JTP 0 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 And now we are onto the next stage , elite over world class , or should we not be classing the elite as being world class and the rest very very going lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free Yeh could get messy now :-) 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darthter 542 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I think a "world class" player could be described as someone who could perform for any team, in any league, anywhere in the world. How often have we seen players play outstanding football only to earn a high-value transfer to Spain/Germany/Italy/England and completely fail to produce the goods??? Yet others move from one club to another, leaving a legacy of legendary proportions behind them..... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilledbear 16 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 It is quite simple, everybody who plays in the EPL are World Class, before they arrive and when they leave no chance. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dummiesoot Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 For me goram, cooper are the scottish players I would say were world class. To me The Goalie was for a time the best in the world and at other times certainly the equal of Schmeichel. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dummiesoot Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Ps Baxter is a given imo. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CammyF 7,475 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Numan, gazza, laudrup, cooper, Butcher and RDB. Others that were close : goalie, woods, Gary Steven, Trevor Steven, gough, gio Thats based on players i saw Cammy F 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott7 5,661 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Widening the pool to include all Scots, Gordon Smith - not our one, the Hibbee - and Denis Law. Wee jinky wisnae nor wee Wullie. Of those who wore the hoops probably only KD (after he'd gone to L'pool) and Larsson. Sorry. Forgot he was Irish. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy steel 0 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Cooper, without question. And I honestly believed if the Scottish game had not crippled him, Durrant would have been one of the players of the 90's. I doubt he'd have been in a blue shirt. Probably at Man U or Bayern Munich, I should think (or Arsenal when Wnger took over! How he woudl have shone in one of Arsene's teams). BT Sports carry the Bundesliga and they have a wad of players who do just what Durrant did, making the runs from midfield into the box and scoring. But he was so good at it! Ghosting forward, either foot really...when you watch a Marko Marin, or a Shurrle, they're not any better than Durrant was when he was assaulted. The great lost Scottish player, I think, and the only one of two who would be called World Class. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dummiesoot Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Andy I remember watching Durrant when he first broke through he was phenomenal and was so cool under pressure... that Durrant was a great loss to the Scottish game. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real PapaBear 0 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 For me goram, cooper are the scottish players I would say were world class. To me The Goalie was for a time the best in the world and at other times certainly the equal of Schmeichel. His shot stopping was the equal of Schmeichel, for sure but he didn't command the box nearly as well and his positioning was sometimes open to question. For me, Schmeichel is about the best I've ever seen and a level above Goram 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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