Different attributes needed though. Diarra was a defensive midfielder, you can probably play for a top team without being technically world class in that role. Did you watch Beckham play much? The corners? The free kicks? 265 games for Man Utd, 115 England caps!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Can't believe I'm actually sticking up for Beckham but to me it's bonkers not to think he was World Class.
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27-03-2018 01:21 PM #61
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27-03-2018 04:51 PM #62This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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27-03-2018 05:55 PM #64
English football star David Beckham has told the BBC that he was not insulted by his exclusion from Sir Alex Ferguson's list of four world-class Manchester United players - and he agreed.
Sir Alex said earlier this week that he only worked with four "world-class players" as boss of Manchester United - Paul Scholes, Eric Cantona, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ryan Giggs.
Asked if he was offended, Beckham said he agreed with Sir Alex, whom he called "the greatest manager of all time".
Now a Unicef ambassador, he spoke to the BBC's Laura Trevelyan at the United Nations in New York.
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27-03-2018 06:04 PM #65This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
By the by, this article ties itself in knots trying to prove that clubs do not earn much money from player shirt sales.
It ignores the fact that the size of the clubs deal with their shirt supplier depends at least in part on the marketability of their squad.
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27-03-2018 07:43 PM #66This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If Beckham had been so important commercially, surely Man U wouldn't have sold him.
As far as shirt sales are concerned, I have never met, or heard of, anyone who has bought a football top because a particular player had signed for a team.
The folk who have Pogba or Neymar on the back of their shirts, already support those clubs and would have bought a shirt anyway.
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27-03-2018 08:03 PM #67
I saw Beckham in the flesh playing on the right for England at Hampden. Outstanding technique and great work rate. Right foot was a wand. He made 100% of the talent he had which many players don’t.
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.' - Paulo Freire
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27-03-2018 10:46 PM #68
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World Class players definitions will never be agreed upon. But what I can say is David Beckhams technique of striking a ball is absolutely legendary. Cross, free kick, shot, pass. It was always on point and he got it that way by hard graft. Honing what was a decent skill into one that could be described as world class.
That to me is why he earned my respect. He wasn’t quick, he wasn’t a skilful tricky player, but he worked immensely hard at being as good as he ended up being. Ultimately that was deemed good enough to play for Man Utd, Real Madrid, AC Milan, PSG, and of course to captain England. Not bad at all.
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27-03-2018 10:55 PM #69This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Beckham was a top player.
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27-03-2018 11:19 PM #70
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Beckham was a magnificent footballer with a wand of a foot and would get in any side at his peak: not Figo Zizou Scholes world class but just as good as anyone like Gerrard Below
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27-03-2018 11:23 PM #71
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28-03-2018 12:46 AM #72
Used to have a similar debate to this with a workmate who "supported" Chelsea. Given X million pounds as Hibs boss, and told to buy either Beckham or Michael Owen at the time, I said I'd have taken Owen, simply cos he carried a constant goal threat. He had pace, trickery as well as vision to pick out a pass. Beckham was a very good player, but media hyped beyond his abilities.
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