I am 31 and i don't remember much of him other than he was skillful and spent his whole career in Southampton. He didn't seem to do much on an international level either.
Yet i have heard people saying he is a top 10 ever premier league player, best English player in a generation, most talented England player of the last 30 years next to Gascoigne etc
what was great about him?
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He was good and he's a nice guy.
because fat unathletic boomers relate to him and like to think they could play like that, similar with Riquelme at a higher level
>Lampard
>Gerrard
>Le Tissier
>Gascoigne
notice how all English GOATs are of Norman roots
only smug football 'intellects' like him
he was a lazy shitter who occasionally played well, people like to pretend he was the lanklet striker version of pirlo
English Aritz Aduriz, even the stripes match
Anglos have always rooted for players who were better than the club they played for. Remember when Scott Parker was named player of the year?
Because he scored blooters and kept Southampton in the top flight, many years more or less single-handedly, for his entire career
Yes. Kevin Phillips at Sunderland too. I guess with Le Tissier i just don't remember him being that amazing or doing anything standout in the era in which he played in. Apparently he was always injured too which is why he wasn't capped much for England
>Why was this guy so highly rated?
Because he was good. You never heard of him because he stayed in a shit club because muh loyalty. Shearer would be rated Ronaldo tier if he didn't stay in Blackburn and Newcastle winning fuck all.
>inb4 muh PL title with blackburn
Phillips was the top scorer in the entirety of Europe one season, so it's fair that he gets his plaudits
I went to see him play a few times at Blackburn when I was younger, he was a good player, quick to think and good at one touch football when not as many teams in the prem liked playing first time balls. Quality at free kicks too.
HE was a brilliantly talented player who was lazy as fuck but got away with it because he was so good.
Most coaches hated him. All fans adored him.
he scored lots of goals and goals are the only metric by which a midfielder's quality can be measured
We never got to see him play on a high stage, ergo we never got to see how overrated he was.
i remember him as a goat penalty taker
he scored 47 out of 48 penalties he took. A skilled, fast lanklet with amazing football IQ
You're too young to remember him, that's why.
John Barnes
>fast
LMAO
Saints have a random history of GOAT penalty takers.
Le Tissier
Beattie
Lambert
All have 95%+ records during their time at Saints.
Well until Dusan Tadic anyway.. (Even if he has had a GOAT season at Ajax)
Aint's here.
Final league goal at The Dell against Arselel was a GOAT childhood moment.
you're all zoomers and can't remember the type of player he was.
he was fucking amazing on a good day, he saw the game like he was playing fifa, like he could see where everyone was and how to drible efficiently even if he wasn't the fastest
truly a shame he wasn't more consistent imo
HIghest scoring midfielder in the Premiership 2 years runnning.
Even deliberately scord from a corner
Better free kick taker than Roberto Carlos
Couldnt run very fast
Refused a move to Chelsea. That alone makes him a superstar legend.
If he was called Letisseri and played for Barcelona he would have had 5 golden boots
He had maxed out stats for Flair, Creativity, and Technique in an era when most British players were hoofers, plus he didn't seem to give a fuck
Leave him alone
Sorry Matt
The ultimate boomer player. In modern football he wouldn't start in the Championship.
He used to come drunk to training, get benched for the next match, then come on after 70' and score twice on the man u. He was superb, and if he was playing soton were always in the game.
His niece is my ex
Don't dox yourself there bud.
His was a nonchalant grace
holy fuck all that dribbling and bloots and then that free kick. he is better than messi.
not even memeing.
the english lee trundle
Years ahead of his time for the English game - fast, skillful, cultured.
Largely wasted by backward "twat it into mixer", zone of maximum opportunity mentality. That's why his legend is greater than his achievements now, we can all see it now but at the time not so much.
GOAT CROSSLEY
Le lazy skillful man had better technique than any of the memes playing today.
He was like Dimitar Berbatov; he was good enough that he didn't need to try, so he didn't try, and wound up being average. If he was playing today he would spend all his time dabbing for Instagram during the match while his team got BTFO behind him, but occasionally he would score such a blooter that all would be forgiven.
>Years ahead of his time for the English game
Glenn Hoddle
John Barnes
Really the problem has always been the poor coaches all the way from grass roots to the top. Probably should have tried his luck in Europe (which is exactly what Hoddle did)