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Who is the greatest European footballer of all time??


View Poll Results: Who is the greatest European footballer of all time?
Cristiano Ronaldo 19 21.59%
Franz Beckenbauer 2 2.27%
Ruud Gullet 0 0%
Roberto Baggio 0 0%
Zinedine Zidane 20 22.73%
Eusebio 2 2.27%
Andres Iniesta 1 1.14%
George Best 9 10.23%
Marco van Basten 1 1.14%
Bobby Charlton 0 0%
Franco Baresi 1 1.14%
Michele Platini 6 6.82%
Gerd Muller 0 0%
Johan Cruyff 19 21.59%
Xavi 0 0%
Other 8 9.09%
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Old 22-06-2016, 14:20
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Actually, the oily arrogant "I'm too good for this world" type is normally what I go for in real life
When are you free?!
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Old 22-06-2016, 14:21
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speaking of goalies, where's Banks

Best Goalie only.

Banks
Yashin
Trautmann
Swift
Zoff
Buffon
Casillas
Schmeichel
Shilton

must be one of those, surely.

All great, but up until his head injury, Cech was better than all of them!

I go for Zoff. Still great at 40 when Italy won an extremely high quality world cup.
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Old 22-06-2016, 14:29
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All great, but up until his head injury, Cech was better than all of them!

I go for Zoff. Still great at 40 when Italy won an extremely high quality world cup.
Buffon in 2006 was immense as well. I moan about him a lot, but that direct header he stopped from Zidane in the World Cup final just before the end is the best save I have ever seen a goal keeper make at the most important moment. It was an unstoppable shot that should have been a goal and I believe it's Buffon's stop that really frustrated Zidane and caused him to lose his mind and we all know how that ended.
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Old 22-06-2016, 14:35
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Actually, the oily arrogant "I'm too good for this world" type is normally what I go for in real life
Hah, so he turned you down. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
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Old 22-06-2016, 14:45
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Buffon in 2006 was immense as well. I moan about him a lot, but that direct header he stopped from Zidane in the World Cup final just before the end is the best save I have ever seen a goal keeper make at the most important moment. It was an unstoppable shot that should have been a goal and I believe it's Buffon's stop that really frustrated Zidane and caused him to lose his mind and we all know how that ended.
It's really difficult to separate the really great keepers. Buffon has been top quality as well, for a longtime, so a case can be put forward for him.
I said Cech, because I saw a lot of him. He was truly outstanding in every dept of keeping. Big guy but with reflexes of a cat. Great at one on ones. Got his angles right. Great on crosses. Great temprement.
Brave as they come. Very, very rarely made a serious mistake.
I'd mark him as a 10/10 keeper up until that awful head injury.
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Old 22-06-2016, 14:46
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Zindedine Zidane. Next question.
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Old 22-06-2016, 14:59
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When are you free?!
Haha! That depends... Are you a rich oily arrogant "I'm too good for this world" jerk?

Hah, so he turned you down. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Yes... Christiano Ronaldo turned me down. First he led me on and promised me the Queen of the WAGS lifestyle, but then... NOTHING
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Old 22-06-2016, 15:02
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Zindedine Zidane. Next question.
Who is Zindedine Zidane?
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Old 22-06-2016, 15:03
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Haha! That depends... Are you a rich oily arrogant "I'm too good for this world" jerk?



Yes... Christiano Ronaldo turned me down. First he led me on and promised me the Queen of the WAGS lifestyle, but then... NOTHING
Respect for coming clean about it.
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Old 22-06-2016, 15:13
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Ronaldo, totally dominated the premier league when he was here and now doing a stellar job in Spain.

