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Pete53 Flag Hassocks 15 Aug 22 11.17am

Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

Agreed.

when he plays well he is amazing.

It's just that it doesn't seem to happen very often.

....................

another one.

George Best.....what's the point in having the talent of a Greek God when you have feet of clay ? Permanently sozzled. ManUre were right to sack him. After an amazing start, his football career became an embarrassment of shyte teams in crapper leagues.

Edited by PalazioVecchio (18 Sep 2021 2.46pm)

From 1964 to 1970 he was brilliant and was a shining beacon in British football standing head and shoulders above pretty well everyone else in the game then.

Yes his career petered out but the 6 or 7 years he was in control of himself was worth 10 of most other players.

 
Eaglecoops Flag CR3 15 Aug 22 12.15pm

Not sure about Jack Grealish. Sometimes looks like there is a real player in there but he is probably less consistent than Wilf, so on that basis alone I would say he is over rated and was definitely over priced.

Maguire is top of my list, but then again he appears to be top of most lists for being over rated.

 
RednBluArmy Flag Broadstairs 15 Aug 22 1.24pm

I am sure he will prove to be a top, top player and score many many goals in the Premier, but after the first weeks matches where admittedly he scored 2, the MoD pundits were literally fainting over Haaland. So desperate to have a superstar in the Prem that you'd have thought he scored 2 worldies.
Anyway, I hope he turns out to be bang average against us and Maradona incarnate against the weed.

 
CPFC1965 Flag Warrington 15 Aug 22 3.36pm

Neymar definitely, if he wasn't Brazilian there'd be no hype at all. Pogba though, I've always thought plays to a standard slightly higher to a team he's playing in. For France he looks immense, for a poor Utd side he looked disinterested. The most overpaid player we had was Padovano, a complete waste of space,time and money.

 
ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 17 Aug 22 7.29pm

Originally posted by esox lucius

Neil Emblem

Who rated him?

 

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monkey Flag Sittingbourne,but made in Bromley 17 Aug 22 7.36pm

Originally posted by ASCPFC

Who rated him?

Fans of Sittingbourne FC as he used to play for them before Millwall started him off on his pro career

 
ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 17 Aug 22 7.41pm

Originally posted by monkey

Fans of Sittingbourne FC as he used to play for them before Millwall started him off on his pro career

Cheers mate

This one will cheer everyone up, these are genuine highlights:

[Link]

 

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AshfordEagle94 Flag Canterbury 20 Aug 22 6.24am

Originally posted by ASCPFC

Cheers mate

This one will cheer everyone up, these are genuine highlights:

[Link]

I'll be honest and say even now I think Meyer was a good player who never really got a fair chance but I will also be honest and say I have no idea how they managed to stretch this video to 7 minutes

Edited by AshfordEagle94 (20 Aug 2022 6.24am)

 
AshfordEagle94 Flag Canterbury 20 Aug 22 6.29am

Overrated players I would probably say Mason Mount, I can think of at least 10 players I would pick over him if I were Southgate. Kyle Walker, everyone raves about him but I'm not sure I've ever seen a pass from him go to someone on his team. I would say Kane as well, an excellent finisher but I do wonder how much of his performance is down to Son. If you gave me a choice of Son or Kane at Palace, it would be Son every time. For us, I would have to say Ben Watson, those corners still haunt me and yet he never seemed to stop taking them

 
PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 26 Sep 22 10.04pm

Harry maguire.....again again

 

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PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 24 Nov 22 8.55pm

Originally posted by CPFC1965

Neymar definitely, if he wasn't Brazilian there'd be no hype at all.

watching Brazil tonight, Neymar is barely fit to wear the shirt.

The rest of the squad are giants.....Richarlison is amazing.

Neymar is always full of promise on great achievements sometime next week......

 

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YT Flag Oxford 24 Nov 22 9.36pm

Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

watching Brazil tonight, Neymar is barely fit to wear the shirt.

The rest of the squad are giants.....Richarlison is amazing.

Neymar is always full of promise on great achievements sometime next week......

Neymar is good at convincing the referee that he's been fouled, just like Ronaldo. A big part of what's wrong with the modern game, in my opinion.

 

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pompeyeagle Flag Relocated to Shropshire 24 Nov 22 10.15pm

Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

watching Brazil tonight, Neymar is barely fit to wear the shirt.

The rest of the squad are giants.....Richarlison is amazing.

Neymar is always full of promise on great achievements sometime next week......

Finally. For the life of me I have never understood why Neymar is so highly rated, not that I see much of him but when I have seen him I can honestly say I have never seen him have a good game. I thought it was just me.

 
Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 24 Nov 22 10.33pm

Originally posted by pompeyeagle

Finally. For the life of me I have never understood why Neymar is so highly rated, not that I see much of him but when I have seen him I can honestly say I have never seen him have a good game. I thought it was just me.

Goals, goals, goals !
A total of 255 goals in 406 apps for Santos, Barcelona and PSG.
A total of 75 goals in 121 apps for Brazil, just 2 behind Pele's total for his country.

 
ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 25 Nov 22 12.21pm

Originally posted by pompeyeagle

Finally. For the life of me I have never understood why Neymar is so highly rated, not that I see much of him but when I have seen him I can honestly say I have never seen him have a good game. I thought it was just me.

I'm similar - he's not in the Messi or Ronaldo category at all. Not on the same planet really.

 

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ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 25 Nov 22 12.22pm

Originally posted by Willo

Goals, goals, goals !
A total of 255 goals in 406 apps for Santos, Barcelona and PSG.
A total of 75 goals in 121 apps for Brazil, just 2 behind Pele's total for his country.

A rich man's Kevin Phillips.

 

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pompeyeagle Flag Relocated to Shropshire 25 Nov 22 10.48pm

Dan James. What does he actually ever contribute to any team he’s been in? He falls over a lot and commits a lot of fouls and that’s about it. £40 million in transfer fees and nothing to show for it.

 
CPFC1965 Flag Warrington 26 Nov 22 4.26am

Purely from tonight the entire English team. A totally inept performance, completely out played by an MLS side.

 
silvertop Flag Portishead 26 Nov 22 11.39am

Originally posted by ASCPFC

A rich man's Kevin Phillips.

Very very rich.

 
silvertop Flag Portishead 26 Nov 22 11.56am

Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

please give your justifications & discussion.

Feel free to disagree with other Eagles on these opinions.


Neymar ....... seems to be in a permanent honeymoon period, with forgiveness for many failures to deliver

Olivier Giroud ..... World class ? he seems to specialize in wearing the shirt of conquering teams while doing little himself to contribute to the conquest.

Pele ...... the Media's darling. He is good, but not that good.

Mesut Ozil.....my favourite Arsenal player, 42 million quid of lazy wandering shyte.

David Luiz.....another Arsenal hero i love. Always involved in every f..ck-up in the box. Always pointing the finger and blaming somebody else after conceding a goal.

what others ?

Coming late to this, David Luiz is the great mystery "world class" player.

You sum him up well. Memories of him weeping after Brazil got humiliated at home by the Germans substantively down to him...

Rooney. How many of his record breaking national goal tally were penalties or tap ins versus weak opponents in qualifying matches? Other than his debut when he broke his foot (when he was amazing) I only recall dire lacklustre performances in every tournament for England. Giving him the captain's armband was asking for Iceland. Yet the media could not take the tongue out his hole and he was always "first on the teamsheet" to the inevitable detriment of England.

 
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