Unfortunately you made this before I fixed Carrick's picture but nice list!
Re-named the categories because they didn't make sense to me. Rated them on their time here rather than their whole careers. Might be harsh not to put Evra in the world class category - but I tried to reserve that for game changers. Even then, it ended up being the most populated category in the list.
The injury prone players like Rafa/Saha/Hargreaves/Brown were hard to asses.
Edit : Barthez looks a bit high, but I think I started ranking them with a different criteria in my head at first. Which then changed at some point, and he escaped the quality control. Him & Rafa/Young can swap I guess.
People only remember how error prone he was in his last few years at Utd. Before that he was solid. I'd even have him on the good player tier.
Superb left back in 2001-2003, fantastic alongside Rio at the end of 02/03 and until Rio's ban in 03/04 and then good again in 04/05. Easily decent enough to good player.
Yeah, I agree with you. Think I was under valuing him at decent enough. Certainly worthy of being on the good tier.
Sweet deep left foot crossing ability. Pacy and good work ethics, just "good" enough.
It was Darron Gibson but the link shouldn't have that image anymore.
I just looked that he played 250 games for us. So I probably did misjudge him based on the few years I saw of him and his reputation around that time.
Keane was not so talented?
Depends on your definition of world class. For me world class should be decided on your positioning in your respective category — so if you're among, say, 3 or 5 best midfielders in the world at your peak, like Keane definitely was (or like Vidić, Irwin and Evra definitely were for their roles), you are world class, even if you're not as good at football as Cristiano. Evra and Cole were 2 best left backs in the world for quite a while, for example — Cole was better earlier, but from 2009 I think few years Evra was the best in the world. Vidić peaked around the same time, when our defense made all those incredible clean sheet records.
