Thierry Henry

[La Furia]

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Henry is very well liked in NY other than the Irish population obviously, he will be our captain this year. He's a great mentor for the team's young players and has been a leader on the field too.

TBH Marquez should be captain, Henry had a negligible impact last season and has a history of being underwhelming with the armband. Titi is the face of the franchise but I never liked him as captain.

But this shouldn't be a surprise comment coming from me.

 

[putogusiluz8]

Yea the man did score 30+ goals for 5 straight season which is incredibly impressive, still Messi's stats blow him out of the water. Which is evidence to the fact that we're witnessing a legend.

 

[FCB_M3]

TBH Marquez should be captain, Henry had a negligible impact last season and has a history of being underwhelming with the armband. Titi is the face of the franchise but I never liked him as captain.

But this shouldn't be a surprise comment coming from me.

Agree! Marquez as captain

 

[iced1776]

I will say that NY looks worse without Marquez than they do without Henry, Rafa held that midfield together like glue. But possibly because of the language gap (Marquez is learning English), Henry is a much more vocal leader on and off the field. He's a good influence on Juan Agudelo who will be the US National striker at the next world cup.

 

[La Furia]

I will say that NY looks worse without Marquez than they do without Henry, Rafa held that midfield together like glue. But possibly because of the language gap (Marquez is learning English), Henry is a much more vocal leader on and off the field. He's a good influence on Juan Agudelo who will be the US National striker at the next world cup.

Henry has definitely looked to be a lot better leader for NY than he ever did for Arsenal or France - I guess the lack of pressure has helped him. But Rafa is probably their most important player, he's the midfield anchor they lacked for a long time.

 

[Fourteen]

I always assumed Marquez spoke English.

 

[FCB_M3]

I always assumed Marquez spoke English.

I think he does, but not as well as oh let's say, chicharito. But still decent.

 

[Ocurrente]

Thierry Henry the greatest striker of Arsenal

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[Carefree]

Messi aside, Henry at his absolute peak was the best player of the past decade. Ronaldo unfortunately could never maintain his ungodly standards after two near career ending injuries in the late nineties. Zidane was a largely inconsistent, yet brilliant player on his day and Ronaldinho robbed Henry of one WPOTY award in 2004 (Though was wrongly robbed of one himself in 2006).

I absolutely despite Arsenal, but I have genuine respect for Thierry Henry. Easily the most talented player to grace the Premiership and for my money, the best player of the noughties.

 

[La Furia]

Messi aside, Henry at his absolute peak was the best player of the past decade. Ronaldo unfortunately could never maintain his ungodly standards after two near career ending injuries in the late nineties. Zidane was a largely inconsistent, yet brilliant player on his day and Ronaldinho robbed Henry of one WPOTY award in 2004 (Though was wrongly robbed of one himself in 2006).

I absolutely despite Arsenal, but I have genuine respect for Thierry Henry. Easily the most talented player to grace the Premiership and for my money, the best player of the noughties.

It depends what you mean. Henry was possibly the most consistently good player of the last decade but he was at no point ever the best player in the world, and Ronaldinho and Ronaldo's peaks were much, much greater than anything Henry ever was.

 

[Carefree]

It depends what you mean. Henry was possibly the most consistently good player of the last decade but he was at no point ever the best player in the world, and Ronaldinho and Ronaldo's peaks were much, much greater than anything Henry ever was.

Yes he was, in 2003 and 2004 he was the best in the world IMO, and if there were a difference between Ronaldo, Henry and Ronaldinho, it's marginal at best. To say otherwise is extremely disrespectful and stupidly biased.

Ronaldo was the better player of the three in his earlier career, his potential seemed limitless at the time before injuries cruely robbed him of being the greatest player of our generation. Henry under Wenger's guidence transformed into the most lethal and consistent attacking player in the world. By far the deadliest centre-forward and probably the most creative too at his absolute peak, always at the hub of everything Arsenal did good going forwards.

Ronaldinho was superb from 2003-2006, had two extraordinary seasons before he fell off the bandwaggon. In 2003 and 2004, Henry was robbed off the Ballon d'Or awards by Zidane and Ronaldinho respectively. Ronaldinho deserved the award in 2005, and in 2006 you could have even argued Henry should have won it for his individual efforts taking that Arsenal side on their last legs to the Champions League final, neither player managed to stamp their authority in that final mind, and because Barcelona won it, Ronaldinho deserved it. Cannavaro winning it was a travesty, that's another story though.

For sheer consistency and absolute brilliance, Henry is hands down the best player of the last decade. That said Messi is taking what Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and Henry once did and pushing that boundry even further (45 goals and 20+ assists is freakish).... and in fairness, so is a certain Cristiano Ronaldo.

 

[10Rivaldo]

Nedved won in 2003 and Shevchenko in 2004, not Zidane and Ronaldinho.

 

[Carefree]

Nedved won in 2003 and Shevchenko in 2004, not Zidane and Ronaldinho.

My mistake, meant the World Player of the Year award. Ronaldinho won it in 2004 and Zidane won it in 2003. Henry was better than all four of those players in those two years anyway.

In 02/03 he scored 32 goals and assisted a further 24. He was involved in 56 goals in the 55 games he played!

In 03/04 he was the stand-out player in Arsenal's Invincible team, scoring 39 times and assisting a further 14. Involved in 53 goals in 51 games.

The only time Ronnie came close to matching those figures was 2005-06, and he lost out to Cannavaro!

 

[AnfieldEd]

Henry was no where near the best player in the world at his peak.

I can name 20 footballers this century, who in their peak were better than Henry or had a better influence on their team.

Henry wasn't even the best player at Arsenal in the early part of the decade. Vieira, Campbell, Pires, Bergkamp were all more important to Arsenal's success then Henry.

I can even prove that Henry was a poor leader. In the 98/00/02 French teams Zidane was the clear leader of that team. After 02 the arsenal contingent, namely Vieira thought Henry should be the leader of the French team (by leader I don't necessarily mean captain but the person who leads the team on the pitch). We saw through the 2004 euros and the group stages of the 06 world cup what a disaster that was. Thuram and Zidane took control of that wreck and Zidane led them to the final where he ended up the biggest idiot of them all. But he led them to the final never the less.

What I am trying to say is that Henry cannot lead a team, Henry cannot take control when the team is in trouble and needs a guiding light to help them. Theirry Henry is ONLY successful when the team around him is successful and does not rely on him for leadership.

For that I've never rated Henry as an elite player and I never will regard him as a legend of the game.

 

[Bergkamp10]

Bergkamp was sublime but Henry was better. Them together was just Henry's the best player I've seen for Arsenal in my lifetime but my Dad and Grandad both say Liam Brady is Arsenal's best player of all time.

Ed that's rubbish. Henry is arguably our best player of all time. He's carried us at times. He was to us what Messi is to Barcelona now. As for his leadership, we got to our only CL final under his leadership so he can't be that bad.