Put him at any position on the pitch at his best and he could do any above average job.
I think the only player that runs him close is maybe Yaya Toure.
Players like Ballack, Lampard, Scholes etc were great box-to box and could do the defensive and offensive parts of the game to a great standard but could you imagine them playing as winger or centre forward and then also wingback / centreback?
Prime Gerrard could easily do that for Liverpool
Logan Hill
Lampard was better
Blake Flores
no
Lucas Scott
...
Leo Anderson
Not what the thread is about
Give a better example then
Adrian Turner
Anything he can do, prime Rooney can do it better
Samuel Harris
what about balance?
Lincoln Clark
>le most complete player meme
he was average at everything, and great at nothing, in other words.
Connor Walker
>Give a better example then Beckenbauer
Aaron Roberts
Rather than all you autists just saying no why doesn't someone actually give a coherent argument listing his faults using empirical evidence
Adrian Clark
No, Gerrard was a thick cunt of a player who had no understanding of footballer.
The best two seasons he and Liverpool had were in 09 and 14 when he was played behind the striker, and he wasn't in centre-midfield to fuck everything up. As I said he was dreadfully thick and didn't have the intelligence to be a playmaker, but that didn't stop him trying and failing at it.
Noah Fisher
You have only watched YouTube highlights of home so how do you know that
Adam Clark
None of the defensive aspects Rooney could do better.
agree, it's not accidentally his greatest successes came when he played alongside Xabi Alonso. Gerrard was good complement to any team, but you can't build midfield with him as best player.
Joseph Ward
so pointless hollywood skills that don't matter anywhere but in England?
Hudson Torres
>Beckenbauer
>kek
You're talking about a player who finished playing 40 years ago.
Exactly how old are you
Adam Sanchez
I was going to raise a point but it keeps slipping my mind
Jayden Miller
xabi alonso is the player gerrard would have been if he wasn't a thick cunt, and was brought up in a real footballing country like Spain or Italy.
sadly Gerrard was too busy trying 80-yard cross field passes and long shots to learn how to play as a playmaker.
Christopher Wilson
Cesc Fabregas is unironically more of a premier league legend than Gerrard.
Owen Lewis
>Put him at any position on the pitch at his best and he could do any above average job.
put him in a position of not slipping and he could do an above average job
Evan Bell
he was the best player in the league in the seasons after Ronaldo left.
sadly poop ruined him.
Nolan Russell
No that would be Milner
Jacob Hill
Milner is not great going forward.
Jose Sanchez
>take one of the most effective between the lines midfielders in the world >a man who racks up goals and assists >play him as a centre forward
Carson Parker
Are you implying Cesc has had a better career than Gerrard?
Gavin Baker
He has 10x the number of trophies He has played at two 10x bigger clubs He has played for a 10x bigger national team
he unquestionably has.
Gerrard has had a shit career. Even John O'Shea and Wes Brown had better ones
Jaxson Sanchez
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Mason Cruz
His overall stats are also wayy better than Gerrard and he's 6 years younger
Angel Jenkins
I've missed you, you know.
Jayden Jackson
WEW
Ethan Lopez
Based gypsybro is GOAT
Benjamin Smith
This. He has the best goal contribution for a box-to-box midfielder and his workrate was good enough to defend.
No flairshit, no Hollywood blooters, no controlling le tempo xd. Just goals, assists and tracking back.
Aaron Thomas
Totti is better at all of those things though.
Jacob Miller
ALL MEMES ASIDE how good can a player that never won the league be?
Elijah Wood
>Complete as in, every facet of the game he could do at an above average level. Why the fuck would I want an above average player?
Anthony Carter
PRIME KAKA
'nuff said.
James Wright
Being put in a position of a man who is about to win a league title for the first time in 25 years for his club he surely did something spectacular no average player ever did
Aiden Brown
Good answers la Marchisio's better than Gerrard too
Landon Johnson
Oh my...
Evan Bell
>no Hollywood blooters
lel
he dealt strongly in speculative efforts that deflected in and penalties
Nathan Murphy
yeah he also was the MVP in the Champions League final they won
But muh memes
Samuel Wilson
I agree with you that Gerrard was one of the most complete players in the Premier League at that time and maybe of all time. However I think that prime Viera was on a similar level of midfield dominance.
Grayson Lewis
>deflections
Thats because he isn't stupid enough to put his faith in top corner blooters and logically kicks it low for the chance of a corner/own goal.
>penalties
Take them away from him (as well as all the other midfielders) and he still has the better numbers.
Hunter Cox
>all memes aside >discussing Liverpool
What are you even trying to do? I'll just assume this is reverse trolling of some sort
Caleb Robinson
Outside of Liverpool, he will be remembered more for his errors, than his accomplishments. Sad, but true.
Josiah James
OH STEVIE HES DONE YOU AGAIN
Aaron Gutierrez
Makelele, Gullit, Viera all better easily
Jose Watson
Vieira was many, many times better
Carson Brown
...
Caleb Barnes
You could say the same about Pogba.
Benjamin Barnes
You now remember Fernando Hierro you little bitch.
Lucas Myers
Bale can literally play all positions
Nathan Butler
Steven Gerrard reminds me of a similar lad.
Dele Alli.
Bentley Morales
Alli needs to leave Tottenham to prosper.
Jacob Thompson
>most complete player of all time?
What the fuck?
Are liverpoop fans people this delusional?
Bentley Bell
yes
Ian Cooper
Gerrard barely had a left foot, so no, he wasn't a 'complete player'.
Justin Stewart
Lampard was great at scoring from distance, he fucking did a blooter against Chelsea without even trying to score "I didn't think it would actually go in" means he was time wasting.
Gerrard on the other hand tried to grab headlines so he could be England captain and better players could go to Liverpool. He was a shit DM in all fairness and never really moved his team forward, he was selfish and ball greedy and would often pass to the opposition overworking himself too much.
I'll give you selfish and ball greedy and the rest of it, but if he did one thing very well it was drive his team forward.
Gabriel Bailey
Look, I've seen him play, the celebrity big fish in a small pond definitely did suit him in that he would spray meme passes that seem to glide to the wings out of nowhere and when he needed to, he would run solo and score from nowhere or step up to a meme freekick.
It got the crowd going and that motivated the team sure. But I know if I was a professional, I wouldn't want to play with him. I wouldn't want a player who would decide when to pass and control the tempo when it was clearly out of his depth. I wouldn't want a player who would attempt clearances and tackles only to fuck up. I wouldn't want a player who would deliberately tire himself out to show he's a hard worker. He had an ego problem and during his time at Liverpool, a lot of players would come and go. Only Carragher stayed as long as Stevie did.
Camden Morales
what abut goalkeeping?
Easton Taylor
They mattered in the CL :^)
Isaac Mitchell
>le kick and run mong
the fact that this cunt is regarded as an elite player just shows how far the standard of technique has dropped
