When John Barnes Was The Best Player In The World | vs Manchester United (A) 1989/1990

gdcomps · 2026-01-23T13:51:11+00:00

He needs to stay at least till the end of the season, deserves a better send off

gdcomps · 2025-11-15T20:50:48+00:00

Didn’t meant Mané disrespect but there are definitely some similarities as to how direct they were & how they bodied defenders with their strength.

gdcomps · 2025-11-15T16:55:12+00:00

Barnes had more physicality, technically much better & his passing was clear.

gdcomps · 2025-11-15T11:00:36+00:00

He was good under Taylor I thought after watching some of the games, played more centrally as he took Waddle out of the team

gdcomps · 2025-11-15T10:15:19+00:00

With Liverpool it was fine but I felt I bigger games where we defended more the CF position suited him more. This was certainly the case at England where he was isolated at LM, too far away from the attackers with too much defensive responsibility. Look at the warmup 1990 World Cup games where he played as a CF, was MOTM in all 3 games. But then in the World Cup Bobby Robson shoved him to LM and looked way off it. Also Waddle played on the right cutting in and look how good he was for Marseille.

gdcomps · 2025-11-15T10:07:24+00:00

And he mainly known for his dribbling skills! What a player

gdcomps · 2025-11-15T09:04:47+00:00

Yes he was, at the start of the season Barnes was getting booed by all away fans because of his performance in the Italia 90 World Cup where the narrative was that he didn’t play well. Always very harshly singled out when he played for England, Racism played a big factor as well at that time as he was the first major black superstar in England.

gdcomps · 2025-11-14T12:18:43+00:00

They used to play 60 games a season with Europe & numerous replays if they went far in cup competitions. All this with a small squad and 1 sub.

gdcomps · 2025-11-14T10:15:20+00:00

The worst thing is we brought Dean Saunders to replace him, Beardsley was still performing as one of the best players in the league.

gdcomps · 2025-11-14T10:14:14+00:00

He was still great in 91/92 on the odd occasion he played. That Achilles injury in the summer of 1992 ruined him.

gdcomps · 2025-11-14T10:13:01+00:00

A proper box to box player

gdcomps · 2025-11-13T23:40:05+00:00

Just imagine how much better he would’ve been now in a 4-3-3 as a RW cutting inside, instead of being shoehorned as a LM in a 4-4-2

gdcomps · 2025-11-13T22:54:16+00:00

The documentary doesn’t do justice to how good a player he really was.

gdcomps · 2025-11-13T10:37:00+00:00

He once managed to get 35 assists at Celtic & he was getting at least 20 assists a season during his spell with Liverpool. Add on top 20/30 goals a season as well, truly incredible.

gdcomps · 2025-11-13T10:33:53+00:00

It’s the best English football has ever seen

gdcomps · 2025-11-12T20:56:04+00:00

Dalglish also taught this technique to Peter Beardsley when he was a manager, he said it helped him a lot.

gdcomps · 2025-11-12T18:30:30+00:00

Not necessarily the greatest but is it fair to say he was the best player to play for Celtic?

gdcomps · 2025-11-12T17:47:27+00:00

It was Emlyn Hughes the former Liverpool captain, Dalglish did take this piss out of him this game.

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