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Henry. Just look at his record!

There is only one, and his name is Ryan Giggs.

Robbie Fowler!

Giggsy is the man.

gigsy of course, why united playerz

who else whould it be if its not THIERRY HENRY!!! He is the player that took the Premiership to the highest level!! His goals has its class of it’s own!!! His speed, I bet no defender can catch him!! His skills are over the rainboww!!! He is the ultimate player every club would like to have!!

Eric Cantona, Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry, Ryan Giggs, Roy Keane, and so many others can become greats like Fabregas, Rooney, Lampard and Terry

I think the Premiership has seen many amazing players over the years. Eric Cantona has blessed The Theatre of Dreams, as has Roy Keane. Recently Christiano Ronaldo has created a huge impact on the Past Season, and obviously, Ryan Giggs is extremely suited for the title of best premiership player, Taking the Red Devils to 9 Championships, including the Treble of 98/99

Arsenal have a big name that seems to Rocket through peoples minds…..HENRY. The superstar French has dazzeled all with his great performances at Highbury. However, his time at The Emirates Stadium seems to have let him down some what.

People also seem to Forget Chelsea’s little star italian, Zola. A formidable force for such a small player, and definatly a favourite with Fans Everywhere.

To be truly Honest, i feel that the Role should go to the Great Dane, Peter Schmeichel, for his fantastic achievements at Man Utd, and for simply being the Greatest Goal Keeper the Premierships ever seen. (Forget Cech, Ol Pete wouldn’t have to wear a head brace, he’d just get on with the job!!!)

Based purely on your criteria, Id give it to Keane who had a had a much longer term impact than Cantona. As a youngish Arsenal fan I’m not really to aware of how much Cantona helped change Man U’s fortunes between 92 and 94 tho. I also think as good as Giggs is, has he ever been the main man? I think from Arsenals point of view Dennis Bergkamp was the main Pillar of Arsenals transition into one of the big teams, but Thierrys probably the player who has had the biggest impact. Hes also hands down the most talented player to ever grace the premiership.

Keano.

i am a united fan but i have 4 players now.
henry 4 arsenal
giggs 4 man u
lampard 4 chelsea
gerrard 4 liverpool

giggs, ronaldo, rooney, cantona, shearer, henry

giggs , beckham, scholes

Paulo Di Canio!!!

I’d say Schmeichel (the Great Dane) and Seaman for goalkeepers. Others would have to include Zola (the mighty midget), Shearer, Giggs, Henry, Bergkamp was a freak. The list goes on.

Wow! So many to chose from, I can not think of anyone more deserving of the title than Ryan Giggs. I am a Liverpool fan but consistency at such a high level is Ryan Giggs.

thenry,keane,veira and shearer he managed to look good playing for newcastle!!

Big Al.no ones gonna score more goals than he did

Has to be Henry, Shearer, Van Nistelrooy, Zola, Patrick Viera, Keane, Speed and Shay Given

Alan Shearer is the greatest EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

my choices are

cantona
shearer
le tisier
keano for utd
scholey
beckham
and giggs.

my vote; dennis bergkamp, zola, le tissier, giggs, cantona & shearer

So obviously it’s Giggs or Henry, right? But I find it far more interesting to talk about ‘great’ in terms of impact on the EPL in all its facets (not just results).

Is it wrong for me to think that the greast EPL player should be English, or at least British? Surely Alan Shearer has meant more to the Premier League than anyone else for a longer period of time.

As a United fan I definately want to tip my hat to Giggs – certainly the memories he’s given us (me) will never be forgotten. Beckham too deserves some serious credit for being the poster child for the EPL for quite some time and bringing merchandise sales to a ridiculous level. But when one thinks of the greatest player one doesn’t immediately think ‘winger’.

After giving this some great deal of thought though I’m actually leaning towards Bergkamp. His arrival at Arsenal essentially signalled their resurgence and has concreted their place in the modern EPL as a superclub. His success prompted several other clubs to bring in a foreign attacker to add spark and creativity (eg Zola, Di Canio). More importantly his success allowed Wenger to come in and, over time, field a side with as many foreign players, mostly French and Dutch, as Englishmen – an approach also adopted by other big name clubs (eg Liverpool’s Spanish-centric squad and Chelsea’s African-centric squad). Surely Bergkamp’s arrival has had more impact on the nature of the modern EPL than any other player.

