It’s possible to be all those things and a gifted player. Which he clearly was. Infact if everything you say about him is true, only a truly gifted player could have been all that and have played professional football in a top league for so long.
The Premier league in the era that he played was not the top leagues. Full of cash but lacking top tactics, lacking the top standards of fitness and littered with alcoholics who still played every week.
It was a retirement ground for Serie A players until 2000.
There are plenty of players who scored wonder goals who ultimately achieved fuck all.
Paulo Henrique Ganso and Gourcuff were similar players, lots of talent but poor work effort who never achieved the potential they were hyped up for.
No one talks about them, because they didn't play in a romanticised era of football.
He scored lots of goals at bottom to mid table club in a lesser era, Kevin Phillips won the golden shoe one year.
But you would get raised eyebrows if you claimed he was one of England's best ever strikers.
Adel Taarabt was famously banned from receiving the ball in his own half at QPR yet he went on to play holding midfield at Benfica.
Le Tissier is a thick selfish **** and he probably always was.
