Recent content by bakalhau

I usually say to others it's something that can't be explained, but the closest I can explain to it in my brain is exactly what you said. I've seen, throughout the years, mid-level Madrid players on their normal weekend routine of playing La Liga, pull off world class displays in the CL way too...

Different class. Started watching them for real with Mourinho and throughout the years I fell in love with their CL mystic. Today was just another example out of dozens.

He's pretty good. Wonder how much playtime he gets in the Euro.

I get why you said that, but Ruben is the exact opposite of those coaches you're thinking about. In fact, one of his greatest qualities is just being honest in front of the cameras. If he has made bad decisions during the game, he'll call himself out on it, i.e. He's very straighforward about...

:lol: :lol: :lol: good one

I think he's a fantastic coach, having followed him closely here in Portugal. But being a fantastic coach =/= trophies (specially in England). What he's done with Sporting falls under the "not normal" kind of work, the kind of quality work that I don't think appears every single year in...

Yeah, doesn't do it much nowadays. He's still good enough in other areas he can still dominate an entire game even with no dribbling. I guess that's the thing with Messi and Ronnie. At their peak they were so versatile, so complete, so varied in what they could offer, that at >35, even after...

He's a level above literally *every* player in the MLS. Including all of his teammates.

Chiellini on Ronaldo: "I was impressed by his personality in difficult moments. In his first year, he wanted to shake the world and show that he was stronger than the whole of Real Madrid", he began by saying, extending his praise for CR7: "I appreciated him. He's a player like a multinational...

Cristiano has ascended and now only needs to SIU to get the +1 on the goal calculator :lol:

Lovely technique on his first today! The kind of goal I hadn't seen him score yet, with his back to the goal, volleyed. He also just put it on a silver platter with a backheel to a teammate to score, which then said teammate proceeded do the hardest thing - hit the keeper on his head, and not...

He had deals like this in Juve and Madrid. People will find a way to spin this around negatively, my take is, and I had said it here before during his 2nd stint at United, all while everyone pretty much said he wanted to play every single game: from 32-33 years of age, Ronaldo had absolutely no...

I knew he was gonna be sent off from the moment they went into a losing position and with him already on a yellow card for protests on the first half :lol: I felt he was on one of those "really sore loser" days.

It'd probably have gone a bit like Modric now at Madrid. He feels like he has quality to play more but Ancelotti doesn't. Some sparks flying off between both. Perez is a rat, but an incredibly smart man, and was able to ship off Ronaldo and Ramos while making it seem they both wanted to leave...

As much as I love United and Ronaldo, specially together - I never wanted him to rejoin us the 2nd time. It had everything to go wrong (which it did), and in my humble view, the squad was in such bad shape it spent a season with a 37 year old adding multiple digits in points to the team in the...