10 Best players of all time

[Andy @ Allerton]

What would YOUR Personal 10 players of all time be? They can be any position and any era. You can be as biased or not-biased as you like

 

 

My list;

 

 

Pele

Maradonna

Kenny Dalglish

Billy Liddel

Dixie Dean

George Best

Zidane

Tierry Henry

BeckenBaeur

Cruyff

[floyd]

Maradonna

Pele

Cruyff

Di Stefano

Eusebio

Beckenbauer

Dalglish

Puskas

Zidane

Garincha

[bobbyboulders]

Pele

Maradonna

Cruyff

Beckenbauer

Van Basten

Di Steffano

Best

Daglish

Maldini

Snoogy Doogy

[ManxRed]

Snoogy Doogy

Good shout!

[_00_deathscar]

From what I've seen in my time:

 

Zinedine Zidane

Paolo Maldini

Alessandro Costacurta

Ronaldo

Rivaldo

Dennis Bergkamp

Roberto Baggio

Peter Schmeichel

Romario

Marcel Desailly

[Will]

Pele

Maradonna

Kenny Dalglish

Billy Liddel

Dixie Dean

George Best

Zidane

Tierry Henry

BeckenBaeur

Cruyff

Some quality spelling in that list

 

I'm really struggling to come up with a Top 10 myself, though - very tough

[£440,000]

What would YOUR Personal 10 players of all time be? They can be any position and any era. You can be as biased or not-biased as you like

My list;

Pele

Maradonna

Kenny Dalglish

Billy Liddel

Dixie Dean

George Best

Zidane

Tierry Henry

BeckenBaeur

Cruyff

 

Not sure how you can put Dean in there, never having seen him play.

[Snookie]

Maradonna

Cruyff

Pele

Beckenbauer

Pukas

di Stefano

Zidane

Baresi

Maldini

Van Basten

 

I'd include Garrincha by reputation but I never saw him play.

[shaq]

Pele

Maradona

Dalglish

Best

Maldini

Zidane

Di Stefano

Cruyff

Henry

Charles

[Bo Benn]

Maradona

Yashin

Cruyff

Van Basten

Beckenbauer

Matthäus

McAteer

Puskas

Dalglish

Müller

[ManxRed]

McAteer

 

And the award for smuggling stuff in under the radar goes to....

[Andy @ Allerton]

Not sure how you can put Dean in there, never having seen him play.

 

I've put him and Liddel there after many hours in pubs talking to fellas that used to go to the games years ago and whos fathers went before them. Their descriptions of both players were inspiring to say the least.

[Cobs]

from those i've seen

 

Maradona

Ronaldo (the real one)

Zico

Dalglish

Zidane

Platini

Gascoigne

van Basten

Henry

Ronaldinho

[sean]

Ones I've seen (too young for Pele )

 

Maradona

Cryuff

Zico

Zidane

Maldini

Keane (Roy)

Dalglish

Van Basten

Romario

Blinker (Regi)

 

 

Best keeper I've seen is a toss-up between Southall and Dasayev

[Snookie]

I'm really surprised that when people are including Gascoigne, Henry & Ronaldinho that Gullit or Rijkaard havn't got a mention. Gascoigne is a could have been player but never was. Henry is a world class player whose never done it on the world stage and Ronaldinho could be a great but hasn't done anywhere near enough to justify inclusion. Obviously this is all a matter of opinion but I still think both Gullit and Rijkaard are far superior to any one of those three.

 

Simon Kuper (the football writer) tells a great story about going to interview Gullit a couple of years after he'd retired. Gullit interrupted the interview to say he'd to go play in a five a side team but did Kuper want to come along. When they arrived Van Basten & Rijkaard were waiting to play in the game that was part of a Dutch Sunday league competition. So think about it. You wake up after a night out on the piss. You've to play in a five a side game. You turn up and the team facing you includes those three...

 

Apparently they were rubbish but all three of them just enjoyed each other's company and the chance to play again.

[Cobs]

I'm really surprised that when people are including Gascoigne, Henry & Ronaldinho that Gullit or Rijkaard havn't got a mention.

 

it's called an opinion

[Snookie]

it's called an opinion

 

"Obviously this is all a matter of opinion but I still think both Gullit and Rijkaard are far superior to any one of those three."

 

Thanks for repeating what I'd already said

[Cobs]

then you shouldn't be 'really surprised' people have different opinions to you then, should you?

[Mike]

Simon Kuper (the football writer) tells

 

fyds uncle! the nazi hunter!

 

shouldn't these threads be titled the 10 best players of recent memory anyway.

[Snookie]

then you shouldn't be 'really surprised' people have different opinions to you then, should you?

 

Laughably pedantic

[jimmylibel]

fyds uncle! the nazi hunter!

 

shouldn't these threads be titled the 10 best players of recent memory anyway.

 

Or I want to pay homage to Dixie Dean without being outed as a bluesh*te?

[Cobs]

Laughably pedantic

ridiculously arrogant

[Guest Anders Honoré]

I've put him and Liddel there after many hours in pubs talking to fellas that used to go to the games years ago and whos fathers went before them. Their descriptions of both players were inspiring to say the least.

 

What's the point of posting one's opinion then? We might as well just re-post some poll from somewhere of what the general consensus is.

[Stevie H]

platini

dalglish

barnes

zico

baresi

stojkovic

prosinecki

zidane

maradona

beardsley

[Nerik]

Maradona

Pele

Cruyff

Puskas

Di Stefano

Platini

Beckenbauer

Banks

Garincha

Gerd Muller (the one with least talent by far but the best specialist of all time)