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He's a bit of a throwback in that he has so much technical ability, plays for the team and seems to carry out Pep's instructions, despite the fact he has a maverick in him too. He has become very unselfish, but people don't like it because he is constraining himself. He does overdo it - in the...

Always been class.

He seemed to really only play well at WC 2018. Was decent at Euro 2020 but they crashed out early, and he was poor at Euro 2016. I definitely do not think he has close to Zidane's international body of work. Like I say he was good at WC 2018 but don't think he was even in France's top 5...

Yeah I am not attaching the blame to the players (he and Haaland). They do well to score them goals. Just saying in general the teams were getting goals from more sources before.

Had a difficult week in PL predictor (though I did get some outcomes right including an exact for Newcastle-Brentford). The Villa result was a tough one to take as I predicted Brighton to win. So I have dropped from 10th in the world to 17th. Got Chelsea 2-1 tonight. Hopefully this isn't my...

Yeah some people don't seem to understand it isn't about how many the individual scores, but how many the team score. Was the same with Haaland at Man City - they were a better more three-dimensional side when they shared the goals about before he arrived. @Loki

Plenty of their fans seem pleased with how they played against Forest, and believe it demonstrates the progress they think they're experiencing in recent months under Amorim. Don't get me wrong - they weren't that bad, and I have seen them play much worse. But I am still not seeing anything to...

More to football than stats. He does damage going the other way losing the ball three times in two minutes too. He's always gonna get great stats cos he's that type of stats cheat player. It's the rest of his game - that you neglect to talk about - that need work. That's not to say he's not a...

'Fellainingham' lol.

Hahaha thanks, yeah you and I have always seemingly got on well. I just need to take a more relaxed attitude to football, and life in general. It really isn't worth getting all hot under the collar over. Hope you are well.

Sorry for snapping at you in the Lewy thread at the weekend mate. I guess I am just very precious when it comes to the all-time greats, and the pantheon. You didn't even say anything bad or wrong, I just took it the wrong way and went on a rant. I think Lewy is probably 6-10 best striker ever...

Anyway, bedtime for me - it's almost 1 am and I am up early. Some echo chamber this. Feel free as fanboys to continue to delude yourselves that Lewy is better than Pele and R9 because he 'plays in the more advanced, professional era' :lol: Nighty night.

Ignore function working a treat here (y)

I see I have upset two (maybe three) Lewy fanboys by extolling the virtues of past players. Ah well, such is life.

Some of you guys act like the 60s was the Cretaceous period. Yes football has changed, but a lot of players from then would shine and prosper in modern football (if given training to bring them to today's fitnesss tandards). Because they were geniuses at playing football. Equally, many players...

Glad we have come to an understanding on the first point - though the second point is not necessarily true either as there are so many other variables.

Again, if you want a discussion, please give me some arguments why Vinicius, Lewandowski, Haaland, Rashford, Lingard, Mbappe, Bellingham and Raphinha are better players than Maradona, Pele, R9, Best, Garrincha, Van Basten. After all, they play in the more advanced, professional era, so they...

Stop playing innocent. You didn't want a discussion. I have offered plenty of points which you have constantly refused to refute, so you clearly do not want a discussion (because you haven't got a worthwhile retort). You wanna push the idea that modern football is oh so amazing and old football...

You acted like modern football is the gold standard and incredible (it really, really is not, trust me), and even though you were diplomatic about it, it's clear you were implying old football is crap and old players do not compare to modern players. What you don't seem to understand is that...

What next? Semenyo is better than Ronaldinho because he 'played in a later, more scientific era'? Bruno Fernandes better than Platini? Courtois better than Yashin? Fuds. 'JustAnotherLewyFan'.