Football Thread

[Cristiano viejo]

Yes, good for you being Barcelona's bitch for the past 10 years so CR can chase golden balls.

[Sebastianus Rex]

la verdad es que estan muy mosqueados...vaya bilis. No sabia que el anti Madridismo llegava tan fuerte en Grecia.

[Sebastianus Rex]

Cruyff didn't have the luxury to play in the Champions league (/cup) without being a champion. He won 3 with Ajax btw.

Cruyff was by nowadays standards a mediocre player, besides he was a lousy professional who smoked during the half time. Any capped Brazilian nowadays has similar technical resources. His legacy was more has a coach/theorist than as a player.

CR7 in the beggining of his career did all the dribbles and technical moves Cruyff never dreamed about, but now he has cut with all that useless crap and he is all about putting in the net, and winning Chsmpion Leagues for his team, Real Madrid, the greatest club in history where the only measure of greatness is winning the greatest club competition in the World...you know when you listen to that music is time to separate men from boys (aka passing 1/4 round)

[nightrider+]

Cruyff is mediocre and dribbling is useless. Also passing 1/4 round especially after losing 1-3 from the worst Juventus of the last 5 years is a great achievement (not as great as winning the Euro final without playing though).

This is what we've learned from SR today.

[Sebastianus Rex]

Obviously that was an anomaly.


Remember our conversation some years ago when Mourinho left Real Madrid and you said Real Madrid would go into depression, and I told you that would not happen since we had Casillas and Cr7... and indeed that did not happen: we won Champions League and Copa del Rey

Mourinho, despite being an arrogant shithead, was important to put RM at another competitive level that was clearly lacking at RM at the time, but he's a 2 season manager, after he implodes everything.

Key player was never Casillas, it's Ramos despite all his excesses one thing no can the deny is that Sevillano has some big balls...and of course Cristiano, the best and most decisive player in Real Madrid history togheter with Di Stefano.

[nightrider+]

Btw, mediocre Cruyff won 3 champions cups without playing against teams that had 1/100 to 1/2 of his team's wage budget.

[Sebastianus Rex]

Cruyff is mediocre and dribbling is useless. Also passing 1/4 round especially after losing 1-3 from the worst Juventus of the last 5 years is a great achievement (not as great as winning the Euro final without playing though).

This is what we've learned from SR today.

Dribbling is of course an usefull resource, but it is overrated, 90% of the time ends with losing the ball fir the opponent. If dribbling alone was equal to football greatness then Denilson, Garrincha and "Burrito Ortega" would be among the greatest players ever.

What we've learned from knightrider on his latest posts lessons:
- one has to touch the ball the most as possible to be the man of the match;
- the more a player touch the ball, the better and most influential/decisive he is;

Therefore, to complete the syllogism, Xavi, who made 300 lateral passes per match and alone had about 20% of any match possession is the greatest player of all time and even Busquets is among the All Time top 10.

[Cristiano viejo]

la verdad es que estan muy mosqueados...vaya bilis. No sabia que el anti Madridismo llegava tan fuerte en Grecia.

Sí... ¿te imaginas a un español criticando al Olympiakos o al Panathinaikos 24/7?

Lo que realmente me llama la atención es por qué un club catalán despierta simpatias en Grecia... cuando en Grecia "catalán" es un insulto, o lo ha sido hasta hace pocos años... https://planetatour.wordpress.com/20...6/monte-athos/

Also passing 1/4 round especially after losing 1-3 from the worst Juventus of the last 5 years is a great achievemen

Still better than being eliminated bythe worst Roma of the last 20 years.

Key player was never Casillas, it's Ramos despite all his excesses one thing no can the deny is that Sevillano has some big balls...

You are wrong, Casillas was decisive in the tenth Champions. No comment about another seasons

and of course Cristiano, the best and most decisive player in Real Madrid history togheter with Di Stefano.

Agreed.

Btw, mediocre Cruyff won 3 champions cups without playing against teams that had 1/100 to 1/2 of his team's wage budget.

hahaha, yes, specially the final against Panathinaikos
I dont know if you know but Ajax always was one of the richest European clubs, boy

[nightrider+]

Dribbling is of course an usefull resource, but it is overrated, 90% of the time ends with losing the ball fir the opponent. If dribbling alone was equal to football greatness then Denilson, Garrincha and "Burrito Ortega" would be among the greatest players ever.

What we've learned from knightrider on his latest posts lessons:
- one has to touch the ball the most as possible to be the man of the match;
- the more a player touch the ball, the better and most influential/decisive he is;

Therefore, to complete the syllogism, Xavi, who made 300 lateral passes per match and alone had about 20% of any match possession is the greatest player of all time and even Busquets is among the All Time top 10.

Xavi is an all time great and so is Garrincha. "Lateral passes" lmao. Xavi is your nightmare, dude, and CV's too (even though he won them 2 Euros and a WC).

hahaha, yes, specially the final against Panathinaikos

Panathinaikos eliminated teams like Everton and Red Star to get there. Football was actually competitive back then, not lions vs Christians like now.

You people are millennial as fuck. Reminds me of the "Pele never played in Europe" argument, even though Brazilian was the best league in the world back then.

[nightrider+]

FACT: 90% OF TOP MANAGERS WOULD GET PRIME XAVI OVER CURRENT CR FOR THEIR TEAM