Thread by @Munik86

When you look at the best players in the world over the last decade or two.

Messi
Ronaldo
Lahm
Zidane
Cafu
Iniesta

They have all won either individual awards, or the biggest trophies in the game. Being a world class player demands you to win the big awards and trophies.

Now I know the hallmark of any player who can be called the best itw, isn’t just about what they win. Sometimes players can attach themselves to the right clubs, and win Champions Leagues etc, but by contributing very little to the teams success.

But imo, the best in the world just collect trophies, individual ones as well. They are at the absolute top of their game for years; they want to keep getting better. It is this desire to be the absolute best, that drive, that gives them that extra 25%.

You have to stay at that top level for years, consistently performing. Players like Harry Kane need to ask himself, he’s 27 now, he’s not an up and coming kid anymore. Does he not want more than to just be a big fish in a small pond at Tottenham.

He needs to go to a bigger club, perform with the numbers he’s done, and keep it up, to be called the best itw. Lewandowski has scored 40+ goals for 5 seasons in a row, and he’s on course to make it 6 already. The highest scoring foreigner in the BL, 3 off third in CL scorers.

Lewy is older than Kane, but even at 27 he was producing amazing numbers for Dortmund and Poland.

My point is, you have to get to a point, when you must take that next step. Bale was great at Spurs, but he left and became world class at Real.

Can Kane do that? I’m not sure.