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To be fair to him, Raul played in the la Liga glory days. Raul has the whole package, real Madrid's golden boy. Lewandowski is a brilliant player in a bundesliga which has no competition but honestly Raul was a much more watchable player on his day. Disclaimer I'm not agreeing with him, but making a case for his perspective.

He only watched Real, he’s got absolutely 0 ball knowledge

@@hamzah1325 lewandowski is one of the best strikers ever never mind 2000 onward

You don't know who Raul is lol

Håland aint playing in bayern

Fully agree, I mean soon we can’t rate man city players, the gap between them and the rest in the prem is growing.

i remember someone asked lewandowski about moving to the prem for him to be valued as a striker, and he said 'i prove myself in the champions league against the best of the best, why do i need to prove it against stoke on a saturday'

@@nolpan9708 no shit

@@preskay8542 he's not better than Suarez

Facts

Cristiano is a forward. Same with Messi. Both have played the position, but are not considered strikers.

@@lionelsheja6381 Messi is 90% a winger

@@lionelsheja6381 yes but Ronaldo last few seasons has consistently played striker Messi has done from time-time throughout his career

@@aggelib117 Messi spent a good chunk of his career as a false 9 😂😂😂😂

how is Rooney a striker but Ronaldo isn’t?? 😂

@@stackguap you’re about 14 I’m guessing. Seeing retiring rooney in Cm and retiring ronaldo up front coz he’s got no legs. Rooney way more of a striker

@@yungmushka3490 Rooney played 1 season as an out and out striker. He said it himself. We're not talking general CF players. We're talking about guys who spearhead their team's attack. Rooney did it for 1 season - was amazing - but hated it. Ronaldo on the other hand transitioned from a winger to more of a striker by the end if his career. It's difficult because he was never really that out and out number 9 but he did transition from a wide role to a more central role and it did last more than just a season.

Faysal is some joke man, Agüero is top 5 no doubt

He wasnt a force in the champions league, eye test beats stats... we didnt see aguero in the cl when it counted.

@@jaxnorthmusic7863 we did see him in the premier league when it counted

Aguero has 41 goals in 79 chamipons league games. Not bad but not great either

@@jeevanthomas8095 pretty elite for champions league, considering he was a bench player in the champions league in guardiola first 3 seasons.

He was lost for words loooool

I love Suga Shaun🤣

Shaun is deluded

“I know ball”

Shaun talks the most crap 🤣

Agree

Wasn't that a groupstage game, where Bayern already secured 1st place before the game anyways tho so they didn't really care? Correct me if I'm wrong but I remember that they didn't even play their strongest XI

@@fllx7957 He was still able to score in the UCL. This is about player's individual performances not the team. Aguero single handedly thwarted Pep's Bayern with Lewandowski playing in that match as well. And what do you mean Bayern didn't have their strongest XI? Pep's tactics is the teams gameplay. They aren't Liverpool relying on Mo Salah, Mane, Jota and Diaz or Real Madrid with Benzema or Barcelona with Messi. That was Pep Guardiola at Bayern where he trained all players to suit the team's playing style which he intended. edit: Players not 'caring' well their reactions as well as Pep's reaction and desire to try to score after Aguero scored the winner says otherwise.

@@As-iy2ki Just looked up the match report and they were literally playing Rafinha, Bernat, Hjoberg and Rode to rest Müller, Schweinsteiger, Lahm and Alaba. Actually Lahm and Alaba didn't even went on the plane to Manchester cuz the match wasn't really important to them. U say they desperatly wanted to win, like no shit a team tries to score goals but they even took of Lewandowski and Ribery lmao

Yeah but they should just decide before the video if they include players like CR7, Messi, Salah, Rooney etc. who have played up front at times and interchangeably but they're not pure no. 9s. That's different lists.

You can't compare Ronaldo to other players it's unfair to them

@@affectiveteam6229 Yea, i agree. Imo, the only player from the 4 you suggested that would make the striker list is Rooney because he's played most of his career predominantly through the middle (up top) where the others have all played most of their careers on the wings.

What did CR7 win as striker ?

