tell us strikers that you think is as good as the A-list striker(Rooney,drogba,torres,tevez,etc) but doesn't get as much attention as them

bpl,spl,serie a,ligue 1,eredivisie,bundesliga,all are count

for me,it's going to be

1-bobby zamora:i think he is at par with tevez.and he should accompany Rooney in WC instead of heskey
2-bendtner-he's an unpolished striker but he is hardworking and can produce many good assists
3-berbatov-well...............i like him.his skill is great(like those you saw in la liga),but his ...umm,"effortless" style of play really drive Man Utd fans(including me) crazy


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carrion

It is from the current season or any other in the past?

for me in EPL this season is : Darren Bent
- Just look at the statistic from him, 24 goals and playing with Sunderland. (1st season with Sunderland after leaving Spurs)

Both of Portsmouth striker.

Dindane and Piqquene ( I think I spelt it wrongly )

agreed about Bent.
but Bendtner?

i don't think bent is underrated ... he's gonna score >20 goals per season for a 'small' club any season

the problem with bent is that he is too 1 dimensional ... he can't adapt to the way the team plays ... it is the team that has to adapt to him ...

that is why even though he scores so many goals, you don't see the so called top 4 teams or top european top teams bidding for him like mad ... i guess that is oso why he's out of tottenham

I rmb bent missed 2penalty shots instead of 3. Well. He's a normal as bendtner. Once again berba, no offence but he's currently a flop to manu.

this is a good read

http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/02/21/how...of-the-poacher/

crouchie for me.back when he was at southampton,he can easily bang goals for them.but now everybody is hoping for him to head the balls even though he can do more than that.

I think Kevin Davies deserves a place in this list. He doesn't get many goals but he often leads the line alone, providing a physical presence up-front for Bolton. He is a good header of the ball and his ability to hold up the ball, draws others into the game. Bolton are not known for their pretty football and Davies is a big reason why they are deadly from setpieces and long balls.

as a 2nd striker he is not a flop actually but if u're looking from money and investment perspectives, yeah maybe he is

Bent. Can't remember exactly if this was right, but he scored a hattrick and didn't get into *first team selection for England?

I feel for him.

This post has been edited by mofonyx: Apr 26 2010, 01:34 PM

i thought he was bought as a first team striker to tag a long with rooney,
maybe i got it wrong,but to buy a 30m guy and consider him a 2nd striker,uhhh ....
MU is rich, prob can afford to do so.

as for bendtner he is not under rated nor over rated. just another average striker. as an Arsenal fan i do hope he grows.
we Arsenal fan's are somewhat force to rate him high prob because he is our only striker

as for bent, hmmm many questions being asked why is he not in top clubs
probably like spursfan mentioned his style of playing. for him who played so long in the BPL already and yet no top clubs signs him, he must have something that people dont fancy.

i personally feel atm, it is clear as it stands, no under rated nor over rated.
players like K.Davies he is good no doubt, but probably as good only as a top striker for clubs like Bolton.
but we will never know how they would perform if they sign for other top clubs.

no one under rate him but he really a flop after join spurs with huge transfer amount ...

only this season ... may be low expectation, and he really perform ...

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Added on April 26, 2010, 2:41 pmberba is a flop also because his price tag ... 30m, should be 30 goals ++ like rvn ...



This post has been edited by Ken: Apr 26 2010, 02:41 PM

Carlos Vela for sure. He just doesnt have the opportunity to show it.

i wan to see him play for arsenal too

but wenger duwan to use him

bobby zamora?

I think Berbatov is also underrated.... he doesnt score many goals doesnt mean that he is not good....

he has got some skills and his touch is superb....

and also many ppl like to compare him with rooney.. two different type of striker la...



This post has been edited by Golden: Apr 26 2010, 06:58 PM

Why only EPL strikers are being mentioned? What about la liga? I think freddie kanoute of sevilla is a good striker (although his age is 32)..currently being overshadowed by luis fabiano..

