Michael Owen Settled Paul Scholes, Steven Gerrard And Frank Lampard Debate With Incredible Answer

"If you watch Scholesy in training, your tongue is hanging out," Owen said.

"But there's that and there's the actual practicalities of playing on a big pitch where you need size, strength, substance, running ability, all these things.

"And if you play one v one, you against you, Stevie against any of the names that you've played, I think he would eat them for dinner.

"Someone like Scholesy obviously had different attributes. I mean, unbelievable the way he changed his game from being a bombing midfielder scoring to a quarterback. Total genius.

"Frank Lampard, who can question his goal scoring and how he got every ounce out of his ability?

"But to me, Stevie's on a different level than anything I've seen or played with and as you've said, I'm not blowing smoke up my a***, I've played with some great Man United players, Liverpool players, Real Madrid, England.

When SPORTbible put out a poll to see who the fans thought was the better player, in 2019, Scholes came out on top.

Out of the 28,000 people that voted, 38% reckon that United Scholes was the main man, with Gerrard coming in second with 36%.Owen played with all three throughout his career.

"All of them would have said themselves. And that's what top players do," Ferdinand said.

"They back themselves in these situations and each of them would have had an argument to suggest themselves."