00:00Bueno, ¿es Mbappé a No. 9?
00:03He's playing there now, he had 40-odd goals last year, No. 9.
00:07To me, he's the best in the world.
00:12Best footballer in the world?
00:14I think so, yeah. I think so.
00:17Because there's efficience centre-forwards.
00:19We spoke about Kane, Lewandowski as well, and Haaland and whatever.
00:23They're never going to let you down, they're always going to score plenty of goals.
00:27But in big games, in the most pressure, he can take a game away from someone.
00:34It's probably better you answering it.
00:37But if you're a centre-half, I don't think you're losing sleep
00:41if you're going to mark X, Y, Z, who I've just mentioned.
00:45None of them are going to beat you for skill.
00:46None of them are going to run away from you.
00:48None of them are going to strike.
00:50But Mbappé, he's got the ability to embarrass you.
00:56If he gets you out wide, a bit of skill, his touch is brilliant,
01:00his raw pace, he can finish, he can take the game away.
01:05And somebody that can take a game away from you through brilliance
01:08has got to be the best.
01:09Was that you?
01:10What you just described there reminded me of you.
01:13Yeah, but I didn't have his touch.
01:14You weren't a skill man, but you knew to get to goal quick.
01:17Yeah, I could rip a game away from anybody.
01:20But I didn't have the most amazing touch.
01:23I didn't have a skill.
01:24I couldn't do a step over.
01:26I was just raw and direct and could finish.
01:29But I think you do yourself a disservice about your touch.
01:32Your touch wasn't a silky touch like a Bergkamp or like a Mbappé.
01:35But your touch was effective and it was efficient.
01:38And my touch has to be very different to everybody else's
01:41because my touch has to be good when I'm running at full pelt
01:45and I was faster than most other people.
01:47So trying to have a touch, trying to have a control
01:52when you're running at faster speeds than anyone else
01:54is very difficult.
01:55My touch wasn't about coming off and linking play
01:58and getting a ball and like a Teddy Shering
02:02or Dennis Bergkamp, it wasn't a graceful touch.
02:05I didn't ever need that type of touch.
02:07It was about being able to control the ball with extreme speed.
02:13And that's the hardest thing of all,
02:15trying to keep it under control when you're doing something.
02:17Just on Mbappé, are you surprised how quickly he adapted
02:20in terms of the 40-odd goals that he'd scored last season?
02:23You know what it's like being there.
02:26No, I wasn't surprised.
02:28No, I mean, he is so good, you know,
02:30scoring hat-tricks in World Cups and things like that.
02:33I mean, like, not surprised.
02:35No, I just think he's brilliant.
02:36And I've been to Madrid.
02:38Obviously, you know, it's not that hard to adapt
02:41into a team that's got the ball 80% of the time
02:43virtually every game apart from, you know,
02:45one or two games a season.
02:46I mean, you're literally getting fed the ball all the time.
02:49You're playing with great players in a great stadium.
02:50Everyone expects you to win.
02:52You know, it's virtually impossible not to score.
02:56You know, it's hard not to score
02:57when you're playing for Real Madrid.
02:58So, I'm not surprised.
03:00I think he's absolute top of the tree, personally.
03:04I think he's the best player in the world at the moment.
03:06Who do you think?
03:07Best player in the world?
03:10I'd have to go with you in terms of
03:11if you're going to go, everyone's on their best day,
03:14I think Mbappe's that guy.
03:16Yeah.
03:16Yeah.
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