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Paully

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17 minutes ago, Ben said:

Shearers goal scoring record was amazing, but it would have been so much better if he didn't come to us. Legend. 


100% - played in a mid-table team for half his time at us and suffered serious injuries.

 

If he’d signed for Man Utd, he’d probably have another 100 PL goals! 

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TheBrownBottle

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1 hour ago, Gawalls said:

Fergie was quoted saying he tried to buy him a few times but couldn’t 

 

57 minutes ago, healthyaddiction said:

Yeah, he tried to sign him when he moved from Southampton to Blackburn and then tried again when he moved from Blackburn to Newcastle.

Yep - he didn’t try while he was at NUFC

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Ronaldo

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5 hours ago, Ben said:

Shearers goal scoring record was amazing, but it would have been so much better if he didn't come to us. Legend. 


I really don’t think that’s true. At Man U For example he certainly wouldn’t have been starting beyond the age of 31 like he did for us until almost 36. 

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Potentially, yeah. He had a very good deal with us post 30 though. Excellent supply lines, a partner doing his running, played every minute when fit and obviously a very shrewd manager focused on getting the best out of his twilight years - till Souness came along when he was 34, at least. 

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1 hour ago, Ronaldo said:


I really don’t think that’s true. At Man U For example he certainly wouldn’t have been starting beyond the age of 31 like he did for us until almost 36. 

 

Sheringham still managed 153 appearances there in 4 seasons after turning 30, so you're probably wrong. 

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1 minute ago, Tross said:

 

Sheringham still managed 153 appearances there in 4 seasons after turning 30, so you're probably wrong. 


Really not sure how that’s a valid comparison as you’d struggle to find two more different forwards. 
 

There were simply much better strikers out there than Shearer at that point in his career and they carried no one. 

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18 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:


Really not sure how that’s a valid comparison as you’d struggle to find two more different forwards. 
 

There were simply much better strikers out there than Shearer at that point in his career and they carried no one. 

pst 30 year old Sheringham wasn't one of them

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52 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:


Really not sure how that’s a valid comparison as you’d struggle to find two more different forwards. 
 

There were simply much better strikers out there than Shearer at that point in his career and they carried no one. 

 

Aye. Cole, Yorke & Sheringham had all left within 3 years of "that night in Barcelona" while they upgraded to van Nistelrooy..

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1 hour ago, Ronaldo said:


Really not sure how that’s a valid comparison as you’d struggle to find two more different forwards. 
 

There were simply much better strikers out there than Shearer at that point in his career and they carried no one. 

 

You're wrong again. In those three seasons after turning 31 only Thierry Henry & Ruud Van Nistelrooy scored more than Shearer - Henry was only 23 and Ruud 25. 

 

Shearer would've walked into any starting line up post 31 years old. 

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Sheringham didn’t play as a striker. Certainly not in Shearer’s sense. 
 

He certainly doesn’t start ahead of RvN from 2001/02 onwards. He was still a very formidable striker but a long way past his Blackburn best.

 

 

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There’s nothing to argue. I just said he was probably the fourth best striker in the league at that point. There’s nothing to support him getting into any line up and certainly not Man U’s because the only interest came from Liverpool a season later - Bobby was willing to sell and the chairman said no.

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TheBrownBottle

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1 hour ago, Tross said:

 

You're wrong again. In those three seasons after turning 31 only Thierry Henry & Ruud Van Nistelrooy scored more than Shearer - Henry was only 23 and Ruud 25. 

 

Shearer would've walked into any starting line up post 31 years old. 

I don’t think he would have walked into any line-up from the age of 27 - that injury at Everton was the end of him as a genuinely world-class centre forward.  He was still a better forward than Cole, Yorke or Sheringham, mind.  

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17 hours ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Always thought the 'PL greatest' stuff is contrived bollocks, and had a lot to do with Sky inventing football.

 

Shearer's record is incredible in any context - below is the true all time top-flight goalscorers list.  To be fifth on that (and second on the post-war list) is remarkable.  It is also a reminder that Harry Kane had a considerable amount of ground to catch-up, and players to overhaul ...

 

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Even more impressive that only two players who’ve played in last twenty years and 4, including them, from last thirty years. Top by some distance of that smaller sample. Kane’s 0.61 ratio mighty impressive though. 

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