Who actually was the greatest centre half the world has ever seen?


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I saw him play quite a lot when he was at Leeds (long story) and I always thought that when he made errors they were big ones and cost goals.

Can't remember that much of him at Leeds, he did always seem somewhat error-prone in his early days at Man United but thought he was absolutely brilliant once he served his ban for missing the drug test.
 
laurent blanc & lothar matthius, one of those two.[DOUBLEPOST=1383915321][/DOUBLEPOST]
Maldini

Well, after Nyron obviously

He's a full back.

And I'm sure would be most people's choice if the question was for a full back.
 
laurent blanc & lothar matthius, one of those two.

Not as good as his countryman Beckenbauer so no, in fact neither of these are.

For pure and simple defending I'd go for someone Italian as it seems to be in their blood, Maldini and Baresi are the most obvious but there have been others. Bobby Moore was good as well mind, certainly in the big games.

For an all round footballer at the back you have to say Beckenbauer, he seemed to control games from there and I can't think of anyone else who could do that
 
Nesta and Desailly were both superb. Only saw the end of Baresi's career, but he was great. I also thought Maldini was very good when he moved to centre half.
 
Why are people saying Maldini? He was a left back who only converted to centre back when he was old and slow. The best left back of all time probably but not centre back.

Out of the players during my lifetime it's probably Baresi.
 
I think Rio Ferdiand was hardly ever the best CB on the pitch !!

At ManUtd Vidic and for England Sol Campbell were better and made him look good.

Campbell was superb, of those I've seen a decent amount of it's between him and Ferdinand for me. Always thought Ferdinand was always a much better centre-back than Vidic personally, complemented each other brilliantly though.
 
Campbell was superb, of those I've seen a decent amount of it's between him and Ferdinand for me. Always thought Ferdinand was always a much better centre-back than Vidic personally, complemented each other brilliantly though.

Ferdinand is deffo the better footballer, I'd take vidic though myself as an out and out defender.

Agreed about Campbell, was a beast at times.

I liked Lilian Thuram, more a rb tbh but could play cb np and was really consistent.
 
The whole discussion suffers a bit from the fact that CB are hard to compare due to the change of systems over the years.

Hurley played in the very old 2-5-3 system and therefore was much more a CM, hence the space and time to go forward all the time

Beckenbauer started his career as a CF, than att CM and only later played CB, or "Libero" how we said. However...at any angle or interpretation of the word, he played about 3 levels above Charly Hurley and I am sure the Big Man himself would see that

Baresi, Ferdinand etc played in a CB pair as part of a back-4

Since I need my own opinion....I go for Juergen Kohler

I know, people will say "Who the f..k is Juergen Kohler

My answer: How many players do you know, who won the World Cup and Euro with their country and the Champions League and UEFA cup on Club level and the domestic title in 2 of the top leagues
 
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