gary69
Registered User
Voted Schmeichel because he was my favourite growing up and in his prime he was outstanding with Manchester United and contributed to their dominance of the 90s era. If he had played for a bigger country like Spain or Italy he would be in the conversation more with Casillas and Buffon, though he did actually win a Euros once with Denmark. He also used to score what we would call in the hockey world "clutch" goals that were proper goals and not just be a novelty penalty and free kick taker like Chilavert who was just a sideshow let's be honest.
I was tempted by Casillas though because I witnessed some performances where he just looked unbeatable
I don't think that was so much an issue in the 1990's, as Barca only won their first CL and only one of the decade in the early part of his ManUtd career and Real later in the decade. While Serie A (Milan and Juve) was a major player of the decade, it's not that their keepers got a huge reputation boost just because of that. It doesn't seem that whether Schmeichel would have played in Italy, Spain or England during his prime years had made much of difference to how he is rated historically.