@@mebarkiimad8999 2 champions leagues with real madrid, 2 serie A titles, Coppa Italiia, Supercoppa Italiana, UEFA Nations League, UEFA European Championship

100% lewandoski Is one of the best strikers of all time 100% top 5

I’d go as far as best striker of all time

@@sasibatv3569 naaaaah chil out the last 3 years hes been amazing but before then nowhere near as good

@@madaxwayne thats just bullshit and not true you are saying 2 or 3 seasons how does he have 7 seasons with 40+goals? Since 2015 he scored more goals than Messi and Ronaldo..you are all sleeping on his past man

Bayern have raped Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal, Barca, all on the regular. Bayern-Hate is disgusting. Literally beat Gerd Müller’s Bundesliga Record, but still not good enough?

He’s truly an all time great player but people don’t fathom this since he’s playing rn, when it’s all said and done Lewandowski will be regarded as one of the greats and is easily a top 5 striker of all time, barely any of the strikers ranked ahead of him are nearly as deadly and prolific at finishing in front of goal then lewy, this is also attributed by the fact he’s 3rd rn in all time UCL goals and also has a higher goal scoring ratio then Messi and Ronaldo in the UCL, also the fact he’s been world class since dortmund and even won the league with dortmund over Bayern which is HUGE, these mans r prem merchant so they’ll never deep how good prime Lewy was, easily a top 5 player of this generation

…In the Bundesliga

Lewandowski > sureaz. Both the best of thier generation

@@SamuelMills-ez4jo Suarez dominated at barca, outscored Messi and ronaldo in 2016 I think it was, he then leaves barca and wins la liga with atletico, with Messi still at barca... Lewandowski could never do that lol he won everything at bayern who are the only elite team in their league.

@@jaxnorthmusic7863 Lewandowski literally scored 69 in 1 year. Cr7 did that once in he's life and he played more games. Suarez never dominated like that.

My List 1. Ronaldo "El Fenomeno" 2. Marco Van Basten 3. George Weah 4. Thierry Henry 5. Romário 6. Gabriel Batistuta 7. Luis Suarez

He's actually a more cultured fan who watches more than 1 league

@@siphobanda1707 I’m sorry man but his goal per play time ratio was absolutely insane and alot of my goats are in different leagues, but a league as competitive as the premier league and as demanding to do those numbers is insane. He is not more cultured he’s biased 😂.

@@bubbax4892 you're just looking at stats , not to long ago martial had one of the best min/goal ratio I'm the prem but would you say he is one of the best to play in the prem....no .....as a striker aguero can't chat to eto, lewa, suarez, r9, ibra etc heck even on ability alone he isn't close to van nisterooy

@@bubbax4892 plus aguero played in the prem when most of the best defenders retired or were old

@@siphobanda1707 no mate that’s a crazy comparison, your saying at one time martial goal to game ratio was the good, no one made that comparison cause look at the amount of time aguero done it over, I’m not saying he’s the best ever but he’s absolutely top level. To even mention martial as a comparison is an insult.

Compared to other strikers he shouldn't get in

Every list putting Aguero above Lewandowski is losing its validation anyways

@@siphobanda1707 so he isn’t a better striker than David Villa?

@@Hakwbebsu26 I didn't say villa gets in.....because I consider him a cf, same as Rooney

Yea I agree he should be higher but one offs doesn’t necessarily prove he could do it week and week out I’m sure he could but look at giroud , he’s absolutely destroying the Italian league , but he would have moments in the premier league but couldn’t do it week and week out

You could never say what a player would do in another league but with lewa's ability I would bet he would manage to put up performances even in the premier league. The same argument can be used against benzema but some people still rate benzema higher than lewandowski even though benzema mainly played in one league

The disrespect is insane they are saying recency bias..since 2015 this man scored more goals than Messi and Suarez and they are disrespecting him because of the leauge but ignore the fact that this guy has the best goal per game ratio in champions league ever...

@@isaaczammit8329 Benzema played in laliga when it was the best league in the world tbf. Even now it's the 2nd best league while Bundesliga is 4th. Can't really use that argument against benzema.

