Under appreciated by young fans?(under 20 or so)

I’ve noticed some young (Ronaldo) fans who call Henry a “Pace Merchant” or that he only had pace and was a average striker etc… usually between the ages of 10-13/14

Is Thierry Henry becoming under rated recently? Or is this just noise from CR7 or Tottenham Fanboys.

  • Jchibs@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Man is overrated because people talking about his 20/20 season. Yah king slay 20 goals 20 assists. Look at what happened away from home that season. Arsenal failed to win away to spurs, Chelsea, Newcastle, Bolton, Everton, Man U and Liverpool. Them grounds were kryptonite for Henry throughout his career. He scored seven away against them teams in eight seasons at Arsenal. His failure in 02/03 when he scored against Newcastle away only clearly hampered Arsenal’s title defense.

    He scored two goals away to top half sides that season city in 9th and Newcastle 3rd. Arsenal dropped points away to Chelsea, utd,Liverpool, Newcastle, Southampton, Everton and Spurs. They only beat City away out of the top half sides! Henry’s greatest ever season saw his side lose the league away from home and in his greatest ever season he simply didn’t perform.

    Look at his 01/02 season for a vanishing act what a bad man before Christmas but second half of the season he went missing scoring in five of the last twenty five league and cup games

  • Clarky1979@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Can’t speak for other Tottenham fans but as much as I hated how prolific he was for Arsenal, not for a second would I think of knocking his talent. He was an amazing player and I can only wish he had played for us and not them. I could say I was jealous of Arsenal for having such a player but never in a million years would I say he was anything but a great one. It’s okay to hate a rival player for being brilliant, it’s another thing to pretend he was not. Something the Harry Kane haters never understood.

  • iqbalides@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Don’t listen to these kids. I once talked about how good Berbatov was and they called me a nostalgia merchant. Nostalgia? The guy only retired 5 years ago 😂😂

  • KingEOK@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Who cares about over/under rated? Especially of those that didn’t watch the player.

  • _PeanuT_MonkeY_@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I mean I started watching football ~99-00 and only watch live games. If you ask me about Cantona or pele or Maradona or … I know squat at the same time I won’t disrespect them. They were before my time at that’s as much as I know about them. If I haven’t watched them play I say I have no openings as I have not watched them play. I know about them from the half time shows and people’s references to them during commentary but other than that no opinion.

  • syfqamr32@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    People appreciate players that they can often see, nothing new tbh.

    For example we can never appreciate how excellent, say, George Best, compared to Antony which is the best player ever

  • p792161@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    If you’re getting upset about the opinions of 13 year olds on Tik Tok it’s a sign you really need to touch some grass.

  • yankeeboy1865@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Who cares what under 20s think regarding a player that they were too young to have watched? Henry left Arsenal after the 06-07 season. Most 20 year olds would have been 4 then. If they watched him at Barcelona, they would have been 7 when he left. At most what they’ve seen are curated highlight reels on YouTube.

  • jackbeano@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Liverpool fan, and honestly I use to love watching him play every week. Easily the best striker in the Premier league era

  • BrewtalDoom@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Great players are always going to be under-appreciated by people who never saw them play at the time. The likes of Nedved, Romario, Kaka, Suker, Sammer, Hagi, and Stoichkov are also players that don’t get enough credit these days. But that’s just the passage of time for you.

  • gigibuffoon@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    United fan since mid 90s and even though I hated him because he was in Arsenal, it was an absolute joy to watch him play… very few football players have a legacy that plays through generations and across the world… Pele, Maradona, Messi, Ronaldo, Ronaldo, Zidane and maybe 8-10 more that I’m too lazy to type here… beyond them, the other players will have a legacy that carries on within their clubs and some others that last through the generation of fans that watched them and that’s it. You can’t get upset because some kids who’ve been watching the game for five years don’t appreciate sometime that they didn’t even watch playing

  • Spiritualcomp@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Henry is the most overated player in the sports history imo amongst English speakers.

    I grew up watching him, he was a phenomenal striker but people particularly British people under 30 put him on a pedestal his performances just didn’t warrant and group him with much better players who achieved much more in the game.

    It’s Nostaliga as Henry was in his pomp when a lot of young people got into the game