Suarez. The man won Golden boots in Prime Messi-Ronaldo Era.

neymar is like 30 but all the other players have practically already had their careers

Iniesta also has the Player of the Tournament from Euro 2012 as an individual award, and Xavi does for Euro 2008

Suarez is the player with 2 nd most assists in the history and has > 500 goals He is the 3 rd best player of this generation

Iniesta is underrated and overshadowed in Messi and Ronaldo prime when iniesta himself was in his prime, iniesta had everything a midfielder could dream of! Everybody think of lewa, Neymar, modric, benzema, Suarez, Zidane ok they are up there but don’t forget about iniesta

The world forgot that muller existed. That’s crazy 💀 Bro did better than everyone in 2014

I think Iniesta was the best choice, you nailed it

neymar the prince that never became a king.

Leaving out Greizmann only shows how increasingly underated he is. If not for real Madrid's influence Greizou would have win ballon dor 2018, and maybe 2016. Love the fact that you included Dani Alves. Great content.

Its manuel neuer without a doubt he revolutionized the gk position

Amazing Video! Underrated definitely. Keep on the good work :)

Neymar was supposed to be 3rd 😕, had he stayed at Barcelona he would have possibly been in the goat debate. “We all admired Messi and Ronaldo but deep down we wanted to play like Neymar”

Iniesta and modric 🐐

keep it up nice video

holy shit, youre so underrated, great video :D

There isn’t one. Fernando Torres was 3rd best player in the world at one point. It was just rotating cast of third best player in the world.

Great video

I agree with the Iniesta pick, and overall it was a great video! New sub here

Griezmann, Hazard,Neymar,bale

Very good video i dont know why there is not more views its great work

Great topic

Nice video!

Dude I just realized you only have like 400 views on this… it deserves more and honestly I thought it would have thousands of views. Keep up the good work.

Your content reminds me of Jxmyhighroller, i dont know if you know about his videos. But i‘ve been searching for somebody who makes exactly this type of content but about football, using statistics and graphs. Youve earned my sub for sure, great video

Lewandowski,still consistent,almost 700 career goals and 200 assists 🐐

Neymar is the third best forward in my arrogant opinion and am sticking with it until I die . He's the No 1 for me by the way 🤷🤦

good vid

Amazing analysis

For the Ballon d'Or and UEFA POTY, I think instead of counting just 3rd or 2nd place votes, in a situation like this you should go with the top-3 non-Messi/Ronaldo players (with huge extra points if they finished above either of them during their prime). So in seasons where Messi and Ronaldo were 1st and 2nd, look at 3rd 4th and 5th as the Ballon d'Or for mere mortals. So we see who'd win or get in the podium for Ballon d'Ors in a world where Messi and Ronaldo are disqualified for being too good I think not including Player of the Tournament awards is a big miss here. Those are more meaningful than top goalscorer awards or positional awards because they represent a greater achievement. Golden Ball was included for World Cups but other than that there's still POTT things like Xavi being Euro 2008 Player of the Tournament, Iniesta being Euro 2012 POTT, Suarez being 2011 Copa America POTT, Suarez being 2014 EPL Player of the Season, etc Suarez missed out on votes for a lot of individual awards because of the controversies around him like the biting players which made media voters blacklist him during his very best years, which may be understandable but using individual awards like FIFA team nominations does underrepresent how good he was. This video missed Suarez's EPL player of the season awards from his insane season with Liverpool. I think winning POTS in a major league is probably even more impressive than being the top scorer If I had to pick one guy on this list to carry an ok team, it'd be Suarez with the goals, assists, playmaking and competitive intensity. His season with Liverpool was the best EPL season of the 2010s. Neymar could've been great at carrying but we can never tell because he spent his prime in Ligue 1 with PSG, all skill aside he didn't have the same competitive fire and intensity. Alves overachieve a lot as the driving force of those Sevilla teams but not the way Suarez did. And a playmaking forward who can create for himself will inherently be more able to carry a team than a finisher who needs support, a midfielder that needs good forwards to actually convert midfield dominance to wins, or a defender I think you got this right though. If I had to pick based on greatness, it's Iniesta. He probably has the best big-game resume in football history. He was a game-changer as sub in 2006 UCL final, amazing in the 2008 Euros, saved Barcelona in the 2009 UCL semis, imperious in the 2009 and 2011 UCL finals, scored the winner in the 2010 WC final, completely dominated Euro 2012 start to finish, MOTM in the 2015 UCL final. The best player on the best international team of all time and the 2nd best player on the most dominant team of all time. Modric is probably next after Iniesta in terms of greatness based on what he's accomplished I think Griezmann should be on this list, he's definitely not 3rd but he was the best player on a World Cup winning team, led Atletico Madrid to league titles in the Barca/Madrid superteam era, won La Liga POTS during the Messi/Ronaldo peak. If we count greatness through World Cups and leading your country to a WC as their best player, and in winning things in very difficult circumstances, in terms of greatness he's underrated and unquestionably belongs on a shortlist

Arjen Robben for me.

