The caf...The only place on the Internet which will calmly explain to you that Peak Rooney is superior to peak Benzema or that Beckham was somehow a better than De Bruyne.
There are two aspects of the game in which Beckham was better than KDB. Those are Long balls and Free kicks. It's true he also was an amazing crosser, but so is De bruyne. On two occasions he had 9 assists from crosses alone! And that's considering the fact that he played the last two seasons with basically no striker...
Those attributes aside, De Bruyne is the much better player. He is better at getting assists, a better goalscorer, the better defender and is the more athletic of the two. His superior athletic abilities also give him a huge advantage over Beckham since it makes him much more threatening when running into space...
Anyway, i dont expect people to get convinced by arguments over here since the majority has an emotionaal attachment to Becks, but still pretty funny to see people argue about it.
It won’t be so calm if you stick to such a conscending tone.
Kevin de Bruyne is a brilliant player in my eyes, one of the 5-6 best in the world the last four years taken as a whole IMO. Pep has also done very well to get the best out of him. Like Beckham, he has also been the most important player at a NT who has been overhyped and therefore disappointed, but he hasn’t been able to give them (nor City in the CL) that extra crunch time boost that could lift him to a WPOTY.
I wouldn’t want to say Beckham was better, he was a different kind of player. At his best, though, he was the best player at the best team in the world. Between 98 and 2001, he had the highest carreer peak of any United player between Best and Ronaldo, as an MVP candidate.
His stamina and discipline was fantastic, his passing was brilliant. Yes, his long balls were the best I ever saw (I am too young for Beckenbauer), but his short and medium passing was also top notch, on the ground, one-two, chipped, through balls. The most importan, however, was his vision and awareness, and his passes would frequently unravel defences due to that. His role was a RW playmaker, and his scoring was very good compared to how far from goal he had much of his main responsibilities, averageing slightly above 10 goals a season from 96-2003. (These are around KdB’s numbers barring this year if I’m not mistaken.) He was also the winger with the most defensive responsibilities, due to his stamina. He was runner up as WPOTY twice. He won eight league titles (B5 leagues) and a CL as a lynchpin (He was named RM player of the year in 2006). One thing that was clear at the time, was that his celebrity status post Posh made many in the general public take him less serious as an athlete, in spite of his performances.
I don’t mind preferring De Bruyne, maybe I do myself, I’m not sure. But to dismiss Beckham’s contribution in the manner you did, it makes me question how much you watched him in the day, and how much your ‘impartial’ verdict from on high is based on hearsay and highlights.