7 Footballers Who Were GENUINELY Irreplaceable 

How is tielemans a kante replacement

@@neonyzr Ndidi wins the ball back and YT takes it forward - (that's how it worked in theory, and for a short while in practice, too, anyway). Kante did both, which is why replacing him with just a single player hasn't happened.

Only having this if you include Drinkwater otherwise this is no bueno.

@@phillippatryndal4255 difference is yt is much more of a threat going forward than kante

@@manu-nz7vc don’t think people remember how much of a good dribbler Kante was for Leicester regularly picked up the ball and drove into the final third to break the press

So it proves that he's irreplaceable 😂

Yeah Lambert only started 7 league games terms in 14-15. Was never really given a chance considering Liverpool cross the ball much more now than when they had Crouch, Carroll, Lambert, Benteke...

Suarez replacement is Salah.

@@sagnasswe2114 Different positions, different roles

@@AppreciateMnisi yup but both became goal machines.

A god among men

Very sweaty

Thomas Sørensen was quite good. Not on the level of Kasper and Peter, but he was pretty solid in my opinion, and deserve praise.

That's because you are biased towards your own. United's decline had little to do with Barthez, who, ironically, was far harder for the French to replace at the national level, than Schmeichel was for United to replace at the club level.

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That is easy: Playing no defense, and waiting for the ball!

He was naturally left footed playing mostly on the right for PNE (though he was known as a fine crosser with his right foot as well), and had experience of playing as the centre forward and getting goals. I don't know the ins and outs of that time, so I can't really speculate beyond that though.

But soon there will be another problem. Who's going to replace Divock?

Divock!? What're you smoking mon!??? No comparison whatsoever can be made there Chucky-boy.

@@Anthony-tu7oz you're right. Divocks a level above Suarez.

Tottenham is such hot garbage, though. They've yet to replace Bale or Modric. Lord only knows what sort of amateurs they'll put in goal and up front when Llorid and Kane go bye-bye.

Trippier was his replacement

If Origi isnt on that list, that is a disgrace

Ay my name is alfie

No. That is merely one of the effects. The cause is/was Barça's frivolous spending going back decades. When Cruyff took over, he wanted Barcelona to be equal to or better than Real, in all aspects. What followed was a quarter century long orgy of spending like Real, without money like Real. The Neymar situation was the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back".

@DDeglane16 And boring. He was just one more while having way more potential. He was right to leave, but chose the wrong place to go. Just imagining what Guardiola or Klopp could've turned him into makes me pissed.

@@respectedlocalgentleman7108 what your saying is ignoring years of actual success and rich history Barcelona has had since Cryuff took over. Barcelona, in many ways, is the antithesis to RM Galactico. To say their entire history boils down to them wanting to spend as much like Real is just plain false, especially since not too long ago they assembled what was considered the greatest team in history from academy players who cost them nothing.

Marin came up around the same time as Messi, nobody compared them in such a fashion. Halilovic was explicitly compared to Modric. Maybe they should make a video about the 7 dumbest commenters on RU-vid. It can be all about you.

@@respectedlocalgentleman7108 I would be honored to make the top 7 but I think I'd be lucky to get an honorable mention

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Entirely irrelevant as Faggrabass didn't replace Vieira, nor was he ever a "4" by playing style and pitch positioning.

I dunno about that, but it's definitely a massive challenge to replace one of the best players in the world. It would be easier to play Friday the 13th on NES without Jason getting anyone while playing as Debbie or George with the weakest weapon.

He is one of the best or even the best player in history. But no, he is not irreplaceable. He played with Ronaldinho, Iniesta, Xavi, Neymar, Suarez... He was never carrying his team like Suarez did in LFC, or Benzema now in Real Madrid...

@@milosilic23 lol he’s irreplaceable trust me, but Real Madrid have already found a cr7 replacement in benzema

Irreplaceable for Barcelona who catered the entire team around him. Yes he didn’t have to do all the work himself, except in that last season but look at him in PSG now. No hate for him, he’s the best naturally talented football we’ve ever seen but as he is now he’s not irreplaceable. In fact loads more players can do a better job than him at PSG.

@@antonypavon1777 Benzema is yet to win a Champions league without Cr7. So is he really a Replacement?