Not sure why tottenham go n sell him when he was doing so well at that club last time..

daniel guiza...i remember in 2008 he is la liga top scorer but no big club seem interested on him...

This post has been edited by skystrike: Apr 26 2010, 07:34 PM

sonny anderson is underated striker

milito, pazzini, vucinic, higuain

any major european league is count

since one mentioned about la liga,i think raul and henry isn't being utilized to their maximum(everyone is giving the limelight to CR,kaka and messi)
he is good as a centre forward as well.but he(for no apparent reason) doesn't move as much as rooney(even owen),and that's why Manchenster United fans have problems with him.his pace really affected the offensive side of Manchester united as a whole

but yeah he is best deployed as a second striker,Sir Alex problably doesn't do that because Micheal Owen is in injury and he doesn't want to risk another senior striker being injured(currently Sir Alex usually deployed 4-3-3 formation with rooney/berba being the spearhead to Manchester United attack).berba is best deployed behind rooney in 4-4-1-1 formation

fernando torres

is he so underrated??? MC wants to buy him for 60m pounds and paying him about 200k pounds per week lar.

he's the icing to liverpool's cake.how can he be an underrated striker?

anyway i think Owen in some case,is being underrated too.he doens't lost his touch,he is only tend to get injured.that's all

roman pavlychenko..kevin kuranyi..

owen's crap now imo.. he barely score goals.. he lost his pacing and dribbling skills..

peter crouch i think is underrated.. louis saha :/
along with that other striker.. ricardo fuller.. i saw him once in a while dribbling like messi in opposition's pentaly-box

i would say pedro from barcalona. he's quite deadly this season..as the limelight kept on shining for messi and ibra, defender sometimes forgot to mark him, thus he kept on banging in goals and goals

yeah.. his good this season .. he scored a lot of goals overall (including domestic and european cups)

pavlychenko is a flop until recently he start to score and earn back his starting berth ...

not playing <> under rated

not playing = not good enough

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Added on April 26, 2010, 10:14 pmhe spend most the time out injured this season ... thats why less media mention him ...

but he never under rated ... if not injured, i bet he will win the golden boot and not rooney

This post has been edited by clsiluf: Apr 26 2010, 10:14 PM

he score more than ronaldo this season in rm...defitinely one of underrated striker..

but they are not underrated

Dawson from tottenham...

how to perform if harry dont give a chance..surplus to team and only play because other striker injured..waste of talent..

For me, Bellamy.

his a defender zz

lol center back la bro

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Added on April 26, 2010, 11:53 pmfor the new castle era, he was highly rated.

This post has been edited by RyanHo: Apr 26 2010, 11:53 PM

lmao all like football nubs come nominate ahhaha!

fernando llorenta from athlectic bilbao is good

for some reason i think steven fletcher if he went to a club like everton he might flourish

it's his job to score goals since he is the centre forward in real madrid

ronaldo is deployed as a winger ever since he plays in real madrid.so one of his job is to pass the ball to higuain in penalty box


but yeah higuain is under-rated.but i think it is because of his style of play(his style isn't as pretty as kaka or ronaldo).i think he has better future in english clubs(where goals is more important than they way it is scored)

he was given chance early in the season but can't perform, thats why drop to the bench and only when defoe out injure, he grabs the chance and score few goals to regain top spot ...

and ur bold statement is so funny ... means all bench players should leave their clubs to seek 1st team action.

he isnt youngster and come with reputation..he not play for half season..that's why he ask for transfer..
the bold part,i dont mean that..my bad..

Roque Santa Cruz

are u open a thread like tis just to backup ur lovely berbatov???

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Added on April 27, 2010, 10:49 amis he the one who can play a striker in pes?

This post has been edited by shogunkeron: Apr 27 2010, 10:49 AM

ops didnt see striker...

