dvbrisgooner1 wrote:
Okay then, I'll dicredit his Club record as well. He scored 21 goals in his last season in Germany. A few years ago there was a guy called Sean Dundee (heard of him?) Dundee was a South African who moved to Germany. He scored goals consistently for about 3 years in the Bundesliga and signed for Liverpool where he played one game and then went back to Germany. As for Berbatov's first season in the Premier League I can think of no better example than Kevin Phillips....
YOU HAVEN'T DISCREDITED BERBATOV'S CLUB RECORD AT ALL.

ALL YOU HAVE DONE IS SHOW THAT DUNDEE WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE PREMIERSHIP, NOT THAT BERBATOV ISN'T WORLD CLASS!! IF YOU'RE TRYING TO USE THAT COMPARISON TO PROVE THAT THE BUNDESLIGA ISN'T THAT GOOD, THEN YOU'VE USED JUST AS BAD AN EXAMPLE TO BACK UP YOUR CLAIMS AS YOU DID WHEN USING DAVID HEALY!!
dvbrisgooner1 wrote:..I am not attempting to compare these men with Berbatov, I am simply showing that your argument to demonstrate he is World Class is a poor one. Players like Dennis Bergkamp, Thierry Henry, Ronaldinho, Paolo Maldini, Ryan Giggs, Roy Keane, Patrick Vieira are/were all World Class, Berbatov is not even close.
ALAS MY FRIEND IT IS
YOUR EXAMPLES THAT ARE POOR ONES!!

WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT WORLD CLASS THEY MEAN IN RELATION TO NOW, NOT IN COMPARISON TO PEOPLE WHO PLAYED YEARS AGO. OTHERWISE I COULD INCLUDE PEOPLE LIKE PELE, MARADONNA AND CRUYFF IN A LIST OF WORLD CLASS PLAYERS, MEANING EVEN PLAYERS YOU'VE MENTIONED IN YOUR EXAMPLE - LIKE HENRY AND GIGGS - WOULDN'T BE COMPARED FAVOURABLY.
I'M TALKING ABOUT PLAYERS THAT ARE CURRENTLY PLYING THEIR TRADE AND - THEORITICALLY SPEAKING - WERE A WORLD CLASS SQUAD OF SAY 24 GATHERED TOGETHER TO PLAY IN AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION NEXT WEEK, WOULD BE INCLUDED IN THAT SQUAD.
NOW YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO DISAGREE, BUT I THINK MOST PEOPLE WHO KNOW THEIR FOOTBALL WOULD INCLUDE BERBATOV IN THAT SQUAD.