Thus whilst he’s no doubt nowhere near as popular as Mr. Shearer, I would definately give him the nod.

@Dbeech
What about Cantona?He is the first foreigner who achieved everything you said.He ‘s the reason why SAF bought non british players and Henry has admitted that Cantona opened the road for french people

Gary Speed!

My opinion… (sorry Bilal but its another Manchester United)

Roy Keane.

Zola an Ole r also legends and have left thier mark in the EPL

Nikos,
You make a good point about Cantona. Of course his success with United undoubtedly had an impact. But the key to United’s long period of success, IMO, was the English (and British) players coming through its youth system. In the case of Bergkamp, I feel his success in the team is what led to a transformation in how Arsenal went about their business which in turn has greatly impacted on the attitude other clubs try to create a good football side in the EPL.

Also, despite being a lifelong Cantona fan, I have an aversion to selecting someone as the greatest EPL player ever who karate kicks people in the head .

henry no.1 zola no.2 roy keane no.3 bergkamp no.4

i cannot believe how little people have said lampard…
i know he hasnt been the real deal for england in last couple of years but his record for chelsea is top class!
he has broken numerous records… scored a huge amount of goals for a midfielder in one of the most competitive leagues around… he would definetly be in my list along with henry, giggs, zola, gerrard (few years time)

My first thoughts were for Keano.

Mainly for his ability to not only play brilliantly and pull a game out of the bag, but for his ability to bring the best out of others at important moments.

Schmeichel comes a close second, for similar reasons.

Honourable mentions to Henry, Shearer, Gerrard.

Between these 5 for me: Schmeical, Keane, Zola, Bergkamp, Henry.
Im trying not to be a biased United fan but i really can’t help it. All were beyond class and legends but i guess i saw more of the United players and noticed how big there impact was more than i did with the others.
So the final 2 are Keano and Schmikes. Think i’ll have to go with the one and only Peter Schmeichal, the greatest of Danes. He’s my second favourite ever player, after Henrik Larsson. He has my vote over Keano because his contribution and influence were certainly imense, made even more so because he was a goalie!He saved us many a time, was often the difference between 3 points or 1 point, made the defence feel confident and the whole squad knew they could rely on him. The prem will never see another like him. Cech doesn’t even come close!

What, no mention of George Best???

Ryan Giggs : “He’s won it nine times” , says it all. Seriously no one can really deny that, Gerrard , Henry , Zola etc have all been really good , but Giggsy has just been tremendous since it all began , scored in every season too , 9 premiership medals , FA cups , a Carling Cup . Check the stats , they don’t lie , hell I’ll crown him now the best premiership player ever , UNDOUBTABLY : Step forward Mr Ryan Giggs ! I know it , you know it , WE ALL KNOW IT

Henry..:)

Giggsy!!!

Def. has to be gigsy the gonger tho henry the goner comes in closely in 2nd..

i cant belive some people are actually serious about putting Fat Frank as their greatest ever player of the Premiership….are you serious ?? the guy has been consistent for what 2 years when they won the double….last year was Drogba…
The others who are saying Gerrard need to wake up too (and im a Liverpool Supporter).
I said initially Giggs and i still stand by that. But upon reflection i would say that Bergkamp is a close second followed by Keane.
I dont think that you could loko past those 3 in my opinion.
if you wanted to round out the top 5 you would put Schmeichael and Viera. Henry would be in your top 10 as would Shearer but he isnt the greatest. IMHO he isnt even the greatest at Arsenal, and all that arse kissing is what made him such an obnoxious turd and made it so hard for Gunners to deal with the fact that he has left.

The fact that Giggs gave the most impact was because he being in the Priemiership too long,^^. So long that his legs giving away the pace and his speed getting slower each season but he still keeps on going, tha we gotta respect that. Tony Adams, yeah his great, how about David Seaman, his great too, how about Klinsman? Dennis Wise? Mark Huges? Brian Robson? Zeco? PaulGascoign?

