The 100 greatest football players of all time.

fat ronaldo

Jimmy Greaves

Diego Maradona

pele

Platini.

Dennis Bergkamp

Jackie milburn

Stan Mathews

johann cryuff

Zico

Messi

Shearer

Jimmy Johnstone

and the man who said he was

Alfredo de Stefano

zinedine yazid zidane

Pele by a country mile

van basten

Carlton Palmer

Garrincha

Better than Pele as was George Best...source...Pele himself!

hughie gallacher of scotland
john charles wales
finney of england
best of ireland
thats 4 aces right there

Puskas

Gerd Muller

Out an out striker - Luis Suarez aka dracula. Will go down as the greatest,messi in his shadow now.
All round Striker - Ronnie.
Midfielder - Pirlo, the maestro, miles better than Zidane.
Defender - Maldini nuff said.
Goalie - Gigi buffon, the Greatest!!!

Goalkeeper Lev Yashin
Defender   Agree with mega88
Midfield   Xavi ( I know he played in a good team,but even so)
Forward    Di Stefano

best player I ever saw 'live' George Best

Defender - Maldini nuff said......almost

but his mate stood alongside of him was the greatest defender at reading a game of all time...Baresi.

Crazy stat: Franco Baresi and Paolo Maldini played 196 matches together for AC Milan and conceded just 29 goals.

either deserve the top accolade to be fair, I was just playing devil's advocate

best 2 defenders I have seen were Beckenbauer & Moore

Kenny Lunt

Need a bit of bite in the middle of the park

Matthaus and Keane both in.

Eusebio and the great Stanley Matthews would be in the top 20.

Platini...better on the field than off it

No Henry yet

Paul Gascoigne
Lothar Mattheus
Daniel Passarella
Diego Maradona
Gigi Buffon
Gerd Muller

Di Stefano

jairzinho
Socrates

personally I have a soft spot for Eder also, from the great Brazilian 82 side.

lovely left foot that lad, great goal the one where he chips Rough.

Can't believe nobody's mentioned Milenko Acimovic yet.

Lothar Mattheus was a good midfielder.

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gheorge hagi,underlooked genius

Robert prosinecki,untouchable when he played for red star Belgrade,pervayor of silk cut as well!!!!

Yes, Hagi and Prosinecki were great players. So was Stoichkov the Bulgarian. Eastern players didn`t get the recognition they deserved. imo.

I remember Dumitrache (Rumania or is it now Romania) from the 1970 WC - just looked him up on wiki - poor fella died in 2007 aged 59 - might have gone to juventus but the communist regime refused to allow it

stoichkov might not be looked back on in the same light as other 90's strikers such as george weah or batistuta as he never made it in italy, the best league in the world at the time.

theres no doubt at all he got the recognition he deserved, he won the spanish league 4 times with barcelona and got to 2 european cup finals with them, winning one of them.  he won the ballon d'or in the 94 world cup year, its just from our perspoective in the uk he (and hagi) appeared to emerge from obscurity at the usa world cup, he was already an established european star by then.

Laszlo Kubala top 10 easy

Ronaldinho

and Henrik Larsson

Gerd Muller

365 Bundesliga goals

68 International Goals in 62 Games

Jimmy Greaves not only the most gifted goalscorer but also the most beautiful player.
Nobody could, with his back to goal, turn and beat 3 or 4 defenders and score with the same style and vision...not even Best, or Cruff, or Pele or Messi.
Greaves was a masterpiece.

Fabio Cannavaro, Hugo Sanchez and Romario.

1. messi
2. pele
3. maradonna
4. garrincha
5. cryuff

jimmy greaves still has the european goalscoring record.........366 league goals...........messi and ronny soon to overtake

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BTW,

KENNY DALGLISH


a shocking omission, so far

Mathias Sindelar
Carlos Valderrama

Messi for me 

Jim Baxter. The best I've ever seen live and would be in my team of best ever.
Scored the two goals here to give us a 2-1 win at Wembley after Scotland had been reduced to 10 men early on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu4knK0fu0k

roberto baggio pretty good

Ronaldinho.  He wasn't at his very best for long, but for a period of about 12 months he was better than Pele, Maradona, Ronaldo or Messi.  Whilst at Barca, I once saw him receive the ball near the half way line, quickly turn away from from 2 opposition players who were so bamboozled that they ran into each other and ended up on the deck in a heap.

Le Tissier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp-XhGIyGdo

a man, never more than 50% fit, playing at the speed of a tortoise and carrying 10 other players week in week out...

very few to have ever played the game could have managed that

ian merseyside
08 Jun 16 23:33

Ronaldinho

The Barca front three of Ronaldhino, Eto'oo and Messi was wonderful and that Barca side I think around 2005 under Rijkard was the most exciting football playing side I have ever had the privilege to watch in awe ( apart from Brasil '70 and '82 of course ). You can kep your tika taka, that is not football as God intended.

Jimmy Hogan  ?
Alfredo Di Stefano ?
Guillermo Stábile  ?
Juste Fontaine ?
 


what a ridiculous thread .... greatest of all time ...how da feck would the gonzos on here ever be in a position to take an informed view  ?

just a bit of fun Irish. Nothing wrong with nostalgia and a bit of bullsheite.

You want to try comparing greatest cricketers ever! Some people think Alistair Cook would be a shoe in for Opener in Englands Greatest XL. He wouldn't even make my list of water carriers!

He was some talent  Ch2005 - exceptional goals ,enjoyed them .

Even the Villa fans took time to applause

Aguero.

Jun 9, 2016 -- 9:46AM, Whisperingdeath wrote:

ian merseyside08 Jun 16 23:33RonaldinhoThe Barca front three of Ronaldhino, Eto'oo and Messi was wonderful and that Barca side I think around 2005 under Rijkard was the most exciting football playing side I have ever had the privilege to watch in awe ( apart from Brasil '70 and '82 of course ). You can kep your tika taka, that is not football as God intended.

Respect. Would have a hard time arguing they were better than Messi and Ronaldo, but Ronaldinho and Zidane are still my favourite players ever. Ronaldinho in particular, was magical to watch. The standing ovation game at Bernabeu was perfection and the dancing goal at Stamford Bridge one of my faves ever. Zidane as well, a ballerina on a football field.

Justin Fashanu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmkr8LrNw14

All 10 of the above Ronaldinho goals are pretty tasty but number 2 is the one I will always remember.  Any England fans close your eyes for number 7!

BOBAN

No player in history has cost me more money than Zvonimir Boban. So he can do one.

Enzo Francescoli

IMO I'd hazard a guess that 95%+ of the population of the UK
have never seen Maradona play near 10 hours of football live (maybe much less)
given that he'd long gone from Napoli when Ch4 'Football Italia' started
and the tendency (in those days) of BBC and ITV not showing all live World Cup games,
be it due to group fixture clashes, time schedules or only highlights
(you'd get 3 minutes of Paraguay v Belgium)

Yet so many keyboard experts personally portray him as the all-conqering Messiah, in football terms

Only 4 major medals and about 20 international goals from the age of 22

How spoilt we are now with hundreds and thousands of hours of Messi, Zidane, Ronaldo, Buffon etc.

Roy Keane, Eric Cantona, Christiano Ronaldo

Morricone