players who were better at international level than club level?

[turienzo's lovechild]

can you think of any players that have been more suited to international football than club football?

Davor Suker
Miroslav Klose
Lukas Podolski
Landon Donovan
David Healy

any more?

 

[Deleted member 18477]

Helder Postiga
Bendtner

 

[algie]

Hakan Şükür

 

[saafend_seagull]

Milan baros

 

[mune ni kamome]

Darren Anderton

 

[TheBlueAndWhiteStrips]

Salvatore Schillaci

 

[big nuts]

David Platt
Darius Vassell

 

[MissGull]

Torres

 

[supaseagull]

Geoff Thomas

 

[nwgull]

Poborsky

 

[MissGull]

Heskey

 

[Pevenseagull]

not John Barnes

 

[Pevenseagull]

Geoff Thomas

very good

 

[gazingdown]

Andre Arshavin.

 

[Mellotron]

Joe Cole always used to perform better for England than club. Possibly Rio Ferdinand back in the day as well.

 

[Napper]

Geoff Thomas

Edit : to late

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Mertesacker arguably? 100 german caps. Clearly a good defender....but ONE HUNDRED caps must suggest they LOVE him.

Fernando Torres. Always scores for Spain.

 

[Postman Pat]

Wayne Rooney at the moment.

 

[strings]

Wayne Rooney at the moment.

I would agree with this - I would go so far to say that Rooney has been better for England than Manchester United for the last 2 seasons.

Surely the ultimate England player must be Peter Crouch - OK at club level, lethal at international level.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Paulo Futre, Georghe Haji (sp?), Gica Popescu, John Sivabaek (though was he a Danish international when he went to Manchester United?), Nico Claesen.

It's the same in cricket to a certain extent: Bob Willis didn't exactly distinguish himself for Warwickshire, but was consistently excellent for England, and England stars when released back to their counties rarely do that well - our own Matt Prior is a case in point. I can also remember several West Indian bowlers devastating England, but when playing for counties putting in very sub-standard performances - Patrick Patterson, who England found unplayable on one tour, was distinctly ordinary for Lancashire and the same applied to Winston Davis and Curtly Ambrose when playing for Northamptonshire, though Curtly's performances were transformed when the Northants captain (I can't remember who) changed him from a deep fielder to a slip fielder.