I don't really believe right now the spanish league is very far from the german league but I am not saying benzema shouldn't be credited but the argument of one league player shouldn't be used because if you put another striker at bayern they still wouldn't put up lewa's numbers

Lol these are for entertainment, don’t be getting ur footy knowledge here lad🤣

@@jackcoleman9159 I mean it still works, if he is a little kid at least he gets to know players like ruud who are legends of the game whose names dont come up as often nowadays

Messi has a better UCL goal ratio.

Second best*, Messi’s is 0.81, Lewandowski’s is 0.8.

Thx bro🙏. Just shocked of the disrespect. Maybe you find my comment. Can't hold back 😄

Plays for the best team in a one team league.... cmon lol its way too easy the guy scores minimum 2 a game against shit teams

@@jaxnorthmusic7863 third all time in CL goals. What you talking about dude?

Isn’t that the argument he is making?

@@BenLeinster for rooney thats the exact argument he was making

@@alonzofc8320 Tbf he is all over the show because he then says Salah is a striker but at one point he was definitely saying this

Cf is a role. Striker is a position

True they are only talking about the leauge but never even mentioned that this guy has the best goal ratio in champions League history man

Wow

Ive met kingsley coman

Cr7 played as striker for almost 8 years

ronaldo played as a st for bare years shush

All these ones in the replies saying Ronaldo played bare years at striker, fucking Messi has played more games up top in his La Liga career than Ronaldo has ffs

yeah but Sheva only had 5-7 good years in this timeframe, its more shocking to me that they didnt have Lewa higher..

@@shebeshimillion7250 no he was already really good at dinamo, and his years at Milan were all really great ( except one ), move to Chelsea didnt work out but thosz things happen + it wasnt really on him since Mourinho at the Time didnt want him then didnt play him much and when he played it was out of position...

Lol no way bro there are so many greater strikers than them.

@@jeevanthomas8095 I'm aware of that bro, but they should've mentioned them at least

Same with Fernando Torres

Gerd muller

Van persie?

Trust me he said kdb is an attacking midfielder aswell when he’s not he’s box to box

@@billycoles2467 kdb is an attacking midfielder not a box to box, bernardo and gundogan are.

@@billycoles2467 kdb is an attacking midfielder though

@@Anonymous-xr8hx no he ain’t he’s a box to box he’s just seems attacking because of how city play and how high up the pitch him and Bernardo are,they are more high 8s

he's never put up 30 in a season...

He's shouldn't be top 10 anyway

@@thatoneguy9040 he doesn’t mean just prem moron

@@siphobanda1707 braindead

lewa is better

Great striker up there with lewa similar players

He was elite man

but i maybe wrong, wasnt his best work as a winger? spain/barca

@@lukedowellbrook9971 he was up front for valnecia, atletico and Spain in the world Cup. He was great as a winger but I'd allow him in this list

not better than aguero

David Villa only scored over 20 league goals once in his career. He was a great team player but I would take everyone after him ahead of him

Glad I’m not the only one

I was about to say

plays at bayern tho innit bit of a tax for me

@@TextOfDuty once messi played for the best team ever for 5 years was that not the tax I think you forgot that his first few seasons were at dortmund where he helped them win bundesliga ofcourse which is tough to win against bayern as well as finals of ucl

@@TextOfDuty He is probably the main reason Bayern are as dominant as they are. How can people say he is only as good as he is bc it's Bayern when he is topscorer every single season netting 40 goals 7 times 💀

He may actually be top 10. In this century only 2 players have scored more goals than him. 75 international goals too whilst lugging around a not so great team.

This man has the best goal ratio in Champions Leauge but they are only talking about the leauge its sickening

@@linusmuller9620 he doesn’t.

@@linusmuller9620 actually Messi does.

@@vinniequaite5472 no he don't. Messi 0.81, Haaland 1.21

@@Michael-fi7vu he means in a single competition. 19-20 lewa scored 15 in 10 games

temporary set!! hopefully we’ll be in a brand new permanent set in the next month or so 🤝

@@sds at least u provided content👊🏾

@@sds 16:30 lewa tied ronaldos 69 goals in a Calendar year not 72.

