I wouldn’t worry too much about the opinions of people that aren’t old enough to have actually been around when he was playing. Thierry Henry is up there with the best to have ever played in the Premier League.

As a Tottenham fan - anyone discrediting Henry’s ability is a mug.

He genuinely had it all.

I think his reputation has aged very well. He’s universally considered the best ever premier league striker and it seems people haven’t forgotten how good he was.

Henry is the most overated player in the sports history imo amongst English speakers.

I grew up watching him, he was a phenomenal striker but people particularly British people under 30 put him on a pedestal his performances just didn’t warrant and group him with much better players who achieved much more in the game.

It’s Nostaliga as Henry was in his pomp when a lot of young people got into the game

Thierry Henry’s legacy is cheating to get into the 2010 World Cup!

Can’t speak for other Tottenham fans but as much as I hated how prolific he was for Arsenal, not for a second would I think of knocking his talent. He was an amazing player and I can only wish he had played for us and not them. I could say I was jealous of Arsenal for having such a player but never in a million years would I say he was anything but a great one. It’s okay to hate a rival player for being brilliant, it’s another thing to pretend he was not. Something the Harry Kane haters never understood.

Here’s a cricket analogy, my father thinks Sunil gavaskar was greatest breaking boundaries in time, I saw sachin Tendulkar ho beyond records in my time and I feel he is greatest, the current generation thinks Virat Kohli is breaking all records and going beyond the greatest. All in their place. This is how it’s meant to be. You will like what you lived with.

Don’t listen to these kids. I once talked about how good Berbatov was and they called me a nostalgia merchant. Nostalgia? The guy only retired 5 years ago 😂😂

United fan since mid 90s and even though I hated him because he was in Arsenal, it was an absolute joy to watch him play… very few football players have a legacy that plays through generations and across the world… Pele, Maradona, Messi, Ronaldo, Ronaldo, Zidane and maybe 8-10 more that I’m too lazy to type here… beyond them, the other players will have a legacy that carries on within their clubs and some others that last through the generation of fans that watched them and that’s it. You can’t get upset because some kids who’ve been watching the game for five years don’t appreciate sometime that they didn’t even watch playing

I’m an adult. Idc what kids think

Henry is my king regardless of their opinions

Young people forget old people.

Henry has been retired as long as Pele was when I started watching football.

If it was people who watched his peak - his Barcelona days do not do him full justice - that’s different.

But you’re talking about people who were kids when he played. Videos and stats only tell half the story without the context of the circumstances at the time.

A time will come where people look at Messi and Ronaldo the same way we look at Puskas, Eusebio and Di Stefano

Great players are always going to be under-appreciated by people who never saw them play at the time. The likes of Nedved, Romario, Kaka, Suker, Sammer, Hagi, and Stoichkov are also players that don’t get enough credit these days. But that’s just the passage of time for you.

Tottenham fanboy here. I for sure know he was a great player

Who cares about over/under rated? Especially of those that didn’t watch the player.

I wouldn’t worry about previous generations’ opinions. They missed out on a generation where European football was competitive and talent wasn’t congregated in one or two leagues. Seria A and Bundesliga were strong and the likes of AC and Inter Milan, Juventus, Bayern, and the usual suspects were all serious contenders for the Champions League.

Henry played at a time we were blessed with talents like Shevchenko (before Chelsea), Inzaghi, Saviola, van Nistelrooy, Ronaldo (the original), Totti, Raul, Eto’o, del Piero, David Villa, Adriano, Trezeguet, and many more. And these are just the forwards.

You’ll never hear most of these names mentioned because they belong to a different era. That’s just the way it is. Football was also different, tactically and the physical nature of players, as well as coverage of it, yet I would say it was more entertaining.

No matter what generation we speak of though, Thierry Henry transcends them all as a great.