All this players can be greatest but Giggs usually the obvious option because he has being here long enough!^^ He had encounter with all this great players before troughtout his career wtih Man Utd, he has being seen great players come and go.

But I still feel Peter Schmeichael still the best! Cause his performance was inspiring and the impact way much bigger then Giggs.^^

I am so disappointed… its like 90% in here is man utd fans… you cant get a real discoussion when its 90% vs. the rest… i think Henry has had the greatest impact… just look at the midias at the moment… i dont think ive ever seen a that big circus around one player… And thats in denmark… Its got to be like 10 times as much in england… no doubt here… its Henry…

There is no doubt, Henry. I haven’t seen a player to his standards. To any defender or goalkeeper, Henry is hell.

hey remember Paul Gascoigne?

Gazza played 4 years in premiership 2 for boro plus 2 for everton.

Paul Scholes – extremely underrated, yet the fulcrum of several supremely successful ManU lineups. He’s got the ability to hold on to the ball and knows exactly what to do, every single time. No frills player, but can get past defenders effortlessly when goal’s in sight. Move over Henry and Cantona, Paul Scholes was, is and will be(hopefully) the best club on earth’s Mr. Reliable. Whenever a defender doesn’t know what to do with the ball in a crucial juncture, he passes to Scholes and trusts that he’ll know what to do with it. I think that he is a great team player and one whom his teammates respect highly, and hence should be given a high place in history

im a chealsea fan so im guna say zola,lampard and john terry bt if no wid any ov dem i say ronaldo or giggs der was both brill last season.

Just one KING AND THE KING IS IGWE as we all call him in my part of the world…. KING HENRY …

As an Arsenal fan I’d have to say Patrick Vieira. He was that good even Manchester United tried to buy him! And over the time he was there Arsenal where the team to beat! OK some will say that was due to Henry but we had better days when Vieira was captain, and also 49 UNBEATEN!

Also the Vieira / Keane battles were brilliant! Gerrard wasn’t a patch on vieira when he was in his prime!

Henry, Giggs, Cantona, Zola, Scholes……the list is endless

How can gerrard be the greatest premiership player when liverpool have never come close to winning. Its not even like he was playing for a smaller club like Ginola, di Canio, Le Tissier, etc, its liverpool for gods sake.
I think the only non arsenal or manchester players under consideration would be shearer and zola.

There are many greats, but the 1 that stands out above them all would have to be Alan Shearer

1st Paul Scholes.
2nd Ryan Giggs.
3rd Thierry Henry.

liverpool is the greatest club ever been.

Henry widout any doubt ….

1.Bergkamp
2.Henry
3.Giggs
4.Schmeichel
5.Shearer
6.Cantona
7.Zola
8.Vieira
9.Roy Keane
10.Tony Adams

