Off Topic The greatest gift Leeds made to English football

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jul/24/premier-league-25-best-player-eric-cantona



The best ever player in the premiership?

 

We've had this one out on the PL board and we've all agreed that the best player in PL history is Soloman Kalou.

Title never-winner Gerrard was just pipped at the post.

 

Suarez is best ever striker and Hyypia is best defender.

Wining it is irrelevant.

 

History was changed when Leeds sold Cantona to United for 1 million.

The best ever £1m ever spent.

 

Check out these ridiculously misinformed beauties;

 

He's had some kind of episode recently. He's been chatting **** across various threads.

 

He might as well have said;


"I was only twelve at the time, never saw him play, have no idea at all how much influence he had and will not take the article at face value or indeed the opinion of the OP, who was a ****ing season ticket holder while Cantona was there, to be true. You're all wrong, I am right. He was there for like, three years and scored, like fifteen goals"


****ing unbelievable. Ridiculous, sinking to Astro, Ginge and HIAG depths.

 

Cantona for me will always be the king.

The team was struggling for confidence and missing that last piece of the jigsaw puzzle. He came along, was the catalyst that brought everything together and led to the beginning of an era of domination by United. His impact was massive.

He wasn't the highest goal scorer, the best tackler, the fastest player but his presence was always felt in the United team and he towered over everyone else in terms of creativity and confidence. Rooney record breaker was a Pygmy in comparison.

 

Absolutely. I'd find it hard to argue he was better as an individual than player Ronaldo, Keane, Henry and others, but certainly in terms of his influence on the team he was ahead of all barring maybe Keane.

He took a team in 92 which arguably wasn't good enough or ready enough for the league and led them from 10th to the title. I know we had a lot of quality at the time, but a lot of average as well (Cantona replaced Darren Ferguson in the starting line up for ****'s sake).

Everyone bangs on about Gerrard never having played in a team which was good enough to win the title, Cantona played in one which, imo, wasn't good enough and won it anyway. That's the sign of a truly great player.

 

Cantona and Keane were very important to the progression of the Class of 92 as well. Their winning mentality and their desire and determination no doubt influenced the likes of Giggs and Scholes.

Players like that knew a game was never finished until they were back in the dressing rooms. There's no way in hell the same 6 boys would have had the success on the pitch that they had if the likes of Cantona and Keane didn't show them how to beat your opponents before a ball was even kicked.

Zlatan is the closest thing I've seen to Cantona in terms of personality, Fergie would have loved having him in his team for all these years I reckon.

 

Pity about the rest of the articles in the series - I know that picking best players is subjective but this is crap https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-league-at-25-best-xi-petr-cech-thierry-henry

 

"Besides, something had to be done to stop Manchester United’s dominance of the past quarter-century turning this into a best-of-the-Sir-Alex-Ferguson-years selection."

In other words, we don't want Liverpool and Chelsea fans to cry so we're going to shove Petr Cech, Rob Jones and Stevie Me in there ahead of Schmeichel, Neville and Keane.

At least they can admit they're biased when they do it

 

" Are knocking Man U out of some Cup competitions "

 

Just 2 weeks of Neymar's PSG salary.