Ibrahimovic for Eto'o?
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kained&able
Here for the football.
I dislike imbrahimovic. Good player but never understood why everyone wants his dick in thier mouth.
I think it was more then a bit telling that barca shipped him out after a season. Just too slow for the way they play. Italy is the right place for him.
As for best of recent memory, no way no chance just plain no. He is no batigoal!
dave
I think it was more then a bit telling that barca shipped him out after a season. Just too slow for the way they play. Italy is the right place for him.
As for best of recent memory, no way no chance just plain no. He is no batigoal!
dave
Messi is a genius
He'd make anyone look like a fool tbf.He plays a crucial role in the first goal, opening play out to the wing with a killer pass.
2nd goal he gets himself into the perfect place for Messi to square it to him, but Messi is such a little genius that he doesn't even need to
He does look a bit "plodding" after that, perhaps unfit ? He fell out with Guardiola around then so I imagine there may be a bit more to it than meets the eye.
The thing is though, he brings others into the game through his movement, you never know whether he is going to drop deep, play off the last defender, or stretch them out on the wing. It gives a strike partner like Messi acres of space to exploit.
Eh ? His scoring record was under a goal every other game back when he was in Sweden and Holland. If anything his scoring record improved since then.
He isn't that slow at all really Dave. Some of his goals he outpaces some very good and quick defenders. He can seem somewhat casual at times and perhaps a bit sulky when things don't happen for him, but for such a big guy to have the technique that he does is exceptional.
I'd certainly have him up there with Batistuta, Ronaldo, Bergkamp, Henry, Vieri etc for strikers of this generation. Messi is just different class though, perhaps the best ever ?
tbh It's pretty obvious he loves himself just a bit
Not a patch on someone like Cantona though, now there is one truly overrated arrogant cunt.
kained&able
Here for the football.
despite the fact he scores more goals then anyone else in the history of football i still am loathe to call messi a striker. Fuck knows what i call him though. Small foward maybe, but then its just getting all a bit basketball.
Drew he isn't slow slow but to play upfront at barca you need to be road-runneresque really.
Oh and is bottom of the list in your post directed at me by a country mile. Add Raul, Tristan, drogba and a few others to the list before him as well.
Good striker but just nowhere in any greats list
dave
Drew he isn't slow slow but to play upfront at barca you need to be road-runneresque really.
Oh and is bottom of the list in your post directed at me by a country mile. Add Raul, Tristan, drogba and a few others to the list before him as well.
Good striker but just nowhere in any greats list
dave
Tristan ? Drogba ?
Now I know you're taking the piss Zlatan makes Drogba look like Heskey ffs
Agree with you re Messi, he's definitely not an out and out striker, but somehow still manages to outscore any strikers he plays alongside.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
In that game he had missed a hatful of sitters, admittedly all of which (one was just before the second goal) were left out of that highlights clip. As for his movement, it is good but it is less good than what Messi already has with the likes of Pedro, Iniesta and now Villa roaming all over the place, or would have had with Eto'o if the deal hadnt taken place.
I should add that he is quality, but he does seem to be the sort (like Drogba can be, and we are seeing Kaka become) of player who really has to be acknowledged the focus of a team for him to be at his best, and of course to be in the mood (which admittedly he hasnt been that often when I have seen him, though he was very good in the first clasico last year). At Barcelona he just looked a bit lost, then a bit shit, and finally fell out with people who he should have realised he should never have fallen out with if he wanted to stay there.
kained&able
Here for the football.
Tristan ? Drogba ?
Zlatan makes Drogba look like Heskey ffs
Agree with you re Messi, he's definitely not an out and out striker, but somehow still manages to outscore any strikers he plays alongside.
Tristan was a god to me.
dave
g force
Affects Shatner's Basoon
Nah he was pretty average...18 months of brilliance then got completely found out and then fell away. Kanoute is better than Tristan.
Ibra's record speaks for itself...everywhere he's gone he's scored goals. He's quality for sure but i'd put him at a Patrick Kluivert level, on his day utterly unplayable with a first touch that could put Brazilians to shame. But also a moody so-and-so who won't bother to expend energy to get into a game more.
Ibra's record speaks for itself...everywhere he's gone he's scored goals. He's quality for sure but i'd put him at a Patrick Kluivert level, on his day utterly unplayable with a first touch that could put Brazilians to shame. But also a moody so-and-so who won't bother to expend energy to get into a game more.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
Can I just say I signed him in Champo 00/01 when he was a teenager playing the lowly leagues of Sweden, and he (along with the likes of Joe Cole and Gavin Holligan) became pretty much my greatest player in my 16 year managerial career.
Even now when I hear his name I shed a paternal tear of pride, knowing that I found him first.
Even now when I hear his name I shed a paternal tear of pride, knowing that I found him first.
kained&able
Here for the football.
yeah im happy with that comparison
No... really !!!
