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Originally Posted by Wildcat!
LOL! Are you out of your mind? At the time Lineker and Van Basten where playing, the Calcio was the best league in the world. The Premier league only got the edge in the late 90's and 200os, when all the big investors started buying all the best players in the world, and when they stopped having limits for foreign players. Like Setanta said, Van Basten is in a total different league than Lineker. Average team? England arguably had their best teams in 1990.
Van BAsten was the best striker, in the world, while Lineker was playing, not only the best striker, but one of the best players in the world. ON the world stage he has a hell of a lot more titles than Lineker, European championships, clubs and country.
Its not even close.
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1977 european cup winners liverpool (england)
1978 european cup winners liverpool (england)
1979 european cup winners nottingham forest (england)
1980 european cup winners nottingham forest (england)
1981 european cup winners liverpool (england)
1982 european cup winners aston villa (england)
1984 european cup winners liverpool (england)
1985 european cup runners up liverpool (england) after that they decided to kick us out of the european cup for five years, can you blame them? it was getting a bit easy as you can see, since we've been back in we've won in three more times and had four beaten finalists and are now domminating that much platini is starting to cry.
so van basten had he's era without the best players in the world there