Nah an attacking midfielder only came about in the last decade with players like messi a second striker is a striker

Shaun has agendas so has to spaff as much nonsense as he can to make himself sound factual

@@dylanchandarana640I think the terms “attacking midfielder” and “no.10” and “second striker” are pretty interchangeable. The way we present formations changes but the actual roles and positions the players take up on the field are pretty similar.

Dude is so ducking biased on his opinions and isn’t consistent, like I don’t have a problem if he doesn’t rate certain players but at least be consistent

Yeah exactly. Man city before pep came was just trying to get past the group stages. Only after pep came did they become the ucl favourite every year.

Group stage when they were already qualified???

@@najmuddinnazaharuddin9911 facts

So he had one game in 10 years?

Shaun said how many goals has he scored inside the box😭😭😭

Cuz cr7 played as a striker at juve and utd

Srsly bro, okay his position was on the left, but what was his role. What role did he play within the squad!? He was the focal point in the Madrid attack, the main shot taker. He was Madrid's "striker", you can tell me that on paper he played on the left, but watch the roles of players. The position mindset is old football, roles is modern football.

I’m not a Madrid or cr7 fan and I knew this shit😭😭

you’re acting like he hasn’t been playing as a striker for the past 6 years 😂

by multiple champions leagues you mean 1 right?

Facts but he is not better Than suarez tho

@@asadnure8178 he is, the only comparison Suarez had was his "prime" and Lewandowski also surpassed that

thierry henry over lewa

@@johnmakaveli7511 Lewandowski absolutely has not surpassed Suarez in his prime. Suarez got most goals and assists in Europe in his best season.

best striker? overall play???

Lewa has only been the best striker for 2-3 seasons max. What are you on about?

Suarez is better than lewy

@@shehrozamar4644 Lewandowski has the most goals since 2016. Nobody has scored more in the span netting 29 more goals than Messi and 53 more than Ronaldo.

@@Torres9MZ Was he the best striker in the world in 2016, 2017, 2018 or even 2019? The answer is no by the way.

Hes playing in a league that has no competition lol they have the best team in a one team league of course hes gonna put up mad numbers, go to a league where you have 4-5 competitive teams and he wont be as profilic that is a FACT

@@jaxnorthmusic7863 no matter where he goes he would be the best striker in that league

@@deemoney3362 Unlikely. Currently has 24 goals with 22 big chances missed in his league, whilst haaland has 16 goals and only 3 big chances missed

@@jaxnorthmusic7863 Like CL where they have all the best clubs? He was the CL top scorer already in the past and is the 3rd top scorer of all time. And don't say he is stat padding vs weak teams because he is in top5 top scorers in knockout stages where he has goals vs Real Madrid, Barca, Atleti, Chelsea, Juve etc. He also carries Poland on the international level. He was the top scorers of the qualifiers to WC & Euro. 5th best International scorer currently playing and will probably finish in top5 of all time. When he played for the 'weaker' team in his league, he won the league with them, was the top scorer and got to the CL final. So it's not like he spent his entire career at Bayern, he earnt his place there. Its like complaining that Ronaldo played in a Real Madrid team that was scoring 100+ goals a season. No shit, good players play for good teams.

@@Michael-fi7vu nice essay, but like i said the CL is not a week in week out league competition lasting the entire year... its a cup competition where anyone can win on the day, his record breaking numbers everyone goes mad for come in a one team league where he plays for the only team that ever wins it coz theyre miles ahead of every other team, period, come to the prem his numbers would never ever in life be that high, 40+ league goals in the prem or even the spanish league? Hahahahaha be fucking real, just admit that that plays a part but u lewa fans cant even do that smh.

Overrated

Top 10 maybe

W

@@amanplayz518 overrated? Won the league so many times at loads of different teams and has over 600 career goals. He is just overshadowed playing in the same era as Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

@@michaelblake1281 overshadow by suarez

Lewandowski isn't all that, I'm not an English biased prick I watch all leagues of football I really like serie a that being said the German league is horrible, playing against Wolfsburg and lipzig isn't it west ham is better than Dortmund.

@@nickjames1496 you chatting bullshit lol

@@nickjames1496 na they’re not 🤡 lmao prem teams aren’t all that he almost has a better record than Suarez against the top 6 prem teams and he’s not even in the prem

Complains how these guys don’t watch la liga but he has no clue what goes on in the premier league, so tragic

And by striker you mean what, exactly?

