Lewandowski is as good as you can get as a no 9 right now, and to say he'd be no comparison to strikers 15 years ago is a joke. Bar Henry, the rest of them are the level of the current crop.
It's nostalgia which makes people think back then it was better. No one seems to remember the bad games retired players had, only the good ones.
When discussing current players, you tend to pick out their negatives first then positives, happens with Ronaldo and Neymar too.
Just look at the midfield Spain has had up till 2014, no country can ever match it except Spain themselves.
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Not true, the rise of DMs like Makelele was the result of no 10s like Bergkamp, Cantona and Zola thriving with so much space playing against rigid 442 systems
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Always NPE
Did you approve of Kante winning PFA?
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comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 1 hour, 10 minutes ago
Part of it is a lack of characters in football these days imo. There are less mavericks, leaders, artists and disciplinaries.
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Not with the PC pundits we have these days.
A simple tweet from Mendy (bullet header) was picked upon by Gerrard and the next day, the whole press were after that tweet.
They literally chased Balotelli out of England simply for being a character.
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posted 11 seconds ago
comment by Mr Chelsea. (U3579)
posted 39 seconds ago
just go through the catalogue of champions league games during the 2000s, countless examples of english teams outhustling the european sides with pace and power- its what we were known for.
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Largely it was countering and outmuscling
Deserved wins
But it was a very different style to the styls in vogue today
Hence why English teams struggle
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i think english clubs have trouble with their identity, spain win the world cup so they thought lets follow their blueprint, then they saw germany win and thought lets follow their blueprint,
all i know is the champions league campaigns i was watching from 2000 onwards up to 2010 were not "very defensive".
Viallis Chelsea was my favourite Chelsea.
What a journey it would have been for you if you'd gone the City route of attack mania rather than the solidity and don't get me wrong incredibly successful 2 DM route, once Abramovich arrived.
The quality of the City v Liverpool game yesterday was pretty poor and they are two of the strongest teams in the world.
Chelsea's passing and decision making yesterday agst Leicester was some of the worse i have seen for a long time and we are the Champions.
Something has gone wrong in recent years....is it too much money buying average to decent players?
I don't know why tbh....
*In the PL not the world i mean oooooops
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The quality of the City v Liverpool game yesterday was pretty poor and they are two of the strongest teams in the world.
.................
In the world!!!!! Wow
SWTN
Did you see Spurs on the box?
Dare I say it they were mesmeric at times.
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Vieira gave the ball away to Giggs.
A sad day for football.
Honestly people should re-watch games from the pass to have a reality check
".is it too much money buying average to decent players?"
I don't think money has anything to do with it.
It's just a pass through payment from large media deals. It doesn't impact the players themselves
comment by Analog (U17200)
posted 11 seconds ago
Honestly people should re-watch games from the pass to have a reality check
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What's this reality check we need?
Is it one of our teams actually performing in the CL rather than the utter dross performances we get to see now?
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Football in the 90s is shocking. (watched a few 'classics' on TV last year)
It's like 2 completely p(ssed boxers trading blows in a mud pit
comment by Always NPE - 1,000,002 (U20804)
posted 2 minutes ago
Some of the footage from PL years on Sky shows how village some of the football used to be.
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A bit like some now
Did you watch the two games today in the 'Not So Super Sunday'?
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posted on 10/9/17
Lewandowski is as good as you can get as a no 9 right now, and to say he'd be no comparison to strikers 15 years ago is a joke. Bar Henry, the rest of them are the level of the current crop.
It's nostalgia which makes people think back then it was better. No one seems to remember the bad games retired players had, only the good ones.
When discussing current players, you tend to pick out their negatives first then positives, happens with Ronaldo and Neymar too.
Just look at the midfield Spain has had up till 2014, no country can ever match it except Spain themselves.
posted on 10/9/17
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posted on 10/9/17
Not true, the rise of DMs like Makelele was the result of no 10s like Bergkamp, Cantona and Zola thriving with so much space playing against rigid 442 systems
posted on 10/9/17
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posted on 10/9/17
Always NPE
Did you approve of Kante winning PFA?
posted on 10/9/17
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posted on 10/9/17
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posted on 10/9/17
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 1 hour, 10 minutes ago
Part of it is a lack of characters in football these days imo. There are less mavericks, leaders, artists and disciplinaries.
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Not with the PC pundits we have these days.
A simple tweet from Mendy (bullet header) was picked upon by Gerrard and the next day, the whole press were after that tweet.
They literally chased Balotelli out of England simply for being a character.
posted on 10/9/17
comment by Always NPE - 1,000,002 (U20804)
posted 11 seconds ago
comment by Mr Chelsea. (U3579)
posted 39 seconds ago
just go through the catalogue of champions league games during the 2000s, countless examples of english teams outhustling the european sides with pace and power- its what we were known for.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Largely it was countering and outmuscling
Deserved wins
But it was a very different style to the styls in vogue today
Hence why English teams struggle
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i think english clubs have trouble with their identity, spain win the world cup so they thought lets follow their blueprint, then they saw germany win and thought lets follow their blueprint,
all i know is the champions league campaigns i was watching from 2000 onwards up to 2010 were not "very defensive".
posted on 10/9/17
Viallis Chelsea was my favourite Chelsea.
What a journey it would have been for you if you'd gone the City route of attack mania rather than the solidity and don't get me wrong incredibly successful 2 DM route, once Abramovich arrived.
posted on 10/9/17
The quality of the City v Liverpool game yesterday was pretty poor and they are two of the strongest teams in the world.
Chelsea's passing and decision making yesterday agst Leicester was some of the worse i have seen for a long time and we are the Champions.
Something has gone wrong in recent years....is it too much money buying average to decent players?
I don't know why tbh....
posted on 10/9/17
*In the PL not the world i mean oooooops
posted on 10/9/17
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posted on 10/9/17
The quality of the City v Liverpool game yesterday was pretty poor and they are two of the strongest teams in the world.
.................
In the world!!!!! Wow
posted on 10/9/17
SWTN
Did you see Spurs on the box?
Dare I say it they were mesmeric at times.
posted on 10/9/17
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posted on 10/9/17
Vieira gave the ball away to Giggs.
A sad day for football.
posted on 10/9/17
Honestly people should re-watch games from the pass to have a reality check
posted on 10/9/17
*past
posted on 10/9/17
".is it too much money buying average to decent players?"
I don't think money has anything to do with it.
It's just a pass through payment from large media deals. It doesn't impact the players themselves
posted on 10/9/17
comment by Analog (U17200)
posted 11 seconds ago
Honestly people should re-watch games from the pass to have a reality check
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What's this reality check we need?
Is it one of our teams actually performing in the CL rather than the utter dross performances we get to see now?
posted on 10/9/17
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posted on 10/9/17
Football in the 90s is shocking. (watched a few 'classics' on TV last year)
It's like 2 completely p(ssed boxers trading blows in a mud pit
posted on 10/9/17
comment by Always NPE - 1,000,002 (U20804)
posted 2 minutes ago
Some of the footage from PL years on Sky shows how village some of the football used to be.
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A bit like some now
Did you watch the two games today in the 'Not So Super Sunday'?
posted on 10/9/17
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