Who Would You Rather Have In Your Team?

[Tooj]

Personally for me and I'm not being biased one bit, Fabregas is a truly outstanding talent, one of the best young players around but I'd still rather have a 19 year old Gazza in my team. Despite the fact he could pass the ball just as good as Fabregas and dominate a game just like him, Gazza had more in him which allowed him to ghost past people like they weren't there also culminated with the fact he scored a lot more goals than Fabregas did at the same age and is likely to do throughout his career.

[Ally]

Unlikely to get a fair response as most people on here never really saw Gazza at 19, including you.

 

Fabregas is something special though.

[Cronky]

On talent, Gazza had the advantage, but Fabregas will improve year on year, whereas Gazza didn't.

 

Fabregas is an amazing player. I've never seen a teenager play with such calm authority. His decision-making is so advanced.

[GeordieDazzler]

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[Guest alex]

Gazza.

[Guest johnson293]

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of Fabregas, except from highlights on MOTD.

 

However, I was one of those who saw a 18/19 year old Gascoigne play for Newcastle (33 yr old now, started going to matches in 86/87)

 

And though a lot of the memories are from his time at Spurs, and his England career, I would love to have 'that' Gascoigne in the team now.

 

Just a shame he went the way of many of those 'geniuses' and let the lifestyle overtake his career. I fear he'll end up being remembered more for his off-pitch and post career antics, than most of the things he did on it. :'(

 

MJ

[brummie]

I saw Gazza play at SJP as a kid a lot (strangely enough, given my football proclivities) and I'm still to see a better young player since.

 

However, I don't know how he'd fare in today's game, football has changed a lot since then

[Guest ticaL]

Gazza.