Its so so fcking obvious that the third best player of this generation is neuer,he's an all timer he's in the debate with goalkeeper from previous generations like buffon,casillas and yashin And he have the biggest legacy as a goalkeeper,he's literally the goat of his position

Robben deserves a shout out

Great video!! Keep it up!!

Amazing video but I think influence should have been taken into account, but I understand that its hard to measure.

Manuel Neuer is the only correct answer for that question. The greatest goalkeeper of all time, no questions asked. Revolutionized the position and except when he was injuried he is always in the conversation for goalkeeper of the year, and for a period of about 8-10 years there was not a conversationbecause it was always him, by far. To this day, he's the starter for Bayern and Germany, and no one even dares question it. And I didn't even mentioned the titles he has.

It's difficult to pinpoint if a certain player started in a previous generation then just later on crossed into this one.

i think lewandowski. deserved 2 ballon dors and has the 9th most goals ever. he has the most goals in our generation after messi and ronaldo

There are two options: -First a player that played with Cristiano or Messi and helped them achive the impossible: Like Xavi,Iniesta, Xabi, Modric, Kroos,Benzema, Ozil, Suarez,Neymar ... -Second a player that achived the impossible at their own: Like Zlatan, Muller,Lewandowski, Lahm, Neuer, Salah, De Bruyne, Drogba ...

This video is so well made. Congrats. I still disagree, I'd swap modric and iniesta, but you gave amazing arguments and did a good research.

After watching the whole video I can see that u didnt really add skills of the players wich would make Modrić by far the 3rd Greatest Player Of This Generation

Great video, however if you ask 1000 kids who grew up during that era who was the greatest, everyone will say Neymar. You see new wonderkids like Yamal popping up and saying Neymar inspired the way they play, you never see anyone saying that about Iniesta or Modric...

I know everyone read the title and was like no shit that is a great question

Suarez, Lewa, Robben and Zlatan

There are just too many great players and coaches of this generation so its just too hard to say a definitive top 3, nor a definitve top 20

Left out Greizman & Muller. Said Benzema is better than Suarez. Idk man. Non the less there's a lot of work put in the vid so its still worth a like.

From ability stand point and quality it think its obviously Neymar but if we look at career it's either Iniesta or Modric it's up to the personal preference what do you want

neur and it is not even close. The greatest goalkeeper of all time

Neymar being the best player, but having nothing to really show for it is his career in a nutshell. While maybe he could join a club like Real Madrid or Man City and win more trophies, at 32, it's hard to see him gaining any individual achievements anymore. He still could find his form, play for Brazil next World Cup, and have things turn around as he is easily the youngest player mentioned, being only 32 right now. The Prince who was Never a King is a name that will haunt the sport tbh. I will be telling my grandchildren about how good Neymar was

great video but i think you should have mentioned neymars puskas in personal awards

Hazard & De bruyne not even getting a mention 😂

If hazard would have been consistent he would have been top 3 easy😊

I think Iniesta is number 2 tbh. Would rather have him in my team than Ronaldo he’d influence the overall play a lot more

What page did you use to get the ratings??

Modrić also has been in the UCL best XI the five times he won the UCL which is impressive

Neymar without a doubt

Iniesta, Neuer, or Suarez

Seriously you gotta be kidding me, we have 2 sooooooo good players that dominated like 2 generations that we have to debate on who's the better player after them. Like no way this guys existed, i don't think our kids, grandkids and people following that are actually going to believe these two even played

Suarez, easily. Most underrated striker ever. Best striker I've seen after R9.

Iniesta no question

Neur is very underrated in this conversation , he has been consistent for his whole career I think he deserves to be considered.

Is either neymar because of how he used to play or suarez for what he did

Griezeman deserve a spot

Bruh lewa's got 630+ goals💀💀

wasn't Oliver Khan also in the top 3 ballon d'or at some point?

