Well Lampard,Gerrard,Scholes are often credited that one of them is greatest midfielder ever in PL.Also Kevin de bruyne falls in their category for obvious reasons. As a chelsea fan ill choose lampard over others but i love kevin too because i have not seen a better passer than him in world apart from messi. I just wanna know your opinions on what u think who is the Greatest?
Gerrard is best. Most well rounded to ever play in the league and there’s no other player that could have achieved what he did in the same situation.
It’s a shame we didn’t get to see him in a better run football club/ better team (we kind of got a look with Torres, Alonso and Mascherano for 2 years). No player will ever win the CL with a team of that quality again.
After that it’s Lampard, De Bruyne, Vieira, Keane and Scholes.
Scholes is always a tough one to judge because he never faced any adversity and when he did, with England, he just gave up. So it’s hard to imagine him playing in a worse team or really judge his impact.
Guys like Fabregas, Alonso, Silva, Kante and Yaya as the next group down.
Yaya Toure will definitely go down as the most overrated. Yaya was basically a less well rounded Lampard and he only did it for 1 season. His struggles in the CL highlighted all the shortcomings he had as a midfielder (as well as in City’s horrific 442 system). It would have been great to see Yaya in his proper position as a KDB/ Lampard type in a 433 with two supporting midfielders (like Fernandinho and Silva) for a few years to see if he could consistently repeat the 13/14 figures. Anyone that says Yaya Toure is “well rounded” or compares him to Vieira has never watched him play.