World Player Of The Year

[Slash/ED]

He has a thing against good teams :)

[gypsyfella]

just seems to be a bitter wee sod- rare for Cork eh! :rolleyes:

[Karlos]

Just for interest purposes, thought I'd have a look at the 2004/2005 stats for the 3 players - You can see from the stats that while Ronaldinho has a huge influenence on his team, Henry & Shevchenko deliver an amazing strike rate and are vital to their teams success.

Ronaldinho

Brazil - 1 game, 1 Goal (strike rate: goal a game)
Champions League - 5 games, 2 Goals (strike rate: 1 goal every 2.5 games)
La Liga - 15 games, 3 Goals (strike rate: 1 goal every 5 games)

Henry

France - 5 games, 1 Goal (strike rate: 1 goal every 5 games)
Champions League - 6 Games, 4 Goals (strike rate: 1 goal every 1.5 game)
Premier League - 18 games, 15 Goals (strike rate: 1 goal every 1.2 game)

Shevchenko

Ukraine - 4 games, 4 goals (strike rate: goal a game)
Champions League - 5 games, 3 goals (strike rate: I goal every 1.6 games)
Serie A - 13 games, 11 goals (strike rate: 1 goal every 1.18 games)

[Slash/ED]

Just for interest purposes, thought I'd have a look at the 2004/2005 stats for the 3 players - You can see from the stats that while Ronaldinho has a huge influenence on his team, Henry & Shevchenko deliver an amazing strike rate and are vital to their teams success.


That's an unfair comparison, Ronaldinho is not an out and out striker, you can't measure the influence of a player like him in statistics.

[Karlos]

That's an unfair comparison, Ronaldinho is not an out and out striker, you can't measure the influence of a player like him in statistics.

Theirry Henry was never been an out and out stiker either btw but do
agree with ya on Ronaldinho and I did say I did it out of interest. I posted a comment from Ronaldinho himself a few posts back saying he he wasn't near Henry and Shevchenko when it comes to finishing and he is right. :p


It was others in this thread who claimed the goalscoring record of Henry was reason enough to not be considered in the same league as Ronaldinho & Shevchenko particulary in reference to champions league etc.
I knew that was ridiculous before looking at the stats. Unfortunetly some people can't see past goals scored as a measure of talent (people even suggesting that Ronaldinho had to put up with more difficult defences as a way of covering his lack of a prolific goal scoring record). Ronaldinho may not be prolific but he certainly makes up for it in other areas and I believe Henry combines elements of the flare & skill of Ronaldinho with a similar proflific strike rate to Shevchenko. :)

[Éanna]

just a quick question - away from the whole ronnie V henry debate

why do you hate catlan so much?
I'm a Real Madrid fan. Have been for years, and lived there for a while. So it kinda goes with the territory :)

[Karlos]

I'm a Real Madrid fan. Have been for years, and lived there for a while. So it kinda goes with the territory :)

Good stuff Eanna, you can be the lone voice boo-ing Ludovic Guily while the rangers hating lads boo Boumsong when we play France at Lansdowne! :D

I'll listen out for ya, just don't go boo-ing Henry or this thread could turn ugly in the future!! :D

[Éanna]

Good stuff Eanna, you can be the lone voice boo-ing Ludovic Guily while the rangers hating lads boo Boumsong when we play France at Lansdowne! :D
nah. You won't find me at landsdowne I'm afraid. I feel like I've left the country every time I go there. Anyway, its an international- club football is forgotten.


Likkle Ludo ain't worth booing anyway ;)