If you’re gonna include Xavi you might as well include Ronaldinho

In this list, only Neymar and Iniesta could do magical things out of nowhere. Modric is also pretty close but the former two easily win the eye test.

Hazard if he never left epl

I find Xavi places so low a bit disrespectful. His genius doesn't show in these metrics. I saw a reddit comment that explained it perfectly. "Iniesta controlled the ball. Xavi controlled the game."

its very hard to pick anybody but i think Suarez is the best player ive seen aside from the big 2

If we are talking pound for pound peak performance, i believe it's Suarez. If we are talking unique skill level it's Iniesta. But perhaps he and Xavi being on the same club and national team at the same time makes them cancel each other out a bit too much. But if we also factor in longevity and how relevant he has made Croatia, it has to be Modric, right?

i think the points system for the average rating could be better and the points could be awarded based on the difference between the rating as you said 0.13 points average rating could take modric to first spot such a massive difference in the output should not be there for very less increase in the input. Btw everything else was good in the video like giving lewa credit for ballondor.

iniesta is the second most skillfull player I have ever seen people nowadays have no idea when I tell them how good iniesta was his skills, dribblings, game IQ, passes, shots and just the way he did things when you watched him was unbelieveable the things he did on the pitch were so difficoult I can't even put it into words just magical

This is actually a difficult question

no muller 💀 no griezman 💀no cdm (casemiro or busquets)💀 no kdb 💀

It's Modric. As soon as he turned up at RM they won the UCl. He get's injured the year after and they don't win. They then win 3 in a row. Then after the age of 30, he wins every year after he has had a rest in summer and not played a tournament, medalled twice with Croatia at World Cups. Then there's the 2012 Euro game where he dominates the prime trio of Xavi Iniesta Busquets.

It should be like Iniesta,Modric,Neuer as the top 3 best not in a particular order.....followed by Muller,Suarez,Lewa,Xavi...What more does Neuer has to do to be among the best....

Modric for sure.

Oliver Kahn was third in Ballon d‘OR rankings TWICE. In 2001 and in 2002. Yet you didn’t include him in the list of goalkeepers that made top 3 Ballon d’Or. strange

Toni Kross has an insane resume. He should be in the discussion.

Whys this guy such a modric meat rider

How did jorgino win fifa the best pplaxer award

It is Lewandowski. The 2 FIFA POTYS, the UCL Goals, the Sextuple, the dominance of a league only messi and mbappe had, the fact he has the same ucl goal ratio as messi and ronaldo. Top scorer of 2019,2020,2021, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and accomplished all that with a late start. Much better striker than Suarez or benzema, although benzema has a resume...But that is only comparing forwards.

For me Kevin de bruyne and Neymar. People underestimate kevin because he played for man city not for the spanish teams

Antony 2008 was special

It is Modrić actually, ratings from Dinamo Zagreb in the UEFA competitions are not included.

To be fair to Lewa, he didn't have any other top players with him. Modric had Rakatic, peresic, and a few others. Lewa didn't really have any top talent with him on Poland.

How is it more impressive to win the golden shoe twice than to win the Bronze Ballon d’Or twice?? You can’t just make such a subjective take without an explanation of thought.

Aguero and Hazard should have mentions also.

KROOOOOOOOS

Iniesta or Di Maria, win a World Cup and be determinant, that should be the parameter.

Luka Modric or Kareem Benzema

everyone should understand that winning the ballon d'Or in 2018 against 30+ year messi and ronaldo is hard but iniesta didn't won because he was doing it in the real prime messi and it's was impossible to win

Neymar here in Kerala after Messi and Ronaldo

👏👏👏

Iniesta is the best football player i've seen people on look at the skills and the goals Ronaldo and Messi have Iniesta actually controls the pace of the game and has football intelligence

If you're the goat of your position then it's kinda hard not to be 3rd behind them for this generation

De Bruyne insanely underrated

Neymar is clear. Only player to be at the table with messi and Cristiano

1st tier- Messi & Ronaldo 2nd tier- Suarez, Neymar, Ramos, Iniesta, Modric, Lewa, Neuer, Casillas, Chiellini 3rd tier- Marcelo, Xavi, Aguero, David Silva, Di Maria, Čech, Busquets, Dani Alves, Kroos, Benzema 4th tier- James Rodriguez, Bale, Özil, Thiago Silva, Zlatan, Hazard, Schweinsteiger

Oliver Kahn also was 3rd on Ballon Dor 2002