Juninho 96/97

[SAFC 2012]

Surely xhaka is world class?

He has to be one of the best in the world in that postion….

 

[BingoBango]

The erasure of Joel Lynch's Sunderland playing career just disgusts me

 

[hank williams]

Reason Boro went down, see Kinkladze for City.

Scored in the opening league game at the Sol kinky I mean

 

[Parkside]

He wouldn't get in our current side.

Aye,but he's 53 year old now. To paraphrase Bill Shankly

 

[redandwhiterob]

On a slightly similar note and I may get a bit stick for this but there's a argument when Merson went to Middlesbrough the season after he was best player ever to play second tier football. Certainly in my time of watching footy from mid 80s onwards

 

[Coeus]

Not even close to being true he scored 12 PL goals that year he was not the reason they went down

Was and is, that's why I said it.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

On a slightly similar note and I may get a bit stick for this but there's an argument when Merson went to Middlesbrough the season after he was best player ever to play second tier football. Certainly in my time of watching footy from mid 80s onwards

hard to argue against that.

 

[Houghtoner]

Had a really weird career. Considering how good he looked at Smogville, and got 40+ caps for a strong Brazil side, his club career was really quite 5hit.

Played in a World Cup final too which they won.

 

[black-cat]

Meedles-borrow

 

[socrates]

World class who played up here in last 30 years is slim pickings admittedly

Shearer, Ginola, Schwarz, Phillips, Ravinelli?

Apart from the cap wearer they were all short lived at very very very top top top level playing in north east

Boggled if I know

none of them World Class

 

[Tin Man]

Superb player,probably the best Boro fans have seen since Wilf Mannion.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

none of them World Class

Shearer absolutely was. Despite his hat

 

[BlackHoleSun]

none of them World Class

Probably not tbh. Don't know if we've had any then in the last 30 years

 

[Fresno Bob]

Surely xhaka is world class?

He has to be one of the best in the world in that postion….

Exactly. This thread is just weird and surreal.

 

[Theodore Lasso]

What about Sissurkur?

 

[Boris Bear]

Ginola was world class

 

[Bald King]

The last genuine world class player to play in the north east imo. Slightly before my time but wow the lad is absolutely sensationally good prior to the ankle break in late 90s.

Xhaka is world class. He literally took us to 7th with leadership. Not everything is about skill.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Shearer absolutely was. Despite his hat

Would put Isak there or there about too

 

[TallPaul]

Mendieta maybe? 40 Spain caps, twice champs league runner up with Valencia, played for Barca, awarded Uefa midfielder of the year in 2000 and 2001

 

[Pint of efes]

96/97 before your time but an expert on 1939-1945 and holocaust? Sorry if I don’t take the OP seriously