A joy to watch

Emilio Butragueño
Míchel
Roberto Baggio
Franco Baresi
Paul Gascoigne
Dennis Bergkamp
Alexander Mostovoi
Fernando Redondo
Zinedine Zidane

Jaime wrote:Emilio Butragueño
Míchel
Roberto Baggio
Franco Baresi
Paul Gascoigne
Dennis Bergkamp
Alexander Mostovoi
Fernando Redondo
Zinedine Zidane

Juanito?

Never saw much of Juanito...left Real Madrid just as I was getting into football.

Jaime wrote:Emilio Butragueño
Míchel
Roberto Baggio
Franco Baresi
Paul Gascoigne
Dennis Bergkamp
Alexander Mostovoi
Fernando Redondo
Zinedine Zidane

he was good too. i remember back when i used fear Celta as a team. him and Karpin could have been good together but i think they had problems with each other. i was surprised when i found out he was quite old.

Valderama, Francescoli, Sosa, Savicevic, Prosinecki (about the enitre Yugoslav Youth squad which won the Youth WC), Haessler, Stoichkov, Hugo Sanchez, Martin Vazquez...

Henry
Zidane
Pires
Bergkamp
Moussa Saib
Weah
Abedi Pele
Okocha
Messi
Dinho
etc

Totti
Zidane
Di Canio
Ginola
Ronaldinho
Litmanen
Luis Enrique
Mostovoi
C-Ronaldo
Henry

Zidane at his peak with real madrid, it was beautiful to watch an on song zidane.

Figo - Everything was smooooth and natural.

C.Ronaldo - always entertaining.

Ronaldo with barca- he was just breath-taking but for the other clubs he was not the same.

Fabregas- I enjoy watching him play more than most other players.

Dinho 04-05 not otherwise.

zola

Rivaldo - Incredible everytime i watched him

Stoichkov and romario just for that one game a joy to watch even though it wasnt a joy.

Titus Bramble - seriously.

Tweesus of Nazareth wrote:Titus Bramble - seriously.

Don't ruin a good thread with your drunken ramblings.

Not many here rate Michael Laudrup?

LowRidingDeviant wrote:

Tweesus of Nazareth wrote:Titus Bramble - seriously.

Don't ruin a good thread with your drunken ramblings.

Seriously though, he always makes a complete C0ck up once a game - for that he's well worth watching.

CruijffMas wrote:Not many here rate Michael Laudrup?

mentioned him in my 1st post in this thread

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:

CruijffMas wrote:Not many here rate Michael Laudrup?

mentioned him in my 1st post in this thread

Forgiveness please

Him, Bergkamp, Ronaldo (especially at his best) and Zidane make my top 4. Now the likes of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are closing in.

CruijffMas wrote:

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:

CruijffMas wrote:Not many here rate Michael Laudrup?

mentioned him in my 1st post in this thread

Forgiveness please

Him, Bergkamp, Ronaldo (especially at his best) and Zidane make my top 4. Now the likes of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are closing in.

Ronaldo is no way near Cantona when it comes to being a joy to watch (also when it comes to footy in general).

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:

CruijffMas wrote:

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:

CruijffMas wrote:Not many here rate Michael Laudrup?

mentioned him in my 1st post in this thread

Forgiveness please

Him, Bergkamp, Ronaldo (especially at his best) and Zidane make my top 4. Now the likes of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are closing in.

Ronaldo is no way near Cantona when it comes to being a joy to watch (also when it comes to footy in general).

How could I forget the King. Add him to the list. I would also like to include Paul Scholes (minus the tackling ) and Edgar Davids.

Has Davor Suker been mentioned by anyone yet?

Tweesus of Nazareth wrote:Has Davor Suker been mentioned by anyone yet?

as part of the Yugoslav Youth WC winning squad.

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:

Tweesus of Nazareth wrote:Has Davor Suker been mentioned by anyone yet?

as part of the Yugoslav Youth WC winning squad.

Well he deserves his own outright mention really. In his peak, an incredible player to watch.

Tweesus of Nazareth wrote:

jdg loves st. nicholas wrote:

Tweesus of Nazareth wrote:Has Davor Suker been mentioned by anyone yet?

as part of the Yugoslav Youth WC winning squad.

Well he deserves his own outright mention really. In his peak, an incredible player to watch.

True

One of my great shames was never seeing this player play. My Father tells me he was the best Dutch Forward he's ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpu9JG1ss9Y

CruijffMas wrote:One of my great shames was never seeing this player play. My Father tells me he was the best Dutch Forward he's ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpu9JG1ss9Y

You'd have been 5 when he played his last professional game?

A real shame - I was 10 when he retired so can still remember him as I'd been following football from the age of 5. I remember being devastated when he finally decided that his injury was such that he;d never recover.

CruijffMas wrote:One of my great shames was never seeing this player play. My Father tells me he was the best Dutch Forward he's ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpu9JG1ss9Y

I got to see him and Cruyff at Bergkamp's testimonial. Not quite at their peaks but it sort of counts!

Sheffield gunner wrote:

CruijffMas wrote:One of my great shames was never seeing this player play. My Father tells me he was the best Dutch Forward he's ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpu9JG1ss9Y

I got to see him and Cruyff at Bergkamp's testimonial. Not quite at their peaks but it sort of counts!

Van Basten maybe counts but Cruyff looked like a 60 year old midget!

He was legendary... I had the (mis)fortune of following his career with the wrong coloured stripes, and he was devastating. Sad that his career came to a premature end!!

Your father probably knows what he is talking about...

CruijffMas wrote:One of my great shames was never seeing this player play. My Father tells me he was the best Dutch Forward he's ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpu9JG1ss9Y

Sheffield gunner wrote:

CruijffMas wrote:One of my great shames was never seeing this player play. My Father tells me he was the best Dutch Forward he's ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpu9JG1ss9Y

I got to see him and Cruyff at Bergkamp's testimonial. Not quite at their peaks but it sort of counts!

Van Basten was even better to watch before 1987 (when he had the injury that hampered him throughout his carreer; the Van Basten most foreigners know already had 1 fixed ankle). Unfortunately for MVB he mainly played in average Ajax sides, so he couldn't shine in Europe.

Kluivert in top shape wasn't bad either...

It was a sad day in football when he retired, my Dad during the late 80’s even used to visit the San Siro to see him play (also the other great players on show) he remembered when Van Basten broke into the Ajax team, never thought he would become the great player he was. There’s a nice story when Van Basten substituted Cruyff in a game for Ajax in the early 80's.

MVB's record at Ajax was about a goal a game, I know...

In one season he even got 36 in 26 games I think!

How many Forwards today can you say are Athletic, Two-footed, good in the air, good passer etc from what I have seen and heard, Van Basten possessed this.

My sig is a joy to watch