How Good Was Robert Pires Genuinely?
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- The perception when Robert Pires joined Arsenal in 2000 was that the team was already complete. But the Frenchman provided that final touch of class that made them one of the Premier League’s greatest ever outfits.
If Bergkamp was ‘The Iceman’ and Henry was a steely presence up front, Robert Pires was a silky finisher who brought a velvety finesse to Arsenal.
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He's one my favourites for sure, his great partnership with Cole and Henry and clinical finishing made him a joy to watch. Overall, he's one of the reasons why Arsenal played so beautifully during the early 2000s. Hope he finds success in coaching 😀
A great winger! One of my all time favorite player
"He seemed to be made of sterner stuff" Great line, true to R Pires. I remember his 2nd season and he was really trying to fight for the team and ball as well as play.
I loved Pires, still do, not enough videos or appreciation of this guy
He was a real monster!
Unjustifiably underrated
He was special, dude looked so scrawny you'd be silly to think you can just take the ball from him until he drops some little bit of magic no one ever saw coming. The invincibles were scary, as defenders did not only have to worry about strikers but also keep an eye on Pires being a goal threat from the wing. One of my all time favourites.
He used to score more than 20 goals a season.
Pires is in a class of his own. Arsenal have had sooo many magical players wear our shirt.
I remember Pires being so passionate against the Iraq war. I was truly heartbroken for the guy for missing the World Cup because of injury. I remember him seemingly so poetic and philosophical qbout it.
20 years later, I loved the fact that they used the reference "Fancy dan" in this video.
Legendary 🐐
Damn i love Pires and this was nostalgic to see again
Indians would remember him as captain of 1st fc Goa team... ❤️
what a genius he was
A true master of his craft, pleasure to watch. A perfect mix of intelligence & elegance.
Pires was a magician. Arsenal over the years has been blessed to have special players.
Considering they just sold Overmars for 25 mio at that time and only bought Pires just for 5 mio!
Pires & Henry combo had the same vibe as Cr7 & Bale ❣️
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You could right an Arsenal novel about the highs and lows of Robert Pires.
Being subbed off in the Champions League Final, his last game, Arsenal refusing to offer contracts to over 32 year olds, His Injury prior to 2002 WC. His "fancy dan" first season.
Then, the fighter,
Only behind Luis Figo at this time . There were very good wi gers at this time . I do t get it how players like Figo Pires shevshenko Nedved Rivaldo Deisler sergio Conceição just get forgotten . They are so much of legends like R. Carlos Ronaldinho Kaka Henry Zlatan . People need to research more .
Arsene Wenger's Arsenal was indeed the most aesthetically pleasing team in the Premier League ever. :)
Yeah, many people forget how good and how aesthetically pleasing Invincibles actually were.
Could change a game big time.
Before his MCL that year he was as good as Zidane, france missed him when he got injured.
Shame his gunners career ended after that champions league final :(
It is a shame that his career has gone in that way and also is a shame that he is so forgotten
@@overthinkingfootball. He is not forgotten at all. There are millions of football fans excluding Arsenal fans that recognise him as a world class legend.
@@gazf09 Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I didn't mean forgotten in the sense that people think he was not world class but in a sense that he is barely mentioned now in any conversation about football greats.
@@overthinkingfootball. Ah fair enough, many of the older people i socialise with recognise him but i understand what you mean. If i said Henry you'd understand, if i said Pires you'd be confused. Cheers for the clear up :)
pires walked for cr7 to run. the 2nd striker false nine winger template came from pires
That's why he was so ahead of his time
Tbf I barely considered him a winger. He was always so involved in the build up, creation, so smart with his passing... Was almost like a mix of Iniesta and some kind of winger... His goalscoring ability wasn't even the best thing about him, far from that.. He was so smart with his passing, always initiating moves.. I always thought of him more like a number 10, a playmaker, than a winger. The goals were just a extra element to his play. He was always just so active without the ball, always on the move, following up every move until the end, that's why he scored do many goals.
There's really no player like him. Hard to compare him to anyone. I think Arshavin had many of those qualities, in terms of both goalscoring and playmaking but was never really used in the proper way in Arsenal.
@@siberianTiger639 perhaps rosicky if he didnt get injured. But pires was different. The fact that a winger could score so much created the idea for the false 9. Why have a predictable striker when the striker can be a midfielder or a winger
@@shazam1522 I think Henry had more influence on the idea of a false 9 than Pires. Although two of them interchanged positions on the pitch quite often, so Pires wasn't far from that too. That whole Invincibles formation was so fluid, with no real number 9, Pires and Ljungber would end up in goalscoring chances all the time, and both had great positioning and were basically able to play as 9's too. Henry and Bergkamp (or Wiltord) would drop deep or to the wing all the time. A very very fluid formation, hard to compare to any other team.
Yeah, this guy was really top class player and unfortunately a bit forgotten and underrated, but still Arsenal and EPL legend.
He is the same position as Ribery was. Same level players and both are far superior than Griezmann (but Griezmann a bit different position player).
Why nobody ever says Pires is slim doppelganger of John Travolta?? Hes playing like Saturday night fever on the pitch somemore, impressive moves
That is a very interesting point probably the best comment I ever got together with the comment that Rui Costa looks like a guy from the movie No Country For Old Men
Reminds me of Figo.
Do you mean by playing style or by appearance?
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Pires arrived to Arsenal as a genuine *WORLD CUP* winner. He has Juve and Madrid after him like white on rice, but he chose to come Arsenal due to Wenger. He is the greatest winger I have ever seen. Just ask Garry Nevvile, he will let you know about how lethal that left side was of Arsenal's.
for those who don't know he had an handicap he cant get his knees higher that's why he ran this way
Better player than Giggs. And before any Man U fans come at me like a load of premenstrual tarts, ask yourself this: when Pires was in England 2000-06, which single season did Giggs out-perform him?
That's a really good point, I agree.
In today’s market he’s £80 -100m easy 🤷🏾♂️
The Portuguese player who pretended to be French
Pires was no 'gallic genius'. He's actually Iberian. Half Portuguese and half Spanish. He is as French as 99% of the 'French' national team 😂
not one of the best but a fantastic diver
I simply can't agree with you
It’s clear you don’t know ball……
What like Rooney, RVN, Ronaldo, Drogba, Robben