soul24rage
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The new chef deserves the Ballon D'or
9 - Robert Lewandowski
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Temptation
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soul24rage
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Cr7's PR team is much strongerToo much of a "bad boy" for France Football.
Someone get him Messi's PR team.
Temptation
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🚨🚨🚨 Historic.
No player in the history of Europe’s top five leagues has scored 25+ goals in consecutive seasons with clubs more than Robert Lewandowski — 14 consecutive seasons! 🤯❤️
@Fati_Future_BallonDor @Rassvet @TemporaryFan @ForzaBarca @Grande @Maradona37 @soul24rage
No player in the history of Europe’s top five leagues has scored 25+ goals in consecutive seasons with clubs more than Robert Lewandowski — 14 consecutive seasons! 🤯❤️
@Fati_Future_BallonDor @Rassvet @TemporaryFan @ForzaBarca @Grande @Maradona37 @soul24rage
TemporaryFan
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The truth of the matter is that 100 years from now, nobody will remember how a player played or what he was like. Even now, at present time, who remembers, or is able to reckon the play style of Eusébio the Portuguese, Pele, Cryuff or Beckenbuer? The goats of not so yet remote times.
Only the stats will prevail. Only the stats...
So, if someone on January 8th 2125 opens up Wikipedia and looks up FC Barcelona best ever playes, don't be suprised to see...( either from Hell, Heaven, or Purgatory, if you're a Catholic with some sins not expunged) that Robert Lewandowski will be listed right there, somewhere on the top. That person will sure chuckle in amazement and think aloud; I see there's Xavi, Iniesta, Ronaldo, someone by the name of Messi .... but that RL9 must have been hellova good and did an excellent job.
TheStig
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What? It's the opposite, everybody who knows something about football history know how those players played (style, position and other atributes) and nobody cares how many goals or asists they made (people will only know the supposed 1000 goals of Pele and no other stats). Playing style is usually even more important than trophies. I have no idea of any stats or trophies won by those players but I can describe their playing style easily.
Guys like Modrić or Iniesta will have a much bigger legacy than Lewa.
TemporaryFan
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Playing style is not quantifiable - it is a matter of one's own subjective appreciation and overall consensus.
The history of sport, and especially football, in the last 2 decades or so, became defined more by numbers than subjective reviews.
For example, do you have any reckoning of who the best footballer was before 1939 in the World? But more importantly, how would you know it if not from the articles in some forgotten football magazines from those days?
TemporaryFan
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They should, but will they? Depends how the football historians are going to handle it. Maybe there won't be any of such historians taking care of the due narrative at all? Are there any like them today?
Maybe, they'll just rely on stats...I know it ain't fair but stats are solid data, easy to understand and the fairy tales are not, saying that Messi was a godlike player will always be taken with a grain of salt. Especially in 100 years.
TheStig
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Yes, that's what matters, not stats. Not everything has to be quantifiable. By stats Lewa is a million times better than Maradona, that's says a lot.
You are not in the USA that stats are important and even they value someone like MJ ahead of Russel or Wilt or Lebron who have better stats/trophies in some way.
You went to far back but if we start from the TV era, somewhere like 1950s and forward I can name some players from each decade and desribe their playing style while having no idea about their stats.
He isn't bad for the team, but he's not excellent nor world class neither. I've always encouraged him, I really want him to become a Barça legend and it would be the case with a CL trophy. However the disrespect some players (and he's among) are showing for the club while they are not doing anything to give satisfaction on the pitch is unnacceptable. I wouldn't put his carreer and reputation in question but we've had way more talented strikers who were the best strikers but they neved told bullshits to the club even in crisis days. If he isn't happy there, he could go in Saudi and I'm sure we won't miss him.
TheStig
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I think I get your point now, you think times are changning but it's not so bad IMO even though I agree stats are more and more important for newer younger fans than in the old days. There will always be people who understand and deeply follow football and they will know things like that, other casual fans' opinion doesn't matter to me.
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