Seeing lots of debates on Twitter at the moment about how the sport has fallen off when players such as Saka as now called world class compared to what we used to define as that. (Bale, Robben etc). It got me thinking about why this is the case. Is it due to nostalgia goggles making us look at legend players more favourably? Has the bracket for being ‘World Class’ simply gone down so it does encompass more players? Or is there an actual decrease in the quality of footballers in the current game?
Interested in people’s thoughts here 😀
I think overall quality has gone up, and as a result we see less shine out stars which has made it less entertaining in some ways. Players like Ronaldinho, CR7, Henry etc with real flair will be told to minimise flair to aid the teams overall function. Previously these individual superstars would be given more free reign to show off what they can do