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"Average" players looking godlike in weaker leagues
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Slightly different but reminds me of Mark Clattenburg.
Jonjo Shelvey, Matt Ritchie and Dwight Gayle all looked too good for the Champo, maybe not good enough for the PL.
Check the Neymar and James Rodríguez transfer thread. I'm sure you will recognize someone there
I know I'm not really allowed. But I really like the guy. Walked into Feyenoord, said he was going to win the league. Got laughed at. Delivered.
Weird face that's always wearing three expressions at once. Stupid hair. No real position. Played for Liverpool. Still like him.
Brad Jones won the Dutch title with Feyenoord, keeping 17 clean sheets in the process
Speaking of Feyenoord their summer signing Nicolai Jørgensen has 21 goals (topscorer) and 11 assists (joint first) in 32 games. Pretty decent.
i thought Ritchie looked good in PL as well, nothing special but good enough for a team like Bournemouth.
Georgios Samaras:
Crap everywhere bar Scotland.
He was citehs record transfer fee for a Greek at 6m. Citeh later said he was very bad business.
Crap everywhere bar Scotland.
He was citehs record transfer fee for a Greek at 6m. Citeh later said he was very bad business.
No need to shout.Georgios Samaras:
Crap everywhere bar Scotland.
He was citehs record transfer fee for a Greek at 6m. Citeh later said he was very bad business.
Dirk Kuyt.
There's plenty of reason to shout. But i suppose this is the wrong thread for it anyway.
Last of my newb famous 5 for today btw.
Any league that is outside London/Manchester FYI
I wouldn't call Balotelli an average footballer. Total nutcase, true, but he's a very gifted footballer. If he had a brain, he'd be right up there with the best.
Reminds me of Adriano back in the day.
He averaged somewhere between 1 goal every 3 and 4 games in Scotland.Georgios Samaras:
Crap everywhere bar Scotland.
He was citehs record transfer fee for a Greek at 6m. Citeh later said he was very bad business.
Dalglish at Liverpool
Derbyshire was actually top scorer in Cyprus last season with 24 goals, playing for Omonia. his previous record for single season was 10 goals, in league two.
Whenever I look at the French League stats, there's nearly always at least one or two average/poor ex Premier League players banging goals in for fun there. Bafetimbi Gomis and Florian Thauvin last season for example scored 20 and 15 respectively.
Ivan Perisic- Serie A
Bite
Bite
Alberto Aquilani the Roman.
Lndelof
Sissoko was barely even good for Newcastle.
Saw Trundle play a far few times, and sometimes he looked like Pele, other times he looked like a obese asthmatic waiting for a bus. I think his failure to make it at a higher level could have been down to fitness and dedication over ability.
I would have like to have seen Steve Bull play at a higher level.
I would have like to have seen Steve Bull play at a higher level.
That's Mourinho's fault, really.
Iago Aspas? Unequivocal flop at Pool yet scored 19 for Celta last season and hes more of a wide forward than a striker isnt he? Neymar scored 13 in comparison.
Thauvin is a good player. He just needed a bit of confidence and time to develop.
This should surely just be a big list of Dutch flops. Kezman, Alves, Depay, Venegoor of Hessilink etc.
Babel - in whose name men built a tower
Zlatan in France
Bite bitches
Bite bitches
People saying Kuyt wtf? He was a an above average player for Liverpool and never godlike in the Netherlands. They love him at every club he's played for. He also did really well at the 2014 WC.
He won the title with Feyenoord and Fenerbache
Scored in a CL final
Played in a WC final
Scored a (beautiful) hattrick vs United
People seem to think because he scored a hattrick in his last game that he was the best player in the Eredivisie. Fact is, if Vilhena wasn't suspended, he'd have been on the bench that game. He was never godlike, but not an average player either so it doesn't make sense to me at all.
Kezman, Babel and Afonso Alves would be the obvious picks from the Dutch league and Kuyt definitely doesn't belong with those guys.
He won the title with Feyenoord and Fenerbache
Scored in a CL final
Played in a WC final
Scored a (beautiful) hattrick vs United
People seem to think because he scored a hattrick in his last game that he was the best player in the Eredivisie. Fact is, if Vilhena wasn't suspended, he'd have been on the bench that game. He was never godlike, but not an average player either so it doesn't make sense to me at all.
Kezman, Babel and Afonso Alves would be the obvious picks from the Dutch league and Kuyt definitely doesn't belong with those guys.
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All these strikers that go to Spain & become striking gods. Fuuny, as we are constantly told how superior La Liga is to the Premiership, but surely it should have the opposite effect if it is a tougher league.
Neymar Jr
Best example I can think of
No surprise why he failed to make it...when he was still playing in the Championship he was talking about playing for an elite team and turning his nose up at everything else!
In fairness to him, he did keep QPR in the PL with these two goals against Arsenal and Spurs:
Afonso Alves murdered the Eredivisie.
Suso (Liverpool to AC Milan)
Iago Aspas (Liverpool to wherever he is now, somewhere in Spain scoring goals)
Eto'o (some random Turkish club)
Iago Aspas (Liverpool to wherever he is now, somewhere in Spain scoring goals)
Eto'o (some random Turkish club)
NOT Giovinco.
I've seen a couple of highlights from a pair of matched of Hirving Lozano playing for PSV and he looks very good. Didn't quite follow mexican league much but he looks better to the few times I watched him playing there. So I'm not saying he's an average/bad player or something like that but I wonder if he could play like that in Bundesliga, Premier League or in Spain. So good start from him on Eredivise although he still looks raw and needs to work on his composure.
Tony Cascarino at Marseille, 1994 - 97. 61 goals in 84 appearances
I still remember when Jacob Laursen moved from Derby to FC Copenhagen and was a level above everyone else in the league,