The Football News Thread 2024/25

[Quirkafleeg]

The Sky Sports voting for top best Premier League striker ever. It's fucking Alan Shearer the goals and stats say it all, but no Carragher you have to number it for Balon Doir etc etc. Bollocks. It's Shearer so just fuck off.

 

[Trips]

I'd have Henry, Rooney and Kane all above Shearer (popping my tin hat on now)

 

[Quirkafleeg]

I'd have Henry, Rooney and Kane all above Shearer (popping my tin hat on now)

Can't be for trophies on top. Henry one Premier League, Shearer one Premier League, Kane nothing..

 

[Trips]

I'm judging it on football ability and my enjoyment watching them. Henry has 2 PL titles btw

 

[Quirkafleeg]

I swear Carragher is going Henry so he can suck his dick live on MNF.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Longevity comes into it I suppose but Suarez was absolutely unstoppable for 18 months or so.

 

[Trips]

Aguero is right up there for me too

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

It's not a debate though is it? Shearer scored the most goals.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

It's like saying a team that finished 3rd of 4th was the best team that season.

They weren't.

 

[Trips]

The subject is greatest Prem forward (not striker)

Also, if it was done purely on goals scored it wouldn't be much of a conversation

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It's not a debate though is it? Shearer scored the most goals.

Andy Mutch scored more goals for Wolves than Kenny Miller, he wasn't a better player than Kenny Miller.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Andy Mutch scored more goals for Wolves than Kenny Miller, he wasn't a better player than Kenny Miller.

Bale in the list above Giggs because he played in a front three a few times for Spurs.

 

[slink]

It's not a debate though is it? Shearer scored the most goals.

Surely if you look at it like that it’s goals scored per game isn’t it or goals per minute. Haaland is top of both but of those with over 100 Henry, Aguero and Kane all within .01 of each other per game but Aguero best per minute.

 

[Wolftone]

Hard to compare one against another as a lot depends on the service they were getting from their team mates and who they were playing for. Andy Cole both for Newcastle and Utd was phenominal, not so for England though, hardly got a look in.
Shearer has to be the best I would have thought. Poacher, header, dirty, tough, could shoot from distance, free kicks.
I loved Bergkamp, genius.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Surely if you look at it like that it’s goals scored per game isn’t it or goals per minute. Haaland is top of both but of those with over 100 Henry, Aguero and Kane all within .01 of each other per game but Aguero best per minute.

Yeah, fair.

Most Goals Per Game Premier League All-time | StatMuse

Thierry Henry has the best career goals-to-match ratio in the Premier League, with 0.68 goals per match.

www.statmuse.com

Penalties a factor too.

 

[Derby Wolf]

It's not a debate though is it? Shearer scored the most goals.

Obviously goals scored is one of your biggest drivers.

Kane left England 47 goals behind Shearer but had made 121 fewer appearances. He's averaged 21 goals per season so it would be reasonable to suggest he'd have surpassed Shearer with games to spare

I get it can only be measured on what the players have achieved rather than what they could have achieved but I don't think it's cut and dry.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Hard to compare one against another as a lot depends on the service they were getting from their team mates and who they were playing for. Andy Cole both for Newcastle and Utd was phenominal, not so for England though, hardly got a look in.
Shearer has to be the best I would have thought. Poacher, header, dirty, tough, could shoot from distance, free kicks.
I loved Bergkamp, genius.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

That commentary

 

[Jack Regan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1868968050864898397

What a signing he's been.

 

[Wolftone]

The second goal v Leicester