Who are the most overrated players of all time?

dd972

Are there any players who perplex you as regards the sort of careers they had or the sums they were sold for, for instance;

Trevor Brooking - according to Brian Clough '' floats like a butterfly and stings like one ''

Charlie Nicholas - figuratively speaking, he scored about 50 goals in one year for Celtic, then scored about 40 goals in 6 years after decamping to Arsenal, never could figure out why the Arsenal fans used to regard him as some sort of legend.

Gary Breen - always looked like Bambi on ice to me.

Ashley Ward - check out his combined transfer fees

Nathan Blake - same as Ashley Ward

hefferboi

Rio Ferdinand, Evra, Nasri.

tvercetti

hefferboi wrote: »

Rio Ferdinand, Evra, Nasri.

LOL, LOL, LOL

dd972

Nasri a good point, never seen him dominate a game for 90 minutes, likewise with Joey Barton

Insect Overlord

IBTL...

justshane

Nasri has time yet, Rio was a half decent defender in his day, but his day is long long over.

buyer95

Emile heskey

Fizman

Cantona.

/thread.

12gauge dave

DAVID BECKHAM

dd972

People used to talk about Darren Anderton in the mid 90's as if he was as good as today's Gareth Bale, again never saw it

hefferboi

tvercetti wrote: »

LOL, LOL, LOL

Any opinion yourself no?

kryogen

Steve Mcnanaman (is that how you spell it? ) whatever

In all honesty there are too many to list and its pretty subjective

kryogen

hefferboi wrote: »

Any opinion yourself no?

I am of the opinion that your post is 2/3 bull****

Rio was one of the best in the world
Evra was one of the best in the world
Nasri, Im with you there

Washington Irving

This thread is already going in the usual way. People are only nominating rival clubs players.

budgemook

Evra and Rio were class!

Joe Cole was overrated before being found out at Liverpool.

Hulk.

J. Marston

Rio had a long period where he was one of the elite defenders in the world, top 3-5 easily. Evra had about a 2-3 year period where he was one of the best left backs around. They're both past their best now but still contribute a lot to United.

Nasri? Flashes of something every 3 months or so, hardly deserves to rated as over-rated (if that makes sense...).

Edit: Agree with Hulk.

12gauge dave

Pele has to be the most overated player of all time imo

Its a brave statement to make i know and not many will agree

Essien

hefferboi wrote: »

Rio Ferdinand, Evra, Nasri.

Rio is a smashing defender on his day, has been for the best part Of a decade, if he's overrated, it's not by much.

areyawell

Henderson
Andy Carroll
Fabio Borini
Joe Allen
Daniel Sturridge
Glen Johnson
Stewart Downing
Pepe Reina
Joe Cole

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Some absolute waste of money for the price that were paid for them. Its not a dig at Liverpool but come on, how clueless have your last two managers for paying over the odds for average players. Ye need someone like Redknapp to take ye forward not another donkey like Rodgers!

budgemook

areyawell wrote: »

Henderson
Andy Carroll
Fabio Borini
Joe Allen
Daniel Sturridge
Glen Johnson
Stewart Downing
Pepe Reina
Joe Cole

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Some absolute waste of money for the price that were paid for them. Its not a dig at Liverpool but come on, how clueless have your last two managers for paying over the odds for average players. Ye need someone like Redknapp to take ye forward not another donkey like Rodgers!

Essien

To be fair, I'm struggling to think of many players who are grossly overrated by anyone outside of their own fanbase and/or 'neutral' pundits.

PhlegmyMoses

Was going to say Steve McManaman. Never really did it after Liverpool. Some good games here and there for Madrid but couldn't cement a place. Was never a threat at City and retired fairly young. Poor man's Ryan Giggs.

I'd also suggest Luis Figo. He was a very good player but his goalscoring record was relatively poor considering the position he played in and the clubs he played for, he had no pace and I never really saw why he was worth the huge sum Madrid paid for him. Like I said, very good player but not in the same league as some of the players whose level he was apparently at.

Ferdinand and Evra have achieved a level of excellence on a consistent basis that most players could only wish for. They are both winding down their careers now but at their peak they were immense.

Essien

areyawell wrote: »

Henderson
Andy Carroll
Fabio Borini
Joe Allen
Daniel Sturridge
Glen Johnson
Stewart Downing
Pepe Reina
Joe Cole

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Some absolute waste of money for the price that were paid for them. Its not a dig at Liverpool but come on, how clueless have your last two managers for paying over the odds for average players. Ye need someone like Redknapp to take ye forward not another donkey like Rodgers!

The best bit was where you said that wasn't a dig at Liverpool

Fenix

Oh, this must be the thread where we get to find out who actually watches football.

