Who is the most influential player on the team?

Marcelo and Alonso. However Coentrao might be able to perform Marcelo's role and Sahin might be able to perform Alonso's role.

I've thought some more about this topic, particularly after the past few games.

I think without doubt the most influential player is Alonso. Not only is he irreplaceable, at least until Sahin is healthy, he is the on field captain / coach as someone earlier has spoken about.

The others are Casillas, Ramos and Ronaldo. There are lots of other important players but none that can't be substituted occasionally for. These 4 guys are almost 100% of the time in starting line-up and are very seldom substituted for. If you remember back to last year (early), Mou had actually named these 4 as his key players on which he would build the club around. It's now a year and half later and that statement still holds true today.

It's, usually, the one guy on the team who will go down as an all time great ( along with Casillas ).

Calebvision wrote:It's, usually, the one guy on the team who will go down as an all time great ( along with Casillas ).

Well, Ronaldo will certainly go down as an all time great, but Alonso is more influential in our team. So that theory doesnt really hold water.

Saetablanca wrote:

Calebvision wrote:It's, usually, the one guy on the team who will go down as an all time great ( along with Casillas ).

Well, Ronaldo will certainly go down as an all time great, but Alonso is more influential in our team. So that theory doesnt really hold water.

I certainly agree that it's subjective, but that is as far as I'll go. Stating, that Alonso is, as an indesputable fact, itself doesn't "hold water".

Summary: It's a matter of opinion, which why I used the word "usually" ( but I do feel that itis Ronaldo because he scores so many goals and changes the other team, if you will!

I do understand the logic of a more central player being the "Quaterback", however!

I also think that Ronaldo does (or used to?) influence our attacking game a lot, but not even close to Alonso.

mtfootball wrote:Marcelo and Alonso. However Coentrao might be able to perform Marcelo's role and Sahin might be able to perform Alonso's role.

coentrao definitely cant do half of what marcelo does at going forward...mainly passing and drifting into the penalty box