DylanGer
Well-Known Member
I can really and I just did.
I can really and I just did.
For me on a personal level that four months before the injury I saw a guy whose touch, technique and control plus that turn, was and still is unlike anything I've ever seen. One of my biggest regrets is that we never got to see him against the likes of Stubbs and Mjalby before that injury. We'd still be talking about it now.
Do I think he was a better, more natural goalscorer that Jelavic or Negri or Boyd? No I don't.
But in terms of making a chance purely on his own, off of his own back, he and Alfie stand alone.
It's a testimony to Mols that he did come back and there were still some of those vintage 'turns'. But sadly, he never did get to hit the heights before early November 99.
Thing is, ironically, no Mols in Parma away in the 99 qualifier, there would have been no trip to Munich in the group stages thereafter. Mols, with his abilty hold the ball up on his own was the key that night.
As we say often and long, it's all about opinions.
That's a good detailed thought out reply.
My problem with Mols is that you need to see players over a long period of time or a fair bit longer than we saw Mols at his peak. My point is more fundamental with Mols we will never know if he would have went to be as good as he looked.
That's what I meant with Negri whom probably over a slightly longer period looked a different type of sensational and then zilch. Of course different players and clearly different attitudes. For those of us who watched Hutton we sold him after a golden period when he absolutely peaked but I doubted he would sustain that form and he didn't.
Mols holds a special place in the memories and affection of the support but what he might have went onto to do was not a given. Mols was never going to blow up a la a Charlie Miller (people probably forget how good he was ) but we will simply never know how good Mols could have been. For that reason in the context of the OP it's hard to justify a claim about him being the best since McCoist.