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Most overrated footballer

Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by Cheik the room, Jun 15, 2012.

  1. froggy1973

    froggy1973 Well-Known Member

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    Call me daft but not being biased Mary Poppins talks total bollox when it comes to football. Not a bad player but IMHO overated.
     
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  2. Sidthemackem

    Sidthemackem Newcastle United 0-1 Cambridge United
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    Curiously enough, I find myself in agreement with CTR on Ribery. He's like a cricketer who scores a ton every third game, but averages around 30-35. Great on his day, but too much ordinariness overall.

    The most overhyped IMO though, is Michael Carrick. Never understood his rating by Fergie et al.
     
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  3. Cheik the room

    Cheik the room Well-Known Member

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    Alan Shearer was "not a bad footballer" <laugh>

    Agreed re Carrick aswell.
     
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  4. froggy1973

    froggy1973 Well-Known Member

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    Meant to say a good footballer but overated.
     
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  5. Schwerer Gustav

    Schwerer Gustav Well-Known Member

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    Don't mind giving Shearer praise, however Phillips would have been in the England squad sooner and more often if it was not for the biased Geordie twat bending the managers ear.
     
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  6. Schwerer Gustav

    Schwerer Gustav Well-Known Member

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    And you never hear Phillips getting the lickings of a dog of the mags do you Chuck Tiote?
     
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  7. Poyet's Eleven

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    All of Swansea's midfield (Not sigurdsson) Apparently passing sideways and backwards makes you quality...
     
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  8. nomoregeordies

    nomoregeordies Well-Known Member

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    Dunno about over rated footballer but most over rated 'hard man' must be Check Tiote with mag fans saying things like 'he's a beast' 'shirks nothing' 'a tiger in midfield'. Imagine our surprise when he turned out to be a bit of a pansy flattened by a bloke 4 ft 10.
     
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  9. Ibrohimovic
    Podolski
    Dzeko
    Adam
    Downing
    Agbonlahor
    Robinho
    Balotelli
     
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  10. Billy Death

    Billy Death Guest

    Some good shouts there lad.

    A ten year old that speaks sense.

    Agree with most of them actually even if I am your dad.
     
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  11. Nads

    Nads Well-Known Member

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    Great, accurate list!

    <ok>
     
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  12. Warmir Pouchov

    Warmir Pouchov Better than JPF

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    I do think Ribery is living on past excellence. Must admit I'm surprised with people not thinking Modric is all he's billed. He runs games from start to finish and has a lot of similar qualities to Scholes. Very elegant and controls the pace of a game.

    I'm not convinced on Podolski despite his record. I'd pick some England players but nobody seems to rate them anyway! Pique for me is overrated. Don't get me wrong I think he is a very good defender but I think he looks half the player when he does not have Puyol directing him round the pitch. Stops him being the great defender everyone hypes him as. I think you can get at him. Robinho is a street entertainer too. He just doesn't deliver enough and can be bullied.

    I think the dutch team in general is overrated. They have great players in the attacking third, and I think De Jong is top class, but Van Bommel and the defenders are no great shakes.

    The comments on Shearer are always amusing :)
     
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  13. MrRAWhite

    MrRAWhite Well-Known Member

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    For the record, the Shearer/Beardsley ones I picked were done with my tongue firmly in my cheek...They were two excellent players who I have a begrudged respect for...
     
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  14. Red and White Mac

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    i think that rat looking twat jonas is one of the most over rated. the only thing he is good is a diving
     
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  15. Warmir Pouchov

    Warmir Pouchov Better than JPF

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    <laugh> He if anything is vastly underrated, like most selfless players. Best diver in the league too, they all look like fouls full pace. Bravo.
     
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  16. Cest Advocaat

    Cest Advocaat Well-Known Member

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    Ribery = utter cak

    I would far rather have Seb Larsson.:D
     
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  17. Jerry the Jinx

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    So would I - though possibly for a different reason...............
     
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  18. Nads

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    I'm pretty sure everyone on earth would prefer Seb for your reasons Jerry!

    Ribery is about as handsome as chopped horse ****.
     
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  19. Obertan's Rancid Toe

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    Rooney, Ribery, Cech, Reina, Clichy, Milner, Balotelli, Huntelaar, Ibrahimovic, Torres, Benzema, flavour of the month Oxlade Chamberlain, Agbonlahor, Sigurdsson, Sessegnon, Klose, Lahm, Anderson, Cahill.

    Most overrated of the lot is arguably Petr Cech. Awful.
     
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  20. Billy Death

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    You missed Colocini out.
     
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