International record a bit average but his club record is phenomenal.
He certainly did not dominate Chelsea, the one team he faced who had a top quality defence. 1 goal in 15 games against them says so much about this flat track bully.
And then you say his international record is average. That sounds better than it actually is. Friendly kickabouts and qualification games are nothing like tournament football.
You Ron fanboys are very selective in giving the hard facts.
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Old 22-06-2016, 15:16
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If there's only one team to have effectively thwarted him, that's not exactly a flat track bully.
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Old 22-06-2016, 15:22
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If there's only one team to have effectively thwarted him, that's not exactly a flat track bully.
Well, it is if the rest of the defences were pretty crap by comparison, and that Iis what they were.
A top heavy Spanish league with a quality Barca team with a dodgy defence. A Barca team that was 2-0 up at home to a struggling Chelsea team with 10 men, and they still went out.
Brilliant going forward, nowhere near as good at the other end.
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Old 22-06-2016, 15:25
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All you're really saying is how great Chelsea's defence is.
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Old 22-06-2016, 16:23
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And Barca have never really done it at a World Cup so they cant be classed as that great.....
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Old 22-06-2016, 16:25
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And Barca have never really done it at a World Cup so they cant be classed as that great.....
Except they won it in 2010
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Old 22-06-2016, 16:58
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For me- Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
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Old 22-06-2016, 17:31
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He certainly did not dominate Chelsea, the one team he faced who had a top quality defence. 1 goal in 15 games against them says so much about this flat track bully.
And then you say his international record is average. That sounds better than it actually is. Friendly kickabouts and qualification games are nothing like tournament football.
You Ron fanboys are very selective in giving the hard facts.
Ronaldo won 3 premier league titles after your owner went on a spending spree, that in itself is pretty much domination. Might have not scored a lot of goals against Chelsea but did help relieve you of 3 titles.

And you Chelsea fanboys need to look at hard facts like who is the all time leading scorer in the Champions League.
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Old 22-06-2016, 17:54
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Cruyff, Zidane and Platini.
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Old 22-06-2016, 19:19
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Ronaldo won 3 premier league titles after your owner went on a spending spree, that in itself is pretty much domination. Might have not scored a lot of goals against Chelsea but did help relieve you of 3 titles.

And you Chelsea fanboys need to look at hard facts like who is the all time leading scorer in the Champions League.
"Not a lot of goals" It was one!
At that ratio, if he came up against that kind of defending every week he'd have scored 2,5 goals a season.

He played well today. Significantly was against a team pushing for goals and leaving their defence wide open enough to drive buses through. Completely different to the solid defending he's faced so far.
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Old 22-06-2016, 19:29
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All great, but up until his head injury, Cech was better than all of them!

I go for Zoff. Still great at 40 when Italy won an extremely high quality world cup.
Give over.
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Old 22-06-2016, 20:09
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"Not a lot of goals" It was one!
At that ratio, if he came up against that kind of defending every week he'd have scored 2,5 goals a season.
And if he came up against the kind of defending Chelsea currently have he would have scored 50 goals a season, we can all play a fictitious game of What If.

Ronaldo has scored a lot of goals against good opponents, don't really think having scored one goal against Chelsea will bother him too much with his 3 champions league medals around his neck.
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Old 22-06-2016, 20:44
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Ronaldo, totally dominated the premier league when he was here and now doing a stellar job in Spain.

International record a bit average but his club record is phenomenal.
Yes i think we can call him the Greatest footballer of all time

He does not need to perform for his country on the biggest stage

As long he keeps scoring hat tricks against Granada and Levante

He will go down in history as being better than Pele and Maradona, as those two never played as well for their clubs than for their country
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Old 22-06-2016, 21:32
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You can't talk about 'fanboys' and then say that Petr Cech is the greatest European 'keeper of all time.
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Old 22-06-2016, 21:34
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As long he keeps scoring hat tricks against Granada and Levante
He's actually scored most of his hattricks against Sevilla, the team that has won the Europa League in the past 3 seasons.
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Old 22-06-2016, 22:07
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Yes i think we can call him the Greatest footballer of all time

He does not need to perform for his country on the biggest stage

As long he keeps scoring hat tricks against Granada and Levante

He will go down in history as being better than Pele and Maradona, as those two never played as well for their clubs than for their country
Wowah, Owen!! Pele was phenomenal for Santos. It was his club performances that got him into the Brazilian national side at 17 and kept scoring for Santos for more than a decade afterwards.
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