Former Liverpool captain Jamie Carragher has given his list of his top 10 Premier League forwards of all time while presenting Monday Night Football with Thierry Henry. A list that has caused some controversy in England because of the players it has chosen, but especially because of those it has left out.
A list with ten forwards that the former footballer said he valued “the impact that the players have had in the Premier League.” And he said: “We think that others will be among the top three or four. There are great scorers, there are not 10 and there are extreme forwards, who are the ones we see the most in the game now,” he argued before dropping the bombshell on the list.
Because that was it, a bomb. Among the ten names chosen by Jamie Carragher were Shearer, Cristiano Ronaldo, Dennis Bergkamp, Didier Drogba, Eden Hazard, Eric Cantona, Gareth Bale, Harry Kane, Luis Suárez, Salah, Sergio Agüero, Henry and Wayne Rooney. In fact, it has not included players like Erling Haaland or Harry Kane who have not been included among them. A list that has been put in this order:
Thierry HenryMo SalahCristiano RonaldoEric CantonaDidier DrogbaWayne RooneyAlan ShearerEden HazardDennis BergkampGareth Bale
The explanation of your decision
In this list, Carragher justified that the icon of the Spurs and of the Real Madrid, Gareth Bale, took the tenth place before Bergkamp, who is in the ninth place and the winning winger of the Premier League and also a former Real player Madrid, Hazard, in eighth place. The decision to put Shearer, the Premier’s all-time top scorer in seventh position, has not sat well either.
List that continues with a Rooney who says that “he was better up front against the center backs” and that he suffered when they delayed his position. Drogba in the center of the list for his important goals: “I imagine him in the decisive moments winning his team’s trophies, including a Champions League final. Nobody did it better than him in the most important moments,” he assured . And even with Cantoná, with whom he also had good words: “He was the biggest star in the Premier League. You think about him and Shearer at the beginning, he was the best player and the most talked about in the Premier League.”
A ranking that CR7 completed, of which he assures: “His body is even better than when he was younger. Because of the amount of work he does, he showed that the sky was the limit.” A podium on which Salah climbs and compares him to El Bicho: “Salah’s record was better than Ronaldo’s, but Ronaldo arrived as a small child. Salah turns 40 in his first season, but he is more mature” . A list that crowns Henry, a worthy recognition for his role on the Invincibles team and the style he brought to the league.
