Who are Arsenals best players?
Thierry Henry is one of the few really world-class players (using a suitably narrow definition) to have played for Arsenal, and is the club’s all-time leading goalscorer as well as the current captain. He is known for excellent speed, dribbling skills, touches, and vision, setting up nearly as many goals as he scores. He is likely the best footballer currently playing in England, and one of the two or three best footballers in the world. Dennis Bergkamp, whose testimonial is being held tomorrow, is known for tremendous touches and passing, and was his generation’s foremost exponent of the withdrawn striker. He is one of the few Arsenal players to score 100 goals, and is widely regarded as one of the top half-dozen players of the 90s. A legend in Dutch footballing circles, and was the Oranje’s all-time top goalscorer, displacing a man named Cruyff. Ashley Cole, who is an ungrateful little prat, is one of the world’s finest left backs, as capable of overlapping midfielders and providing
