Most Overrated and Underrated Players Mod warning post # 732

orourkeda

I'm not an Arsenal supporter but one of the best centre halves I've seen in the PL in recent seasons is Thomas Vermaelen. Not sure if you could call him underrated though.

The most overrated player in the PL has to be Glen Johnson. Joe Cole is another

YouTookMyName

Morzadec wrote: »

I still maintain his leaving was the number one reason for Liverpool/Rafa's rapid decline

All Liverpool fans know this.

everdead.ie

Underrated Assou-Ekotto plays some great passes.

Luap

Pique overrated; Diarra Underrated :eek:

mink_man

under rated:

Odemwingie
Fletcher
Darren Bent
Brunt
Etherington
Kevin Davies (gets the job done)
Rob Huth
and last but not least JOHN O SHEA.

Jordonvito

orourkeda wrote: »

I'm not an Arsenal supporter but one of the best centre halves I've seen in the PL in recent seasons is Thomas Vermaelen. Not sure if you could call him underrated though.

The most overrated player in the PL has to be Glen Johnson. Joe Cole is another

Personally think Vermaelen is overrated. If he hadnt have scored as many spectacular goals as he did last year I dont think he would have got as much praise as he has.
Although he's better than Koscielny, has had a couple of good games, most notably against Barca, but my god he has been awful in some games.

Hannibal

YouTookMyName wrote: »

All Liverpool fans know this.

Morzadec wrote: »

I still maintain his leaving was the number one reason for Liverpool/Rafa's rapid decline

The reason for Liverpool's rapid decline was Hicks and Gillett's ownership of the club. Go further back and look at how David Moores ran or didn't run the club since 1991 when he bought in.

Lucas and Darren Fletcher are two severely under rated players, only their managers and team mates understand their importance

G.K.

Looking back on this thread after a gap of some months makes for quite interesting reading.

joe123

Raul Meireles is/was sickeningly underrated by Liverpool fans.

Leiva

joe123 wrote: »

Raul Meireles is/was sickeningly underrated by Liverpool fans.

Meh.

joe123

mixednuts wrote: »

Meh.

And there we have a perfect example.

Leiva

joe123 wrote: »

And there we have a perfect example.

:pac:
It was in reply to your ridiculous sweeping statement .

homerjay2005

G.K. wrote: »

Looking back on this thread after a gap of some months makes for quite interesting reading.

ashley young in the original post IIRC


this should be called the Garreth Bale thread.

The_Kew_Tour

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Over- Reina

Under- Kuyt, Adam.

hmmmm

ya still about right:p

joe123

mixednuts wrote: »

:pac:
It was in reply to your ridiculous sweeping statement .

Going by our thread the day he was sold not a **** was given. Think there was myself and about two other posters who actually cared he was sold.

"sure hes backup"
"ah we have henderson"
"he goes missing in games"
"he gets tired too easily"
"hes not strong enough"

Were pretty much the sweeping statements.

iregk

Who under rates Kuyt? I don't think he is either under or over rated. I think he plays at his level and goes about his job.

Le King

Overrated: Mikel
Underrated: Anderson

steelcityblues

Overrated

Andy Carroll - for the money Liverpool invested in him, at least.

Carlton Cole - how did he win caps for England?

Kaka - great, but never the best player in the world at any point.

Franck Ribery - his attitude is terrible - at least at international level.

Sergio Busquetes - average, dirty player, in an otherwise special team

Underrated

Anderson - come on a lot in recent years, but still under the radar.

Pepe Reina - kept highest number of clean sheets for several seasons, yet more press attention given to Cech, VDS, Hart, etc.

Aaron Lennon - probably a better all round player than Bale.

Mario Goetze - at least outside of Germany, for now. Should change soon.

Ricardo Fuller - getting on, but one of the best controllers of the ball I have seen in recent years. Great provider too. Stoke legend.

Blatter

eugeneious wrote: »

Over:

Fabregas- Controversial? Well I think he's overrated in England because he's such a rare type of player. If he was playing in Spain he would not be seen as a very top player like he is in England hence why Barca are looking into signing Borja Valero instead. Also he goes missing in the big games far too often for me.

:pac:






Sorry

Sgt Pepper 64

Le King wrote: »

Overrated: Mikel
Underrated: Anderson

Mikel's very underrated. Just does a simple job.
He's a defence midfielder, what else is he supposed to do except break play up and then pass it to a team mate?

Le King

steelcityblues wrote: »

Overrated

Andy Carroll - for the money Liverpool invested in him, at least.

Carlton Cole - how did he win caps for England?

Kaka - great, but never the best player in the world at any point.

Franck Ribery - his attitude is terrible - at least at international level.

Sergio Busquetes - average, dirty player, in an otherwise special team

Underrated

Anderson - come on a lot in recent years, but still under the radar.

