Emile Heskey

Kane won't get the same criticisms though

Lukaku > Lecce

Heskey proved to be an important player for Liverpool under Houlliers reign.

He was fantastic in the cup winning season.

People also forget he was shifted onto the left wing for club and country in his latter years.

He was a very good player. He was big, but had good ability with the ball and was impressively quick.

The thing was he was never a natural goal scorer. He often looked uncomfortable and cumbersome in front of goal. That’s why many didn’t see him as a quality player.

For his size and presence you’d expect him to be the focal point of the attack. His inability to play that role was probably what stopped him becoming one of the greats.

His ability as a team player and support striker is where he should be assessed. In that role he was one of the best.

comment by Metro.⚽️ (U6770)
posted 7 hours, 59 minutes ago
Heskey proved to be an important player for Liverpool under Houlliers reign.

He was fantastic in the cup winning season.

People also forget he was shifted onto the left wing for club and country in his latter years.

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That's also where he started for Leicester.

I thought he started left wing the was used as a support striker? Don't remember him playing left wing for England

I thought he was superb playing for Leicester. I would not have liked to mark him that is for sure.

I'd echo what Joby's put.

If the ball was to fall to a player in the box in the last minute of the match, you didn't want that player to be Heskey. However, his presence on the pitch massively increased the chance that the ball would get into the box and fall to Michael Owen instead.

I saw him make his debut at queens park rangers in an evening game.they had to print his name on his shirt before the journey down. remember the back heel pass to Claridge who volleyed it in against some team I cant remember.a quality player.

Top player. His biggest problem was inconsistency. He’d have 1 really bad game in 5 which people who didn’t watch him week in week out would think was the norm.

They’d somehow forget the 4 games before where he scored 2 and created 3 goals, one of which would often be a driving run past 3 defenders before banging it in.

Natural finisher he was not, but effective striker he most certainly was. Not sure how he’d get on in the modern game though where it’s unpopular to play with 2 up top.