I remembered his goal in the EURO, what a volley

there r many more underate player compare to TS list..
in english
saha
yakubu
bellamy
tuncay
kalou
carew

outside english
falcao
suarez
pazzini
podolski
Patrick Helmes
Pavel Pogrebnyak

if i put other players from fifa , fm , pes there will be more n more

Podolski!!! Yap...my favourite all-time striker...

players from games are terrible to compare with

I agree on Saha. When Saha is fully fit, there are only 4 strikers better than him in EPL. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't seem to get fit very often.

btw ronaldinho got to be the single biggest underrated striker i can think of

he has become fit(almost) since he joins AC milan but dunga don't even consider him into brazillian WC team

he's just 2 years older than kaka and there's older footballers than him in dunga's team

Then i think people like you didnt read the thread title clearly..LOL

Back to the topic, Bobby Zamora should be the top of the list....

And for the Berbatov, lol, manutd`s fans expect too much from him...
you know his playing style...
if anyone has to blame for his laziness, blame SAF, he is the manager who brought him in...
he himself should know that berbatov is a cool cucumber guy who dont run like Tevez or close down like Tevez...
Gotta accept his playing style yo~

ronaldinho underrated??? ROFLMAO

The most underrated in EPL

Yakubu - seldom starts due to injury, but even when he's substitute, he's able to change the outcome of the game.

i think ivica olic of bayern munich is quite underrated too...comparing the likes of miroslav klose, mario gomez, edin dzeko, kevin kuranyi, etc..

since when Ronaldinho is a striker? and since when he's underrated? He won the Ballon d' Or when he is in his prime and played with big clubs.

For me :

EPL - Jason Roberts, Saha, Zamora, Kevin Davies, Eidur Gudjohnsen
La liga - Forlan, Giuseppe Rossi, Higuain

In Italy I think Pandev is overlooked since he played in a team with Eto'o as a co-striker and Vucinic of AS Roma.

This post has been edited by cekutz: Apr 28 2010, 12:23 PM

ronaldo for sure

I'm not so sure I'd classify Saha as being underrated. He was recognised for being prolific for Fulham, which I imagine is the reason Man Utd signed him. The fact that the richest club in the world wants you makes it a little hard for you to be under the radar. He has also represented France. If anything I think he will have underachieved by the end of his career because of injuries. Similarly, Eidur Gudjohnsen played for Chelsea and Barcelona, not small clubs by any stretch of the imagination. He just isn't a popular topic of conversation on these threads is all.

Zamora is having arguably his best season but in years before, I've seen him waste some guilt edge opportunities, bar his somewhat fortuitous goal against us a couple of seasons ago. Just like Bent, I'm not too keen on rating a guy unless he performs well consistently.

lol ..

he is not underrated ... but he just rated as 1 of the worst buy of the season by soccernet ... thats why he only can start from bench

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Added on April 28, 2010, 1:29 pmif a player just leave simply because lack of 1st team action, i dont think this is correct ... in fact this will ruin their career. they should work harder to win back the 1st team place ... good example is nani.

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Added on April 28, 2010, 1:31 pmi start to confuse what means by underrated ?

seldom mention by media/fans = underrated ?

yakubu performance is so so only this season.

This post has been edited by Ken: Apr 28 2010, 01:31 PM

i think they mean it as player that score a lot goals but rarely gets a mention ...

that's not a fair way to look at a striker as there are a few kinds on em around ... the prima punta, secunda punta, trequartista, false nine

Fernando Llorente

lol ... then pav, yakubu not scoring enough also ...

bolton - kevin davies, bayern - ivica olic, liverpool - dirk kuyt, roma - vucinic

Dirk Kuyt? lulz
mind to explain?

underate can measure by :

1. player who doing very well in the team but unfortunately he got overshadowed by other player in the team

example 1 : rooney doing good last season but he is shadowed by ronaldo last season
example 2 : kuyt very impressive last season but player like gerrard/torres shadowing him

2. player who doing a good job but unfortunately he had low profile played in low end team or even didnt get 1st team chance in big team
example 1: falcao
example 2: podolski

This post has been edited by skeleton202: Apr 28 2010, 03:35 PM

falcoa and podolski...yap podolski underated at club level..but with Germany usually Loew got some toward him..

