I don’t like to be dragged into the petty arguments that go off on the internet (lol, sure), but Rio Ferdinand taking time out to call Phil Foden world class at the expense of Bukayo Saka merited a conversation. Rio was world-class, no doubt. He won big titles, played on the big stage, did big things. But I’m struggling to see how he’s landed himself in a situation where he can tell the world Bukayo isn’t at Foden’s level because he hasn’t scored a goal against *checks notes* FC Copenhagen.
Bukayo has 13 goals and 13 assists in 2500 minutes of football. He has a street value of £120m. The player is delivering huge numbers and people don’t even think he’s out of 3rd gear this season.
Getting into these weirdly subjective arguments really doesn’t feel like the sort of analysis the best pundits in the game should be engaging in. I can have that conversation down the pub. Doesn’t Rio have something more interesting to add to the chat" CBS, for me, is doing the best punditry work in football at the moment. They combine humor and thoughtful analysis better than anyone… and they wrap it a really engaging format. It makes everything else feel boring. Listening to Thierry talk about the mental toll of managers yesterday was far more interesting TV than celebration-gate or cutting up a young player over a pointless opinion irrelevant to the City game.
The biggest problem with UK punditry is there is too much rep...