cant blame them for putting his name forward, its there legend and not yours.

its the same when i mention Steve Bull as he played for my team

you have a good point though as no one remembers the runner-up i guess

 

If this was a "best striker playing for a crap team" there would only be one winner

 

Still didn't win Euro96, lots of runner up awards and lets not forgot the best elbow in football award.

 

 

He didn't win those titles - he played for teams that did - big difference - as 1 man, no matter how good he is, can't beat 11....

His individual striker achievements are: -

Top Scorer for club: 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06

So top scorer for his club for 10 out of 12 seasons played - now that's not a bad individual achievement

I don't see how you can say "definately not him" - I think he will always be up there as one of the best in everyone's top list (well so long as they know something about football, that is )

 

Well I'm no Geordie and he get's my vote. He may have left us (Rovers) to move onto Newcastle, but he will always be remembered as the best player Rovers have ever had in recent times and probably of all time - and that's saying something as mid 90's we were a team and a half - indeed one of the very few teams to actually win the Premiership

 

Best striker in the world in the past 20 years and you're picking him based on playing for Blackburn rovers? proves my point. blinkers off folks.

I'm not saying he's not been great but if you are objectively trying to answer the original question I fail to see how you can look to Shearer. Henry would beat him in the Prem alone never mind taking anything else into account.

 

There's no blinkers on - what he did for us he did for Newcastle and England - oh and Southampton before us. A man can only play for so many teams in a lifetime - although some do move much more than others

As for Henry being better - that's your opinion and I would disagree

I suppose what it would come down to is given any situation - 1 on 1 striker vs keeper - who would be more likely to score - whether on the ground, volley, header, penalty, etc, etc - I know who I'd put my money on

 

Come on behave yourself. Every striker in the world in the last 20 years? Shearer is high on a list of quality strikers but there is no way he beats certain other footballers.

As STiws says Henry for one would beat him in terms of workrate, finishing and an all round package IMO. Ronaldo in his peak would waltz all over Shearer. Stoichkov in 94 was awsome as was Batistuta in his day.... from a whole career point of view Shearer has been fairly successful but no way is he the worlds best striker in the last 20 years.

 

It's a pity that there is no way to find out the REAL answer to this question.

If you could line up all these strikers that have been mentioned and put them all in the same series of scoring opportunities (as a test - mix of different situations) then I say Shearer would beat them all - but it would be close, mind. But then that will never happen - so it will all be down to opinion and statistics.

Off topic somewhat, but we could have the same debate about the best heavyweight boxer in the last 20 years - although 30 years would give a better spread of quality boxers and that would be interesting to hear all your thoughts. I think Tyson in his prime would have blasted away anyone else in their prime put in front of him

 

sti wanna subaru i take it your a man ure fan? hence the shearer bashing? sour grapes perhaps? Henry has to be up there, i just think shearer is more complete. Henry doesn't score that many with his head and probably couldn't strike a ball as hard or as well as shearer. fair enough he'd have him for pace, though before his injuries shearer was no slouch. you never saw shearer shirk a tackle, he gave as good as he got, sometimes more! but what do you expect when you facing 6'2" and 14 stone of a center back? as i said before because he didn't do all these fancy tricks to beat people, so he's not as recognised, he just used shear strength and power to beat people, not as nice on the eye, but equally effective as his goals proved, and that's the main point

 

top 3 for me is
1. diego maradonna (easily the best player i have ever seen)
2. marco van basten
3. romario

 

You're a massive ****! Well that's what your username says to me

 

i have a massive ****, yes, thanks
so I'm right then, just sour grapes nothing constructive to add then

 

stop b1tching, your both wrong anyway

Steve Bull is by far the best

 

shearer was a great player coming from a man u fan but in the top ten in the last 20 years not a chance what did he do, what did he achieve . did he win the world cup for england with his prolific goal scoring like maradonna did did he turn newcastle into a championship winning side like cantona did what did he do .

 

He scored a few goals in a long career for an underachieving bunch of nobodies I think

 

Damn right and proud of it

 

Gary Lineker, scored shed loads at Leic, Everton, Barca, Spurs and England (cashed in at G8 thou!)
Marco Van Basten, awesome striker between 88-92 with Holland and helped AC Milan win pretty much everything between 88-92, shame he retired injured at 28.
Alan Shearer, his record shows he is a great striker, ok he may not have won much, but this is a thread about the BEST STRIKER, not who WON THE MOST.
Finally Thierry Henry will be easily be remembered as a world class striker if he keeps going for a few more years.

 

No - he didn't achieve that at Newcastle, but did at Blackburn

 

exactly is'nt a striker about scoring goals?

 

 

Dont remember Cantona playing for the Toon

Cantona couldn't even get in the French national side

 

I'll say it again. Ian Rush.
658 1st team games, 346 goals. That's better than 1 goal every 2 games over 14 years!
28 goals in 73 games for Wales!
Most prolific FA Cup goalscorer of 20th century.
Most goals scored in FA Cup Finals.
Shares with Geoff Hurst League cup record of 49 goals.
10 goals in 18 Wembley Finals.

 

Admit great player but couldn't cut it in Italy. See below
In the summer of 1987, he was transferred to the Italian giants, Juventus in Serie A. His time at Juventus was less than successful, scoring only eight times in 29 games. He had a hard time settling in Turin, once famously remarking, "It's like living in a foreign country.

 

Ally McCoist????best poacher ive ever seen, amazing inside the box, shouldnt be allowed to touch the ball outside the box

 

That goal against Leeds in Europe, Hateley crosses and in dives Super Ally!

 

don hutchison for his goal against the "auld enemy" at wembley, should make it into the top 5.lol

seriously tho, ally mcoist was a great goal scorer, not the complete player like larsson,henry etc but always gave 110% for everygame and was one of few players that knew what playing for the jersey really meant

 

Not defending Rush or anyones point, but back then 8 goals in a season in Italy was considered a quite good season, even now no one really cracks 20+ over there, for me it's always bored me rigid watching Serie A, apart from Van Basten and Guillets AC Milan team of the late 80's early 90's.

 

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