9 - Robert Lewandowski

[khaled_a_d]

People are really so obsessed with all that ranking stuff

 

[Maradona37]

I always say that your legacy is written by you.

Lewa is writing a historic chapter with the season so far, from both his goal tally at his age and also us winning a potential treble.

He could become an undisputed top 5 striker ever and be threatening the likes of Romario/Muller (the top 2 are kind of untouchable because of peak level of gameplay).

Puskas, Van Basten, R9 are all better, easily so. Puskas is criminally underrated. You haven't even mentioned him.

Romario definitely had more to his game. G Muller is underrated in general play. If you consider Pele a 'striker' (I don't) he's obviously levels and levels above Lewy.

Then you have strikers of his own generation you can legitimately argue are better and/or had more to their game - Benzema, Suarez, Kane, Zlatan.

Guys like Batistuta, Kocsis and Eusebio would score for fun if they were playing in the teams Lewy did. They scored for fun in lesser teams.

He's a great player and brilliant striker, maybe top 10 striker ever, but top 5? Come on, that is disrespectful to the sport. It's another Cristiano Ronaldo case - made to look better than he is by the stats explosion of modern football. Not saying he hasn't been fantastic, but don't do what certain others do and claim he's better than players he's clearly inferior to. There's far too much competition.

For me, R9, Puskas, Van Basten, Muller, Romario and Eusebio (in random order) are all definitely better. After that maybe he could be next, though it is debatable.

Don't get carried away by one season where Barca are creating chances for fun for him. He's doing brilliantly but there's a lot of football to be played and it's not the time to start going OTT.

 

[Temptation]

 

[Maradona37]

What an absolute bell. All those players have legitimate arguments. Just because you don't fancy Eusebio for instance, doesn't mean he wasn't better than lewy. Your cluelessness of and disrespect for the history of the game (and how you put down great players from the past to feed your celebrity obsessions) angers me. You're more interested in Lewy's looks and profile as a person than his actual game.

Bet you'd never even heard of Kocsis til I mentioned him, you post 92 plastic Indian rat. You aren't a real football fan so stop posing as one. Real football fans would never disrespect those players like you just did.

By the way Gosling's face filler looks awful in that second gif. And his eyes will forever be far too close together.

 

[Maradona37]

I will just quote/paste in what @DonAK said to you in the Zidane thread. Everyone knows you're an embarrassing oaf who develops crushes on certain football personalities (and celebrities in general, see Alain delon) because of their 'looks' or 'razmatazz' (cringe) or 'swagger'. You don't even like Barca, you even admit to hating them, yet you must be conflicted about them doing well because the guy you obsess over plays for them. You post on Barcaforum despite hating the club, and you live on Redcafe despite being a Liverpool 'fan'. You disrespect players from the past (player are you are utterly clueless about and have never seen play) because you are obsessed with Lewandowski and positioning him as the 'best striker ever' due to some creepy as fuck parasocial relationship you have with him.

Your starting point is that lewy is the best ever, and you create arguments to fit that narrative. Normal people just judge who is the best on their own merits, not you though.

You're a weird cunt mate and everything I despise about the modern player-rather-than-team-following football 'fan'. I am pretty sure everyone wishes you'd just disappear.

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There's no correlation. You're just mad now because I pointed out that you lack football knowledge.

In any case it's not unusual for fans to root for their greatest player of all-time when he plays for his National Team or for another club as long as it's not against their own team.

What's your excuse? You root for Mourinho who shit talked Liverpool constantly. You root for Lewandowski like he's your dad without him ever having played for Liverpool. You root hard for Cristiano Ronaldo who played for Liverpool's arch rivals.

You're also Indian and neither of these guys are from your country either, and you cannot stop posting on a Barcelona and a Man Utd forum all the time.'

 

[Temptation]

 

[Maradona37]

Laugh it up pal. Clearly clueless about how deluded you are and what a fraud of a football 'fan' you are. Everything I and others have said about you is spot on.

You aren't a real football fan. If you don't respect me enough to believe the criticism, then take it from DonAK.

 

[Grande]

Laugh it up pal. Clearly clueless about how deluded you are and what a fraud of a football 'fan' you are. Everything I and others have said about you is spot on.

You aren't a real football fan. If you don't respect me enough to believe the criticism, then take it from DonAK.

You're literally mentally ill and Tempation is killing your walls of texts intellectually with gifs

 

[Maradona37]

Another joker arrives.

I gave an opinion - one that is very reasonable - talking about some of the greatest players of all time, and that dickhead posted Gosling smirking. He's clearly clueless about most of the names I mentioned and has never seen them play because he's probably only been watching football since about 2012,, and he totally disrespected them to feed his sexual obsession with lewandowski.

You can't even get a proper discussion in this thread because that cunt takes the hump any time anyone even gently criticises him.

 

[JustAnotherBarcaFan]

Puskas, Van Basten, R9 are all better, easily so. Puskas is criminally underrated. You haven't even mentioned him.

Romario definitely had more to his game. G Muller is underrated in general play. If you consider Pele a 'striker' (I don't) he's obviously levels and levels above Lewy.

Then you have strikers of his own generation you can legitimately argue are better and/or had more to their game - Benzema, Suarez, Kane, Zlatan.

Guys like Batistuta, Kocsis and Eusebio would score for fun if they were playing in the teams Lewy did. They scored for fun in lesser teams.

