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Who is the greatest current British footballer?
Who is the greatest current British footballer?
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The coward returns. ^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Got to be Bale !!!
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Danny Ings of Burnley is a superb player and probably the best finisher in English football A better all round player than Lineker and a must for Brazil.
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lfc1971 20 Mar 14 09:03
Jermain Defoe was as good a player technically as anyone in Europe inthe last 10 years. Please tell me you are joking. |
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Gerrard for me
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Without a shadow of doubt BALE
Perhaps all the forumites that put up Gerrard,should remind themselves how badly he usually plays in his England shirt,and how he is usually found wanting when his team come up against strong opposition. Whereas Bale is capable of producing his magic against top opposition. |
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Biscuit1979
These things are always slightly subjective of course and there are cases to be made for some but of the players mentioned, Bale, Gerard and Rooney, none of these players has the same natural talent that Defoe has...this is simply a fact although most football fans prefer to believe what they are told and might as well be blind! |
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You seriously believe Defoe is technically as good a player as the likes of Xavi, Iniesta, Pirlo, Scholes, Totti etc.
Defoe had a natural talent for scoring goals that is undeniable. But to say he's one of best players in Europe of the past decade is surely stretching it a bit! |
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at this present moment without a shadow of a doubt its bale but over last 10 years probley paul scholes
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Biscuit lets start with Xani and Iniesta, these two are fine midfielders but are
very very overrated. They of course have ability but it is of a kind that hundreds of other young players have. The kind of ability that it takes to be a world class player is slightly different and Defoe has this. Xani and Iniesta do not. |
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How Sturridge hasn't been mentioned yet is a joke. I don't think he's the best British player (that's Bale) but he's a lot better than some of the players mentioned and is in better form than any British player
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He has a point.
Firstly Totti  Secondly, it makes me laugh when short square passing payer like Xavi get labelled 'technical'  what's technical about his game? He's not on Wilshere's level. That is raw ability.How many people were raving about Xavi and Iniesta in the 5 years leading up to Messi's arrival on the scene ? Not many. Success makes people look at players different, take the overrated Ibrahimovic for example, the likes of Biscuit rips of his CV from wiki and says "a player that has won all that can't be bad " not bad, overrated, vastly. |
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ramseys a better player than wilshere
they both are not deep lying players but ramsey ahs a more refined end product. wilshere just looks good on the ball even thought he runs like he has cronic constipation |
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Xavi & Iniesta are both well past their best. try getting the ball of them in their prime if you think they weren't technical. They make it look easy, that's the skill
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Xavi is not on Wilshere's level. He's about 4 levels up
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wilshere is very overrated always injured,god knows how he gets into the england squad
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Sturridge
Bale Terry(icon) |
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You can't get the ball off them because they are programmed/coached to pass the ball to a teammate as soon as possible, that doesn't make them technical, no barca player has the ball for more than 5 seconds. You have been brainwashed by the media to believe the hype.
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We seriously have people claiming that Defoe and Wilshere are technically better than Xavi and Iniesta.
 Here's a little clue. The Spaniards will go down as two of the greatest midfielders of the modern era. Of the Englishmen, 1 is more famous for sh*gging birds and the other is too injury prone to ever have a serious impact on world football. And mesmerised i mentioned Totti because lfc1971 was talking about technical players of the last 10 years. Totti is right up there. If your idol Wilshere's career amounts to being even half of Totti's then he'll have done well. One has been there, seen it, done it. The other is Darren Anderton's little brother. |
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Defoe
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Surely the answer to this question is Bale first, the rest nowhere?
Rooney Gerrard Wilshere |
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Paul Scholes is still better than the current crop and he only plays for the Dad's team and frendlies.
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Defoe
Wiltshere If we are mentioning c unts like those surely the one and only Ashley runs like he's got a c ock up his a rse young must be the worst player playing today to be capped and I'm including cra p like Cleverley and jones. |
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Jermaine, has Wilshere shagged your girl or what? you criticises more than most,
He is our best hope of winning the world cup, take him out of the middle and tell me what creativity is left? Gerrard as good as he has been is on his last legs and will probably be tired come July, Henderson? Carrick?Fatpard? Cleverley? There is nobody there other than Wilshere to to turn the game in an instant when needed. |
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About right Pete.
And this country knows so much about the technical ability of footballers we shunted Scholes out to the left wing so Gerrard could play with Lampard! |
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Gareth Bale by a country mile.
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Definitely Bale right now. And to think he was going nowhere fast only about 3 years ago.
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Unquestionably Bale.
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howard webb.....well he thinks he is more important
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Bale
the other british player who would challenge for a place in most of the top teams is Leighton Baines |
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1. Bale
2. Lallana Build the team around the boy ffs Woy |
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If Oxlade-Chamberlain stays fit and keeps improving he won't be far off Bale in 12 months.
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agree about oxlade-chamberlain and bale.
oxladechamberlain is already diving half as much as bale does and in a few years he will be just as bad. |
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Amusing thread.
It's obviously Bale by an absolute mile. Oxlade-Chamberlain...must just be me who thinks he's massively overrated. Hasn't Walcott proved that being fast and slightly capable of dribbling doesn't make you world class? |
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Yea rob I think the OP just wanted a self-congratulatory type of thread where everyone came on, agreed it was Bale and patted each other on the back and said well-done lads look how clever we all are.
Gerrard still gets my vote anyway - just for sheer bloody-mindednedness |
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Maybe he just wanted a discussion that went beyond calling someone a mug and nominating a player from your own team. I probably don't watch enough top flight football to make a proper judgement but, from what I've seen, I can't think of anyone else whose current level gets close to Bale's.
Rewind a few years and I might agree with you, but anyone who thinks that Gerrard's current standard of play is beyond Bale's needs their head testing. |
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Bales been a good player in a bad team and an average player in a very good team - when he's the best player in the best team and inspires them to a CL win then I'll hold up my hands and say 'yea - he's worth consideration.'
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So Bale has to be the best player in the Madrid team and inspire them to a Champions League win before you'll consider him? What if he's second best player so a certain bloke from Portugal? That automatically makes him unable to be considered for best BRITISH player and we should give it to someone who's not appeared in the Champions League for a good few years?
Is it safe to assume that you're a Liverpool fan? |
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no ... my point always was that the op just wanted a nice feelgood fred where everyone voted for Bale and patted each other on the back and said 'look how clever we all are - we've all voted for Bale'.
I think that is so shallow and blinkered - Gerrard has obviously been the best British footballer of his generation and probably the last 20 - 30 years. He has single-handedly inspired and lifted his team on many occasions when they were appeared doomed to defeat particularly the CL final of 2005 and the FA cup final one year later. He has now transformed himself into one of the best, if not the best deep-lying midfielders in the world after years as a box-to-box defending/attacking midfielder. Bale has been a good player for about a year - when he inspires his team and actually wins something and is recognised consistently one of the best attacking midfielders in the world then come back to me and ask is he the best of his time at this moment and I may have to agree - until then ... S T E V E G E R R A R D G E R R A R D - he's big and he's f u c k i n g H A R D |