The Most Underrated Players of the Messi/Ronaldo era.

In reality Messi is the most underrated player, of Messi era interestingly.

 

The fact that you called this "Messi/Ronaldo era" rather than example "modern era" already underrates Messi, massively.

 

Marchisio is a good example. De Rossi comes to mind, too (never recognised at a European level but in his prime he was one of the best midfielders around). As a pure defender, Chiellini was probably as good as any defender in the world in the late 2000s.

Mascherano is quite underrated but always reliable. Bale at the moment is more decisive than the media seem to admit. Fabregas and Schweinsteiger were quite underrated, too, I think. Possibly Aguero.

Cristiano Ronaldo is slightly overrated in the real world but often underrated on this forum.

 

I always think of Lahm as a player that is most times left out of 'best defenders of all time' discussions, even if he deserves to be mentioned as one of the best full-backs of all time in my opinion.

 

other players would be Müller, Kroos or Busquets who are obviously underrated because of their unobtrusive playing style, even if they have a huge impact on the game.

 

Agree re Aguero comment esepcially if you talk about awards, never anywhere near winning any domestic PoTY awards in England or even nominated I think, and for Ballon d'or this is his positions going back from 2015, 13, N/A, N/A, 17, 17, N/A, N/A, 14/20, with the last one the last year they were separate, not the recognition places he deserves given imo he has been top 5 number 9s for last half a dozen years.

 

I was actually about to mention Lahm in my own post.

 

I said think but good find!!!!

But fully agree re fitness, he still managed to be top scorer and not manage top 3 in PL despite a very good season that year, but again he missed probaly 10 or so games. It is also the timing of his injuries which is often around voting for Ballon d'or that doesn't help. He would have made my top ten once in alst 6/7 years though, and probaly 14/15 season.

 

Hahaa!! funny enough, I actually agree with you. i will not state particular reasons, as i believe the thread will become off topic

 

Fabregas underrated??? I dont think so. At Barcelona his weaknesses were really exposed. I remember how slow he was playing for Barcelona as time went by and it was so frustrating to watch him, hence, he was let go

 

I agree with a lot of what you said but i wouldnt put Chiellini as the best pure defender of this generation. I would put Barzagli possibly over him, Lahm, Ashley Cole, John Terry, and maybe a couple others

 

Top 10 Underrated(in no particular order)
Xabi alonso(he is undoubtedly the 3rd best outfield player of his generation behind Xavi/iniesta but with the passage of time he has become almost a unsung hero)

Arjen robben(a modern great imo injuries prevented him from being the undisputed 3rd best player of his generation his 13/14 season Inc wc 14 and his 14/15 season till he got injured is the highest level I have seen by any player in this generation(besides Messi/Ronaldo)

Xavi(underrated to a certain degree although I believe history will look favourably upon him.i would not be surprised to see him in most top 20 all time lists 10-15 years from now)

busquets(I use to think that he use to piggyback of the success of lio,Xavi and iniesta but his form over the last couple of seasons has forced me to reconsider)

Wayne Rooney(overrated in England/underrated by the rest of the world in fact I could make a case that he is a top 10 player of his generation)

Sergio aguero:a flop for Argentina but at club level(premier league not so much the cl) he has been immense . I believe that he is not far away from solidifying his position as the 2nd greatest striker of the premier league era(sadly for him it looks as if Thierry Henry is completely out of reach for him)

Karim benzema:a goal scorer,creator and one of the best link up players I have seen in a while . shining in a team that contains Cristiano Ronaldo is not easy but he has done quite a good job of it.

There are others I could include amongst them are iniesta,modric,lahm(aka Mr consistent),patrice evra,Di natale(for a while he had the best scoring record at league level in Europe after Ronaldo/Messi) and there are others I can't think at the moment(probably because I'm tired as fu*k)

 

I meant to say 3rd best outfield spanish player of his generation(regarding alonso) not overall(of course there are quite a few in front of him just not Spanish players except for xavi/iniesta and cassilas if we're including gk)

 

1 on 1, you might be right. but i believe Ashley Cole can hold his own against anybody as well as chiellini

 

Not an underrated player perse (Ibra and Benz over him?) but underrated is Suarez his ability and adaptability to improve. Lately his passing has made a step up, when bestowed with that duty (previously Neymar was better than him, and sort of given that task if Messi was out).

In an exeggerated way he is like a sponge.

 

This article identifies Kane, Carvajal, Oblak, Carrasco and Kimmich as extremely underpaid players.

http://www.sportskeeda.com/football/5-football-stars-underpaid

Performance relative to pay. If the numbers are true of course, and it should be kept in mind that some are debutants or first season players.

 

Suarez is very underrated. He almost single-handedly won the EPL title for Liverpool. If it hadnt been for one Gerrard mistake in the match against Chelsea back in 2014, Suarez would have been a ballon d'or winner allready. he is currently easily the best striker in the game. And I would say he is just second to Messi as a playmaker. Has been like this for three seasons running. Probably was like that for longer but Suarez unfortunately was not playing in a league with insane international exposure for people to know such a great player even existed.

 

Performance analyze of every second what happens on the field, playing against the same opponents.



Uefa Player Of Season

1-3. Bale, Griezmann, Cronaldo
4. Suarez
5. Messi
16. Neymar

Shows how Madrid is controlling current media, appreciation is completely backwards on actual reality.