Pepe Reina - kept highest number of clean sheets for several seasons, yet more press attention given to Cech, VDS, Hart, etc.

Aaron Lennon - probably a better all round player than Bale.

Mario Goetze - at least outside of Germany, for now. Should change soon.

Ricardo Fuller - getting on, but one of the best controllers of the ball I have seen in recent years. Great provider too. Stoke legend.

Before Kaka's legs went he was absolute top class.

CorkMan

I know i'm a bit too late to post this, but if I could I would have posted this before:

Overrated = Steve Staunton.

steelcityblues

Le King wrote: »

Before Kaka's legs went he was absolute top class.

Not denying he was class, but even back then I would have put Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Samuel Eto'o , and maybe a few others ahead of him in the best player in the world category.

Le King

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Le King wrote: »

Overrated: Mikel
Underrated: Anderson

Mikel's very underrated. Just does a simple job.
He's a defence midfielder, what else is he supposed to do except break play up and then pass it to a team mate?

He's overrated at exactly just that. Listened to far too many delusional opinions on him for far too long. Comparisons with Makelele have arisen at one stage too. Just my opinion of course.

eugeneious

Blatter wrote: »

:pac:






Sorry

Lol, lets just pretend I never wrote that!

wonderboysam

steelcityblues wrote: »

Underrated
Aaron Lennon - probably a better all round player than Bale.

:pac:

steelcityblues

wonderboysam wrote: »

:pac:

Why the pac?

Bale has great pace, but is not the best in other departments.

wonderboysam

ah come on, hes clearly better than lennon - for one hes able to cross the ball

The_Kew_Tour

CorkMan wrote: »

I know i'm a bit too late to post this, but if I could I would have posted this before:

Overrated = Steve Staunton.

actually agree with you on that one, cost us more vital goals then anything

steelcityblues

wonderboysam wrote: »

ah come on, hes clearly better than lennon - for one hes able to cross the ball

Lennon seems to be the harder worker of the two - guess that's why I like him more.

Bale goes very quiet against the elite PL teams - at least to date. That one Inter performance had the English journos going a bit silly. Still, he has youth on his side.

RGDATA!

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

actually agree with you on that one, cost us more vital goals then anything

CorkMan wrote: »

I know i'm a bit too late to post this, but if I could I would have posted this before:

Overrated = Steve Staunton.

agree. never really rated him. I wouldn't rate him any higher than O'Shea for example. As an Irish player, and probably in general, he had a great attitude, and for that was the kind of player you wanted on the team, but too much was always made about his 'cultured' left foot. scored a few free kicks and piledrivers, but he was mostly a hoofer. I think he was one of the weakest players in the Liverpool teams he played in, but he was mature, and a left back, so he got away with it

G.K.

Overrated:

• Adam
• Evra
• Alex
• Song
• Barry
• Bale
• Rodwell
• Crouch

Underrated:
(ENG)

• Alcaraz
• Tchoyi
• Walters
• Heitinga
• Mignolet
• Vaughan
• Bannan
• Ramires
• Maxi
• Lindegaard (By non Utd fans)
• Faurlin
• Gomez

(ROW)

• Banega
• Schwaab
• Howedes
• Busquets

amiable

G.K. wrote: »

Overrated:

• Farluin

Is this Alejandro Faurlin?

G.K.

Yeah.

amiable

G.K. wrote: »

Yeah.

Very under rated IMO

Quality player

MUSEIST

Le King wrote: »

Overrated: Mikel
Underrated: Anderson

LOL, mikel is not overrated. I have never heard anyone rate him highly. He breaks up play and passes sideways or backwards. That is all he does. For someone to be overrated surely they have to be rated highly in the first place, mikel is highly rated by nobody.

I dont think he is overrated or underrated tbh. He is a very 'meh' player

iregk

I've got to agree here. I've yet to meet anyone who over rates Mikel or even rates his as a top level player. He is rated where he belongs which is distinctly average in a Michael Carrick type way.

The comment about Kaka makes me wonder about some people. Before injury he was top class and yes held a very legitimate claim to be the worlds best. Makes me think you've done the typical ignorant thing and watched 1 or 2 champions league games, never watched him in serie a and based your opinion on that.

Lastly someone said Gotze was under-rated "but this will change". Come on lads seriously? This is in effect only his second season as a pro. He hasn't long since turned 19 so most people have no opinion on his other than he has enormous potential. Last season he was good but at times naive. This season he has started red hot and people proclaim his as under rated. How can he be under rated, he simply isn't that well known to most. Give him another couple of seasons before labeling him under or over rated.

Le King

MUSEIST wrote: »

Le King wrote: »

Overrated: Mikel
Underrated: Anderson

LOL, mikel is not overrated. I have never heard anyone rate him highly. He breaks up play and passes sideways or backwards. That is all he does. For someone to be overrated surely they have to be rated highly in the first place, mikel is highly rated by nobody.