look cantona and alan shearer were the best players in the premiership pre wenger, when players like fowler,right,ferdinanad and sheringham were the henry of the time, when wenger started to bring an influx of stars – viera,henry,anelka, and on the other hand chelsea- zola and co by that time cantona had retired at just 30, the premiership went from an average league to the best in the world, the standards are 3 times as high now as it was pre foreign influx era so andy cole, fowler, giggs, alan shearer and co although they still starred in this era as well as the old they can only be judged on this era’s success basically cantona, 1992-1996 means nothing so the candidates are dennis bergkamp, vieira, schiemiechel, zola, juninho,ginola, giggs,scholes,gerard and henry. sorry but shearer quite doesn’t cut it, it’s time to except that english players always have been and are overrated average players, micheal owen flopped two world cups( 2002 and 2006-injured or not when he played he flopped)and two european championships, he has poor control of the ball he can’t run with the ball without almost falling over, he can’t pass the ball, he ha slost all his pace, he scores occassionally and i always hear that he has scored where ever he’s been like where? the world cups, european championships, ok he did well at real, ronaldo scored47 goals in 49 games for barcelona but the brazillians don’t get too excited, ur shit, 1966 was fluke and bad referring decisions, wenger, vialli and gullit made ur league when the foreigners leave u will return to ur lescotts and sidwells. one day wayne rooney will mess with the wrong person( i.e. edgar davids) and he will be taught a lesson, boy wonder, ha don’t make me laugh, why is he boy wonder? because he fouls a lot, he shoots from 30 yards, he scores occassionally, ronaldo at 20 was the best player in the world at barca, that’s a real boy wonder check you tube if u don’t believe me, cristiano is a fake version, u think shearer is a powerful shooting goal scorer what about batistuta, he scores 5 goals in 6 euro 96 games which were held in england by the way against the scots and a second string dutch team without( kluivert who when he came on the last 5 mins scored, without davids and many black stars), i mean ur philoophy is if he does well his the best, none is better without consideration for other players in other leagues until kaka scores two and knocks u out and then it’s kaka rather then previously when cristiano had the same skill level of maradonna and pele, wow. this has happened for years, when owen was new, they started saying he is the equivalent of ronaldo, but what happened ronaldo endured four years of injury and became overweight but still real madrid kept a fully fit owen on the bench instead opting for fatboy, ha. beckham can’t even dribble in the US.Gazza was good but what about barnes, racism? barnes was better than gazza. look i support arsenal henry was good, ur best ever after bergkamp and zola, but there are henry’s every year in spain and italy, roanldinho,etoo,messi,kaka,ronaldo,zidane and dozens and dozens more.compare this 1)henry 2)bergkamp 3) zola
to spain and italy 1)maradonna 2)ronaldo 3)zidane, also cruyff, di stefano, rivaldo,romario,laudrup,zico,hagi,figo,batistuta and dozens more for both italy and spain. by the way i was born here and i am 20 but the truth is ur too arrogant.

HENRY IS THE BEST PLAYER IN WORLD.ARSENAL WAS BUILT AROUND HENRY AND HE TOOK ARSENAL TO A GREAT PLACE.HE IS A REAL GOOD PLAYER

@james – What’s your point mate? You bith and bitch and bitch, but make no point…strange?!?

[Ahmed]
Is it possible to have some sort of a poll on this perhaps. It would be interesting to see what the graphs says.

SHEARER!!!

Chel$ki – Zola, Fat Frank, Terry, Cech(soon)
Lvapul – Gerrard, Fowler, Carragher
Manchester United – Keane, Giggs, Cantonna, Schmeichal, Scholes
Arse-n-all – henry, Bergkamp, Vieira

for me
1. Zola
2. Giggs
3. Schmeichal
4. Henry
5. Cantonna
6. Bergkamp
7. Keano
8. Scholes
9. Terry and Carragher(tied)
10. Fat Frank

Keepers –

Schmeichal
Seaman
David James

Defenders –

Tony Adams
Nigel Winterburn
Jaap Stam

Midfields -

Roy Keane
Patrick Viera
Ryan Giggs

Forwards –

Zola
Henry
Alan Shearer

No particular order.

As a geordie i have seen great players which have been fantastic for Newcastle and some of Man Utds players have been fantastic to watch BUT…the best player i have had the pleasure (well pain)of watching was Matt Le Tissier .

We would leave a game against Southampton and be saying how come one man can turn a game ….one game i would have said “yeah he got lucky” but he had a good game every game.

when a zimbo speaks, he peaks with great authority, and the title goes to Thierry Henry. case closed lets publish the results

HOW CAN YOU ALL AFFORD TO FORGET ESSIEN? YOU HAVE TO BE OBJECTIVE BROTHERS AND SISTERS

Ryan Giggs – Statistically:

been in every premiership season
won 9 titles/ (runner up in a few too)
4 Fa cups (again a few runners up medals)
2 league cups
6 charity sheilds
1 Champions league
1 OBE

so all in all he has won almost the most individual trophies that any one player has won in ENGLAND

is current man u captain, has captained his country

has scored in every premiership season, is the highest scoring midfielder in the premiership ever.

will have achieved the most ever appearances for man utd by the time he retires.

i think the only record he wont have is the premierships top ever scorer and thats because hes not a striker.

many many other candidates: Seaman, Adams, Wright, Shearer, Sutton, Zola, Keane, Schmeichel, Scholes, Cantona, Henry, Gerrard, Le Tissier.

these are just the ones from the top of my head, every team has its legend but thats not what this is about. Giggs stands above them all for consistency and achievements and the general level of respect he commands from not being a media hore.

i hope no one tries to taint giggs as candidate by dragging up national honours because those who have achieved this success havent acheived domestic success anywhere near as often as Giggs. also national tournaments are generally a knock out situation so can be decided on a proportion of luck.

