If the question is will there be another player as FAMOUS? Agreed. Another as GOOD? Beckham wasn't even near the best of his generation.
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Who is the next Beckham
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If the question is will there be another player as FAMOUS? Agreed. Another as GOOD? Beckham wasn't even near the best of his generation.
mikeyjh
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I'm not one to over do it on my praise of Derby players, but Will Hughes is very very good, the most natural footballer I've seen in a Derby shirt, miles ahead of Huddlestone at the same age. 2nd youngest England U21 player, so some people think he's not bad. That said, Mason Bennett is the more likely 'superstar'....
I'm just glad that after 10 years, the academy is starting to pay dividends.
I'm just glad that after 10 years, the academy is starting to pay dividends.
Billy the Fish
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I really can't get on with this limited technical ability myth. He's one of the best passers to ever live and his ball control was brilliant. Just because he wasn't quick enough to go past defenders, people use it as a stick to beat him with.
Ironically Utd have just paid £10 mil for a player who is the opposite of Beckham, he can take the ball past defenders but he can't do anything with it at the end.
Icy Gull
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Certainly as petulant as DB was as a young player.
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Southampton had 3 18 year olds on the pitch last weekend. Luke Shaw, james Ward-Prowse and somebody else. Luke Shaw in particular is a star.
PS - admittedly it was the first time it had happened for years - at Southampton or anywhere else - in the top flight.
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I've seen him play a couple of times now & I thought bearing in mind he was only 17 at the time, he was the fulcrum around which Derby's entire midfield functioned. He went off injured early in the game at the Amex last season I think, and Derby were far worse after that.
Odd looking individual, if we have to consider the Complete Badger's criteria for greatness, but nonetheless looks a really decent player to me.
mikeyjh
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Quite, although he looks slightly less odd than when he first started.....
Leighgull
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Beckham is a "product of Sir Alex Ferguson's school of hard graft" at Manchester United. Ferguson noted that Beckham "practised with a discipline to achieve an accuracy that other players wouldn't care about."[193] Beckham reportedly spent hours after training sessions ended practicing his free kicks. Ferguson was quoted as saying "David Beckham is Britain’s finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn’t contemplate."[194]
Did you really though? he was subbed off after about 30mins with an injury and hadnt done anything of note before the change.
Icy Gull
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Yes he looked quality so we kicked him is how I remember it, I had a discussion, with the guys I go with, how it was a good thing, for us, that he was going off as he looked Derby's most creative player
mikeyjh
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Yes he looked quality so we kicked him is how I remember it, I had a discussion, with the guys I go with, how it wss a good thing, for us, that he was going off as he looked Derby's most creative player
He did, as they say, have a job done on him...... Dirty Brighton
Twinkle Toes
Growing old disgracefully
Spot on there Mr M. Additionally, it's far more succinct and polite than I could've managed in a million years.
No doubt the hideous 'celebrity' magazines & websites will forever hold him & his wretched wife as the High Priest & Priestess of Celebrity Kulcha. Triffick.
Perfidious Albion
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The recent results of the England under 21's and junior level teams points to the paucity of talent coming through. I do not see a "New Becks" on the horizon, although a super player without the marketing media machine would suit me fine. By that token, Sir Stanley Mathews would not get a look in.
I do not think that teenage performances are the necessary indicators. We learned later that we had seen Beckham's first team debut at The Goldstone in the early '90's, but how many noticed him at the time? In contrast, I saw a teen Charlie George come on as sub for Arsenal at Highbury and the effect was electric, he lit up the ground and galvanised the team into action
Papers say that Will Hughes is on his way to L/Pool - if they are to be believed
I do not think that teenage performances are the necessary indicators. We learned later that we had seen Beckham's first team debut at The Goldstone in the early '90's, but how many noticed him at the time? In contrast, I saw a teen Charlie George come on as sub for Arsenal at Highbury and the effect was electric, he lit up the ground and galvanised the team into action
Papers say that Will Hughes is on his way to L/Pool - if they are to be believed
Taybha
Whalewhine
Will be some Spanish kid with a nan from crewe, probably with a name like Juan Mihnngeata , it will take him a lot less time to speak english than Beckam so thats a bonus .
KZNSeagull
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We want someone who lights up the pitch when he is on it, someone who inspires his peers to better themselves and drag English football out of the pit of mediocrity and money grabbing. Someone who can inspire our national team to beat all-comers.
What we don't need is another Sky/Premier League poster boy, who is more famous for his haircuts, tattoos, underpants and his wife, than he is for his exploits on the football field. I am sure Mr Beckham worked hard and is a jolly nice chap, but he was a limited footballer who could not do any of the above. That is English football's problem - we build up above average players as world-class and legends and then wonder why we never win anything - Rooney, Lampard, Terry, Ferdinand etc etc.
Sadly, I think we could be waiting a long time.
What we don't need is another Sky/Premier League poster boy, who is more famous for his haircuts, tattoos, underpants and his wife, than he is for his exploits on the football field. I am sure Mr Beckham worked hard and is a jolly nice chap, but he was a limited footballer who could not do any of the above. That is English football's problem - we build up above average players as world-class and legends and then wonder why we never win anything - Rooney, Lampard, Terry, Ferdinand etc etc.
Sadly, I think we could be waiting a long time.