Overrated Players

[ronanm]

Kevin Doyle.

Although we all know he's only overrated in one country.

In fact, all Welsh players are overrated by the Welsh.

Irish players are criminally overrated by the Irish.

Oddly the Scots are not guilty of this - perhaps it's because their players are so utterly abysmal that they know they'd look beyond stupid if they trumped them up.

Not sure they are overrated, just think they play above themselves when they play for their country. Unlike your lot. Think the English are more prone to overrating players than any other country.

[Shaggy]

Only the actual Ingerlund fans. Everyone else knows how limited they are.

The Irish can be terrible for it - overrating Keane, saying we should sign Kevin Doyle, Shay Given is the best keeper ever etc etc.

Or am I just thinking of Nic/Nikeser/ValueFinder?

[wiw]

Fabregas and Alves are crazy shouts! Forgotten who they were now soz, it was 2 pages ago and I've forgotten. They're both ****ing brilliant

Anderson, Quaresma, Babel , Berbatov, err

[wiw]

and I'd also forgotten I'd already said forgotten in that post

[little dave hedgehog]

Or am I just thinking of Nic/Nikeser/ValueFinder?

i keep thinking he's going to try and sell me discount ram or something.

[greenbloodred]

Jermaine Jenas

Chris Kirkland

[Gibbo]

Eric Cantona for me was one of the most overrated players of all time.
Klass Jan Huntelaar too.

[Neil Young]

Let's be honest, there's a good case to be made for almost any player being overrated. Football is so hyped up these days, there will always be someone somewhere raving about some piece of pampered, limited ****e.

[DannyMan2006]

Robbie Keane

Was made to look great by Berbatov and has been average every other time in his career.

[Shaggy]

Eric Cantona for me was one of the most overrated players of all time.
Klass Jan Huntelaar too.

Cantona was so overrated it was untrue.

[dww]

Depends. I think he's excellent and will get better still. If you mean all that "he's as good as Alonso" stuff, then yeah definitely overrated.

Very good player though and IMO it's inexplicable that he can't get in the England squad ahead of the likes of Carrick.

Interesting one. Huddlestone is one of those odd ones where you only ever tend to see extreme opinions of him. Personally I think the analogies to Alonso and Carrick are accurate in terms of style but he has none of the top level ability of either. That said he played to a consistently higher standard than Carrick last season.

[JohnDoe]

Sagna

[red g]

on the subject of arsenal players.........

any player under 20 who plays for them in the fizzy pop cup always over rated !!!

[Darkon]

Was wondering which Premier League players of the past and present do you feel are/were vastly overrated as footballers or just generally loved/hyped too much by the media or fans. It would be good to see if many of us agree with one another on certain players.

Apologies if a similar thread already exists (did search) - in which case please delete this.

I was thinking about this the other day and one pattern seems to emerge, my choices have nothing to with who they play for - I guess it's just more coincidence or because they play for them in the first place they are hyped more.

Wayne Rooney
David Beckham
Paul Scholes
Eric Cantona
Nemanja Vidic
Rio Ferdinand
Ryan Giggs (less so)

I'm sure there's quite a few more given a bit more thought - but those are off the top of my head.

Beckham defo - one of the most overrated players in football not just PL. However don't understand the Scholes, Giggs and Cantona seems very biased IMO.

Ibrahimovic
Alves
Walcott
Rio
Mikel
Barry
Micah Richards
Totti

A lot of non-PL players there - but have to agree with Walcott he is fast and that is it! SWP is another of that type of semi-useless players. Oh and add Agbonlahor to that...

Fabregas. Unbelievably overrated IMO.

Fabregas is one of the best midfielders in the PL, have no clue where that comes from!

On my own note:

Adebayor - vastly overrated
The Nevilles
Lescott - never a 20m+ player
Upson - don't know why people rate him as a top defender in the PL
Carrick
Hargreaves
Bentley
Kuyt (hate to say it)

[Neil Young]

on the subject of arsenal players.........

any player under 20 who plays for them in the fizzy pop cup always over rated !!!

Do you mean the pop fizzy cup?