BBZ8800
Senior Member
People got fooled by Messi, Cr7 and Zlatan.
Regarding Messi and CR7 vs Lewandowski, Messi and Cr7 had natural skills, at, let's say 100 and 95 level.
While even prime Lewa was way behind them in terms of talent and impact in big matches.
Let's say that his prime skills were 85-90 range.
Now, Messi's fitness has dropped but due to his natural skills at 100 level, now even aged 35, his skills are still adequate (let's say at 90 level, due to a drop in fitness).
Cr7's skills dropped from let's say 95 to 85-80 level.
While Lewa's prime was way lower than Messi's and Cr7's, that means that when his physique starts to decline, his overall skills will go down from a natural 85-90 level to 75-80.
With that logic, 35 years old Lewa couldn't be in the same class as 35 years old Messi or Cr7.
The other case is Zlatan, who's prime skills were closer to Lewa than to Messi or Cr7.
But Zlatan didn't go Cr7's and Lewa's route of losing weight to cope with the age.
Zlatan kept his physique and lost pace, but at least he was still a presence in the box and his shots and headers didn't lose in power due to weight loss, like in Cr7's and Lewa's case, where they lost the presence in the box, lost the strength in the duels and their shooting in general lost power and turned softer.
All in all, in upcoming Months, Lewa will lose pace (naturally, as everyone), but he will lose even more muscles due to diet (to keep some pace) so he will lose even more presence in the box, jumping ability, shooting power and heading power.
Basically = what you see today, remove even further 20-30% of skills in the next season.
As bad as Fati.
