Players you have never seen play well

BrilliantOrange

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Perhaps time for a couple other Lewandowski mentions again after his dreadul performance today... Same shit every week!
 

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Adrián

He surely has to be the worst back-up keeper in the Premier League, every time he plays he makes a huge mistake. He looks he should be playing in League 2.
 

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He was a machine at Monaco, performing highly in the Champions League, and even initially at City. Litany of knee injuries since then have impaired his mobility and rhythm.

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Initially at City? Didnt he get injured just a few games into his first season. He played just like 3 games before he got injured for the season

Many of those Monaco guys aside Bernardo Fabinho and Mbappe have been complete busts everywhere else. Sidibe Bakayoko Lemar Mendy
 

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Cuadrado. Why is he playing for Juventus? I don't get it.
 

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Lewandowski. Never watch the Bundesliga, but every time I watch him the CL/World Cup/Euros he seems to always miss easy chances and doesn't seem to do a lot.
That is actually entirely in line with his G/xG ratio, which is the gold standard quantitative metric of clinical finishing. Statistically, he's an above average finisher and not much more. He scores buckets because he plays for probably the world's best team, where he gets a metric ton of chances in his domestic league.

There's a whole tier or two above him in G/xG ratings.
 

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Initially at City? Didnt he get injured just a few games into his first season. He played just like 3 games before he got injured for the season

Many of those Monaco guys aside Bernardo Fabinho and Mbappe have been complete busts everywhere else. Sidibe Bakayoko Lemar Mendy
That's why I said 'even initially' - just in case anyone wanted to make the point he couldn't cut it in the PL, rather than the knee problems that destroyed his top level.
 

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Apparently Cavani was a 30+ goal a season striker for years. But whenever I watched him live he was bang average.
Cavani - I always used to see his name pop up on scoresheets yet every time I watched him, he seemed like a useless donkey.

Rui Costa - Always highly talked about back in the day yet never performed when I watched him play.
Cavani, always scores goals but is mostly useless anytime I see him play.
Same, every time I have watched a match he has been involved in I can't remember him doing anything :lol: not watched him a great deal tbh though.
Happy now?:)
 

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so much this.

i see dybala also belonging to overrated ss/am from serie a who will flop in england whenever i see him. for all the reputation around his finishing i have seen him bottling penalties.
If you havent watched Totti play well its probably because you havent watched him in other games than against United. Sublime player with a trick or two, or just a nice weighted pass in almost any match in Serie A if you ever watched Roma.
 

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Cuadrado is a good shout but he's probably like Nani and I've just had the misfortune to see him on days where he looks nothing like a top level player.
 

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He had a great 6 months in 07/08 which ended around the time of the Eduardo leg break
I just never got it with him myself. I was surprised Milan bought him and was even more surprised when Wenger decided to bring him back.
 

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Looking at upamechano vs US & Liverpool tonight, I think anyone who wanted him bar bayarn who got him have dodged a bullet. He wouldn't live in the Premier league
 

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Looking at upamechano vs US & Liverpool tonight, I think anyone who wanted him bar bayarn who got him have dodged a bullet. He wouldn't live in the Premier league
The PL is probably at its lowest ever when it comes to «top» defenders. Back in the days it was easy to name five great ones, now I’m thinking van Dijk and it kind of stops. Yeah Dias is probably up there too, let’s see next season and all, Laporte used to be great... but then it really stops. My point is, Upamecano would easily start for United, Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, all the other teams. Is he great, nah.. but he’d walk into all of those teams.
 

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The PL is probably at its lowest ever when it comes to «top» defenders. Back in the days it was easy to name five great ones, now I’m thinking van Dijk and it kind of stops. Yeah Dias is probably up there too, let’s see next season and all, Laporte used to be great... but then it really stops. My point is, Upamecano would easily start for United, Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, all the other teams. Is he great, nah.. but he’d walk into all of those teams.
I think we could get other players though at half the price.
 

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Looking at upamechano vs US & Liverpool tonight, I think anyone who wanted him bar bayarn who got him have dodged a bullet. He wouldn't live in the Premier league
Upamecano is still a lot about potential. He just turned 22, but he has all the attributes you want. He's comfortable with the ball at his feet whether it's passing or dribbling, fast, strong, can handle himself in the air (but not elite in the air or anything), he's a good 1v1 defender, and he's had some notable big game performance. He's younger than Tuanzebe, so of course he'll have some bad performances too, especially coming up against better teams than Leipzig like he often does in the CL.

Give it a season to adapt (if that), and he'll very quickly look a brilliant signing for Bayern.
 

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For me Upamecano relies far too much on his physical attributes to get him out of sticky situations.

I don't think he reads the game well, and generally I don't trust defenders who go to ground so much.

He's a fantastic athlete and good on the ball for sure, but I still think jury is out on him going on to be top tier
 

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Mason Mount.

Run all over the pitch with zero end product.
 

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I think I already said it before too but will say again, Griezmann for me. Always flatters to deceive.