‘Decent’ is a very interesting way of describing that season tbh. He won us so many games, and your views on Zlatan are interesting too as Persie was also playing in an unspectacular United side I feel. He was dragging us to wins.
Also, I don’t think who scored the most goals matters that much when we are talking of a group of players who all scored lots of goals. At the risk of opening a can of worms, this is why I’ve never cared much for Ronaldo’s goal tally in an argument regarding Messi. Ronaldo would need to score almost double the goals of Messi for it to be a relevant metric in a debate for me. That said, if Ronaldo scores 48 goals in a season and Messi scores 42, both are basically in the category of ‘scored a ridiculous amount of goals’. Other than that, Messi is clearly better (in my opinion). I can hear Ronaldo’s goal tally if Messi was a 20 goal player, as the rest of his game may not compensate for that. Persie’s 27 goals means that goals can’t be used against him. Other than that, in my opinion, he was clearly a better player than Van Nistelrooy. He was basically Van Nistelrooy and Bergkamp combined.
Personally, I was a little underwhelmed by Zlatan when he was here. He often looked very clumsy to me, and missed a very high amount of sitters. Rooney at his best has the strongest argument for being better than Persie I think, as he also got a lot of goals and was of course, quality in other aspects of his game too. For me, Persie was a class act though, one of the PL’s finest. It’s a shame it took him until about 27 years old before he started having full seasons due to injury, but even before then, he was always class when fit and scored regularly, and in big games too.
