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I think a lot of folks go purely on numbers these days, rather than taking context in.Originally Posted by jimmyliver
Classic example (I wasn't old enough to appreciate him) is those who saw Maradona saying he was better than Messi - Napoli side wasn't built around him, defences were tougher, pitches worse etc.
If Haaland can sort out his injury troubles (perhaps the odd trip to Guardiola's "Doctor"....) then he certainly could score an awful, awful lot. His build is freakish - it's like when Bolt came on the scene and his longer stride was so different to that of other sprinters due to his physique - there will be no living with him for a lot of sides.
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He'll get 50 league goals if he stays fit. It's not just his size and pace. Despite his Neanderthal like appearance, his movement and instinct display an intelligence that I haven't seen for a long time if ever. He just knows exactly where to be and how to get the ball in the net. Scary...
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Yeah he is a brilliant finisher. Didn't mean to reduce his ability to "just" his physicality as it were, but he is clearly a naturally gifted finisher PLUS has all the rest.
Imagine Fowler for example had been as tall or as quick. Frightening prospect.
Rowdy Yates
But you are right to call out his physical attributes. Without them he is just a decent forward. Nothing he does is any better than Ian Rush - he is just the size of Ibrahimovic and rather than wanting to beat 10 men - he wants the ball in the net. Nothing else. So direct! AND he is absolutely suited to the Premier league. Will likely score more here for City than he did for Dortmund in Germany.
Comparisons with Diego are honestly not even worthy of discussion.
Imo - if he was half as good as Diego - At Dortmund - with the current joy and protection forwards enjoy from officials. Dortmund would have been German Champions and CL winner every season he played.
Rowdy Yates
If the Anglo Saxon, or the Scot or the Irishman/woman ever witnessed Diego in his/her domestic league, he/she would stop talking about football altogether and accept he/she doesn’t have the vaguest clue.
Master Tactician
Yep. Different gravy. One of the few if not the only player from the pre-Sky "non" professional era that would still be at the top of the game today.
Imagine if he'd lived a clean life with today's training and conditioning! Now that would be frightening!
Rowdy Yates
If anyone wants to understand WHAT a freak Diego was. Imagine AC Milan at the time. The best side in Europe by a margin, and Napoli. A nothing side far weaker than they have been in recent years. They were a mid table side at best! See what one man did to the Great Milan. Toughest league in the world and he won the title twice. The only times in the clubs history.
There is nobody to come close to Diego. Pele - Messi, not even close.
Think Suarez times 10! That good. He is making one of the greatest sides ever assembled look like a pub team almost single handed.
Engerland tried to cripple him in the 86 World Cup and he destroyed them!
You don’t know how good he was.
Rowdy Yates
Not easy when you are that good. The game isn’t hard enough - you are so much more talented than even the best of the rest - and you get distracted.
His mistake - going to Naples where the Camorra were always going to take ownership. He should have listened.
Had he gone to Milan - he might have won double the European Cups (5) Maldini managed. But he wanted a challenge. He was genuinely the only player where you could say - one man can make a team.
Rowdy Yates
And one more, just to stick it to that ugly Nordic freak.
No player has ever got even close to this level.
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Sadly he's an incredible forward, he looks to have raised his game considerably already since arriving at City, probably through being surrounded by more players of higher technical ability, that run, touch and the ball he played in for Foden was absolutely top class, he suddenly looks far less clumsy than when he first arrived as well
Well, we had our chance, our owners refuse to invest a good percentage of what we're now generating, we failed to strengthen when on top, we fucked up our evolution Royally and we continue to persist with some poor players the manager has a blind spot for
The party is well and truly over and we've only our owners and all those involved in our supposed evolution to blame, C'est la vie lads, when it was good, it was fucking awesome
"If Everton were playing at the bottom of my garden, i'd close the curtains”
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