World Class players at your Club (all time)

[The Camel]

Queens Park Rangers

Marsh
Bowles
Wegerle
Seaman

Camel, how about Ron Springett, top quality keeper for QPR and Sheffield Wednesday in 60's.

England keeper.

Just passed away last week.

That's sad news, I was a huge fan of him.

To be fair, we said last 20 years, or we'd be including Stanley Matthews, John Charles & the like.

Didn't see the 20 years caveat.

I'm old (not as old as tikay obv), and Springett was just about before my time.

Sad to hear of his passing.

[horseplayer]

Cantona I am surprised at

Think it is easy to have rose tinted glasses.had plenty of quiet games maybe I am skewed a bit as in france he struggled to get a game at marseille though tbf he was behind Pele, waddle and papin....

[tikay]

Cantona I am surprised at

Think it is easy to have rose tinted glasses.had plenty of quiet games maybe I am skewed a bit as in france he struggled to get a game at marseille though tbf he was behind Pele, waddle and papin....

I do recall he never seemed to perform in the really big games in Europe.

World class strutter, though.  Nobody, ever, strutted like him.

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[Archer]

In the FIFA FIFPro World XI since 2005, the following have been included at some point whilst playing for Englsih clubs:


Chelsea 9 - Terry(5 times), Drogba, Lampard, Makelele, David Luiz all once.

United 9   -  Ronaldo (3times when with United and another 6 times with Real), Vidic (twice), Evra, ferdinand, Rooney, Dia Maria all once.

Liverpool 5 -  Gerrard (3) Torres (2)

Arsenal 1    - Henry  (1)


What do we mean when we say "World Class" -  best 11 in the world? Best 22 in the world? Best 50 in the world?  Played in World Cup Final, Champions League Final etc? World class means different things to different people and personally I'd say about top 50 seems right. Let's face it, if you are one of the top 50 footballers from the millions who play worldwide then you are definitely worldclass!

From City:  Tevez, YaYa, Kompany, Silva, Aguero.

[baldock92]

Ashley Cole for Chelsea no? Was one of the best full backs in the world at his prime.

[rinswun]

Cant have Kompany as being world class. Too often injured and too inconsistent. Good leader but not a world class centre back if we're comparing to Fergie's views. Who would you rather have in their prime - Stam or Kompany?

[horseplayer]

Stam everytime. ..

Dennis irwin was world class not very sexy but would be a 30 million full back now at least

[Archer]

Cant have Kompany as being world class. Too often injured and too inconsistent. Good leader but not a world class centre back if we're comparing to Fergie's views. Who would you rather have in their prime - Stam or Kompany?

Fergies views are odd.  He says there only currently 2 world class players -Messi and Ronaldo. That seems a very narrow definition and IMO rules out every player over the last x years.

Stam played 3 seasons at United averaging 2225 minutes per season. Kompany averages 2521 minutes per season in the Premier League over the last 7 seasons and has never made fewer than 28 appearances in a season. So the "too often injured" argument doesn't really hold.

Yes, he has been inconsistent at times (last year after returning from injury was a huge disappointment) but at his peak he has clearly been one of the best central defenders in the world. Souness and Carragher were actually moved to say he was THE best.

[Graham C]

Ashley Cole for Chelsea no? Was one of the best full backs in the world at his prime.

Thought he was better when he played for Arsenal

I'd add Tony Adams for Arsenal

[Horneris]

Leeds

Billy Bremner 60s & 70s

Gordon Strachan 90s

Marc Viduka 2000s

Lewis Cook 2010s

[pleno1]

Shearer
Beardsley

[DungBeetle]

Some odd definitions of world class in this thread!  If I'm being honest, I don't think Watford have ever had any.

[maldini32]

Liverpool

Alonso
Gerrard
Torres
Suarez
Mascherano

[maldini32]

Chelsea

Terry
Makelele
Cole
Essien
Drogba
Robben
Lampard
Courtois
Lampard

[maldini32]

Man utd

On top of the 4 Fergie mentioned

Schmeichel
Rio
Stam
Keane
Van niistelrooy
Vidic