I'd like you guys to list the top 5 players in europe that impressed you the most last season. mine are:

zlatan ibrahimovich - juventus
kaka - milan
juan riquelme - villareal
adriano - inter
wayne rooney - man utd

Mohammadou Diarra (Lyon)
Diego Forlan (Villareal)
Gabriel Heinze (Manchester United)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Juventus)
Xavi (Barcelona)

Thierry Henry-Arsenal
Frank Lampard-Chelsea
Samuel Etoo-Barcelona
Diego Forlan-Villareal
Ronaldinho-Barcelona

I think these players have proved themselves in the last season.

(1) Ronaldinho - Barcelona , Brazil
(2) Frank Lampard - Chelsea, England.
(3) Samuel Eto'o - Barcelona, Cameroon.( To win African footballer of the year for the third time)
(4) Thierry Henry - Arsenal, France.
(5) Adrian Schevchenco - AC Milan, Ukraine.

Mine are

Rooney - Man Utd for life

Ronaldinho- Barca

Lampard= Chelsea

Terry - Chelsea

Gerrard - Liverpool

Just for d records, my worst was obviously Didier Droba

to be honest. i really don't see what the lampard guy does - apart from scoring deflected goals

Being at the right place at the right time. I am an Arsenal fan and for me to admit that Lampard plays well takes is not really easy. He drives the team forward but truth be told, Chelsea wouldnt be such a force without Claude Makelele. Is it a coincidence that since Makelele left Real Madrid, they have struggled? Come to think of it, I shoulda picked Makelele rather than Frank Lampard.

yeah makelele is a world class player. real madrid confirmed how stupid they were.

and dont forget that Etoo is actually a Madrid player now running for Barcelona, meanwhile the wasted millions in signing Beckham, Owen etc when they had a ready made finisher in Etoo

i read somewhere (last season) that the top 3 earners are madrid players.

beckham
zidane
ronaldo

madrid know how to spend.

then vieri, del piero, lampard

vieri?! hard to believe. but his salary would definitely drop now that he has moved to milan

Vieri earns more money than he is actually worth. and 4 the best 5 in their order

Shevchenko
Ronaldinho
Henry
Kaka
Etoo

sorry if u dont agree but im saying this from a selfish angle(the a.c milan fan)

aah. a milanista is in the house. u guys are f--d this season. juve rulez.

Frank Lampard-chelsea
kaka-Milan
Adraino-Inter
Ibramihovic-Juve
Robben-Chelsea
*rooney-Man UTd

1.jose reyes-arsenal
2.steven gerrard-liverpool
3.drogba-chelsea
3.thiery-arsenal
4.ronaldhino-barca
5.rooney-manchester united

My order is:

CLAUDE MAKALELE : Best defensive midfeilder in the world for 3 consecutive seasons. Jose Mourino even call him " most underrated player in the premiership.

STEVEN GERRHAD : Plays in 3 different position to win Champions league for his unfacied club;Liverpool. Consistense for National team as well

FRANK LAMPARD: Premiership player of the year 2004/2005. Record holder of 160 consecutive matches in the premiership. Best penalty taker at the moment. Best kicker of the ball. Current highest goal scorer in the premiership. Consecutive good performance for National team.

RONALDIHO : What else to say ? The other players that has similar skill are Zola, Jay-jay & Denis beckham.
World best player at the moment.
ESSIEN: £24m move that makes him the most expensive African player. France footballer of the year. Walks straight into the star-studded Chelsea first team. Ring bearer for Ghana towards the world cup.

Akolawole, what makes Lampard the best penalty taker at the moment? What makes hm better than Yak? I even think Yak takes better penalties that Lampard.

Well for me the best right now are;

T. Henry

G. Ronaldinho

S. Gerrard

F. Lampard

S. Etoo

Mariach
I wont sentiments a all.
Check the record in the last 2 seasons, he has not missed any but Ronaldihno and Etoo has missed theirs. Yakubu ke!
Let be realistic Henry shouldnt make that list

Akolawole,

Can't understand why the highest goal scorer in europe last season (Henry) shouldn't make the list. If he doesn't, no other striker should.

My list:
Ronaldinho
Gerrard
Henry
Schevchenko
Terry

Joey

Joey
What exactly did Schecenko did last season?
When & where did Henry won highest goal scorer in Europe? Please tell me.

man, Akolawole, if u don't know, don't claim you know.

Henry scored more goals than any other player last season.

what did schevchenko do? it's very obvious now that u watch only english football. it's not like i'm a milan fan but guy.apart from kaka, schevchenko was milan's main man.

as regards to penalties, you haven't heard of del piero abi? i've only ever seen him miss one penalty in my life and that was vs. inter in 1998 and i believe he deliberately missed it. you haven't heard of shearer abi? who the hell is lampard?

Samuel Eto'o
Ronaldinho
Diego Forlan
Thierry Henry
Frank Lampard

1 Henry  (Arsenal)
2 Obafemi Martins (Inter Milan)
3 Adriano (Inter Milan)
4 Yakubu (Portsmouth)
5 Deco (Barcelona)

I think u guys under-rate Nigeria players alot, have u guys forgeten that the yak was the second highest goal scorer after Henry, he scored four times in a game more than once. Since he left portsmouth, they have been in decline, not even lua lua could help. I think last season after henry, then eto'o and yakubu. These were the top three strikers last season. please somebody dispute that. obafemi and adriano are not far behind either.

guyzzzz!! na only soccer una dey watch/play don't u guyz know about other great sports?? c'mon y'all not juss soccer!!!!

what do u want us to talk about? ice skating? gimme a break.

soccer IS the only sport.

c0dec:

what do u want us to talk about? ice skating? gimme a break.

soccer IS the only sport.

corrrrrct sport!! when i mean correct i'm talkin legid!! sports like rugby(d best) or football but alwayzzzzz soccer??   n' when u talkin ice skatin hell naww!! that ain't no sport...that juss 4 fun...

the real football is soccer.
i think american football is boring, can't understand it. rugby is even more exciting but nothing compares to the real football.

For last season I dont see any other player worthy of it but Steven G.He single handedly won the cahmpions league for liverpool,remember they dusted Chelsea,Juve and did the gratest comeback in footbal history with Ac Milan,comon guys give it to him,he played in the defence at the tail end of the finals,started in the attack and then moved to the middle.No one is more deserving than Steven G

c0dec:

the real football is soccer.
i think american football is boring, can't understand it. rugby is even more exciting but nothing compares to the real football.

d real football is soccer?? yeahh yeahh whatever y'all call it!! how u gonn say football is borin?? mehn!! u dey miss n' talkin about rugby!! mehn datz d best of d best sport everrr!!

be like say u get muscles.

uhmmm ....lemmee see!!

[color=Black][/color]omg best players


Alan Shearer (newcastle united

Samuel Eto'o (barcelona)

Shevchenko (ac milan)

Fernando Torres ( a, madrid)

and Henry (arsenal

c'mon guys shearer is great cos he is old and still scored,eto'o cos he is young,shevy cos he is milan's god, torres cos he is young and might bring a challenge to spanish football, and henry? common sense

hi friends of nairaland, what an interesting topic to talk abt but i think if we should be objective about it and keep fanatism aside,
w'll be able to come out with a good list like what i have. just like the world football governing body (FIFA) has;

RONALDINHO
SAMUEL ETO'O FILS
FRANK LAMPARD
THEIRY HENRY
STEPHEN GERAD. HEY ANY QUAMS ABT THAT?