The best player from each country to play England

WinnyThePoo

Canada : T. Radzinzki

WinnyThePoo

Swedan: Freddie ljungberg

New Zealand : Ryan Nelson...

Congo: lomona lua lua

IncognitoMan

Portugal - Ronaldo

France - Henry

Holland - Van Nistelrooy

Spain - De Gea

Brazil - Gilberto Silva

Ireland - Roy Keane

Wales - Giggs

Belgium - Hazard

Germany - Ozil

Italy - Zola

Sweden - Zlatan

Denmark - Schmeichel

Nigeria - Jay Jay Okocha

Uruguay - Suarez

Argentina - Agureo

tastyt

tastyt wrote: »

Duncan Ferguson I suppose?? Talent has really dried up for them over the past 20 years

I was a bit puzzled by the suggestion of Coutinho as the best ever from Brazil to play in England, smiled at Cantona from France, but the thought of midtable scrapper Ferguson being better than Dalglish, Bremner, Lorimer, Law, Souness, Hansen and on and on and on, with their trophy cabinets groaning and their place in football history secured. Duncan Ferguson?

Moist Bread

Deleted User wrote: »

I was a bit puzzled by the suggestion of Coutinho as the best ever from Brazil to play in England, smiled at Cantona from France, but the thought of midtable scrapper Ferguson being better than Dalglish, Bremner, Lorimer, Law, Souness, Hansen and on and on and on, with their trophy cabinets groaning and their place in football history secured. Duncan Ferguson?

He was likely thinking of the Premier League era.

Jayop

Moist Bread wrote: »

He was likely thinking of the Premier League era.

Still not Big Dunc though.

Also why would you be puzzled by Coutinho Conor? It's hardly outlandish.

Sin City

ANDREI KANCHELSKIS - Russia

PETER NDLOVU - Zimbabwe

Minderbinder

It's amazing how few really top players from the other great football nations have actually played in England, especially given the money involved since the start of the PL. And the standard seems to be getting worse, not better.

Trigger

Sin City wrote: »

ANDREI KANCHELSKIS - Russia, CIS & Soviet Union

FYP, and just the one I was going to put up

Harry Palmr

Minderbinder wrote: »

It's amazing how few really top players from the other great football nations have actually played in England, especially given the money involved since the start of the PL. And the standard seems to be getting worse, not better.

What? Kneel before Zlatan!

At the moment the PL is home to Aguero, Sanchez, Pogba (cough), Costa, Hazard, Jesus and just had the aforementioned Zlatan. Are you not entertained?

irishman86

Jayop wrote: »

Still not Big Dunc though.

Also why would you be puzzled by Coutinho Conor? It's hardly outlandish.

Gilberto Silva was mentioned who Id have over Coutinho but Im struggling to think of a lot ahead of Coutinho so agree with you its not crazy

caviardreams

Mexico - Javier Hernandez (runners up Carlos Vela, dos Santos)

Little pea wins this for me. Scored some really important goals and a great personality in the game too.

Luap

Iceland - Sigurdsson

Quazzie

WinnyThePoo wrote: »

Liberian: George Weah jnr

Christophe Wreh

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Australia has to be Harry Kewell

Tim Cahill surely?

Jayop

Kewell at leeds was outstanding. Cahill did it for much longer at a lower level imo. Tough call.

tastyt

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I was a bit puzzled by the suggestion of Coutinho as the best ever from Brazil to play in England, smiled at Cantona from France, but the thought of midtable scrapper Ferguson being better than Dalglish, Bremner, Lorimer, Law, Souness, Hansen and on and on and on, with their trophy cabinets groaning and their place in football history secured. Duncan Ferguson?

Apologies, I thought we were talking premier league era, obviously nowhere near it if wer talking all time

peterswellman

~Rebel~ wrote: »

How does memory come into it? It's not like he was forgotten... and the chap i'm choosing came to England 7 years before him. For there on, it just looks like a difference of opinion... I mean, I completely agree that Silva was great. He allowed a brilliant team to do their best work in front of him. I'd admit i'm probably blinkered towards preferring attacking players though.

Your blindness shouldn't matter. He was clearly the best Brazilian player to grace England in terms of what he achieved and how well he performed. He was absolutely pivotal to Arsenals success and it's clear you don't remember how good he actually was if you are suggesting of the others listed were close to him.

Jayop

peterswellman wrote: »

Your blindness shouldn't matter. He was clearly the best Brazilian player to grace England in terms of what he achieved and how well he performed. He was absolutely pivotal to Arsenals success and it's clear you don't remember how good he actually was if you are suggesting of the others listed were close to him.

He was brilliant and but some people will always favour attacking flare players. That doesn't mean there's a blindness.

peterswellman

Jayop wrote: »

He was brilliant and but some people will always favour attacking flare players. That doesn't mean there's a blindness.

Just because you prefer attacking players doesn't mean they were better:rolleyes: That's your issue if you are afflicted with a ridiculous bias and yes it is a form of blindness.

bucketybuck

eagle eye wrote: »

Well Ballack was in my thoughts but he only had one really good year in England imo.

Lehmann not a chance although he was a decent keeper.

Klinsmann had a great season with Spurs but he only played one and a half seasons in the Premier league so I couldn't put him ahead of man who was consistently top level for a long time.

Hamman might have done a grand job as a solid player for Liverpool but he never reached the heights of the others. But do me a favour before I continue, with an open mind go and actually look at what Jens Lehmann achieved during his time at Arsenal, take a real good look at his career and then ask if he was just a decent keeper.