End of debate lets just award it to Giggs now

John Paintsil at West Ham – like Thierry Henry and John Terry roled into one.

5 i have to!

5.Daniel Agger
4.Thierry Henry
3.Eric Catona
2.Ian Rush
1.Steven Gerrard

i hate liverpool but id have 2 say gerrard is already great and he will still be around 4 a while 2…

if not steve then either henry or giggs

wivout a doubt

M Sir Alex Ferguson
1 Edwin van der Sar
29 Tomasz Kuszczak
12 Ben Foster
2 Gary Neville
6 Wes Brown
25 Danny Simpson
5 Rio Ferdinand
28 Gerard Pique
15 Nemanja Vidic
3 Patrice Evra
27 Mikael Silvestre
7 Cristiano Ronaldo
13 Ji-Sung Park
33 Chris Eagles
18 Paul Scholes
16 Michael Carrick
22 John O’Shea
4 Owen Hargreaves
8 Luis de Abreu Anderson
24 Darren Fletcher
11 Ryan Giggs
17 Luis Carlos Nani
10 Wayne Rooney
21 Fangzhuo Dong
32 Carlos Tevez
9

GK
P. Schmeichel
D. Seaman
R. Clemence
P. Cech
C. Cudicini
P. Shilton
DF
A. Hansen
J. Terry
S. Campbell
T. Adams
A. Cole
R. Ferdinand
MD
M. Le Tissier
S. Gerrard
P. Scholes
P. Vieira
C. Makelele
F. Lampard
T. Brooking
FW
P. di Canio
D. Ginola
A. SHEARER
G. ZOLA (MY CHOICE)
D. Bergkamp
T. Henry
G. Hurst
G. Best
C. Ronaldo
R. Giggs

Sakib we are talking abuot EPl not before EPl if u talk than only one name that is George Best the Most Gifted Footballer ever the world have seen

i wii say my verdict on merit of goals scoring technique and ball work skills.
1Thiery Henry
2Ruud Van
3Alan Shearer
4Stam
5Pires
6Vieira
7Yorke
8KEANE
9Lehman
10Bergkamp

Ryan Giggs. Look back upon his career,and then be fool and dare to say that there is someone better than him. Just dare.

Ryan Giggs, he is imo the greatest footballer ever, he was there at the start of the premiership, he has scored in every season…… i can go on for hours. And Sam Watson, i believe giggs is much more skillful and technical than bergkamp, yes bergkamp is fantastic, the greatest Arsenal player of all time. But can you really go against Giggsy, look at his records.
Here is my top 10:
1) Ryan Giggs
2)Dennis Bergkamp
3)Thierry Henry
4)Alan Shearer
5)Zola
6)Scholes
7)Patrick Viera
8)Matt Le Tessier
9)Eric Cantona (would have been higher if he hadn’t kicked that fan)
10)Roy Keane.

Micheal Owen. PFA Young Player of the Year in his second season after turning pro. He was also Liverpool’s top scorer every single season till he left the club. Total Premier League goal 187 and still counting.Still 29yrs old.

my top 20 would be

20)IAN WRIGHT 10)CRISTIANO RONALDO
19)PAUL SCHOLES 9)MICHAEL OWEN
18)PETER SCHMEICEL 8)DAVID BECKHAM
17)JOHN TERRY 7)GIANFRANCO ZOLA
16)ROBBIE FOWLER 6)RIO FERDINAND
15)PATRICK VIERA 5)DENNIS BERGKAMP
14)MATT LE TISSIER 4)STEVEN GERRARD
13)ERIC CANTONA 3)ALAN SHEARER
12)FRANK LAMPARD 2)THIERRY HENRY
11)ROY KEANE and the number 1 is

1)RYAN GIGGS!

