madrid. I think leaving RM has done tremendous good to his reputation. Finally coming out of the shadows of Modric, Kroos etc. has done him wonders.Casemiro has been like this throughout his career for RM. Very underrated. It's especially in the big knockout games that you see his real value. He always turns up in the big games.
As a medical man you surely appreciate that the spine is useless if it stops at T12! What that spine desperately needs is a world class striker at the top.
Scholes wasn’t even an undisputed starter at that point while Yorke finished 11th for that year’s Ballon d’Or (only Beckham & Keane were higher than him from United). That’s some strange revisionism.
Was Scholes world class in 1999? Nope, that’s quite clear.I am talking about whether a player is world class,
simple question: do you think Scholes is a world class player? If yes, I rest my case there on your first segment of reply.
I don't think anything more than half of the football fans or coaches or journalists would agree with you that Yorke is a world class player either even in his prime. a one-year BallonD'Or ranking does not mean much. Arshavin was 6th in 2008 but he is not an undisputed world class player. Kanoute was 11th in 2007 and not many people would agree that he had ever been a world class player in his career.
Was Scholes world class in 1999? Nope, that’s quite clear.
Class, despite the famous saying, isn’t permanent, for example Cristiano isn’t a world class player at the moment despite him being unquestionably one of the greatest football players of all-time.
Souness keeps making himself look more and more stupid these days.
Kinda sad to see as he was a top player in his time.
Potential to get to very good/borderline world class:For me, top 3 tiers I'd say are:
Undisputed:
Borderline world class
- Casemiro
- Varane
Very good
- Martinez
- Bruno Fernandes
- Rashford
- Shaw
To be fair, Casemiro’s first couple games for us, he was not himself. But anyone who’d watched Real for 15-20 matches over the last few years would’ve known that he was the absolute best DM in the world. I’ve always preferred Casemiro over the other options: Kimmich, Fabinho, Kante. He’s flat out better. There are things that the others do marginally better (Kimmich, distribution; Kante, ground covered, etc.), but to me, Casemiro is always the SMARTEST player on the pitch. As much as anyone, he’s been the key performer for Real in the last run of CL titles.I sure hope @Yagami is watching all these games and has changed his opinion on Casemiro's press resistance abilities.
Thought he only hated Pogba? Seems like it is any Manchester United that he hates.Souness, as always, really talking about himself.
It must be a crushing blow for him. Brazil were favorites to win it. Must be his, Thiago and Neymar's last world cup. I hope he doesn't come back demoralized. We need him for top four.
It must be a crushing blow for him. Brazil were favorites to win it. Must be his, Thiago and Neymar's last world cup. I hope he doesn't come back demoralized. We need him for top four.
Massive shame for him, now has to play alongside some utter rubbish midfielders for both club and country.
BizarreMassive shame for him, now has to play alongside some utter rubbish midfielders for both club and country.
Neither of them, but let's be honest it's a very mediocre bunch beyond those 2.You consider Bruno and Eriksen utter rubbish? Interesting
Neither of them, but let's be honest it's a very mediocre bunch beyond those 2.
That poster never disappoints.Bizarre
Neither of them, but let's be honest it's a very mediocre bunch beyond those 2.