The Most Skilful Player You Ever Saw

[donsdaft]

1/ For the Dons - Zoltan Varga

2/ For anyone else - Roberto Baggio


The best player in both categories is Willie Miller but that wasn’t the question.


I saw Baggio take apart AC Milans best ever side at San Siro while he played for Juventus

AC Milan -1. Roberto Baggio -3

[Auldtoontoby]

1 - Zoltan Varga , my dad used to take me to watch him training at Seaton Park

2 - Zinadine Zidan

[Pacman1903]

Excellent idea for a thread DD min(in the flesh I take it)


Shinzi Kagawa for Borussia Dortmund v Legia Warsaw (8-4) in the chump league last season. Absolutey different class.


On another note this might sound daft but I went to Fulham v Wolves (2-1) a few years back and Danny Murphy probably put in the best performance ive seen in the flesh, not skillfull but just ran the show for the full 90. He was outstanding.

[donsdaft]

Yes, in the flesh.

Roberto Baggio wins but Marco van Basten comes close.

A one man front three.

[Jupiter]

1/ For the Dons - Zoltan Varga

2/ For anyone else - Roberto Baggio


The best player in both categories is Willie Miller but that wasn’t the question.


I saw Baggio take apart AC Milans best ever side at San Siro while he played for Juventus

AC Milan -1. Roberto Baggio -3


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvlE2UqdpyY

[Landvetter83]

1. Peter Weir (Ipswich; 2nd half and ET in Gothenburg especially)

2. Eder (Brazil 1982 - just need to watch the third goal v Scotland and his opener v Russia)

[donsdaft]

You have to remember that Franco Baresi was in that defence.

[Heed_Don_In]

Brian Laudrup

[InversneckieDob]

1) Dons - Varga.
2) Elsewhere - Maradonna

[64syrupofjarvie]

1) Dons- Leon Mike
2) Elsewhere- Tam Forsyth

[Jupiter]

You have to remember that Franco Baresi was in that defence.

The Italian Willie Miller

[Mr_Grieves]

1. Strachan
2. Messi

[sonofrgmsdad]

Difficult to come to conclusions on this.

Was lucky enough to be able to watch Glenn Hordle, Chris Waddle, Maradona and Patrick Vieira. Peter Wier was very skillfully too.

As far as best players go then we would have to add Willie Miller, Kenny Dalglish and Gordon Strachan.

That said there have been a big number of players who were really good.

[57vintage]

Eoin Jess.

Maradona (Scotland v Argentina at Hampden 1979). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxFuYut827g

[DonUnder]

Eoin Jess.

Maradona (Scotland v Argentina at Hampden 1979). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxFuYut827g

I was also at that game and remember Maradona being off the scale but strangely enough i remember Iain Munro having a good game. Not sure why i remember that.

[Nae Huns]

Pele
Willie mueller😂

[Mason89]

Eoin Jess

Dylan Thompson (Dumbarton Academy 88-93)

[Oor Wullie]

The one and only Charlie Cook

[InversneckieDob]

Eoin Jess.

Maradona (Scotland v Argentina at Hampden 1979). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxFuYut827g
Aye, that was the game I seen Maradona in the flesh.
Scorcher o' a day.

[ObanRed]

Eoin Jess

Sergio Aguero

[donsdaft]

Aye, that was the game I seen Maradona in the flesh.
Scorcher o' a day.



He was just a young loon wasn’t he.

I was playing in some sort of football tournament that day ( scorcher right enough) and I remember folk raving about his performance.

[ILikeJam]

It's a bit of a quandary - my favourite ever Dons player seen in the flesh is Eoin Jess, but when you say 'skilful' I think of 'flair' and I'd maybe have to say Zero.

Jess would win if the topic was 'classiest' with the way he could just stand folk up and ghost past with no dramas and nestle the ball top corner - possibly only Niall McGinn has come close to that for us since.

Elsewhere - Ronaldinho for Barca. Sheer unadulterated joy - both from him and for the people lucky enough to be watching.

[kigoretrout]

1. For the dons - probably Jess
2. Anyone else - I'm not going to say Laudrup or Gascoigne I couldn't bring myself to give credit to anything they did against us. I'm plumping for the scourge of the dons Andy Ritchie of Morton

[TartanIvor]

Aberdeen player Zoltan Varga
Alltime Great George Best

[SmedDUm]

Dons player - Doug Rougvie
Elsewhere - the best footballer that ever walked the planet, Lionel Messi. Closely followed by Graeme Payne. He was so good they named a TV channel after him. Then Ryan Gauld for about a fortnight. Don't know what happened to these two guys either...

[milne_afc]

Jess
Maradona

Lol @ the Jute's suggestions. ****ing idiot.