Underrated Players

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Beppe Signori. Absolute lethal goal botherer extraordinaire for a period. Loved watching him on C4 when they showed Italian footie in the 90s.

Pavel Nedved, quality player too.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Clarence Seedorf

 

[Yarrgh]

Michael Laudrup
Zvonimir Boban
Gheorghe Hagi
Hristo Stoichkov
Matthias Sammer
Fernando Redondo

Don’t think any of these get the plaudits they should deserve

Sammer is one of my favourite players but is a ballon d'or winner really not given the plaudits he deserves?

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Lee Hendrie
Could've been more than what he was.

Seemed to play like Zico against us and then turn into Alexanderson against everyone else.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Seemed to play like Zico against us and then turn into Alexanderson against everyone else.

Know a couple of Villa fans who said he was unplayable on his day, but prone to dips. Some of it lifestyle related. Looks like he was probably struggling during his playing days: https://talksport.com/football/708050/aston-villa-lee-hendrie-mental-health/

 

[Nymzee]

Know a couple of Villa fans who said he was unplayable on his day, but prone to dips. Some of it lifestyle related. Looks like he was probably struggling during his playing days: https://talksport.com/football/708050/aston-villa-lee-hendrie-mental-health/

Was gonna say didn't he have a few off-field issues.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Was gonna say didn't he have a few off-field issues.

Yeah, few bad financial choices as well by the sounds of it. Apparently a nice lad too.

Have to wonder if he was playing today if he'd get better support. Recall Collymore getting ridiculed for being open about depression. Former team mate of Hendrie's, so who knows if or how that might have shaped his ability or will to reach out.

 

[cronullasharks]

Michael Laudrup
Zvonimir Boban
Gheorghe Hagi
Hristo Stoichkov
Matthias Sammer
Fernando Redondo

Don’t think any of these get the plaudits they should deserve

Boban is one of the best players I've ever watched. Absolutely briliant.

Denis Irwin never got the plaudits of Scholes and Keane etc but thought he was just as valuable to that utd team as the bigger names.

 

[Simon Buttle]

Enzo Scifo

 

[Chrismac]

Dejan Savicevic

 

[Prevenger17]

Oumar Niasse

 

[Papa Shango]

Michael Laudrup
Zvonimir Boban
Gheorghe Hagi
Hristo Stoichkov
Matthias Sammer
Fernando Redondo

Don’t think any of these get the plaudits they should deserve

Sammer is my favourite ever player. Was such a good all round player. Sadly had to retire way before he should have because of knee problems. That Dortmund team had some talent around 96-97. Sammer, Reuter, Moller, Chapuisat, Kohler, Heinrich, Cesar, Reidle etc.

Redondo never really had the stage to show off his talent due to the whole mess with Passarella (another great player by the way) banning players from having long hair.

 

[Papa Shango]

That sounds like an awesome project bro, you should get it going again. Did you have Robin Friday in there? he is one that get's mentioned a lot as a lower league version of George Best.

He is on the possible list as his life is a good (yet tragic) story.

I don't really have many Brits on the list actually purely due to the fact that most people know them (or of them anyway.)

 

[Simon Buttle]

He is on the possible list as his life is a good (yet tragic) story.

I don't really have many Brits on the list actually purely due to the fact that most people know them (or of them anyway.)

Yeah I read the book on him a few years back, it's a sad tale, have met a few people down here who saw him at Reading and they say he was ridiculous but that you could tell he was off his face half the time.

 

[Billy Dean]

Dragan Stojkovic. Should be remembered in the same vein as the likes of Hagi and Stoichkov