Salamuddin
International Debutant
Henry is one of the best Premiership players I have ever seen.
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How do you rate Thierry Henry aka Chief Poseur as he is known in Durham ?
- Thread starter Salamuddin
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Henry is the best Premiership player I've ever seen.
In fact he's getting so underrated these days it's almost scary. The best player in the world when he's at his best, and no player means as much to a team as Henry does to Arsenal. Take Ronaldinho out of Barcelona and it hurts them, but they can still win. But take Henry away from Arsenal and they're hurt far worse.
Henry is the classiest finisher I've ever seen as well. Nobody has as much pace or class.
Personally I might go as far to say he's been the best player in the world since 2001, of course he was recently injured but not including that, yeah he's been the best.
Yeah and I'm a United fan... so obviously there's no bias. It feels like a statement of fact - Henry = the best player in the world.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
What a pile of utter tripe. Never since chief poseur moved to the CDMs could you call him underrated. He only actually turns up against rubbish teams and is just an average player in a good team v CDMs or most international sides v France - you'd not notice him but for the hype. A sure sign he's just a good top flight club player and average interational player. If you actually bothered to look you'll notice the CDMs did just as well without chief poseur as they did with him in the recent spell he was out. Chief poseur is a poor finisher, he looks better because he usually gets a shot on target but a large percentage of these are weak efforts that the keeper should save comfortably. Look at the Champions League final where he was less than 12 yards out in the centre of goal and contrived to hit the keeper or the chance later on when he was partially one on one (there was a defender just behind so that meant he had to hit a shot but he was in the box and the keeper had come out) and again hit a weak effort to the keeper. Virtually every time he comes up against decent opposition he fails to shine (if you give enough opportunities even someone like Phil Neville could look good eventually).
The only think chief poseur has that's anything special is his pace, once he loses that he's finished as an international and he'll be an average club player instead. I suggest you look up what a 'fact' actually means before you put forward your ill-found opinion as a statement of fact.
Goughy
Hall of Fame Member
As a player he earns kudos for being the guy that terrified defenders the most over a period of years. Obviously its not just his pace but his ability to find space and finish.
On his day he was unstoppable.
2nd behind Shearer in Prem history IMO and just ahead of Fowler, Cole, Ferdinand, Van N etc
On his day he was unstoppable.
2nd behind Shearer in Prem history IMO and just ahead of Fowler, Cole, Ferdinand, Van N etc
marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
He neatly summarises his post for us in the first sentence.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Wow aren't you a clever little boy?
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Chief poseur poor in the first half against Manure, has a great chance with a header, weak effort to the keeper as per usual. Dangerous position and he dives (doesn't get booked as always with divers). Later on wastes a free kick and the rebound.
Result on the "You Rate The Players" on the BBC website?
Chief poseur 8.09
Fabregas 7.43
Rosicky 6.98
Lehmann 6.53
and so on.
It's all hype and a complete lack of the average peasant being able to perceive the game properly.
Result on the "You Rate The Players" on the BBC website?
Chief poseur 8.09
Fabregas 7.43
Rosicky 6.98
Lehmann 6.53
and so on.
It's all hype and a complete lack of the average peasant being able to perceive the game properly.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Did you actually see his "dive", might I ask? Neville clearly took his legs away.
As for wasting the free kick; the wall did its job & then he made Van der Saar make a sharp save.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
"The wall did its job"
ie chief poseur hit the ball into it, bravo. Sharp save... right...
ie chief poseur hit the ball into it, bravo. Sharp save... right...
BoyBrumby
Englishman
So that's a "no" then?
@ Scaly
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
If I kept getting chances I'd score eventually, what was his overall record against teams that matter again? Oh that's right, crap + 1/500.Only scores against crap teams when it doesn't matter tho.
Barney Rubble
International Coach
You seem to base a massive amount of your arguments on this. Fact is there aren't many scoring opportunities that emerge in Premiership games that the average nobody could score. Even less of them are opportunities that fall to Henry, seeing as he spends most of his time outside the box.
But you wouldn't let the facts get in the way of a good rant, would you?
Jungle Jumbo
International Vice-Captain
Slighty past his best now, but still a threat (see today's game).
My best memories of him will be that night in Milan when he single-handedly destroyed Internazionale. I've never seen pace like that before, or since.
My best memories of him will be that night in Milan when he single-handedly destroyed Internazionale. I've never seen pace like that before, or since.
The Baconator
International Vice-Captain
Don't really want to vote, I'm kinda somewhere in between the top two options. Henry's a gun, even if he is French, but I do think he's a little overrated by some.