Unpopular Opinions on Footballers

[stan bowles]

I was thinking about Kinkladze for this thread when I first saw it but thought I’d get too much stick…

I think there’s a reason that he played for relegated City and relegated Derby and never got a sniff at any decent side.

Amazing in his first season with us but then after his profile took off he put weight on and then seemed to expect everyone else to do all the running while he waited for them to get him the ball. Tremendously talented but wasn't prepared to work for the team.

 

[jimharri]

Amazing in his first season with us but then after his profile took off he put weight on and then seemed to expect everyone else to do all the running while he waited for them to get him the ball. Tremendously talented but wasn't prepared to work for the team.

I'd say he'd drive Pep mental. Workrate wasn't his strength.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Amazing in his first season with us but then after his profile took off he put weight on and then seemed to expect everyone else to do all the running while he waited for them to get him the ball. Tremendously talented but wasn't prepared to work for the team.

The Georgian Steve McManaman.

 

[In_Ruben’s_Pocket]

Yaya toure is the best premier league player ever.

Van Dijk is extremely overrated even though he’s still one of the best in his position.

Rodri is the worst player among players that have transferred for €60m+.

Mount is average.

Aaron wan bissaka is England’s best right back.

zinchenko is city’s best ever left back.

Not a footballer, but the CL final is not on Pep.

 

[franksinatra]

Daniel Van Buyten during his time at City. Totally average but now made out as some world beater based on what he did subsequently.

 

[HolisticJim]

No, but he might have a fishing rod in the boot of his car.

No, I genuinely don't see all the fuss. He's a good player but the next coming of gazza he is not.

I'm praying he proves me wrong but everyone seems to do the English thing and be falling over to applaud his decent team performances.... But that's all they are to me. Decent team performances.

 

[Mr Partridge]

Most overrated player ever, Beckscum. Dead ball specialist…the end.

Totally agree. I remember hearing some pundit on TalkSport a few years ago going on about his "amazing career with England". All I remember is one free kick against Greece.

 

[bluemoon32]

*tin hat on* I'm not at all convinced about Phil foden.

He's still far from the finished item but if he continues to work hard he could very well end up being world class

 

[Tugay One Cup]

My unpopular opinion on unpopular opinions is that they often aren't genuine opinions but an easy way of getting attention/ winding people up/ both. Or, at least, that's how a lot of them start and then confirmation bias kicks in and you start to notice only the little things that back up that point of view you decided to take in the first place and it then becomes fully ingrained.

Oh, and Roberto Mancini is a bang average manager who isn't capable of holding a job down for more than a couple of years because he's an egomaniac.

 

[Keeper!]

I'd say he'd drive Pep mental. Workrate wasn't his strength.

Biggest waster of talent in the history of the club, he had as much talent as Messi, but was more interested hanging out with Nicholas Sumerbee and trying to be some sort of east European gangster.