i realized that every young promising french midfielder/playmaker always be dubbed as the next zidane...like franck ribery, samir nasri, hatem ben arfa, yoann gourcuff, bruno cheyrou, johan micoud etc......

Pato the next Ronaldo.....not the Cristiano...

GTG

agree with a few posters here, usually good players will not need the tag 'the next [insert great player's name here]'. if they're good they'll just be '[insert the player's name here]'.

most of the time the next XXXXXs are just a bunch of overrated players who'll, most likely than not, flop big time. but of course, there's a few exception.

i've never heard cristiano ronaldo being called the next yadda yadda yadda, he's just known as cristiano ronaldo. big name enough.

i'm using man utd's player as example instead of liverpool's so to prevent this thread from becoming another 'my club is better than yours' thread.

Wrong. Cristiano was the next Luis Figo

Is it?

Ahh still remember how hard SAF try to sign him after his perofrmance in Euro 2000.

he is now better than luis figo already hahahahah ...

i guess that is what verx trying to say..

I have exactly same opinion as you.

And i don't really believe in the "next [legend name]" especially if the player is a British player or to be more specific if the player is English/Scottish/Irish and also most of the "next [legend name]" in BPL MOSTLY turned to be a flop. Manchester United (and Tottenham) had the most flop player in BPL in the past before SAF started to be careful in his purchase.

This post has been edited by maxizanc: Feb 5 2009, 11:15 PM

fabregas > the only fabregas xD

fabregas - the next Vieira

wrong!
it was yoann gourcuff the french version of cristiano ronaldo

fabragas is too lightweight to be the next vieira

Well, you cant say him wrong cos Bruno Cheyrou did link to be the next zidane back then....

it's being better being himself more than being other people!

kasper schumeichel the next peter schumeichel.....lol...

many tagged as Zizous. But sadly turns out to be major flops

Though there's some big flop, but there's still some player live up to the expectation, live up to the media what they touted him as. I wonder if anyone touted John Terry as any big star name when he was young?

That push aside. Any player who hasn't been touted as next <insertnamehere>, but actually surpass the best player that is playing in his position?

This post has been edited by Belphegor: Feb 8 2009, 02:26 PM

Yoann Gourcuff - The Next Zidane
Fabregas - The Next Pep Guardiola

Babel rofl

christiano ronaldo the next luis figo maybe???? any other idea???