I alway rated Huth when he played for Boro tbh

Almost everyone in that Leicester side was brilliant that season, that was half the reason we won the league. Few outside Leicester talk about the likes of Fuchs, Albrighton and Okazaki either, but they were minimum 7 or 8 out of 10 every week. I do think Mahrez and Vardy were and will be the hardest to replace though. I know a lot of neutrals think Kante, but I think Ndidi also topped the tackles and interceptions as well in the PL for 2 or 3 seasons since and I think Kante’s ability to “drive up the pitch” gets overplayed a bit. And I think we are still struggling to replace Mahrez now and we’ve lost so much going forward during Vardy’s lengthy injury this season too. I think in truth if you replace Kante with Ndidi there’s a lot more chance we still win the league than whoever we can realistically replace Mahrez or Vardy with. Ultimately quality defensive players are almost always easier to replace than quality attacking or creative players. Especially if you’re not a big club who can just go and buy almost anyone.

Yeah, even the great sir Alex had a few hangover signings right after Schmeichel left.. it only felt steady and stable when Van Der Sar arrived.

@@vaestkusten6041 Indeed. Taibi, Bosnich, Howard, Carroll. None of them was good enough. I guess Alfie was got to go with the hipster choices though.

But he did get replaced. It took a while but he did get replaced. The point of this video are players who were not replaced.

Barthez was an able replacement

But you did eventually replace him.

Every player your club signs from another club, is by your own logic, is a Judas

Thiago Silva. I know he’s v old but he can play the game easily into his 40’s.

chelsea literally won the champions league as a defensive side

Ferdinand/Vidic better examples. United spent hundreds of millions on expensive replacements and all have failed.

Pele and Puskas were a lot more influential in terms of the all-time picture. Cruyff is key to the modern era.

Kingsmlim

Xavi Alonso is easily the most underrated footballer of the modern era, possibly ever. He literally invented the "deep lying playmaker position" and managed to match it with a legitimate defensive midfielder's ferocity. Everybody talks about that great era for Spain, but for my money? I would take the 2008 team over all the bigger name-laded squads that followed, because Alonso and Marcos Senna were the most impenetrable and dominating defensive midfield duo I ever had a chance to watch. Co-sign everything you said about Liverpool. I wouldn't go so far as to say he was better than Gerrard individually, but I will say that if Gerrard weren't English or if Liverpool were located outside of England...Stevie G would've been the one getting replaced and the team would've been built around Alonso. Pardon the thread jack.

Well Liverpool is not heading into games believing Salah is there to win games. They have a whole team. Salah score when he does, you necessarily can't count on that. To be fair he is a great player who produces brilliant moments in games but still.

Technically cr7. He was right midfielder

Zico must have managed that at some point

Lampard was Chelsea's top scorer on more than one occasion.

Cristiano ronaldo actually, he was a right midfielder when he scored 31 goals in 42 games i think, 18 assist i think also i dont remember the full stats

Also George Best was also top scorer as a left mid and as an attacking midfielder, scoring 28 goals, dont remember the full scope of that one either,but its something like that.

That'll be the lowest viewed video ever.

no one cares 😂

that is big IF. and who in the right mind want to play for u guys.

Keep dreaming bocah

@@JayAnuar factos

Sit down, son.

Lambert was a totally dry signing ha ha! Weird one that tbh.

Lambert was fucking quality. Didn't fit Liverpool's style of play, and they only signed him as cheap bait to tempt their bigger Southampton targets to the club. Lambert was used by his boyhood club and done absolutely dirty. Should never have left Southampton but got absolutely shafted by them. Got him in, that opened the gates for them to get their real targets (Lallana and Lovren), and once those two were in, Lambert's usefulness to Liverpool was over.

But if he is the "greatest goalkeeper of all time" then why isn't he in as high regards for his position ? Speaking as a goalkeeper here lol

That's not how you spell Tony Hibbert

Nope Messi . Man U still got to the champions league final without cr7 and still won the premier league a few times after he left

But they did end up replacing Ballack tho

@@hananidrisi6436 And Real ended up replacing Makelele... without ever missing the Champions League...

Sir Alex is obviously gonna be top of that list I think.

@@bricktop. True. United have tried, and failed, several times to replace Sir Alex. Moyes, Van Gaal, Jose, Ole all failed to do it. I doubt Ten Hag will do much better.

Yeah Sir Alex was the first one the came to mind with irreplaceable. The first one that came to mind with replaceable was Nigel Pearson at Leicester. Won the league and then great escape only to be replaced with claudio ranieri