The Misunderstood Genius Of King Cantona 

Zlatan disagrees

​@@ronin4518Zlatan doesn't have presence.... presence has Zlatan.

@@garrettskelton4385 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N9BvU-eFka4.html

​@@garrettskelton4385Zlatan is a joker

​@@lucyboy8276No he's ghetto kid loudmouth with ego problems.

This comment reminds me of Materazzi being headbutted by Zidane being the only highlight of his career

His karate kick led me to discover football when I was a kid. I'm 45, guess who I'm still rooting for? United. All hail the King.

@@sizwe260 Serie A defender of the year 2007, 5 time Serie a winner, And a treble winner under Mourinho in his last season at Inter...

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@@sizwe260this comment is gold

They don’t win their first league title which means it’s doubtful whether they’d win any of the other 4 he won with them. History would have been very different. Howard Wilkinson was an idiot for selling him, typical Yorkshire stubbornness.

I remember the day he signed for Leeds as it was a big deal them getting him ahead of Wednesday, he pretty much guaranteed them the title. I'm an Ipswich fan but still loved watching this guy play

​@@glencurtis6052but he came very late and very early upon the day he arrived

​@@GuinessOriginalAs long as Ferguson was in Man Utd, they would win everything they won anyway. Cantona was just another cog in the machine, easily replaceable. As a matter of fact, later Man Utd was way better then Cantona's Man Utd.

@@adnan4688 what you talking about? cantona and rooney (talismans)...when these players left did united win anything?

IM ARSENAL 4 LIFE BUT WE RESPECT ONLY 3 GOAT PLAYERS : (BESIDE OUR HENRY) GERRARD, SHEARER AND CANTONA. 3 BEST PLAYERS IN PREMIERE LEAGUE IN HISTORY EVER !!

@@PIP...33 I agree mate those 4 players are indeed respect on GOAT level. I am Leeds fan. I love Cantona forever, but Bergkamp Henry Shearer and Gerrard are simply best ever to step a foot on England pitch. We also respect Maldini tho never played here , he is GOAT best ever !!

@@perditadurango9699 NO DOUBT. MALDINI IS NUMBER 1. U START TEAM FRANCHISE WITH HIM! I ALSO RESPECT THURAM TO ME HE IS 2ND BEST IN HISTORY. AND OVERALL MOST COMPLETE PLAYERS ARE GULLIT AND BEST PLAYER EVER JOHAN.

@@perditadurango9699 MY GOAT PLAYERS : NKONO THURAM MALDINI MATTHAUS GULLIT STOJKOVIC CRUYFF HENRY BATISTUTA CANTONA ROMARIO.

​@@PIP...33Steven Gerrard for me is something special, no player comes next to him. Eric was the best of the naughty boys we've seen in the PL & world football. I love that age of football.

He could have been a top level for 4 years

Happy you noticed the assists, He was an advanced midfielder contrary to the title and content of this video.

​@@BugdenlHe was a number ten playing behind the striker but sometimes also playing as the striker, holding up the ball and getting runners of him.

@@davidc5170 striker's don't hold up the ball... They strike it... But I agree he did a lot of holding up of the ball and played it through. Forward is the furthest positional term he should be afforded. Playmaker, guru, god, but not the man who was furthest forward looking for the goals...

@@Bugdenl "Strikers don't hold up the ball" I take it with a statement like that you've only just start watching football recently. Strikers are the furthest forward so of course they hold up the ball and bring others in to play. Mark Hughes was brilliant at it, Andy Cole learned how to do it when he came to us. Alan Shearer did it at times, cos strikers are the focal and there is no one ahead of them they need to be able to play with their backs to goal and hold up the ball.

arrogance and ego worked in his favour.

@@tris421the best athletes have those, Ronaldo, Jordan, Kobe, Tom Brady, Lebron James, Hussein Bolt, Michael Phlephs. All the goats have those traits

I think it's Usain bolt 😅,but well said

@@alaromukhtar2127forgot the best one there, pal: Messi. No ego, just talent and passion😁

@@nikolaitregouet Hate to tell you but Messi has mad ego son.

Oo-Ah-Cantona, OoAhCantona!

Cantona was more influential than Ibrahimovic. Ibrahimovic is great against mid table and lower league teams making a master to win leagues. But when it came to crunch time against big teams in big matches in particular the champions league, he doesn't seem to cash in. Cantona on the other hand is a big game player with the midas touch when required to deliver at the apex of football

Zlatan was unique but he was nothing like Cantona, hadn't the range of skill Cantona had and to be entirely honest although I love and respect Zlatan Cantona was by some considerable distance a better player in almost all regards. Zlatan was a better goal scorer and scored more in one season than Cantona ever did. He is similar in attitude.

I understand what you mean BUT Ibrahimovic plays the role of Zlatan. Cantona is Cantona.

Ibrahimovic has true skill and he has a backbone

Sorry I never heard of Ibrahimović before.

What does that even mean? I swear, that man was an enigma, always talking in riddles. 😂 you should listen to his response ro being tipped for the United managerial position

@@saehisaya I think it means the reporters are waiting for Cantona to start talking and spilling beans, so they can have juicy news to write on their newspaper, even if it means twisting Cantona's word to sell.

@@saehisaya read what karllim1159 wrote, I agree with him, Eric was actually very polite, usually people refer to journalists as vultures looking for dead meat, he just went the fishing way.

much more the guy never act he was genually like that

EGO

Ibra is the little better player

Even their position and playing style is similar

@@VivekSharma-sn7hl how old are you to say that you see him playing

Obviously spoiled and filled with psychological problems 😊

That was the match we will not see for another hundred years.

