Adama Traoré has better dribling skills, but Hulk shooting technique is still miles above.
Should Hulk have had a better career?
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I never felt he had any real ability beyond a decent shot and obviously he was built like a tank. That was enough to get him by in the weaker leagues, but was never going to translate well in the harder places. I thought he was awful at the 2014 World Cup.
Is this a hulk/Bruce banner joke?
Hulk is actually a very competitive player: he hates loosing and he works hard, and he even gets sent off . He just chosen money over playing in better clubs. His overall goals and assists are very good in terms of numbers, his Champions/Europe League numbers were also quite solid, and even now he's still performing.
He did the same choice as Óscar.
Everyone were awful on that cup. He's a hardworker with plenty of pace and actually his shooting technique will surprise you. In his peak he would easily play at Spurs or Everton.
Could certainly have had a more prominent career, but he was never all that. He largely relied on his physical traits.
Just checked his wiki, and apparently he never managed a competitive goal for Brazil. All 11 goals are in friendlies.
Just checked his wiki, and apparently he never managed a competitive goal for Brazil. All 11 goals are in friendlies.
Right. I guess I was just making a broader point about how being talented does not necessarily guarantee a good career. Turns out I missed "selecting the right clubs to play for".
He got loads of money and won caps for Brazil. I think for most Brazilian players that's the dream.
He would have prospered in Pulis' Stoke or Dyche's Burnley side. He would even have been perfect fit with Wimbledon's Crazy gang.
He was not great. Kinda like Oscar with the added off field bad decisions. Both had decent enough quality to carve out a career in Europe, but chose Chinese money instead.
He was not great. Kinda like Oscar with the added off field bad decisions. Both had decent enough quality to carve out a career in Europe, but chose Chinese money instead.
Yes, yes it is.
A reference to how he could be brilliant one week and shite the next.
Yep. Like Oscar and a few others - if you're being offered money far far higher than you'd get anywhere else you'd probably be mad to not take it.
Nobody is guaranteed to win anything even at a top club.
He was well suited to being a consistent match-winning attacker for a top team in one of the typical bottom half of the top ten coefficient leagues of the time like Porto, Benfica, Zenit, Ajax....He had some great attributes and the relative weaknesses like a low level if off-form, trying too often to do everything himself and sometimes tactical issues off the ball weren't as big an issue as they would have been for an elite club. I think he was a more skillful player than often seems to get credit for, his shooting technique was excellent, not just power even if he was often too greedy with it, and crossing/passing from wide areas were strong. He didn't have great pace imo and was more someone that looked like he should be slow, but was capable of being agile and quick over a few yards, plus strong as hell. If he had the pace of someone like Mbappe, or Robben he could have been a monster
played very bad for brazil, showed how out of place he could look if a system was built around another star attacker and with him as just a hard working role-player doing his part in the collective there, but so did other bigger names during that time, especially at the world cup.
i don't see it as a certainty he would have failed at an elite club, but he would definitely have needed to work on things tactically. A move to a Sevilla, Spurs or maybe Roma, Napoli would have been his best choice after Porto if he had been focused on sporting legacy.
played very bad for brazil, showed how out of place he could look if a system was built around another star attacker and with him as just a hard working role-player doing his part in the collective there, but so did other bigger names during that time, especially at the world cup.
i don't see it as a certainty he would have failed at an elite club, but he would definitely have needed to work on things tactically. A move to a Sevilla, Spurs or maybe Roma, Napoli would have been his best choice after Porto if he had been focused on sporting legacy.
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He had a great career, I`m sure there are a few players out there that are green with envy.
All these hulk jokes are making me really angry. 
No. Very limited and was easy to stop due to him relying on one move his whole career.
malicious.
Damn girl, you thicc
Divorced his wife to marry her niece. Cold bastard.
His nickname and his nationality are the only reason that we even remember who he is.
Is it a Porto thing? Jardel and Martinez are another two that spring to mind