Fabio Aurelio is the greatest player the premier league has ever seen.

His armband proved he was a red, Aurel-io
Youll never walk alone it said, Aurel-io
We baught the lad from sunny spain,
He gets the ball he scores again, and
Fabio Aurelio, Liverpool’s No. 12

Na, na, na, na….
and Fabio Aurelio
Liverpool’s No. 12

Ryan Giggs obviously. he is so old and still quality!!!!!

I have not read EVERY singe post on here but it seems pretty clear that the majority of the concensus lies with the great Ryan Giggs. Now I have seen Giggys play at old trafford for during the premiership era i have seen some truley fantastic footballers on show in the theatre of dreams names such as scholes, neville, van nistleroy, cristiano ronaldo, and of course king Cantona.

However as all such debates ultimatley come down to the question of who was the most influencial player, and without any shadow of a doubt Roy Keane is the greatest premiership player that i have ever seen. I have seen him dominate game after game after game. He was the lifesblood of the Treble winning united team. I have yet to seen anyone in the premiership that can even come close to dominating a game the way our keano did. The closest i did see was Patrik viera who in his won right is a class act.

When deciding the gretaest player you must take into account what the player has achieved, and the facts speak for themselves there has not been a more successful captain. Anyone who has attended Old Trafford for the last 20 years will teestify no one has more influence on that pitch then the great Roy Keane

diego forlan with out a doubt class act or maybe richard shaw absolut ledge look what he achieved at the city appart from going into administration and getting relugated against the villa but apart from that all good !!!!

are you’s all mad where is Ian Rush and Kenny Daglesh

As far as i concerned this is my list of possible candidates-
-Fowler
-Gerrard
-Cantona
-Beckham
-Bergkamp
-Giggs
-Schmeichel
-Zola
-Henry
-Le Tisse
-Lampard
-Ronaldo
-Shearer
-Di Canio
-Nistelrooy
-Keane
-Adams

“But apperances giggs is 521 henry apperances 252!!!”

Those Premier league assist stats only go back to 2002, the bulk of Giggs’s appearances were prior to that and I’d suggest the bulk of his assists too, very misleading what you wrote there. If 1992-2001 were included I’d imagine Giggsy would double Henry’s total.

Anyway:

Goals

17th highest scoring Premier league player.
3rd highest scoring Premier league Midfielder (he will get to 2nd)
1st highest scoring Premier league winger (no player even comes close)
His goal scoring record (Goals per game) is 0.20 (1 in every 5) which is equal to Gerrards and don’t forget Giggs has had to keep that up a lot longer.

Giggsy needs 1 more goal to become the 1st United player to score 100 premier league goals, he already has over 100 top flight goals but started before the prem did. he has 149 in all competitions.

Someone mentioned he has never scored quality goals like berkamp did, well take a look on you tube my friend he has scored plenty, start with the goal against arsenal in the 99 FA cup semi, voted the greatest goal in the oldest competition in the world.

Assists

as mentioned above the EPL stats for assists only go back to 2002 missing out half of Giggs career and the most productive half but none the less. 1st in the list for assists in premier league even if we discount the best half of his career. NO ONE HAS CREATED MORE GOALS THAN RYAN YOU CAN PROBABLY MORE THAN DOUBLE THE FIGURE ON THE EPL SITE AS IT DISCOUNTS HIS BEST YEARS.

Appearances

He holds the record at UNITED if someone plays 800+ times for Wolves they can be proud but to stay at United for that long you have to be a special player.

Trophies

NOBODY COMES CLOSE next best is 8 Giggsy has 11.

Personality

Who hates Giggsy? The most loyal and humble player out there. There really is no contest the guy is a legend.

the records say it all, …………Take a bow Mr Shearer. he will never be knocked off the top goal scorer spot coz the great strikers no longer stay in the premiership for long enuf!

If Matt Le Tissier had been given a chance in 98, the outcome may have been very different against Argentina. with a stat like 47 out of 48 penalty shots scored, who could argue? A truly underrated player.