Your top five Premier League strikers

This season or in general?

 

Aguero and Rooney really unfortunate that they've experienced some injuries this season. Might have hurt their momentum a little bit. Regardless of that, both have been class when playing more often than not. Still can't forget Rooney's performance against Reading - absolutely phenomenal.

RVP and Suarez are both majestic and have been pivotal for their respective clubs this season. RVP gets it by a little bit but Suarez a close second, a really close second - if we are going by this season. Then it's tough to separate Aguero and Rooney. After those 4, it's only really Tevez that has the quality to even come close to matching IMO. Ba and Michu are good players but not even close to those 5. So all-in-all, my list would be closest to Eds'. I just can't really separate Aguero and Rooney.

@Eds how much is your gap between RVP and Suarez? Minimal or a substantial amount?

 

The concept of someone being "overrated" has also been tricky territory for me. In essence, what people try to say is that player X gets credit that he's not worthy of but that could be purely down to exaggeration from media etc. It doesn't take anything away from the quality of the player. If I'm to put some numbers to it and say Rooney is a 96 and the media rates him as a 99 and Tevez is a 94 and the media gives him a 94 then there might be a psychological effect or some sort of illusion that Tevez > Rooney because Rooney is overrated and Tevez is bang on or maybe even underrated. Perhaps even an underdog story sort of thing. Still though, bare quality considered - Rooney is a better player in this hypothetical example. Worth noting that I'm not trying to factualise a totally hypothetical example.

Reason I've brought it up is because I've been a victim to it myself (not regarding these two players) and I suspect there might be others out there that might find it difficult to navigate those waters. Some people seem to think that just because a player is overrated, it diminishes their quality in some way. Maybe they don't even outright believe it but something in their head makes them believe it and they don't even notice it. Not saying any of this is you Marcuss, ftr. Just something I've noticed.

Okay, I'll stop with the incessant ramblings.

 

This is essentially what I was saying? That Rooney is very good but overrated. I actually agree with you that he's overrated - maybe I should have said that last post.

We just have different opinions on Rooney vs Tevez which is fine.