DonAndres
Wild Man of Borneo
Xavi is a different breed from all the others, and what he was responsible for at his peak makes even Zidane/Iniesta pale somewhat in comparison. Just because Modric is not close to his level is no bad thing lol. Same with the fact that he isn't as good as the latter two.
But it's just ridiculously lazy to say Modric sucks on the sole basis of Barca's Clasico dominance over the last decade. A low hanging fruit if I've ever seen one. Literally the exact same tone and 99% of the same words could be used to make Ramos/Alonso/Casillas and even the likes of Ronaldo to be complete bums. Bums that won 4 Cl's in 5 years though, while we've been getting embarrassed far worse.
Modric was actually incredible in several Clasicos too. To say anything otherwise is proof of a short attention span because Modric absolutely has played Rakitic/Iniesta/Busquets out of the park plenty of times. Including Clasicos against the treble winning Barca and peak MSN teams.
That take would look even more embarrassing if I were to pull up some of Modric's compilations vs Barca.
Why not restrict the conversation to CL campaigns then? Zidane has had hardly any success and despite stacked teams, he couldn't even succeed even more than 1 time. Iniesta was on the end of embarrassing midfield demolitions throughout the 2010's, including his very peak years.
I won't even entertain the argument that Rakitic was better in the World Cup lmfao. Modric was better in basically every single statistic, both offensive and defensive. Goals, assists, key passes, dribbles, defensive duels won, distance covered. Pretty much everything. Rakitic had really nothing to show outside of the Argentina/Russia games. Overhyped to hell based on 2 fucking penalties in shootouts lol. Even Perisic and Mandzukic would have far better arguments, and it would be absurd to say they did more than Modric.
It is just sad to see people actually believing Modric is on the level of Toure or Schweinsteiger lol. Don't let bias turn into ignorance. It's that exact type of blind arrogance that Barca's greats are infallibly better than their competition that's led to us being unsuccessful in Europe by the standards of our spearhead in Messi, and the amount of money we've spent on transfers and wages. At various points the likes of Busquets, Pique, Alves, and even Iniesta were getting outperformed on the CL stage by players on plenty of other teams even in the years they were supposedly at their prime.
It is a fact that Modric has been the brains behind a historically successful midfield, generating the type of European success that was never seen once in the Champions League era. That is not something that comes around 1 time every 7 years like people are suggesting lmfao, it pretty much hadn't happened since Di Stefano's RM. Classical Ajax/Bayern/Liverpool teams were better but RM did win 4 European titles which is impressive as hell.
But it's just ridiculously lazy to say Modric sucks on the sole basis of Barca's Clasico dominance over the last decade. A low hanging fruit if I've ever seen one. Literally the exact same tone and 99% of the same words could be used to make Ramos/Alonso/Casillas and even the likes of Ronaldo to be complete bums. Bums that won 4 Cl's in 5 years though, while we've been getting embarrassed far worse.
Modric was actually incredible in several Clasicos too. To say anything otherwise is proof of a short attention span because Modric absolutely has played Rakitic/Iniesta/Busquets out of the park plenty of times. Including Clasicos against the treble winning Barca and peak MSN teams.
That take would look even more embarrassing if I were to pull up some of Modric's compilations vs Barca.
Why not restrict the conversation to CL campaigns then? Zidane has had hardly any success and despite stacked teams, he couldn't even succeed even more than 1 time. Iniesta was on the end of embarrassing midfield demolitions throughout the 2010's, including his very peak years.
I won't even entertain the argument that Rakitic was better in the World Cup lmfao. Modric was better in basically every single statistic, both offensive and defensive. Goals, assists, key passes, dribbles, defensive duels won, distance covered. Pretty much everything. Rakitic had really nothing to show outside of the Argentina/Russia games. Overhyped to hell based on 2 fucking penalties in shootouts lol. Even Perisic and Mandzukic would have far better arguments, and it would be absurd to say they did more than Modric.
It is just sad to see people actually believing Modric is on the level of Toure or Schweinsteiger lol. Don't let bias turn into ignorance. It's that exact type of blind arrogance that Barca's greats are infallibly better than their competition that's led to us being unsuccessful in Europe by the standards of our spearhead in Messi, and the amount of money we've spent on transfers and wages. At various points the likes of Busquets, Pique, Alves, and even Iniesta were getting outperformed on the CL stage by players on plenty of other teams even in the years they were supposedly at their prime.
It is a fact that Modric has been the brains behind a historically successful midfield, generating the type of European success that was never seen once in the Champions League era. That is not something that comes around 1 time every 7 years like people are suggesting lmfao, it pretty much hadn't happened since Di Stefano's RM. Classical Ajax/Bayern/Liverpool teams were better but RM did win 4 European titles which is impressive as hell.