I dont think he is overrated or underrated tbh. He is a very 'meh' player

Maybe outside your circle people have been OTT about him... LOL.

Meh, childish.

Leiva

Over: Barry

Under: Enrique

VW 1

Paully D wrote: »

Who do you think are the most overrated and underrated players?

Overrated:

Ashley Young
Theo Walcott


Underrated:

Mulumubu of West Brom
Stewart Downing
Kevin Doyle (outside of Ireland)

Finally realising that potential

Le King wrote: »

Overrated: Mikel
Underrated: Anderson

No longer

steelcityblues wrote: »

Overrated

Andy Carroll - for the money Liverpool invested in him, at least.

Carlton Cole - how did he win caps for England?

Kaka - great, but never the best player in the world at any point.

Franck Ribery - his attitude is terrible - at least at international level.

Sergio Busquetes - average, dirty player, in an otherwise special team

Underrated

Anderson - come on a lot in recent years, but still under the radar.

Pepe Reina - kept highest number of clean sheets for several seasons, yet more press attention given to Cech, VDS, Hart, etc.

Aaron Lennon - probably a better all round player than Bale.

Mario Goetze - at least outside of Germany, for now. Should change soon.

Ricardo Fuller - getting on, but one of the best controllers of the ball I have seen in recent years. Great provider too. Stoke legend.

Busquets, as much as I dislike him, is the best player in the world at what he does. How can you overrate that!?

As for Lennon, he may well be better than Bale but he isnt under rated, fantastic pace but thats about where it ends for him.

That_Guy

Over rated:

Charlie Adam
Phil Jagielka


Under rated:

Lucas
Leon Best
Nunez (plays for Leeds)

homerjay2005

Sergio Busquets is an absolutely smashing player.

people dont rate him, as he is a bit of a p*ick, but my god is he a talented player. given his position, his age, his talent and what he allows the rest of the team to do, he probably would be the ideal player for United to sign right now.

and he can pass the ball also, he was absolutely immense in the CL final in May.

haters gonna hate.

Nalz

Wes Hoolahan is massively underrated by a Italian

I agree with the below regarding Adam and Song being overrated. I think Lennon is muck tbh.

homerjay2005 wrote: »

haters gonna hate.

I'm gonna stay a hatin!

Esse85

Pauleta wrote: »

Underated


Richard Dunne: Ive never seen what people see in him

Shay Given: Excellent shot stopper but he wont come off his line.

Did you not watch the Russia game?

Backstreet Moyes

Esse85 wrote: »

Did you not watch the Russia game?

Richard Dunne won what Man City player of the year 4 years in a row or something for a centre half. Plus what he does for Ireland i dont know how you can say he is overrated. Nobody is calling him world class but he has been exceptional for Ireland and mid table Premiership clubs through his carear and deserves all the praise he gets.

Given has been a saviour for Ireland for so many years and performed very well in the Premiership all his carear i dont see how he is overrated. Given is still a top keeper and better than Joe Hart who is massively overrated only got the position at City because he is young and English.

Overrated.

Charlie Adam
Gareth Bale
Vermalen
Gary Cahill
Jack Rodwell

Underrated.
Anderson
Nani
long
Enrique
Chris Brunt
Fellaini
Meireles
Ramires

G.K.

That_Guy wrote: »

Nunez (plays for Leeds)

Damn straight

Esse85

Nuts102 wrote: »

Richard Dunne won what Man City player of the year 4 years in a row or something for a centre half. Plus what he does for Ireland i dont know how you can say he is overrated. Nobody is calling him world class but he has been exceptional for Ireland and mid table Premiership clubs through his carear and deserves all the praise he gets.

Given has been a saviour for Ireland for so many years and performed very well in the Premiership all his carear i dont see how he is overrated. Given is still a top keeper and better than Joe Hart who is massively overrated only got the position at City because he is young and English.

Overrated.

Charlie Adam
Gareth Bale
Vermalen
Gary Cahill
Jack Rodwell

Underrated.
Anderson
Nani
long
Enrique
Chris Brunt
Fellaini
Meireles
Ramires

Here is the original post,http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=71618945&postcount=24 you should aim that at him not me as I think Dunne & Given are under-rated.

Backstreet Moyes

Esse85 wrote: »

Here is the original post,http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=71618945&postcount=24 you should aim that at him not me as I think Dunne & Given are under-rated.

Ah yes i misclicked i agree with you.

Vurnon San Benito

Darren Bent overrated IMO.

Underrated - Fabricio Coloccini.

Maybe a tad biased :pac:

BOHtox

amiable wrote: »

Is this Alejandro Faurlin?

He plays every week for a Premiership club, how highly exactly do you rate him? He's at his level in my opinion.