Gil wrote:Nevermind the fact he pretty much single-handedly led Lille to their first ever League title.

Surag wrote:Havent seen them live up to the hype in the big games i've watched them.

Neymar admittedly has performed better in those games though.

McLewis wrote:They're overrated in the sense that the hype surrounding them as perpetrated by the media in both Europe and South America has facilitated it.

In terms of pure footballing ability, I rate them both highly honestly and they're going to be world-beaters regardless of how anyone sees them. They are of that ilk that spawned the likes of CR7 and Messi. They'll rise and rise and keep rising.

That said, they will always have their detractors, as every player has, no matter what they do on the pitch or off it.

Beautiful Football wrote:

McLewis wrote:They're overrated in the sense that the hype surrounding them as perpetrated by the media in both Europe and South America has facilitated it.

In terms of pure footballing ability, I rate them both highly honestly and they're going to be world-beaters regardless of how anyone sees them. They are of that ilk that spawned the likes of CR7 and Messi. They'll rise and rise and keep rising.

That said, they will always have their detractors, as every player has, no matter what they do on the pitch or off it.

Anyway i doubt Hazard and Neymar will be as good as Ronaldo.Let alone
Messi.This is my personal opinion though.

Ganso wrote:it depends what you mean by better as a player.... i think that hazard and nerman have both a lot of potential to be better overall players and achieve similar number of or more trophies than CR.

che wrote:because they've shown *bleep* all in relevant leagues but people keep droning on about them like they're the next jesus

not exactly rocket science...

julias wrote:Because people like to downgrade or discredit special talents when its suits them.

"They're not proven in a top league" then

"They only scored a hattrick because it was Osasuna, anyone can do that"

"Penaldo" only scores penalties, as if that were some kinda of truth, when he misses "Big game flop"

"Messi hasn't scored in every big game this season, I dont care if he was treble marked - overrated"

"I saw him against an England team who did nothing but defend with virtually 8 men wasn't special"

"Didn't score at the WC"

"Cold night in Stoke" when Stoke are shnit anyway

and so on and so forth lol

julias wrote:
"I saw him against an England team who did nothing but defend with virtually 8 men wasn't special"

free_cat wrote:I don't know about Neymbar, but I watched Hazard vs. England and god, he looks average. I mean, he is a good player, but I think he is not better than Mata. It is a good signing for Chelsea, but IMO he won't live to his hype and price.

I read this after posting:

julias wrote:
"I saw him against an England team who did nothing but defend with virtually 8 men wasn't special"

I loled.

Anyway, in other games I wasn't very impressed by Hazard either. We'll see.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

Gil wrote:Nevermind the fact he pretty much single-handedly led Lille to their first ever League title.

I agreed up until this point, because it's complete and utter BS

Hazard was important but single handedly is complete rubbish, majority of people will say that Cabaye and Gervinho were better than Hazard that season and Sow's goals of course and Rami in defence were extremely important too.

If you said Hazard pretty much single handedly led Lille to 3rd in past season fair enough but the above point is completely outrageous and far from the truth.

Kingofeverythingclassy wrote:
Even an old Ronaldinho can possibly be a star player there. Other than that they are average players for the NT. While Neyman was average against Germany & in the very big matches.

I will wait to see Neyman play well against Uruguay,Germany,Brazil to comment.