This Weekend's Fixtures & Midweek Fixtures (16/18/19/20)

[Marc Overmars]

Rolls Royce of a player. The amount of times he’s destroyed us I couldn’t help but feel a begrudging respect.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

He's an absolutely extraordinary player. And iirc a bit of a Liverpool fan (maybe not in the strictest sense) so I concur with HCZ in that I hope he is stripped of every honour but fuck me what a player. I also wonder how the hell we missed out on him when we had an actual part worship with Genk at the time he was coming through.

Bergkamp will probably always be my non-Liverpool favourite. But I recognise a lot of that will be based on nostalgia, there are many arguments to say he's the best PL player ever imo.

[Niall_Quinn]

De Brown was average, in the grand scheme of things. Obviously a great player by modern standards, but those standards are also extraordinarily low. He may have managed to get into a decent team in past season where the quality was important, but he certainly wouldn't have been replacing Keane at Utd, or Lampard at Chelsea, or Gerrard at Liverpool or Vieira at Arsenal - simply not in the same league.

[HCZ_Reborn]

De Brown was average, in the grand scheme of things. Obviously a great player by modern standards, but those standards are also extraordinarily low. He may have managed to get into a decent team in past season where the quality was important, but he certainly wouldn't have been replacing Keane at Utd, or Lampard at Chelsea, or Gerrard at Liverpool or Vieira at Arsenal - simply not in the same league.

You think Lampard is better than De Bruyne??

That explains a lot

[Niall_Quinn]

You think Lampard is better than De Bruyne??

That explains a lot

OMG - Lampard was one of the greatest ever to play the game. Are you even fucking serious?

[Niall_Quinn]

You have that stupid affliction where you think everything contemporary is automatically better because... no reason at all.

Not only did Lampard dominate the chavs period of success, but I think he's still in the top 10 of all time goalscorers in the PL. De Brown isn't fit to lace his boots, and anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't got the capacity to measure, they are afflicted. It's not a matter of personal opinion, it's one of those truths on which our agreement of the reality around us depends. Which, admittedly, is getting vague in the current space of "individual truth".

[HCZ_Reborn]

You have that stupid affliction where you think everything contemporary is automatically better because... no reason at all.

Not only did Lampard dominate the chavs period of success, but I think he's still in the top 10 of all time goalscorers in the PL. De Brown isn't fit to lace his boots, and anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't got the capacity to measure, they are afflicted. It's not a matter of personal opinion, it's one of those truths on which our agreement of the reality around us depends. Which, admittedly, is getting vague in the current space of "individual truth".

That my friend is projection because you do the inverse

No I don’t think everything contemporary is better than what happened in the past.

I think the greatest midfielder of my lifetime was Zinedine Zidane and to my recollection he retired almost 20 years ago

And asserting your personal opinion as objective truth doesn’t make it so, I’ve had to explain that to Mac76 enough