You never really hear people discuss him when discussing the best strikers of the past 30 years or so. Just how good was he?
How good was Prime Shevchenko?
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A smaller version of Haaland. Had it all!
He was no Optimus, but I reckon he'd beat Megatron any day.
He was unbelievable. Especially in his young days at Kiev and early days at Milan.
He had a far better technique. But obviously not as big/strong and not as good finishing (his finishing was great but Haaland might be the best finisher I have ever seen).
He was a stud at Milan then got floppycock at chelsea
He was great, happy from a Utd standpoint he wasn’t great at Chelsea though.
Well the main reason they don't discuss him when they talk about the best strikers of the past 30 years is because he wasn't one, he'd struggle to break the top 100
Unbelievable, really. He's had the same aura of inevitability around him as Haaland does at the moment but he was a more all-rounded footballer (playing in a more defensive league/era). I like to compare him to Henry – in my opinion it's a closer competition than the one that Henry had with van Nistelrooy (who had managed to outscore him but was always a slightly inferior player)... he didn't have the same artistic streak that the Frenchman had but he was more physical & ruthless and overall I'd say that they were about equal.
A perfect product of Lobanovsky's football factory – pace, power, workrate, versatility, tactical adaptability and an uncoachable nose for goals.
A perfect product of Lobanovsky's football factory – pace, power, workrate, versatility, tactical adaptability and an uncoachable nose for goals.
This sentence got silly as soon as you said “100”.
Other than Eric, my biggest footballing hero growing up. The only Ukrainian person in the world I knew was my Grandad then all of a sudden another one turns up and he just so happens to be the best footballer on the planet.
How could you even think this?
Maybe if you believe he appeared out of thin air at Chelsea and had never up until that point played professional football anywhere else.
A lot better than prime Rebrov
How could you even think this?
Maybe if you believe he appeared out of thin air at Chelsea and had never up until that point played professional football anywhere else.
@TMDaines
Because unlike 99% of people here, I can remember back 30 years. Most of you lot seem to think football began in 2004 or something. And I can think of 100 strikers that are easily better. I'll start with 10:
Eric Cantona, Romario, Brazilian Ronaldo, Batistuta, van Basten, Henry, Rooney, Del Piero, Raul, Shearer. That's not even including the GOAT's. I'd have ANY of them ahead of Shevchenko.
Him and Ruud were my favorite strikers when I started watching footy as a kid, he was absolutely amazing and although it was funny that Chelsea didn't get the same version I was also pretty disappointed that we didn't get to watch him tear up the Prem.
Not as good as his brother Andrij but pretty good.
unreal. not many others ways to put it.
imo, no one touches van basten.... but good lord was this guy good.
imo, no one touches van basten.... but good lord was this guy good.
Really good shout as usual. The goal he scored against Bari where he carried it from his own half and finished with his left is seared into my brain
Mate if you can name 80 strikers I will eat a bucket of paste
Del Piero and Raul
Well, seeing how you've only managed 10, and you've already got a player who didn't kick a ball in those 30 years, a player who wasn't really a striker, and a good few borderline cases... I'd love to know which cavity the other 90 are coming from.
amazing player, don’t know if he’d had injuries towards the end at Milan but his failure at Chelsea was shocking
Del Piero and Raul
It's a surprising laugh.
The second best striker on the planet in his prime, just behind Henry. Ronaldo was still pretty damn good in those years also.
A far better all round player than the current Haaland.
A far better all round player than the current Haaland.
Some of those on your list are not strikers - Del Piero, Cantona, etc.
Shevchenko for me was better than Shearer if we consider each respective peaks. Top 10 all time goalscorer in CL, he has the 9th goal per game ratio in Serie A of all time of those who scored more than 100 goals and did it for 7 seasons when Serie A was still very competitive.
Del Piero was class but I never rated Raul.Del Piero and Raul
Ok. That's 10, what about 90 others?
He was ridiculously good. I was horrified when Chelsea signed him as it seemed it would put them even further out of reach. Then he turned up and was absolutely absymal No idea what caused such a sudden and calamitous drop-off in performance.
No idea what caused such a sudden and calamitous drop-off in performance.Really great all-round striker. Quick, agile, powerful shot, good finisher, good technique. Great improviser too. Just everything you want from a pure striker.
There's always one in these threads, he's a clown.
There's always one in these threads, he's a clown.
Which is interesting because Raul was a great technician and managed to be more prolific than someone like Shevchenko.
Utter nonsense.
He’s not one of the greats because he didn’t sustain it for long enough, but in those two Champions League runs with Dynamo Kiev he was awesome.
A hat trick at the Nou Camp and then he destroyed Real with a hat trick home and away against them, I remember at the time he was up there with the original Ronaldo for me, but it didn’t last.
What are you talking about? He’d be absolutely at the top end of the list when he was at Kiev and Milan.
He was the best striker in the world for a couple of seasons. Including the season he reached CL Semi with Dynamo
Astonishing. The complete package. Not quite up there with Ronaldo I, but not that far off either. Any disparagement of his ability arises from relying too heavily on his Chelsea says.
Haaland misses a lot of chances dude.
He scored 60 more club goals (with 25 of those coming in Qatar and the North American Soccer League) than Sheva in 240 more games and their international goal returns are almost identical, despite one of them playing for Ukraine.
He’s got to have a pretty good conversion rate though right? The guy doesn’t touch the ball but always turns up with a goal.
Raul scored only 3 times 20 goals or more in the league in 16 seasons despite playing regularly 37-38 games on average. Sheva scored 20 or more in 3 of the 7 seasons he played in Serie a(one was injured mostly) playing around 30 games per season.
His goal per game ratio in CL is also better.
I dunno, but at the end of the season when I watched him most, he had a lot of chances and missed about all of them.
He was Roman's pet transfer but Mourinho didn't fancy him that much, preferring Drogba.He was ridiculously good. I was horrified when Chelsea signed him as it seemed it would put them even further out of reach. Then he turned up and was absolutely absymal
Either he was past his peak by then or the prem was tougher than Italy. Veron never lived up to his serie a form either.
A lucky escape as prime Shev would have made it much harder for us to compete with Chelsea.