most overrated player?

[Deficient Mode]

Les habs, Mcsorely, the pens dude, Savi,least of the bunch and myself. Nobody else here is a predominate la liga watcher. We lost my favourite Viktors and the Finnish poster.

Yeah so it's mostly just Real and Barca bickering. Not much hyping of young players apart from maybe you. Not that there's much of that in the German thread either, which is my point. Viktors posted here like two days ago

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Higuain is very overrated in general.

On this board I'd say Varane, Luiz and Weigl.

How is Weigl overrated?

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Pogba is very overrated. Higuain is overrated. Ozil is overrated. Sanchez is overrated. Pretty much every Arsenal player is overrated, although I do like Koscielny and Bellerin. Lukaku is overrated. I can keep going. Schurrle is very overrated.

 

[les Habs]

This thread is gold already.

What does this even mean

It means I was potentially taking someone's preference and constituting that as overrating.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Pogba is very overrated. Higuain is overrated. Ozil is overrated. Sanchez is overrated. Pretty much every Arsenal player is overrated, although I do like Koscielny and Bellerin. Lukaku is overrated. I can keep going. Schurrle is very overrated.

If you're talking about this board, I don't think anyone here really rates Schurrle at all. I rated him pretty highly when he was at Chelsea, he was one of my favourite players we've had since I got into soccer, but it's pretty obvious he's declined pretty hard pretty quick. Buddy was killer at the World Cup though. I think he gets looked at pretty critically here, which is fair. Wider public? Maybe he's overrated, although I don't hear much about him.

 

[Cucumber]

some of the names and peoples lists are slighty bias and are naming players who have no hype

 

[Halladay]

some of the names and peoples lists are slighty bias and are naming players who have no hype

everyone is biased.

 

[Deficient Mode]

If you're talking about this board, I don't think anyone here really rates Schurrle at all. I rated him pretty highly when he was at Chelsea, he was one of my favourite players we've had since I got into soccer, but it's pretty obvious he's declined pretty hard pretty quick. Buddy was killer at the World Cup though. I think he gets looked at pretty critically here, which is fair. Wider public? Maybe he's overrated, although I don't hear much about him.

Yeah, no one rates Schürrle. Not even the wider public as far as I know.

 

[Live in the Now]

some of the names and peoples lists are slighty bias and are naming players who have no hype

If I was really biased I wouldn't rate a Manchester United player over a German one.

Or an Everton player as in the discussion yesterday.

What I do have is a player type preference but so does everyone else.

 

[Cassano]

Toni Kroos

He is a passenger, not a thoroughbred.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

If you're talking about this board, I don't think anyone here really rates Schurrle at all. I rated him pretty highly when he was at Chelsea, he was one of my favourite players we've had since I got into soccer, but it's pretty obvious he's declined pretty hard pretty quick. Buddy was killer at the World Cup though. I think he gets looked at pretty critically here, which is fair. Wider public? Maybe he's overrated, although I don't hear much about him.

I was talking more about his transfer fee.

 

[Deficient Mode]

Toni Kroos

He is a passenger, not a thoroughbred.

Yaaassssss.

 

[les Habs]

some of the names and peoples lists are slighty bias and are naming players who have no hype

Someone hasn't been paying attention.

 

[Corto]

I don't particularly like "overrated" threads, as they generally turn to crap and people start picking on players they don't like or teams they don't like.

At least in an "underrated" thread, people pimp out their own players (generally) and you get to hear about certain qualities of some players you didn't see in them before.

...

So, I'll go with underrated.
Sami Khedira, at this point.
On this board specifically, Higuain. He's had one bad game (vs Barca), other than that, he's been lights out for Juve.

 

[Franck]

On this forum most players from the Premier League, La Liga and Bundesliga are overrated because those are the leagues most of the posters here watch and support.

More generally players who are currently playing and in good form are overrated through recentism. Players who played and were good or great 6 months or 2, 5, 10 or 25 years ago are instead ignored or forgotten.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

The past three years have been Evilo and I defending David Luiz from a perpetual barrage of bashing from pretty much everyone here. Since he's returned to Chelsea and been absolutely incredible, people are starting to turn around on just how good he is, but for the past couple years he's been very badly underrated on this board.

Sure, but now Luiz is getting overrated again.

 

[Evilo]

On this board I'd say Varane, Luiz and Weigl.

Luiz?
It'll take 10 years before he's overrated on this board after all the crap he took for two years after the WC (even though he was back to his best level 3 months later).

This one struck as me interesting. I don't see a lot of discussion about him and most of it is disdain.

Knew you'd bite
I find him overrated overall, not particularly on this board.
The guy's awfully talented, but to talk about him as the new Ballon d'Or seems completely off to me.
He isn't playing better than many players this year for instance.
Hazard has been just as good but is the sole offensive weapon on his team.
Neymar's off days aren't particularly noticeable because Messi or Suarez will shine.
When a guy like Hazard has a day off, his team fails.
There are other players, it's just Hazard coming to my mind, but Dybala, Lewandowski, Cavani, Bernardo Silva, and some others are nowhere near talented as he is, but IMO wouldn't produce much less on that Barca team (baring style of player of course) and are key to their team succeeding.

 

[Asiantuntija]

Pogba
Messi

 

[Luigi Habs]

Higuain is very overrated in general.

On this board I'd say Varane, Luiz and Weigl.

If anything Higuain is underrated. People look at his missed chances with Argentina in big games, which is not wrong, but the guy is a legit top notch goal scorer, extremely hard worker and has a nose for the net that very few other strikers have.

 

[Luigi Habs]

In the overrated category of the past 2 seasons I can definitely say Busquets.
Varane is a good one too.

 

[East Coast Bias]

Doing EPL only, cause I really dont get to watch enough other leagues

Henderson - dont' need to explain this
Aaron Ramsey - "will this be the year Barca swoops in for him?"
Smalling (he sucks)
Dele Alli is approaching very overrated after the stupid memes of last week.


On Rooney, cause a couple people brought him up. I feel like the last few years Rooney has been massively overrated. He's been done for awhile. He did not age well at all, self-inflicted too. But man, peak Rooney was absolutely unbelievable. I brought him up as a Alli comparison in the EPL thread, b/c he played 2nd striker/AM his first few seasons at United. Much better to compare Alli to that than matching goal numbers against Beckham by age.

 

[Deficient Mode]

In the overrated category of the past 2 seasons I can definitely say Busquets.

Noooooooooooooo

 

[cgf]

Toni Kroos

He is a passenger, not a thoroughbred.

He sure as hell wasn't a passenger when Bayern won the treble or when the NT won the WM.

 

[Live in the Now]

Yeah, nobody in this thread could be classified as a passenger so far. Nobody ever rates players like that. Not like we're talking about Bolo Zenden in the CL Final here. That's something I'll never forget for the rest of my life.

 

[Vipers31]

He sure as hell wasn't a passenger when Bayern won the treble or when the NT won the WM.

Passenger might be a bit too harsh a word. He's definitely a catalyst for a certain aspect of any good team. But on a one-dimensional scale that ranges from "passenger" to "driver", I too have him as a player relatively close to the passenger side for a top-level player ever since he came back from Leverkusen.