Ah fair enough, thought you weren't including them. Neymar has to be included though mate, even if you don't like him or think he was as good (I don't think he was as good an all-round player either). His dribbling and skills are pretty sensational tbh and always have been. I'm not sure if there were really more of these dribblers/entertainers in the 90s or if that's just conflating time periods to feel like there were. Ronaldo was called O Fenomeno for a reason, it wasn't like there were loads of players doing that at the time. Maradona was a different generation to Ronaldo, just as Cruyff was a different generation to Maradona, just as Pele was a different generation to Cruyff.
There were other brilliant players during each time period, but there are brilliant players during our time as well. You don't seem to like the Haaland or Lewandowski prototype, which is fair enough, but we've also had much more well-rounded strikers like Benzema, Kane and Suarez in recent years. Gerd Muller just like Alan Shearer were those ruthlessly efficient strikers aswell who didn't offer anything spectacular outside of their goals, so you're always going to have those types (tbh I think these type of strikers were far more prevalent in England in the 90s than they are now). As mentioned though, you have talented young dribblers and entertainers still like Vini and Kvaratskelia. There aren't dozens and dozens of them, but if you went back to the 90s I think you'd struggle to find dozens of these type of players at any one time.
