Is anyone watching the programme on Sky right now about Beckham at Real Madrid?
What a player he was.
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Is anyone watching the programme on Sky right now about Beckham at Real Madrid?
What a player he was.
If we had someone who could take a set piece like Beckham we’d be top of the league!
It became fashionable for a while to criticise Beckham and say that he was pish.
I always thought he was class - outstanding set piece delivery and great fitness levels.
His attitude towards playing for his country was inspirational.
He's meant to be a very decent bloke as well.
I always rated him but for me he was like some musicians and singers that have astonishing technical ability but everything's a bit "wooden", ie. they lack the natural music/feeling that would make them truly great.
Wouldn't make it into my Top 1000 players of all time list.
Sorry - but the guy did very well for himself considering but someone like Scholes was a much better player.
Beckham did well winning titles wherever he went but also was surrounded by some fantastic players.
Nothing against him just another media hyped up player.
I think that’s about right- maybe even top 10-15.
His image worked for and against him in terms of how highly he was rated. People in the USA thought he was supposed to be the worlds best player and probably the same in The Far East.
Folk who said he was anything less than excellent were wrong though.
[QUOTE=City of Green;5353624]Wouldn't make it into my Top 1000 players of all time list.
Sorry - but the guy did very well for himself considering but someone like Scholes was a much better player.
Beckham did well winning titles wherever he went but also was surrounded by some fantastic players.
Nothing against him just another media hyped up player.[/QUOTE
Of course Scholes, Zidane et al were better but not in your top one *thousand*?!?
Are you sure??
[QUOTE=lyonhibs;5353629]You know what I mean - for me he isn't a great.
There are many great players who didn't make as much money or win as many trophies / sell as many shirts etc.
Beckham is a household name and like Gary Neville did extremely well with the limited ability he had but there are many better players. Like I said massive credit to Beckham for the titles he won and what he did in the game but when I think of great players he doesn't come close to many others. :fishin:
People thinking Beckham is a great player are probably the ones who think Ronaldo is better than Messi :greengrin
Everyone is allowed an opinion :aok:
I wish I had the limited ability of Beckham. World class at his best, extremely talented. Just took a different path career wise that will see him make money Scholes could only dream of.
4th best player of that Man United era behind Scholes, Giggs and Keane for me
If Beckham wasn't world class then the use of that description means nothing. Of course he was, fantastic player underrated by many.
I've always agreed that he is underrated, probably because of his celebrity. He was right up there with the best in the world at free kicks and crossing from the right. Fantastically accurate.
So someone with 115 England caps that has played for Man Utd, Real Madrid, Paris St Germain and AC Milan had limited ability and wasn’t world class? It’s possible to say he wasn’t the best player in the world while recognising that he very much earned the right to play at the very highest level.
Probably depends on people’s definition of world class to be fair. I’ve seen people suggest the likes of Ozil,Kan te (seems to get blocked if you put it all together :greengrin), Mane etc are world class. If you’d class them as world class then Beckham probably would be aswell. Where as id say there’s only one or two world class players currently playing in England. To me, world class is Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez, Neymar etc, not the guys listed above, Beckham included.
Beckham was a victim of his own success, in football at any rate. He went from being appreciated to being massively underrated very quickly. It became fashionable for columnists to slate him, Aidan Smith had an almost pathological hatred of him, and some fans followed suit. I didn't really get why, maybe it made them feel clever to be different.
You don't win what Beckham did or play for the managers and clubs he did unless you are a very good player. The argument he was 'surrounded by good players' I often read is nonsense. A mediocre playee might get away with that for a season or 2 but Beckham played at top clubs for over a decade in teams full of top class players because he himself was a top class player who belonged in that environment.
Beckham was quality but i wouldn't put him in the same group as Zidane, Figo, Scholes, Ronaldinho etc of that era. He was probably in the group below. Very good player nonetheless
There's also an argument that if you're playing with top class players then rather than hide your lack of ability it becomes even more obvious you shouldn't be there.
Always did well in whatever team he was in, agree with those saying he's massively underrated.
Superb player, and a great by any possible measure - many league titles including in three of Europe's top leagues, 115 caps for his country. Only an injury away from appearing in four World Cups as well.
Actually had a considerable impact on the game as well - I don't recall seeing free kicks taken in the way he often did, before he came along.
[QUOTE=City of Green;5353630]I don't know how much you saw of him playing for Real Madrid, but you should watch that programme when it comes on again on Tuesday.
His passing was magnificent and his free kick ability must be amongst the best in the world ever.
Messi is better than Ronaldo. Different, but better.
Beckham was a good player who got the absolute most out of his talent. Which is admirable given how we can relate closer to home with some our our youngsters and wonder what might have been.
He had an excellent career, but I'm not always convinced it was solely down to his footballing ability. The "brand Beckham" and his ability to sell strips was a big factor in the likes of Real Madrid signing him. He only won 1 title and 1 charity shield in 4 years at Madrid which is a barren spell by their standards.
I thought he was a good player, but his reputation far outweighed his actual talent as he was as much a celebrity as he was a footballer.