Post your best examples
Bad/average players who won a lot - permabans for anyone who says O'Shea
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Kingsley Coman
Neville.
Phil
Phil
James Milner
John O'Shea:
- Premier League: 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11
- FA Cup: 2003–04
- Football League Cup: 2005–06, 2008–09
- FA Community Shield: 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010
- UEFA Champions League: 2007–08
- FIFA Club World Cup: 2008
John O'Shea (avg but cult hero who won a lot) - 5x PL, 1x CL, 1x FA Cup, 2x League Cup
You wash your mouth out!
Olivier Giroud is the first one that comes to my mind when I think average player with a bloated record
Phil Neville and the one we're not allowed to sat were the first two to spring to mind tbh.
Decent players, but won more than their talent.
Neville: 6PL titles, 3 FA cups, Champions league and 59 caps for England.
Decent players, but won more than their talent.
Neville: 6PL titles, 3 FA cups, Champions league and 59 caps for England.
Weird statement as he didn’t just win much, but was first choice for many of his titles and actually scored the lone goal in a champions league final.
My choice is Bernd Dreher.
5 German Cups
7 league titles
1 champions league
1 intercontinental cup
5 league cups
1 UEFA cup
Totalling about 13 games played for the first team, according to wiki
Anderson has four Premier League medals and one Champions League medal, having already picked up two Portuguese league medals and one Portuguese cup medal before signing for United.
Scott Carson - 2-time Champions League Winner
Choupo Moting?
Gabriel Jesus. Aka the Brazilian Welbeck
Also Danny Welbeck
Also Danny Welbeck
He's quite good, just not as good as Aguero or Haaland. Arsenal seemed to play their best football with him in the team.
Steve McManaman
Yeah he's decent but I mean the fact he won 4 out of 6 league titles and a bunch of cups by playing a bit-part role in an incredibly stacked team. He's overachieved in that respect.
I realise this isn't what you in the OP asked but feck da police.
Dawid May?
Djimi Traore - one trophy was too many.
Juliano Belletti - World Cup, Champions Leagues, La Liga, Premier League, FA Cups.
Juliano Belletti - World Cup, Champions Leagues, La Liga, Premier League, FA Cups.
Scott Carson.
He's quite good in Poland
I’ll take a ban for O’Shea because I can’t think of a more extreme example. If he didn’t play for us literally no United fan would be happy with signing him.
Benjamin Mendy
Phil was a good player. He was one of Evertons star players in a side which regularly finished in the top 6.
Ferguson didn't want him to leave but he wanted to be a regular starter so fair play to him for taking the move.
John O'Shea is a bit underrated. First choice RB during 08/09 and started CL final. Also decent spells as starting LB and CM at times. Ability wise probably better than a lot of the average defenders we've collected since SAF left.
Juliano Belletti? Much as I had a soft spot for him, this is a pretty crazy list of honours for 286 total appearances:
EDIT: Ah crap, missed out on @Oranges038 's earlier post
EDIT: Ah crap, missed out on @Oranges038 's earlier post
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The idea that Gary Neville was an average player is a bit mad.
He was the best right back in the league for years.
He was the best right back in the league for years.
He's a much much better player than Welbeck.
The fact that Choupo-Moting has won 5 major European league titles on the bounce is nuts.
Yup, and Welbeck was good too.
That’s some CV. I remember him being a bit shite.
There’s got to be a couple of fairly shite World Cup-winning Italians and Germans who swept up domestic titles in the 2000s.
Sami Khedira? Bit of a water carrier, albeit definitely not shite.
His CV is stacked.
His CV is stacked.
I thought of him, but actually he was very good for a fair chunk of the time he was here till he basically just fell off the physical fitness wagon.
He was a brilliant up-and-coming star who didn't reach his potential but before he dropped off, he was a key part of the midfield trio of Carrick-Fletcher-Anderson which gave us complete control of a few games in Europe.
Not sure why Fergie blamed a kid essentially after Fletcher got injured and Barca ran rings around him in the final. That was the beginning of the end I think
Lucas Vazquez.
I loved him, particularly early on (even had his name on a shirt), but I think he basically dined out on a few great performances and a hope that he'd live up to the potential we thought he had when we signed him.
I can't remember a single aspect of his game that stood out other than enthusiasm.
He was a bit past it when he signed for us and mostly played out of position in midfield due to (I think) Essien going down for several months.
Still managed to score a few absolute worldies though.
Do 'Steady Eddie's' like Casemiro count? 
John O'Shea.
Phil Neville