😂

Mount is no where near Cantonas lvl..

Ahah nice ending joke 😂

going from Cantona to Mount is like going from James Bond to Mr Bean.

@@tris421 Hahah best reply

But when you consider he played in midfield, you'd be screaming about his stats.

epitome ????

He was so good with the ball, he was like a wizard controling it moving it around for it to come back effortlessly. Never seen anyone have such control on the ball can't believe he started out as a goalkeeper. Typical Cantona.

Great comment

True

Agreed bro hopefully soon

Oasis split up for a long time now. It's Liam Gallagher's original song, and yes, it's great and so is the video clip featuring Eric Cantona.

Strangely many city fans love Cantona. It's like when Ronaldinho got a standing ovation at the Bernabau playing for Barce (No player before or since, not even Messi - speaks volumes)

Cantona was top dog! Keane as great as he was simply annoyed his team mates with his boorish behaviour.

Cantona got the ball rolling. Keane kept things running.

What about Schmeichel ?

Cantona. Keane tried to emulate him only after Cantona retired to fill the void. Maintaining a course is much easier than changing it. Keane really looked up to Cantona. ou can go back and check ;)

@@maratonlegendelenemirei3352you don’t know what you’re talking about

Can you elaborate more of this quality? Does it translate into everyday life?

@@MrKevin1144 'Je ne sais quoi' is a French phrase transplanted into English to represent a special intangible quality that people know exist but none can actually put a finger to it. It is the equivalent of an aura which is evidently possessed by some people but absent in others. Using Eric Cantona's story as an example, you have heard of his exploits of success in Nimes, Marseille and Montpellier where he took them from backwater, nondescript sides to winning unexpected trophies merely by his sublime talent & presence. In England, you know all about Leeds United that in the 1980s to 2000s was a mid-table, First Division team at best & whose addition of Eric for only half a year transformed them into an all-conquering First Division champion in 1992. The next half year was spent in typical Cantona bedlam before taking his talents to United who coincidentally were in almost similar straits for most of Sir. Alex Ferguson's early doors, sometimes rising to the top five but lacked the genuine spark to fire them into Championship contention. In the first Premier League season on 1992 - 93, United found themselves in the surreal surroundings of Norwich City who were massively imbued with confidence to be still unbeaten by December, at full-throttle & some way at the helm. Aston Villa were equally making their bid at the epoch-defining, inaugural Premier League season. The rest as they say is history after Cantona joined Sir. Alex's side in January 1993 to replace crocked forward Dion Dublin, firing them into the inaugural Premier League title which was a catalyst for improbable success in future for then beleaguered Sir. Alex Ferguson. It speaks volumes that during his abbreviated 4½ season run at United interspersed with contention against personal demons, he still garnered 3 PL titles and 4 FA Cups with that golden quality. Recall the 1 title won at Leeds United. Post-retirement in 1997, he has gone on to be a respected personality as a thespian & movie star/ producer in France even winning accolades at the Cannes Film Festivals. That is 'je ne sais quoi' for you.

@@MrKevin1144 The iconic raised collar emulated by upcoming talent is equally part of Cantona's legacy to the sport. The kung-fu kick on the Crystal Palace fan is still spoken about today not just among the prawn sandwich brigade at Old Trafford but in sporting folklore in general.

Unfortunately the content creator has misled everyone. He clearly didn't watch Cantona play for united. Cantona played in midfield. His stats are therefore insane.

his stats was as a playmaker. People praised gerrad as the goalscoring midfielders but they often discredit cantona's goalscoring ability as a midfielder.

@@AMIRULASYRAF-gm4vo AMEN. Praise unto thee. Correct.

People assume Cantona was a number 9 like RVN but he was a playmaker he would go deep to link up play. One season he got 25 goals and 15 assists. Today even our wingers don't give us that many assists.

His stats are great, he wasn't a striker, he played in midfield

R10 is the true GOAT of football, and Baggio my favourite player growing up. Nice picks. Both of these players played as Forwards, Cantona was a bit deeper in Midfield. Watch the footage.

@@Bugdenl Ronaldinho was not a complete forward either, he often played as a 10. The extraordinary case for example is Messi, who played as a 10, playmaker or winger, and scored as many goals.

@@francescganau7679 I think this video is even better: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pynDvIsLoU0.html Incomprehensible talent. I love Messi and Maradona, but Ronaldinho is even better.

Yea I know lots of City fans who say the same - True class transcends tribalism. Ronaldinho at the Bernabau. The only Barce player to get a standing ovation from the Madridstas.

trust me bro, we had our collars up in school wanting to be Cantona

​@@fuuf7092Oh yes!😂

You make no sense and your not Cantona

Except the most important thing - his position.... He was a midfielder not a striker. Suddenly perception shifts MASSIVELY

@@Bugdenl He was an attacking midfielder/forward sort of, mostly, he was Cantona. That was enough. 🤣💪

@@Bdoc76 He will always be a legend. The sheer number of Man City fans who cite the King as their favourite player speaks volumes. I accept Attacking midfielder/forward. This is prob the most accurate description.

@@Bugdenl Whatever he was I've never enjoyed more watching someone play. He was an artist.

@@Bdoc76 the elite few... Cantona definitely sits at the table, transcending any given position. Magic players are so rare and beautiful to watch. I agree.

Except the injustice of calling him a striker, thereby diminishing his brilliance in the eyes of statisticians.

“You don’t know where I’m from dawg!”😂

Only 2 players wore #7 at United who were truly great. George best and Cantona. The rest are pretenders and fakes. No where near.

thanks man!