Most Overrated BWFC Player Ever

Who is the most overrated BWFC player of the last 25 years?

I'm going for Diouf. Useless bastard of a player who did very little in his Bolton career. Some people rave about him, but his end product was none existent.

Probably Nolan.

Dean Holdsworth.

I voted Nolan. He scored a few beauties from midfield but I never saw him as a consistently top quality midfielder or as a leader. I recall too many of his 'headless chicken' impressions.

Tough choice but honestly if I had to pick, I would go with kevin davies.

Definitely Dean Holdsworth I still have nightmares over his miss against Villa.
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None of the players on the list are overrated in my opinion. Len Cantello, if included, would have won it by a country mile.

I'm going Kevin Davies - Personally I expect a striker to score goals and lots of them.

Henrik Pedersen

BoltonTillIDie wrote:I'm going Kevin Davies - Personally I expect a striker to score goals and lots of them.

Dean Holdsworth for me.

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I really do hate that bastard.

Did anyone actually rate Holdsworth on the first place – let alone overrate him!

Anyway my choice is Okocha.

Wonderful ball skills and trickery but what did he actually achieve at the end of the day?

His shooting was dreadful, his fancy dan stuff never really went anywhere and in the end Allardyce only used him for long throw ins.

People still say how marvellous he was - yes, he was a pleasure to watch on the football field - agreed, but he very seldom did anything that contributed in a game apart from throw the ball in.- even I could do that!

Sluffy wrote:Did anyone actually rate Holdsworth on the first place – let alone overrate him!

Anyway my choice is Okocha.

Wonderful ball skills and trickery but what did he actually achieve at the end of the day?

His shooting was dreadful, his fancy dan stuff never really went anywhere and in the end Allardyce only used him for long throw ins.

People still say how marvellous he was - yes, he was a pleasure to watch on the football field - agreed, but he very seldom did anything that contributed in a game apart from throw the ball in.- even I could do that!

My only gripe with Okocha is that for all his talent he didn't score enough goals.

I don't see how Klasnic was over rated ?

His shots to goal tally was the best in the PL at the time, he was a class finisher.

Think our manager at the time, Todd, overated Holdsworth.

Also think Megson overated Elmander.

Asked if they'd pick a striker that scored a goal every game (i.e. 38/46 a season), but otherwise brought nothing to the table, the vast majority of people would say yes. But how many of the same population would choose to play every game a man down with a goal head start?
Obviously, it doesn't work out like this in practice but it's a useful question in terms of debating the Klasnic's of the world. Playing with him was usually tantamount to playing with ten men, except he averaged nothing like a goal a game. In fact he was given a run last season where he went eight games without a goal from open play.

All things considered, I think he's a bad player.

Why is the most overrated player ever not on the list Nat ?

Elmander.

We need a definition of overrated.

Elmander was overrated in relation to his cost, but from my point of view underrated in terms of popular opinion.

Klasnic scored more and cost less though ?