Is Silva the best midfielder in the league?

Jamie wrote:

Sean wrote:

Jamie wrote:

kyro7 wrote:

Jamie wrote:Essien and van der Vaart?

Fuck. That. T. B. H.

Put your top 5.

Silva, Modric, Nasri, De Jong, no one else top quality

Its top 5 midfielders though, not name 5 midfielders who are top quality...

5th would be...errr someone overhyped like Touré and Wilshere, neither particularly great.

Basically if I was someone who championed the Premier League I'd be saying here is our best midfielder, naming the top 5 embarrasses the league(this isn't directed at you by the way)

VivaRonaldo wrote:

Fonseca wrote:

VivaRonaldo wrote:

Thats my fuckin point. De Jong has qualities Silva doesnt, Silva has qualities De Jong doesnt. Therefore the question should be "is Silva the best attacking midfielder in the league". If you cant understand what Im saying just forget about...

and if you dont understand the meaning of the word exactly above then it proves my point all along, you are dumb.

Fonseca wrote:I said the difference in class is so great that you can easily identify who's better.

No I understood, you just forgot how to read when I stated this ages ago

Ok, so how are you distinguishing this difference in class when they both have completely different attributes.

VivaRonaldo wrote:Ok, so how are you distinguishing this difference in class when they both have completely different attributes.

Lux wrote:

VivaRonaldo wrote:Ok, so how are you distinguishing this difference in class when they both have completely different attributes.

They don't have completely different attributes. You speak like they're different species.

Both play in the same area of the pitch, both are human beings who kick the ball around.

Think of everything they do.........they both pass, they both run, try to craft attacks and be creative, make tackles, position defensively and offensively, head the ball, jumping, stamina, agility, dribbling, first touch, crossing, long passing.....

One might be better than the other at certain things, but the fact is that both will be involved in the same tasks throughout a 90 minute football match. The question is who do you think is the more complete midfielder? What we're saying is Silva.

cheesy wrote:It's kind of hard to compare these players. Silva could be classed as a midfielder, but he plays on the wing and often doesn't really have a proper midfield role. How can I compare someone like Silva, to someone like Modric? Both would be in contention for being best midfielder, but they play completely different roles within that midfield.

VivaRonaldo wrote:

cheesy wrote:It's kind of hard to compare these players. Silva could be classed as a midfielder, but he plays on the wing and often doesn't really have a proper midfield role. How can I compare someone like Silva, to someone like Modric? Both would be in contention for being best midfielder, but they play completely different roles within that midfield.

cheesy wrote:It's kind of hard to compare these players. Silva could be classed as a midfielder, but he plays on the wing and often doesn't really have a proper midfield role. How can I compare someone like Silva, to someone like Modric? Both would be in contention for being best midfielder, but they play completely different roles within that midfield.

cheesy wrote:

VivaRonaldo wrote:

cheesy wrote:It's kind of hard to compare these players. Silva could be classed as a midfielder, but he plays on the wing and often doesn't really have a proper midfield role. How can I compare someone like Silva, to someone like Modric? Both would be in contention for being best midfielder, but they play completely different roles within that midfield.

You've changed your tune.

Marvin wrote:

cheesy wrote:It's kind of hard to compare these players. Silva could be classed as a midfielder, but he plays on the wing and often doesn't really have a proper midfield role. How can I compare someone like Silva, to someone like Modric? Both would be in contention for being best midfielder, but they play completely different roles within that midfield.

cheesy wrote:

Marvin wrote:

cheesy wrote:It's kind of hard to compare these players. Silva could be classed as a midfielder, but he plays on the wing and often doesn't really have a proper midfield role. How can I compare someone like Silva, to someone like Modric? Both would be in contention for being best midfielder, but they play completely different roles within that midfield.

Marvin wrote:

cheesy wrote:

Marvin wrote:

cheesy wrote:It's kind of hard to compare these players. Silva could be classed as a midfielder, but he plays on the wing and often doesn't really have a proper midfield role. How can I compare someone like Silva, to someone like Modric? Both would be in contention for being best midfielder, but they play completely different roles within that midfield.

Just came in and basically summarised the whole thread so far, adding nothing of value.

Sean wrote:

Jamie wrote:

Sean wrote:

Jamie wrote:

kyro7 wrote:Put your top 5.

Silva, Modric, Nasri, De Jong, no one else top quality

Its top 5 midfielders though, not name 5 midfielders who are top quality...

5th would be...errr someone overhyped like Touré and Wilshere, neither particularly great.

Basically if I was someone who championed the Premier League I'd be saying here is our best midfielder, naming the top 5 embarrasses the league(this isn't directed at you by the way)

Yea premier league is one of the worst leagues for midfielders tbh.

cheesy wrote:

Marvin wrote:

cheesy wrote:

Marvin wrote:

cheesy wrote:It's kind of hard to compare these players. Silva could be classed as a midfielder, but he plays on the wing and often doesn't really have a proper midfield role. How can I compare someone like Silva, to someone like Modric? Both would be in contention for being best midfielder, but they play completely different roles within that midfield.

Just came in and basically summarised the whole thread so far, adding nothing of value.

I'm sure there are plenty of comments like that, so why pick out mine and add something else that wasn't of value?

Lux wrote:How can someone say that Modric and Silva play completely different roles?......

kyro7 wrote:Xavi, Fabregas, Iniesta, Thiago, Busquets, Mascherano.

More quality in one club than in a league.

Lux wrote:Cheesy, Silva doesn't even play on the wing

He has a free role around midfield linking passes.....but quite rarely would he actually go out to the wings.

ViVaRooney wrote:

Lux wrote:Cheesy, Silva doesn't even play on the wing

He has a free role around midfield linking passes.....but quite rarely would he actually go out to the wings.

he did play wide for valencia in his early days and at times for spain

XxBradKennedyxX wrote:How many DM's are better than de jong? could probably argue Masch/Busquets and not many others, maybe Cambiasso, Alonso/Schweinsteiger arent really DM's so yeah. How many AM's are better than Silva? Cesc, Xavi, Iniesta, Ozil, Sneijder, so you could use that to say de jong is a better DM than Silva is AM. on the other hand though, I think the gap of quality between AM's is bigger than that of DM's, like I think you could replace de jong with palacios and it wouldnt hurt city THAT much, wheras replacing silva with kranjcar would be much more hurtful. i dunno........

Lux wrote:Cheesy, Silva doesn't even play on the wing

He has a free role around midfield linking passes.....but quite rarely would he actually go out to the wings.