Ibime:

Klose made his name against the likes of Costa Rica, Saudi Arabia and Ecuador. . . . these three teams alone account for half of his World Cup goals. What makes him better than Oleg Salenko? He's just a lucky bazztard!!!

jalether:

Fair point. However, you have to agree that for a striker to be rated/considered as one of the best, his ability must exceed simply scoring goals

according to your logic. . . Fontaine is a better striker than Batistuta/Romario given the fact that he has more world cup (highest stage) goals to his credit

jalether:

@ FBS. make no mistake about it. . . Anelka, in his prime, was a better striker than Didier. even DD himself cannot dispute that

ask yourself this question. hypothetically, If WPOTY was to be awarded to strictly strikers. do you think Klose would have won the award at any point in his

career?

ritchboy:

has Klose EVER been among the 10 best strikers in the world AT ANY POINT IN TIME? ABEG!

The only reason we are even having this discussion is because Klose was fortunate to play during a time Germany were/are producing uncharacteristically crappy strikers and therefore had the privilege to lead their attack.

There are like 40-50 strikers of his time better than him. . . PHAKT!

mama-gee:

Hey, guys just because Klose scored that much goals doesn't necessary mean he created his goals.

Let's not be confused, there's a huge difference between scoring goals and creating them.

Klose may have been the one to put the ball into the net but that doesn't mean he created those chances himself.

So, it's ignorant to rate how much of a good striker he is by relying on the goals he scored in the world cup.

dayokanu:

How would you know if Fontaine is a better striker than Batistuta and Romario.

Who is better George Best or Cristiano Ronaldo?

We all hear about Fontaine 40yrs after achieving his record I am still asking anyone to tell us who the top scorer in CL was in 1958, Who the best striker in Europe was between 1965 and 1969?

Anything you do at the World cup supercedes all those Sunday Sunday football

dayokanu:

Klose scored 14 world cup goals What are other Better strikers looking at while Klose was scoring

jalether:

Going by that logic, Klose is better than Klinsmann, Batistuta, Romario, Shearer, Roberto Baggio, Stoichov, George Weah, Del piero et al

dayokanu:

Exactly just the way Gerd Muller was more respected than any striker of his generation due to his World cup goals,

Fontaine was remembered for years, and almost everyone cant remember who the other strikers in Europe around 1958 were but everyone remembers Fontaine

50yrs later we all talk about Fontaine, Who remembers the CL, Bundesliga, Serie A and La Liga top scorers in 1958?

RuuDie:

Finally mama-gee says something worthy of _quote

dayokanu:

You must be joking. Cos I can bet 80% of football followers have never heard of Nordahl or Kubala

I can tell you Fontaine is more known than 4 of those 6 you mentioned. Pele had great exploits in the World cup too

mama-gee:

[color=deeppink]Why don't you post something worthy of a quote yourself?

Or are you daft?[/color]

aieromon:

@Ruudie
Some people don't recognise a compliment.Please,ignore.

RuuDie:

Easy tiger. . . . trust me; u don't wanna be doing dis - not with me, u don't!

Do you want me to show you why I'm known as mama-gee, the controversial Nairalander?