He's a great player and brilliant striker, maybe top 10 striker ever, but top 5? Come on, that is disrespectful to the sport. It's another Cristiano Ronaldo case - made to look better than he is by the stats explosion of modern football. Not saying he hasn't been fantastic, but don't do what certain others do and claim he's better than players he's clearly inferior to. There's far too much competition.

For me, R9, Puskas, Van Basten, Muller, Romario and Eusebio (in random order) are all definitely better. After that maybe he could be next, though it is debatable.

Don't get carried away by one season where Barca are creating chances for fun for him. He's doing brilliantly but there's a lot of football to be played and it's not the time to start going OTT.

For me Pele but also Puskas, Gerd Muller and other players playing in 50s, 60s, 70s cannot be easily compared with „todays” players. Todays players are from early days of their careers trained to be the best and are like machines/products. Football is much more professional then it was in those 60s or 70s. And if it is more profesional then there is more competition and more difficult. And thus in my opinion players are just generally better. More and more money is pumped into football so players can focus on just being better and better. their only responsibility is to train and play, something which was not common in Pele years. Pele, part of his career played in amateur league… Brazilian league became profesional in 1971 as I see. But please I don’t want to trigger anyone, just saying what’s my opinion and will be happy to hear counterarguments.

 

[Grande]

Another joker arrives.

I would beat you with bare hands infront of your fav way too young non existent girlfriend 💅🏻

 

[Maradona37]

For me Pele but also Puskas, Gerd Muller and other players playing in 50s, 60s, 70s cannot be easily compared with „todays” players. Todays players are from early days of their careers trained to be the best and are like machines/products. Football is much more professional then it was in those 60s or 70s. And if it is more profesional then there is more competition and more difficult. And thus in my opinion players are just generally better. More and more money is pumped into football so players can focus on just being better and better. their only responsibility is to train and play, something which was not common in Pele years. Pele, part of his career played in amateur league… Brazilian league became profesional in 1971 as I see. But please I don’t want to trigger anyone, just saying what’s my opinion and will be happy to hear counterarguments.

That's just a silly way to think (though you're right that we shouldn't compare across eras).

But clearly a player born in the 30s or 40s can be better than a player born in the 90s. We can easily tell for instance that George Best or Garrincha were miles better than Lingard or Rashford, despite the latter playing in a way more 'professional' era.

This idea that football in the 60s and 70s was garbage is modern fan bollocks that isn't even true. It's a myth that is completely ovrplayed. Serie A of the 80s for example is probably the most challenging league in history.

As for Pele - when he played in Brazil, Brazil were world champions with a lot of the best players in the world, and Brazilians tended to stay in their own country. The idea that he was playing against nobodies is ignorant modern fan bollocks. He also did really well in exhibition matches (which were taken seriously) against top European sides.

Ultimately anyone who thinks 'Lewy' is better than Pele - regardless of era - shouldn't be allowed to follow football. Pele is rightly regarded as a top 3 player ever, and Lewy is nowhere near regarded as that.

Just assuming that 'oh well, modern players are automatically better than old players because things get better' is lazy as fuck analysis. If that were true there wouldn't be so much reverence and high rating of players from the distant past.

 

[Grande]

That's just a silly way to think (though you're right that we shouldn't compare across eras).

But clearly a player born in the 40s can be better than a player born in the 90s. We can easily tell for instance that George Best or Garrincha were miles better than Lingard or Rashford, despite the latter playing in a way more 'professional' era.

This idea that football in the 60s and 70s was garbage is modern fan bollocks that isn't even true. Serie A of the 80s for example is probably the most challenging league in history.

As for Pele - when he played in Brazil, Brazil were world champions with a lot of the best players in the world, and Brazilians tended to stay in their own country. The idea that he was playing against nobodies is ignorant modern fan bollocks.

Ultimately anyone who thinks 'Lewy' is better than Pele - regardless of era - shouldn't be allowed to follow football. Pele is rightly regarded as a top 3 player ever, and Lewy is nowhere near regarded as that.

Interesting opinion, but I feel like you forgot to say about one important thing, so basically what you forget is

 

[Maradona37]

Also, modern football is fucking mediocre anyway. Too many people act like it's sensational, when there are mistakes galore and most games are boring as fuck to watch,

Who are the potential all-time greats in this era? Maybe Yamal, MAYBE. Other than him, who else? Haaland? Mbappe? Vinicius? Raphinha?

Don't make me fucking laugh.

 

[JustAnotherBarcaFan]

That's just a silly way to think (though you're right that we shouldn't compare across eras).

But clearly a player born in the 30s or 40s can be better than a player born in the 90s. We can easily tell for instance that George Best or Garrincha were miles better than Lingard or Rashford, despite the latter playing in a way more 'professional' era.

This idea that football in the 60s and 70s was garbage is modern fan bollocks that isn't even true. It's a myth that is completely ovrplayed. Serie A of the 80s for example is probably the most challenging league in history.

As for Pele - when he played in Brazil, Brazil were world champions with a lot of the best players in the world, and Brazilians tended to stay in their own country. The idea that he was playing against nobodies is ignorant modern fan bollocks. He also did really well in exhibition matches (which were taken seriously) against top European sides.

Ultimately anyone who thinks 'Lewy' is better than Pele - regardless of era - shouldn't be allowed to follow football. Pele is rightly regarded as a top 3 player ever, and Lewy is nowhere near regarded as that.

Just assuming that 'oh well, modern players are automatically better than old players because things get better' is lazy as fuck analysis. If that were true there wouldn't be so much reverence and high rating of players from the distant past.

I said nothing about Lewy in my post 🙁. It was general opinion about comparing players from different eras.