Podolski even manage to play for Germany even when he with Cologne and Cologne play second division league...

thomas muller and ivica olic of bayern munich, kevin davies of bolton wanderers, kevin doyle of wolves, bobby zamora of fulham...

pique from barca

lol..he's so underrated that he plays as defender.
the composure he has, he should have been a striker instead

can i add a ledley king? ... i'm sure he'd make a good striker ... if only those knees would hold up

How about miroslav klose?

Rated High..but only known among Bundesliga fans...cuz Germany players dont really fancy playing outside of Bundesliga...

- Nicholas Anelka
- Carlos Tevez
- Darren Bent
- Jermaine Defoe
- Gabriel Agbonlahor
- Higuain
- Mario Balotelli

These are not underrated.These are highly-rated strikers.

huntelar ...

Rodallega

Darrent Bent ...

Ray Howard from SAFC

Wow, looks like almost every clubs strikers are under rated ...

defo is overrated

akmal rizal

lol most of us out of topic here...

can I jump in the bandwagon and say Fernando Torres as well??

cause Liverpool paid about 20m + for him only

For me, currently the underrated striker in EPL should be...Kevin Doyle

Past? Ole Gunnar Solksjaer. I know he is a legend in Man U, but if he were playing in another league, he will be even more famous.

Matt Le Tissier. Fantastic player.

just want to add

3-player who doing a good job but not being for world cup for no apparent reason
example 1: ronaldinho
example 2: bobby zamora

This post has been edited by ayanami_tard: Apr 29 2010, 10:21 PM

all are highly rated la

that's the overrated list

beckford, gui'varch, japhet n'doram, ibrahim ba and all man utd foreign players marketing strategy victim striker from nevland,gillespie, manucho, bellion, fangzhao, rossi, and soon to be mame diram and macheda...and future victim, hernandez. hola juan...hola esteban..can u show me the library?

Eh are we looking at underrated or overrated players?

Guivarch was a flop, vastly overrated especially since he just won the World Cup before signing for Newcastle. Beckford was rated by fans to be amongst the top 3 players in the Championship this season in the recent edition of FourFourTwo.

i'm talking during his prime time with reynald pedros,lilian laslandes,patrice loko, where everybody was giving so much attention in BPL popularity begin to rise up....and pair of young henry/trez become too powerful to pave way for older guys like them.

Well I wouldn't lump players no one here has heard of as being underrated. Back on the topic of Guivarch however, he did enough to earn a place in the 98 World Cup squad. Unfortunately for him, he only scored 1 goal and made only 14 appearances, a fact that leads me to believe that some quarters expected more out of him and he disappointed. He was 27 at the time and should have been in his prime. Newcastle took a gamble on him and he made just 4 appearances. It's facts like these that led me to believe he wasn't worth the hype. He may have scored lost of goals in the French 1st Division early in his career but he never made an impact in bigger, tougher leagues. Some players never do. Cisse scored heaps of goals in France and is still doing so in Greece but there is serious doubt if he can do the same in bigger leagues. He didn't when we has at Liverpool and it seems none of the big sides in Europe figure he ever will.

We can agree to disagree but for the reasons stated above, I never rated Guivarch. One striker I did underrate however was Miroslav Klose. Prior to the 2006 World Cup, I thought he could only score with his head but in that World Cup, he showed he had good feet and scored with both in that campaign.

Samba - Blackburn... hehehe

the topic is for strikers. lol

he was deploy as striker for a few games what.. scored some goals also.

true2

alberto gilardino

diego milito..love him!aaarrr

kevin doyle. kevin davies.
both with consistent forms not just for a season. maybe they are unlucky cuz playing in mid-table/relegation-battle clubs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Di_Natale

Why nobody mentioned Di Natale?

It isnt easy to score 25++ goals in Serie A especially when you are playing for an average team...

Midfielder la.