LaMessiah
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this.. if his price tag was reasonable i wouldn't be against it but it just reeks of desperation and over paying.would be a total galactico signing
this.. if his price tag was reasonable i wouldn't be against it but it just reeks of desperation and over paying.would be a total galactico signing
Yes the Denilson comparison does seem apt.
It just amuses me though that these so called barca supporters, who want Neymar and thinks that he is brilliant, do not realise he is anti everything that Pep wants Barcelona to represent. Work ethic, team work, working for each other, humbleness.
Neymar has none of those, but because he is a showboater and apparently the biggest talent in Brazil (if so then Brazil are fucked) these so called Barca supporters want him because he will showcase his brilliant and awesome skillz for their team.
Personally I would laugh my arse off if you spend £60m plus on him because he will be an utter failure at Barca.
What a bunch of horse excrement...
You're really trying too hard to sound like a smartass.
I'm really interested to know how many times you've actually watched Neymar play. According to many people I know who follow him closely, the attributes you listed couldn't be further away from the truth. I really would like to know how you came to your thoughtful and insightful conlcusion on him, Brazilian media? Youtube? His hair? The fact that he goofs around with Barcelona's Dani Alves? It's like someone who never watches Barca seeing the goofy shit that Alves does and then watching him dive a few times and coming to the conclusion that he has no work ethic and is an arrogant prick.
Also if you go back and read the arguments some of these 'so-called Barca supporters' put up you would find that they have nothing to do with 'showcasing his brilliant and awesome skillz'. I'm not even one of those supporting the idea and actually don't agree with all of their thoughts, but I would like to see you actually come up with a valid counter-argument than trying to sound like a smartass...
You guys are missing the core issue.
He has a terrible haircut.
(Also please don't claim Neymar singlehandedly won the Libertadores, anyone who watched it that year knew how talented that Santos team was. He was their best player and best goal scorer, but we are talking a matter of degrees. Santos was above and beyond the best club in South America that year.)
Namely because of Neymar who also happened to score in the final and was their best performer during the whole season.
There is no doubt that the guy is hyped (and there are several reasons for this, one of them being the lack of Brazilian talents right now, especially in the attack) but to compare him to Denilson, Quaresma and Keirrison does not make any sense for obvious reasons (Quaresma and Denilson being traditional wingers and Keirrison a totally different attacker than Neymar)
Again, how many 19 year olds have the track record of Neymar right now?
What a bunch of horse excrement...
You're really trying too hard to sound like a smartass.
I'm really interested to know how many times you've actually watched Neymar play. According to many people I know who follow him closely, the attributes you listed couldn't be further away from the truth. I really would like to know how you came to your thoughtful and insightful conlcusion on him, Brazilian media? Youtube? His hair? The fact that he goofs around with Barcelona's Dani Alves? It's like someone who never watches Barca seeing the goofy shit that Alves does and then watching him dive a few times and coming to the conclusion that he has no work ethic and is an arrogant prick.
Also if you go back and read the arguments some of these 'so-called Barca supporters' put up you would find that they have nothing to do with 'showcasing his brilliant and awesome skillz'. I'm not even one of those supporting the idea and actually don't agree with all of their thoughts, but I would like to see you actually come up with a valid counter-argument than trying to sound like a smartass...
Mauro Boselli was the highest scorer (not only on his team, but in the entire Libertadores) and scored in the final two years ago. Joffre Guerrón was the best player on LDU Quito the year before. How did moves to Europe work out to them?
Now I'm being half serious, Neymar is clearly more talented. He's maybe the most talented 19 year old in the world sure. But emphasis on 19. Comparing him to Denilson is as absurd as comparing him to Ronaldinho - it's possible he will be that good or that bad when all is said and done, but neither of us know that. Realistically he's going to end up somewhere between those two.
The problem is not that he doesn't have potential to be great (he clearly does, he's already an above average football player), the problem is that he's being hyped to absurd levels. People already claiming that he's Pele 2 and the fact that he's constantly surrounded by enablers who make him out to be some sort of God has got to be bad for the ego. He's not the first player to recieve tons of hype like this, but I've never seen such an extreme. The truth is his career trajectory has not been extraordinary, he's in good company but there's a new one of these Brazilian wonderkids every other year, Neymar is further along than most, but so were Robinho and Adriano.
Plus he's going to be expensive. Real fucking expensive, and for a player that Barca doesn't desperately need, the obsession to me seems to be far more about style than substance. As much as a lot of us superficially bash him for the way he carrys himself and his haircut, a lot of his biggest proponents are in love with him for equally shallow reasons, because he carries that swag and stereotypical samba "joga bonito" marketability that makes so many people fall in love with Brazilian football.