Best Midfielder of the Noughties?

[yusuf]

lol are you serious Yusuf? C'mon now.

lol, ok not average but in the noughties xavi had a better game to game basis than him

I'm glad you find it hillarious...exactly how i felt when i saw someon comparing Xavi to Zidane ...oh wait he actually put him above Zidane.

To clear the air I dont rate Stevei G over Xavi but when I see statements like Xavi is a level above Iniesta and Zidane then I know the poster is obviously biased and its funny that he thinks Zidane is regarded like a diety well same goes for Xavi. Bearing in mind this are all world class players exhibiting different traits on the pitch. Live with it majority of people of people outside this forum wld pick Zidane as the greatest of all time. If the comparison was with Fat Ronaldo then I wld bite my tongue and acknowledge the point.

As for Cruyff and co i never saw them play and watching the highlight reels of their games and the tapes, the pressing system was so completely different then to what we have at the moment and the pace of the game was alot slower till the backpass rules etc changed the face of the modern game. I watch Geoirge Best dribble and in no way am I convinced that his "dribbling" wld be as efective against modern defences the way Messi, Robben and Ribery try and dribble past defenders with pace, because he seemed to have a century to dwell on the ball and contemplate their next move...Anyway without going on too much
to those that think Xavi is greater than Zidane, without a critical analysis of their game laid before my eyes wld have to do with my reply
" Steven Gerald is a class above Xavi"

so just because the masses believe something to be true does not make it true

 

[10Rivaldo]

Look Rivaldo i respect you dude but really if there is any man for the big occasions it is Zidane
surely you attribute that the TEAM lost but for example the CL where Juve lost he was voted CL midfielder of the year , he was never known for his goal scoring but as a creator .. he always shined and carried his team when it mattered for all Juventus fame they are not really a CL power house as people think .. they lost 5 finals and won just 2
World cup, Euro, CL final .. the man is awesome and make the team tick .. it's like judging Xavi solely on his goals
stepping up doesn't mean just scoring goals especially when it's not his job but others

As for Meta post he is lately a big revisionist i'm not even bothered to elaborate or explain but i know he made a totally opposite post on Zidane in the old forum about the WC but that's typical Meta

Of course I'm not only referring to goals, but his performances in the CL finals that he lost weren't great at all, especially in 1997 CL final he was a huge disappoint. I'm only saying this because there are people that believe he's the God of Football and he's just too good to have a poor game in a final match but that's not the case. Yes he generally does step up in big games but so does Xavi, remember the 4 assists at the Bernabeu 08/09 season, two assists at the Bernabeu last season? Added to the fact that Xavi is also more consistent especially in the noughties (since that's what the topic is about anyway), I think Xavi was better.

 

[Abaddon]

If we are into sexuality now, yeah I am gay I dont see what that has to do with anything or why its funny...

eww.

 

[Metaphysical]

As for Meta post he is lately a big revisionist i'm not even bothered to elaborate or explain but i know he made a totally opposite post on Zidane in the old forum about the WC but that's typical Meta

your memory's going, old man.

I would never say the "opposite" regarding zidane as I've always held this view of him.

kindly stop making stuff up about me.

thanks.

 

[Beast]

On the league level you cannot compare them .. as Zizou stepped up a lot more .
CL level you can look @ it that way.. he reached more finals than Xavi and the 97 Dortmund was superior and Juve was crap while he was in first year but you have to consider what he did by taking minion Bordeaux to UEFA cup final the year before it.. largely on his own
also taking into consideration Xavi became Xavi around 2007 .. before that you were carried by Dinho not Xavi so hardly you can say Xavi was superior for the entire decade not that he was bad he wasn't but he wasn't what he is now

 

[Metaphysical]

Look Rivaldo i respect you dude but really if there is any man for the big occasions it is Zidane
surely you attribute that the TEAM lost but for example the CL where Juve lost he was voted CL midfielder of the year , he was never known for his goal scoring but as a creator .. he always shined and carried his team when it mattered for all Juventus fame they are not really a CL power house as people think .. they lost 5 finals and won just 2
World cup, Euro, CL final .. the man is awesome and make the team tick .. it's like judging Xavi solely on his goals
stepping up doesn't mean just scoring goals especially when it's not his job but others

brilliant post.

zidane was many things but a big game bottler is not one of them. the man THRIVED in the limelight.

 

[Hamzah]

i think you should watch zidane play again and then you'll realise why you are so wrong about him.

 

[House of Flies]

to be honest, meta is flip flopping like a madman... its easy to forget which side of the argument he is on.

 

[El Guadiana]

so just because the masses believe something to be true does not make it true

I believe u meant to say something else along the lines majority not always been right....
What is the point of the the poll at the top of this thread then?
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is mad"

 

[Metaphysical]

also taking into consideration Xavi became Xavi around 2007 .. before that you were carried by Dinho not Xavi so hardly you can say Xavi was superior for the entire decade not that he was bad he wasn't but he wasn't what he is now

steady on.

xavi has been magnificent for a long long while.

 

[Hamzah]

to be honest, meta is flip flopping like a madman... its easy to forget which side of the argument he is on.

he just says things for effect sometimes. to make out he knows more than the rest.

 

[silky_soccer]

steady on.

xavi has been magnificent for a long long while.

he was very good, But would you not say that Deco and Dinho were thee main men of that team?

 

[Hamzah]

steady on.

xavi has been magnificent for a long long while.

i remember deco being much better until 2007. deco was our playmaker in 2006.

 

[El Guadiana]

eww.

Eww ur self to death bitch! Some of us are get over it or die somehwere in silence for all I care...

 

[Abaddon]

xavi has been magnificent for a long long while.

always been a good player, not close to the level he is playing at now before 2007. Gio is right.