I am pie

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Was going to say Steve McManaman. Never really did it after Liverpool. Some good games here and there for Madrid but couldn't cement a place. Was never a threat at City and retired fairly young. Poor man's Ryan Giggs.

I'd also suggest Luis Figo. He was a very good player but his goalscoring record was relatively poor considering the position he played in and the clubs he played for, he had no pace and I never really saw why he was worth the huge sum Madrid paid for him. Like I said, very good player but not in the same league as some of the players whose level he was apparently at.

Ferdinand and Evra have achieved a level of excellence on a consistent basis that most players could only wish for. They are both winding down their careers now but at their peak they were immense.

Luis Figo????

You sir, are a fool.

Owen_S

Gaizka Mendieta

PhlegmyMoses

I am pie wrote: »

Luis Figo????

You sir, are a fool.

Cheers bro. Anything else to add, or is it just insults?

areyawell

I am pie wrote: »

Luis Figo????

You sir, are a fool.

Pires had no pace either, suppose he was overrated as well?

PhlegmyMoses

areyawell wrote: »

Pires had no pace either, suppose he was overrated as well?

Yeah, because that's what my point boiled down to. I saw quite a bit of Figo when he was playing and always felt that while he was a good player, he wasn't one of the best in the world at the time. The general consensus at the time was that he was. For this reason, I feel he was overrated.

Winston Payne

Daniele de Rossi. Would have cost more than Javi Garcia and performed absolutely no better. Held up as one of the finest midfield players in Europe. He ain't.

Rubber_Soul

dd972 wrote: »

likewise with Joey Barton

Did anybody ever he claim he did?

Invincible

Wayne Rooney
If he was any other nationality, there would be nothing about him.

kryogen

Invincible wrote: »

Wayne Rooney
If he was any other nationality, there would be nothing about him.

Disagree with that, regardless of where he was from he would be recognised as a top player.

Did the English go overboard? Course they did, its what they do, Jack Wilshire is as good as Messi dont you know, so is Gareth Bale

justshane

Winston Payne wrote: »

Daniele de Rossi. Would have cost more than Javi Garcia and performed absolutely no better. Held up as one of the finest midfield players in Europe. He ain't.

Eh he is, do you watch him play much? Not going on that post.

Winston Payne

justshane wrote: »

Eh he is, do you watch him play much? Not going on that post.

I've been watching Serie A for the last three seasons. He's not been all that for Roma either in that time. He was half-decent for Italy at the European Championships. That's what he is. Half-decent. Can be effective on his day. I think people go overboard about him. Would have Marchisio in a heartbeat ahead of him and that's just in Italy's midfield.

justshane

I disagree but that's your opinion. I'll admit I don't get to take in as much Serie A as i would like but any game in which I've seen him play(including the euros) he has been top class. Also i rate Marchisio very highly too.

hefferboi

Invincible wrote: »

Wayne Rooney
If he was any other nationality, there would be nothing about him.

He's a top player and tbf even United fans don't overrate him.

darced

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FlawedGenius

Freddie Adu

kryogen

FlawedGenius wrote: »

Freddie Adu

Was he rated though? Apart from when he was about 13 of course

eagle eye

J. Marston wrote: »

Rio had a long period where he was one of the elite defenders in the world, top 3-5 easily. Evra had about a 2-3 year period where he was one of the best left backs around. They're both past their best now but still contribute a lot to United.

Nasri? Flashes of something every 3 months or so, hardly deserves to rated as over-rated (if that makes sense...).

Edit: Agree with Hulk.

You see here we go with overrated. Can you tell me what period was that?

Where were Maldini, Nesta, Cannavaro, Puyol, Lucio, Terry and Carvalho during this long period?

You'll notice I left out Vidic because he didn't become known about until around 2006 but you can add him if you are talking about from that time onwards which is no accident because Vidic made him look a lot better than he ever really was.

There are plenty of others too who I could add into that list except they retired or became established during Rio's career. Players like Ayala, Hyypia and Vidic are examples.

kryogen

Rio was better then Terry

Carvalho made Terry look better then he ever was

Nemanja91

David Luiz.

kryogen

Also, at his peak, Rio was better then Maldini, Cannavaro, Puyol etc etc etc in the same time period, we may have differing opinions on when his peak was, but there you go

WoollyRedHat

Pele, bit of a song and dance over the lad.

kryogen

Pele has come up a few times, how many people here were watching games when Pele was alive, and enough of his games to make any sort of judgement at all on him in fact?

SirDelboy18

Rio was under-rated if this thread is anything to go by.

Cantona

kryogen

Gerrard

Bodhisopha

Cantona and Gerrard.

Giggsy11

Cantona, Gerrard, Terry.