This.For once I agree with the ESPN panel
Start Eto'o
Bench Drogba
Drop Salah
This.For once I agree with the ESPN panel
Start Eto'o
Bench Drogba
Drop Salah
This could have almost happened. Salah played with Eto'o and Drogba in back to back seasons. Sadly Eto'o left just as Drogba returned.Start them all. I win. Its fantasy world so who cares about rules.
Stop being an old gitThis is what the forum has come down to.
This OP is something you'd find on dad WhatsApp groups.Stop being an old git
We all are becoming dadsThis OP is something you'd find on dad WhatsApp groups.
This is the answer.Final - Start Drogba, bench Eto'o, drop Salah.
Any other game - Start Salah, bench Eto'o, drop Drogba.
Are you trying to deny drogba was a big game player?For all those saying Drogba is a big game player, are big games only domestic cup finals?
Hopefully Mejbri or Amad will be that for usEto'o starts, Salah benched, & Drogba is dropped.
We never had an African superstar play for us (Big player like Salah, Mane, Mehraz, Drogba, Eto'o, etc...), Maybe Obi Mikel would have been one, but it didn't happen.
Salah isn't better than Eto'o, at the age Eto'o was banging goals at Barca, Salah was playing in the swiss league.People saying drop Salah are nuts, surely some Man United bias against Liverpool is coming into play here.
Salah has an absolutely ridiculous scoring record and there is a good argument for him being the best player in the world right now.
What more does the man need to do to be seen as the same level as Eto'o? For me Salah is better than Eto'o ever was, but for those of you who disagree, what would Salah have to do to change your mind?
I'm trying to say the definition of big games is stunted on hereAre you trying to deny drogba was a big game player?
There is no world he’s better than either except the world where people try to convince us he’s on par with Henry because of something about finals...People saying drop Salah are nuts, surely some Man United bias against Liverpool is coming into play here.
Salah has an absolutely ridiculous scoring record and there is a good argument for him being the best player in the world right now.
What more does the man need to do to be seen as the same level as Eto'o? For me Salah is better than Eto'o ever was, but for those of you who disagree, what would Salah have to do to change your mind?
He was but so was the other two in different ways, his physical domination of certain players gets overplayed but other players have other ways of being nightmares for defenders, like running in behind them and unsettling them with their movement, pace and dribbling etcSome people really underestimate what a force Drogba was in his prime. The goals don't tell the full story with him - He was a nightmare for defenders.
Drogba could run in behind too.He was but so was the other two in different ways, his physical domination of certain players gets overplayed but other players have other ways of being nightmares for defenders, like running in behind them and unsettling them with their movement, pace and dribbling etc
Yes and the other two had a lot of strength for players their size, you would rarely see Eto’o get bullied by defenders in his prime and it’s the same with Salah.Drogba could run in behind too.
It is most certainly not overplayed. He's probably the best target man I've seen in my lifetime.
Firstly remember that he wasn’t our penalty taker and stats shouldn’t be used as a measurement of someone’s career entirelDrogba was never truly a top striker because he could score. He is the only player I’ve seen that could consistently handle an entire back 4 on his own.Drop the guy with 9 more PL goals in 76 fewer games than Drogba despite playing wide for almost all of them?
Drogba's goal to game record is impressive compared with most strikers, but it doesn't hold up when you put him next to the very top tier goalscorers.
I'd start Salah, bench Eto'o personally.
Salah bloomed later than Eto'o but Eto'o's career went off a hill around the age Salah is now, I think he only needs another season or 2 at this level to match Eto'o longevity wise. Also Eto'o was 23 when he had his first season at Barca, at 23 Salah had a fine season at Roma finishing as their Player of the Year, Top Scorer and helping them to 3rd in the league.Salah isn't better than Eto'o, at the age Eto'o was banging goals at Barca, Salah was playing in the swiss league.
Salah is a late bloomer, and that certainly hurts his overall career in the analysis, it's not just analyzing 'peak' status, if that was the case Ronaldinho would be considered the ultimate GOAT along with Maradona and Pele.
Salah against tired defense's can be a menace tbh.Start Eto'o
Bench Drogba
Drop Salah
Salah is a better player than Drogba, but Drogba's impact was greater. I don't think Salah would be as effective from the bench and Eto'o was just too good not to start.
I don't think he is being underappreciated, its just that he is a late bloomer.Salah is being a bit under appreciated here, and he's also at a disadvantage because he's being compared with two retired legends while he's still writing his story.
Drogba is a late bloomer, Salah isn’t even too much of a late bloomer he was already one of the better wingers around at 23, he made a big move to Chelsea from the Swiss league at 20. Eto’o was a prodigy so his different he’s been hyped up since he was 17-18 and was putting quality seasons in the La Liga by 21.I don't think he is being underappreciated, its just that he is a late bloomer.
People is talking as if his whole career is what he had shown at Liverpool at 27, when it clearly isn't.
Drogba was a late bloomer too, and when he did bloom, he never really reached the heights Salah has been at with any consistency. Salah has been world class for 4 years, so at the very least since he was 25, and he still has years left to be world class and achieve things.I don't think he is being underappreciated, its just that he is a late bloomer.
People is talking as if his whole career is what he had shown at Liverpool at 27, when it clearly isn't.
Today I learned.This could have almost happened. Salah played with Eto'o and Drogba in back to back seasons. Sadly Eto'o left just as Drogba returned.
Salah isn't better than Eto'o, at the age Eto'o was banging goals at Barca, Salah was playing in the swiss league.
Salah is a late bloomer, and that certainly hurts his overall career in the analysis, it's not just analyzing 'peak' status, if that was the case Ronaldinho would be considered the ultimate GOAT along with Maradona and Pele.I'm not a Man Utd fan.
In 178 PL appearances he has 113 goals and 43 assists. He has only been playing in the PL since June 2017.There is no world he’s better than either except the world where people try to convince us he’s on par with Henry because of something about finals...