@@jbo4547 I can't say he was a complete number 9 because he switched back and forth with Benzema a lot during the game, but he took a much more prominent role as the main striker

@@jbo4547 if you want a purist striker that sits in the box gets headers and sits in perfect position to collect tap ins Ronaldo has been that for a couple years now… and he’s the best in the world at it

Incorrect. Go amd check his average starting position for Juve LW and CF are pretty much equal

@@shaunmgraham Average starting position doesn't mean shit 😂 Fam I'm a Madrid fan I've watched every game he ever played for Madrid (I'll admit didn't watch a single Juve game of his besides maybe UCL ones or any of the United ones) but during his time in Madrid just from watching the games and where he drifted off too, his role (crossing, beating players, staying in the box etc) and where he spent most of his time he was deffo a striker towards the end of his time in Madrid.

That bit when Shaun and sharks were arguing was bad vibes. Also, them including Pogba with the argument of “on his day” but when Shaun put in Chilwell, they got onto him asking for more arguments.

@@Jalil187 whatever happens happens tho. I will say that sugar Shaun was done a bit dirty sometimes with his takes

Your Dad Yeah I agree. In the deleted video, he got done dirty haha

@@Jalil187 yea I feel bad for sugar Shaun sometimes doesn’t deserve the backlashes on some of his takes. But ik it’s all jokes tho

Yeah but he was soooooo much better than anyone else at that time, and maybe in history, that it is enough. It's like Nirvana. They only had 3 albums, but they are so good that it's enough to make them one of the best ever players.

Agree If we are talking quality then he deserves no.1 If its based on performances then he isnt no.1

He won the world cup in 02 having played in and out of inter team having been out for 2 years....GOAT striker even after he was riddled with injuries...dispute that and you are showing your youth.

Bc after 2000 he already had a compromised and fragile knee and only one good knee. Not to mention in 2007 he injured his left knee like he did with with right. So now he has two really bad knees. And to top it off he has a thyroid problem. After 2000 he had to change his whole game style. No more going through defenders with step overs. No more explosiveness. It’s stupid to expect him to play like he did pre injury. Oh and ever since his first injury he was playing in constant pain but still was el phanomeno. His body just couldn’t keep up. So much skill no knees could cope with the amount of stress. R9 from 1994 to 1999 and his 2002 wc performance better than anyone. The true goat.

​@@dickmonkey-king1271 No, consistency is the most key thing in a player in sports

Man has the best goal per game ratio in champions league ever and they are only talking about the league

@@linusmuller9620 false.

@@vinniequaite5472 my bad i wanted to say best non penalty goal ratio ever

He played alongside Benzema multiple UCL games as a second striker in a 4 4 2. Most of his goals are in the box but he only had 3-4 full seasons as a true number 9.

@@hamzaesat4085 he’s a winger . When you hear Ronaldo you don’t think as a striker

