Zidane declares Liverpool's player as best player in world

• limpper

  13 Mar 09, 17:14

  

  Steven Gerrard. One of the key man for the famous victory back in 2005,

  Istanbul.

   

  Zinedine Zidane has declared Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard as the best player in the world.

  Former Real Madrid star ZZ said: “Is he the best in the world? He might not get the attention of Messi and Ronaldo but yes, I think he just might be.

  “If you don’t have a player like Steven Gerrard, who is the engine room, it can affect the whole team.

  “When we were winning league titles and European Cups at Real, I always said Claude Makelele was our most important player.

  “There is no way myself, Figo or Raul would have been able to do what we did without Claude and the same goes for Liverpool and Gerrard.

  “When Claude left us for Chelsea I campaigned for us to buy Patrick Vieira and Gerrard is now in the same mould as him.

  “For many years, Patrick was the most complete midfielder in the world and now that award must go to Gerrard.

  “No team will be successful without a heartbeat and you can see Gerrard is that heartbeat.

  “He has great passing ability, can tackle and scores goals, but most importantly he gives the players around him confidence and belief.

  “You can’t learn that — players like him are just born with that presence.”

• 2cansam

  13 Mar 09, 21:01

  Nicely said

• jgho83

  13 Mar 09, 21:05

  No awards no talk. This I help CR7 said first.

• nature-ones

  13 Mar 09, 21:12

  can he beat man u ronaldo??

• [J]erry

  13 Mar 09, 21:54

  

  in term of diving he lose,

  in term of award... he lose

  in term of trophy... he also lose...

  to the fellow C.ronaldo 7

• club18

  13 Mar 09, 22:07

  look at the whole article b4 making bias comments.

  he is not the star player of united like ronaldo is but he is the engine of liverpool.

  2 very different types of players

• 2cansam

  13 Mar 09, 22:10

  the lengendary one has spoken, it's his opinion and we can never change it . until ronaldo leads the Man united team, then we can make a fairer comaprison

• xstryker

  13 Mar 09, 22:15

  Originally posted by jgho83:

  No awards no talk. This I help CR7 said first.

  

• zocoss

  13 Mar 09, 23:23

  Just one more ex-player giving his personal opinion only lah... Everyone see the game differently just like Maradona thinks Messi is the best player in the world and Pele once said Totti was the best player, all of them have a different opinion and a choice... But its the combine opinion and general consensus of many that really matters... Anything else, its just one man one opinion only...

   

   

  

• nature-ones

  13 Mar 09, 23:27

  i dun think he is the best lol

  if he is the best, he should be able to lead liverpool to win the EPL title

• zocoss

  13 Mar 09, 23:29

  He is a good player but not the best lah... Some would consider Lampard better than him too... So who is to say one is better than the other?

• skythewood

  13 Mar 09, 23:38

  why the topic like that? why not just put the name, and must say liverpool's player?
• limpper

  13 Mar 09, 23:51

  gerrard is surely one of the better players ard, if not the best

• AEW5001

  14 Mar 09, 00:38

  Originally posted by limpper:

  gerrard is surely one of the better players ard, if not the best

  

• SiMiLaiEh*

  14 Mar 09, 00:46

  wat istanbul, that trophy shud not belong to them.. 2nd liv goal offside like hell..chey

• Agenda

  14 Mar 09, 01:44

  If this zidane declares someone from manu, I bet $10,000 the reactions here would be hell lot different

• skythewood

  14 Mar 09, 01:54

  Originally posted by Agenda:

  If this zidane declares someone from manu, I bet $10,000 the reactions here would be hell lot different

  let's try...

  zidane says:                  reaction:

  tevez                              no way
  van der ser                    what the hell
  giggs                             huh?
  scholes                         come on
  rooney                           cannot be
  vidic                               no lah
  fletcher                           fuck you
  ferdinand                       nahhhhh
  ronaldo                          that's what everyone else already said

• HyuugaNeji

  14 Mar 09, 01:59

  at least gerrard managed to help liverpool win the champ league once. Without gerrard, liverpool might have been a mid table team like everton lol.

• Scania N113CRB l0v3r

  14 Mar 09, 08:14

  He should say Torres ba

• zocoss

  14 Mar 09, 11:40

  If Pool are to win the Premier league title, they will have to do it soon as Gerrard don't have much time left...

  He will be 29 at the end of the season and going on to 30 at the start of next. So I belief he has 2 more years, 3 tops to keep his present level... Gerrard isn't like a Scholes player, their abilities are quite the same in some ways... Their all energy game from box to box play and scoring are quite the same but Scholes has something else Gerrard don't and that is his ability to pass well even at long distance... This has enable him to prolong his career at United but even then, his influence isn't like what it used to be... The same will happen to Gerrard in a few years time but the big difference is Liverpool rely too much on Gerrard... If you just think about it, how many times alone just this season don't think about those few years back have Gerrard rescue Pool?

  So I belief Rafa will find it very difficult to get a replacement for Gerrard when the time comes...

• tarcki

  14 Mar 09, 18:04

  Originally posted by nature-ones:

  i dun think he is the best lol

  if he is the best, he should be able to lead liverpool to win the EPL title

  
  haha.. so u mean ronaldo being the best player will lead his country to win all the major cups?? 1 player does not make a team.

• Chris88110

  15 Mar 09, 12:07

  Originally posted by tarcki:

  
  haha.. so u mean ronaldo being the best player will lead his country to win all the major cups?? 1 player does not make a team.

  
  But one player at the right place at the right moment may win you  the champions league. Think 1999

• the Bear

  15 Mar 09, 12:17

  for those who forgot, Gerrard singlehandedly yanked LFC back from the brink too many times when Houllier was around...

• www

  15 Mar 09, 12:50

  Originally posted by nature-ones:

  i dun think he is the best lol

  if he is the best, he should be able to lead liverpool to win the EPL title

  having the best player doesnt give u the best team.

  if you even play football, u'll understand.

• Scania N113CRB l0v3r

  15 Mar 09, 14:31

  Originally posted by www:

  having the best player doesnt give u the best team.

  if you even play football, u'll understand.

  
  Ya u rite
  
  Liverpool gt Torres,Gerrard, so wad also draw and lose
  Arsenal gt RVP, also lose
  Chelsea gt Drogba,Lampard,Ballack,Anelka,Deco,Cech also lose
  Man Utd gt Rooney,C.Ronaldo,Giggs,Ji Sung,EVDS,Scholes, also lost Liverpool
  
  The Champions is Man City, has the best player in their team also lost like fck