Jayop wrote: »

Ah here lol. In the premier league era the best Scottish player is Darren Fletcher by a country mile. But we're not doing PL so you'd have the likes of Law and Dalglish

I'd put Colin Hendry ahead of Fletcher in quite a few metrics.

Panthro wrote: »

Langdon Donovan USA
Tim Howard a close second
Tim Howard a close third
(Get it?!)

Did you mean Brad Friedel?

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

There was a good australian keeper too.
Can't think of his name, played for Villa, and united I think.

Schwarzer was a better Australian keeper than Bosnich.

JPA

Speaking of Germans, no mention of a 3 time PL champion..... Robert Huth.

Most appearances by a German as well.

pjohnson

Benjani must be the best Zimbabwean

JPA

pjohnson wrote: »

Benjani must be the best Zimbabwean

He's no Peter Ndlovu.

Rikand

sonic85 wrote: »

Norway - Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, John Arne Rise, Tore Andre Flo, Henning Berg, John Carew, Brede Hangeland, Morten Gamst Pedersen
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Solskjaer might have won the more trophies but Pedersen was the best player

SomethingElse

WinnyThePoo wrote: »

Canada : T. Radzinzki

Owen Hargreaves!

SomethingElse

Sin City wrote: »

PETER NDLOVU - Zimbabwe

Bruce Grobelaar!

Muff_Daddy

Luap wrote: »

Iceland - Sigurdsson

Eidur Gudjohnsen?

TitianGerm

Thinking of a country not mentioned

Israel - Benayoun

BorneTobyWilde

Peru has to be Nolberto Solano, very much first name on team sheet when fit.
Very consistent over many many seasons

SomethingElse

bucketybuck wrote: »

Hamman might have done a grand job as a solid player for Liverpool but he never reached the heights of the others. But do me a favour before I continue, with an open mind go and actually look at what Jens Lehmann achieved during his time at Arsenal, take a real good look at his career and then ask if he was just a decent keeper.



I'd put Colin Hendry ahead of Fletcher in quite a few metrics.



Did you mean Brad Friedel?


Schwarzer was a better Australian keeper than Bosnich.

Keller was a better American keeper than Friedel

SomethingElse

emmetkenny wrote: »

Thinking of a country not mentioned

Israel - Benayoun

And Eyal Berkovic

Jayop

peterswellman wrote: »

Just because you prefer attacking players doesn't mean they were better:rolleyes: That's your issue if you are afflicted with a ridiculous bias and yes it is a form of blindness.

Jesus man it's supposed to be a bit of craic. Really no need for the aggressive posts. It's about opinions and whether you like it or not my bias is always going to be towards attacking players to the point where I'm picking a bloody Liverpool player ahead of others who would be in the mixer.

Sin City

Berbatov - Bulgaria

Szczesny - Poland

Zoltan Gera - Hungary

Sin City

SomethingElse wrote: »

Bruce Grobelaar!

Hes good
but hes no Ndlovu

Jayop

What other Poles would there be? A few goalkeepers or PiGs.


BTW here's a handy wiki page for cheats like me who struggle to remember players.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_Premier_League_players?wprov=sfla1

pjohnson

Jayop wrote: »

What other Poles would there be? A few goalkeepers or PiGs.


BTW here's a handy wiki page for cheats like me who struggle to remember players.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_Premier_League_players?wprov=sfla1

Wasilewski and Kaputska from Leicester.

L'prof

Zlatan has certainly been the better player and had the better career but his one season at United can't compare with Ljungberg's contribution over 9

Others to consider are Limpar, Larsson & Larsson, Mellberg, Brolin

Jayop

L'prof wrote: »

Zlatan has certainly been the better player and had the better career but his one season at United can't compare with Ljungberg's contribution over 9

Others to consider are Limpar, Larsson & Larsson, Mellberg

I'd agree with that. Longevity has to be a big factor and let's face it, Ljungberg was a very good player too.

pjohnson

Cameroon: Eto'o
Ivory Cost: Drogba
Ghana: Essien
Togo: Adebayor

Jayop

pjohnson wrote: »

Cameroon: Eto'o
Ivory Cost: Drogba
Ghana: Essien
Togo: Adebayor

Been some really good players from the Ivory Coast in the league too. Yaya especially. I think Bailly might be in with bad shout in a few years but again given my bias for attackers it's always going to be hard to look past Drogba. Serious guy with his charity work too apparently.

SomethingElse

Senegal - toss up between El Hadj Diouf and Ali Dia. Dia probably gets the nod due to having had a more positive affect on the English game

Jayop

Also give a shout to Goal of the month for Ghana. Essien was clearly better but my God did Yeboah score some amazing goals.

pjohnson

Jayop wrote: »

Also give a shout to Goal of the month for Ghana. Essien was clearly better but my God did Yeboah score some amazing goals.

Gyan had some flashy finishes too.

Muff_Daddy

SomethingElse wrote: »

Senegal - toss up between El Hadj Diouf and Ali Dia. Dia probably gets the nod due to having had a more positive affect on the English game

Sadio Mane surely.

Jayop

Imo Demba Ba had the most positive effect on the league of any Senegal players.

pjohnson

Muff_Daddy wrote: »

Sadio Mane surely.

Papa Boupa Diop the monster.

Sin City

Fustino Asprillia - Colombia

pjohnson

Sin City wrote: »

Fustino Asprillia - Colombia

Juan Pablo Angel?

Sin City

pjohnson wrote: »

Juan Pablo Angel?

How could I forget

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