penaldo should not be there, he's finished

@@lfcbrazyyy_8081 okay kid

I feel cr7 played on the left for the majority of his career so no fasho

Van Basten is my nr 1, but I respect your opinion

@@jaspersanders8173 classic striker what a unstoppable guy

You had to see it to believe it

Klass-jan Huntelaar, Diego Forlan, Radamel Falcao, these man don't know football

@@abrahamraphael9021 eto’o is top 8 man he was different

Benzema is overrated

@@CitrusMenace citrus is overrated

I’d have him behind Suarez, R9 & Henry and maybe Ibra but even that’s debatable

@@cw05 Ibra is nearly a 10 years older than Lewandowski and Lewandowski still has more league goals, CL goals and international than him so although he is an elite striker I wouldnt put him in the same level, he doesn't reach the top 10 of all time list(not the 2000 onwards like this vid). Same thing with Henry, he was a top striker from 2000 to now but doesn't reach the all time top 10. In his whole career he hasn't had a single season where he scored 40+ goals. In the CL 50 goals in 112 appearances which is good but not great, same number of CL goals as Thomas Muller. Even though he played for France and won the world cup he still has less international goals than Lewandowski. R9 overall in his career is top 3 striker of all time alongside Gerd Muller and Van Basten, but his best seasons were pre 2000, 2000 onwards both Suarez and Lewandowski have been better than him as they had their peaks 2000 onwards. Between Lewandowski and Suarez I would take Lewandowski as he has scored more goals in less games, he outscored Suarez in every season except 2 or 3 seasons. Suarez only has 3 seasons in his whole career with 33+ goals while Lewandowski has 8 seasons and 6 in seasons in a row with 40+, this season he is already on 35 halfway through the season. Suarez on the other hand also has lots of assists, 183 in all competitions in contrast to Lewandowski's 89 assists according to fbref. Overall Suarez's g+a ratio is 1.01 while Lewandowski's 1.02, they are pretty much neck to neck with Lewandowski slightly ahead but Lewandowski has 3 times the amount of CL goals so I would take him over Suarez.

@@johnmakaveli7511 I’ll be real i wasn’t actually old enough to see R9 & Henry but from the stories ive heard these guys were like superhuman! And with Suarez, he’s constantly played in the hardest leagues and always dominated them, whereas Lewa has been in the bundesliga him whole career so for me that puts him down a bit. Suarez is more then just goals, he’s a linkup man, he’ll hold it up he needs to, he’ll beat 3 men if he wants, and he could score from absolutely anywhere. Looking at it internationally aswell, Suarez dragged an average Uruguay team to a Copa America. Also that 2013/14 Liverpool season was arguably the greatest individual season in Prem history, almost dragging a poor liverpool side to the title. Recency bias defo favours Lewa but in the last decade, Lewa has only been better for two of them whereas Suarez dominated the previous. Even with recency, Suarez was the main man and top scorer of an atletico team who were underdogs to win the La liga. I’m a big Lewa fan but for me, Suarez is the greatest

@@cw05 When Suarez was playing in the Premier League the Bundesliga was better than the PL, with 2 german teams in the CL final and constant CL semi's for bundesliga teams while PL teams only had 1 CL semi final for 6 or so years. Also Lewandowski's 11/12 season with Dortmund was better than Suarez's 13/14 season, he dragged Dortmund to beat prime Bayern in the league AND in the DFB Pokal while scoring a hattrick in the final against prime Neuer. Also the 2011 Uruguay wasn't average, they were literally semi finalists in the world cup the previous year. Lewandowski also plays for Poland which is far worse than Uruguay, if it wasn't for Lewy they wouldnt even have gone to any international tournaments, he still got more international goals than Suarez in a far worse teams. Suarez has only been better than Lewandowski 3 seasons in his whole career. The Champions League is the most difficult tournament in football and Lewandowski literally has 3 times the amount of goals as Suarez. In the last 3 CL seasons Lewandowski scored more goals than Suarez's whole career! So how can Suarez be better than lewandowski if he is so much worse in the Champions League which is acknowledges as the most difficult tournament.

What video?

They never watched Madrid. I'm a Madrid fan and I'm baffled as to how Ronaldo was in this. Statistically, Messi played more games down the middle than Ronaldo. During their times in La Liga, Ronaldo played upfront 24% of games, whereas Messi did so in 37% of games. If you put Ronaldo down as a striker, you now have to include Messi and even Totti, who won the European Golden Boot playing as a striker for Roma under Spalletti. Totti, positionally, was more of a striker during the late 2000s than Ronaldo ever has been. Cristiano shouldn't be in this particular list.

@@tharcisse7103 frr these prem fans don’t watch anything other than the prem(excluding the UCL)

It ain't that deep. In the modern game he has modelled his game around a striker. For a long time now. Let's not pretend. Ever since 2014 he has changed his game. Reason why his goal output increased drastically. Just cause he appears LW on the team sheet on tv doesn't mean he wasn't effectively a striker for Madrid and then the whole time at Juve and for Portugal for agesssss.

@@moark brudda he became a striker around 2018, uo until then he always touches the line then moves in for crosses. He goal scoring record increased because he hit his prime, iits normal for players to have drastic increases during prime

@@shaygobin757 LOOOL well this shows your ball knowledge clearly. If that's what you think ok