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Post by CaajScot on Dec 10, 2014 15:54:21 GMT
Pele reveals admiration for Manchester United legend Scholes
by Will Swanson. Published Tue 31 Jul 2012 16:30.
Pele has admitted he would have relished playing alongside Manchester United veteran Paul Scholes.
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted this is likely to be the midfield maestro’s final season.
Scholes came out of retirement in the middle of the last campaign and looked back to his best.
Brazilian legend Pele believes he would have added to his already considerable goal tally if he’d had the playmaker behind him.
Pele said: "If he was playing with me, I would have scored so many more."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2014 20:47:27 GMT
In fairness to the above though legends say similar about other players.
Alessandro Del Piero: "Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs."
Zinedine Zidane: "All of us at Juventus agreed Manchester United were the best side we met in the Champions League.
"Giggs is truly world class."
Johan Cruyff: "Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs."
Marc Overmars: "Ryan Giggs is fast, skillfull and sharp.
"With Luis Figo, he is the most fantastic winger I have ever seen in my life."
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Post by _ on Dec 10, 2014 20:50:36 GMT
Pele reveals admiration for Manchester United legend Scholes
by Will Swanson. Published Tue 31 Jul 2012 16:30.Pele has admitted he would have relished playing alongside Manchester United veteran Paul Scholes.
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted this is likely to be the midfield maestro’s final season.
Scholes came out of retirement in the middle of the last campaign and looked back to his best.
Brazilian legend Pele believes he would have added to his already considerable goal tally if he’d had the playmaker behind him.
Pele said: "If he was playing with me, I would have scored so many more." Pele could spot talent - once said Nicky Butt was the best player at a World Cup a few years ago  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2014 20:51:17 GMT
Be easier to have a United top 5 and a non United top 5.
I'd go (in no order)
Scholes
Giggs
Ronaldo
Keane
Cantona
Henry
Shearer
Bergkamp
Vieira
Lampard
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2014 20:52:31 GMT
Pele reveals admiration for Manchester United legend Scholes
by Will Swanson. Published Tue 31 Jul 2012 16:30.Pele has admitted he would have relished playing alongside Manchester United veteran Paul Scholes.
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted this is likely to be the midfield maestro’s final season.
Scholes came out of retirement in the middle of the last campaign and looked back to his best.
Brazilian legend Pele believes he would have added to his already considerable goal tally if he’d had the playmaker behind him.
Pele said: "If he was playing with me, I would have scored so many more." Pele could spot talent - once said Nicky Butt was the best player at a World Cup a few years ago He fucking was (Englands, at the very least), you didn't need to be a scout to see that  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2014 21:02:00 GMT
Be easier to have a United top 5 and a non United top 5. I'd go (in no order) Scholes Giggs Ronaldo Keane Cantona Henry Shearer Bergkamp Vieira Lampard Thats the way to do it Daz... Giggs, Scholes, Big Peter, Eric Keane Love Ronaldo, but our main period of dominance, when we got back to where we belong, those guys did more for me. Ronaldo by far the most exciting but I just can't fit him in over those guys. Henry, Bergkamp, Ashley Cole (controversial maybe, and not in any order, but he was a consistent fucker) Okocha wanchope got bored with the last 2 oh, and Rebrov |
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Post by thechemist on Dec 17, 2014 19:39:12 GMT
If we're going Utd only
Great Dane
Irwin (best full back in Prem history IMO)
Scholes (best midfielder ever)
Ronaldo
Giggs
From any team
Henry
Irwin
Scholes
Vierra
Lampard
All above in no order
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Post by swimmityswim on Dec 17, 2014 20:42:59 GMT
just wondering if it's just me, but i don't get all this "thierry henry: one of the worlds best ever" stuff.
i wouldn't have him in any of my "top 5" lists from the PL era.
notice a lot here have henry in, but i'd throw bergkamp in ahead of him any day
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Post by _ on Dec 17, 2014 20:49:11 GMT
All this hype about him on Sky is a bit sickening TBH
.. after all he is a cheat
Bergkamp by far the better player IMO
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2014 21:09:31 GMT
All this hype about him on Sky is a bit sickening TBH .. after all he is a cheat Bergkamp by far the better player IMO Bergkamp was certainly the more talented player, Henry more effective though I'd say. I always had (still have) a thing about those talented playmaker forwards, loved Baggio when I was younger, as well as Scifo and Hagi (and obviously Maradona but he goes without saying), Futre and Mancini too (twat but a wonderful player). Rui Costa I liked at Fiorentina. Then onto our legends Cantona, Sheringham, Scholes (a midfielder I know but he played like a number 10, getting forward and scoring, controlling play). Bergkamp fitted in with them, couldn't help but admire him greatly. His form in the 97-98 double season, leading up to Christmas anyway, was some of the best I've ever seen in this country, he was playing unreal football week in week out. |
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Post by CaajScot on Dec 18, 2014 8:42:17 GMT
All this hype about him on Sky is a bit sickening TBH .. after all he is a cheat Bergkamp by far the better player IMO Bergkamp was certainly the more talented player, Henry more effective though I'd say. I always had (still have) a thing about those talented playmaker forwards, loved Baggio when I was younger, as well as Scifo and Hagi (and obviously Maradona but he goes without saying), Futre and Mancini too (twat but a wonderful player). Rui Costa I liked at Fiorentina. Then onto our legends Cantona, Sheringham, Scholes (a midfielder I know but he played like a number 10, getting forward and scoring, controlling play). Bergkamp fitted in with them, couldn't help but admire him greatly. His form in the 97-98 double season, leading up to Christmas anyway, was some of the best I've ever seen in this country, he was playing unreal football week in week out. I loved watching Bergkamp playing. He never seemed to get the accolades he deserved and I prefered him too Henry anyday. And too think that guy would never fly after an incident when he was in a plane that scared the living daylights out of him and whenever Arsenal played away in Europe he would make his own way across by car or train. Sometimes he would head off 7-8 hours before the official Arsenal team left to go by plane. |
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Post by Deez on Dec 18, 2014 20:48:52 GMT
Scholes
Ronaldo
Giggs
Henry
Beckham.
Order of players I enjoyed watching the most. I think Beckham has snook in purely because I 're watched his goals for United the other day, he never scored an average or shit goal. Every goal was stunning.
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