Redondo. How Pasarella managed to piss him off and lost him to the 98 WC, was the biggest tragedy to one of Argentina's most talented squads. Beckham and Scholes had goals over him, Scholes could operate in the spaces supremely, but neither of them could define matches against the best in the world. Redondo made McMannaman world class. Athletically supreme when he was young, everyone knew his feint flick was coming but couldn't do anything about it. When he slowed down at Madrid later on, he sat deeper but still found the space to run the match.
If only England could produce brilliant players who can operate centrally, skip laterally, then centre again. Instead of great European players like Beckham who run in straight lines all day long.
I mentioned Redondo earlier in the thread. Superbly talented football, one of the best brain wise I’ve seen on a pitch.
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Amazing that in an era of agricultural defending we had two players of such utter quality come through and grace the game.