After Messi and Tranny, is there a lack of depth of world class players? 15-20 years ago you had world class players like Zidane, Ronaldo (the original), Figo, Nedved, Raul, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Batistuta, Costa, Bergkamp, Koeman, Overmars etc.
Even Bolton had players like friggin Jay-Jay...