Unbelievable!
If you click on these links and order, you probably get put on some sort of Interpol list... and you should
Cant we all just get along?
Well obviously not
Trezeguet remains one of my favorite players from the early 2000s.
He broke ancient scoring records in his 1st season in the pl, the most competitive league in the world and won the treble with his team. His limitations are showing but most strikers are only getting started at 23. He's never going to be silky, but he's made a mark already.
That's a bit drastic, however an intake list to the loony bin would be justified
How so? Both have been pretty good overall this season. Darwin has scored 11 and assisted 11 while rescuing Liverpool in some matches too. They've been close to winning the league partially because of him. Started out bad, but hasn't been bad for a long time. Only big thing to fault him for is probably not scoring against us, if that's what separates them from a league title in the end.
I'll never click those links but I was expecting much worse
We’re discussing haaland here. Not Nunez/messi/batistuta/my dad/*enter random player name here. Haaland. And his similarity to imo an equally adept box-hogger and more adept one-touch finisher in Trezeguet.
And you're basically just a shit troll. Good to see you've emerged from hiding under your bridge for the past 3 weeks after embarrassing yourself with the below post.
... at this level of the competition?
He was bad literally last weekend, in a huge game where Liverpool desperately needed him to perform. See also every game they’ve played against potential title contenders.
The Champions League?... at this level of the competition?
It's a genuine question - was he "shredding" the CL in quarters/semi with Dortmund? I don't remember them getting very far when he was in the team but I might be mistaken.
Can't say I've watched a tremendous amount of City but Gvardiol has looked pretty poor most times I've seen him.
Six goals in six games in the Champions League knock-outs for Dortmund. Didn't score in the two quarter-final games he played in for them though - both against Man City.
Ah.
Well no, last season where he was fantomatic in the SF and Final are also examples of this - why would you ignore them? I don't particularly think the above is a massive counter argument to the point being made. It's also in addition to other things (big league games for example). But I guess you have your mind made up on this, so no point pushing on too much I would imagine
He scored against Liverpool this season. He scored against Arsenal last season. He scored on Bayern Munich too last season
Jokes > facts
The point being....he doesn't make a difference in every big game? Or what? His record in big games isn't poor. It's not exceptional either. Though I do agree for a player like him, he needs to do better
I mean, what would those be? He has scored on every PL team he has faced? He scored on Arsenal last season in a must win game for the title race. Against spurs, against United, against Newcastle, etc, etc, etc.
Brutal.That's what I think too, and haven't been saying anything else!
Because this is the way of the world now, Netizen! Gots to pick a side and defend it to yer dying breath! Yessir!
Yeap, but there is always space to be more calm or even if extreme, to just be sincere and not like sthg or someone just "because". I've shyte on Piojo Lopez my whole life as a punching doll, but I'm sincere, the poor lad it's just a symbol of many things I hated from that period and it's quite an irrational thing by me.
Not really the argument. A better question is how many top clubs would take him over Kane for the next 3 years. I suspect not many of them. Not condemnation.
But this is just common sense. The Ballon D'Or is given to the best performing player in a certain season. If it was supposed to go to the best player in the world, then Messi should have one for every season from 08-09 to maybe last season.
First of all, we need to stop blaming us Americans for the intrusion of stats into every aspect of life, including sports
See, and that's the issue; we're using our impression of football as kids in the park, or our preferences as fans, to gauge what positions and roles are valuable to top tier professional clubs who have millions of dollars on the line. Teams don't care about a lot of the shit we speak about. So why project our stuff on the needs of a top team like City, in terms of what is needed from their striker (or wingers)?
I don't think players care as much as we like to think. And any criticism they get from pundits and fans is completely overshadowed by what happens in the club training sessions.
That's the thing. Of course the criticism on Henry and Aguero is extreme and silly. It's nothing Haaland hasn't seen on here so maybe let's just tone it down across the board?
They care, they do, simply because they are humans. They cannot avoid the whole Social Media, Pundits overload and crap from these days, it's impossible to escape from that and at some point it gets in your everyday activity or profession. It's just too much.
Yep. The Hugo Sanchez vs Maradona argument is just that, inane. Any statistical analysis of Maradona showed him to be the game breaking outlier that he was. Statistical analysis of Messi basically came down to "yeah, this guy is so good we can't come up with models that quantify it"
That's a bit of a nonsense point, elbowing someone in the face is not anything anyone should be aiming for, Kane could have been sent off. Messi never needed to elbow a defender in the face to show he was a good player and Haaland has already won a lot more than Kane has ever done.
