Sadio Mane vs Son Heung-min vs Robert Pires: Who was the better player?
On a recent edition of Sky Sports' Monday Night Football , former striker Daniel Sturridge suggested that young forwards today would rather play on the wing than through the centre. "When I was seven or eight, I was looking at R9 [Ronaldo], Nicolas Anelka, Pele, [Diego] Maradona, Marco van Basten, all these old school centre-forwards. I think the kids today are looking at [Cristiano] Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappe, Mohamed Salah, Neymar, the wingers, those are the guys I think the younger generation are looking to and being like 'they're our inspiration'," Sturridge said. He does have a point. If you're a wide forward, you're expected to score, but not as much as a number nine. You still get all the glory and perks of being a prolific goal-getter, all you have to do is a little tracking back. That's the modern day winger for you, anyway. Sadio Mane and Son Heung-min have been two of the best to master the art of the wide forward in recent years. Before the...