Not far from my opinion. Virgil, Terry, Kompany. I agree with that top 3. Stones for me wouldn’t be ahead of some others, like Ferdinand and possibly a few more.
Yeah, when I did that poll earlier today that’s exactly what I did lol (Virgil top, as if it needed to be stated)…
It is tough to convince me there has ever been anyone as good as Virgil.
Even if you take away what he adds in attack - his threat from set pieces, his ability on the ball, his incredible passing range - even as just a pure defender it’s difficult to find peers. He is properly remarkable in how highly he scores in every category. It doesnt matter how you want to play and set up the team, he will allow you to do that where as lots of supposed peers have limitations that require them to have a certain type of partner next to them or have the team set up in a certain style to succeed (think how laughable Terry was under AVB’s high line). Beyond that appears to be pretty much the perfect teammate in how he conducts himself. He’d have been money well spent at twice the cost.
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John Terry coming second on that poll is a weird one for me. Yes, he was a bloody good defender, but I don’t think he offered much on the ball. There are players on that list who were equally good (and you could argue cleverer) defenders, but offered much more other than defending.
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He was quality on the ball. There were better than him of course, but very comfortable, also with a very good (weaker) left foot, as he was mostly LCB (even when partnered with Rio for England, although Rio was also RCB at United).
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Virgil ahead of Terry for me, then you can put the others in any order really (other than Stones who is a level below the rest). Personally think Stam was United’s best PL CB but isn’t discussed because of his relatively short stint there.
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Always rated Kompany myself but no one is on Virg’s level, without the assault by Pickford, there would be no debate from the so called pundits.
No attacker wants to go up against Virg.
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