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WhoDeyHause:
When did jorginho win ballon dor?

I even thought he won it in 2021. Well Scholes never finished on a podium right?

Now I don't believe Jorginho was ever at Scholes level. I am just showing why that logic is not fail safe.

Sportsweb:
Total bullshit.

Foden is nowhere near Kane's level.

Foden isn't even better than Saka and Rashford.


I only blame Spurs Sha.

You need to reply like you understand the argument.

I did not say Foden is at Kane's current level.

I said Foden has MORE talent A.K.A can do more on a football pitch than Kane. And by the end of their careers it will be CLEAR as day.

popizaino:
After all this Kane is still the undisputed No 9 for England.

Kane can play across the attacker,can support,can play from the wing.

Kane can only play 9 and 10. He cannot play across the front 3 as he is not quick. So that puts paid to him playing from the wings. He cannot.

His goal scoring is one of his talents which nobody is refuting however he is a striker. That is the first talent he is supposed to have. Kane is worldclass. I am talking about him vs Foden in terms of quantity of talent.

Foden can play LW, RW, SS and false 9. He is a natural 10 yet until this season you barely ever saw him play there.

zeusis:
Wilshere?

Wilshere was very talented but he did not produce long enough to maximize it so we'll never know.

andrewbaba44:
Rooney is far far talented than foden or any current English player

He is not.

Foden was the U-17 World Cup Golden Ball winner. All these nonsense I am reading here is because he is a City player. Imagine people even blatantly lying and talking off point just to talk him down. LOL

Joezinho:
Same Phil Foden of man city or another one?

The same one. If there is any fact I put there you can challenge it by proving it is false.

Joezinho:
Just a goal scorer at 22 years old.

Yes he won that for just being a goal scorer. Jorginho has won that award right? He is better than Scholes.

1. Kane cannot play 5 positions adequately. Kane plays just a couple.
2. Kane does not have the same close control and dribbling.
3. Kane did not have the goal scoring ability at the same age.
4. Kane did not have the individual awards at the same age.
5. Kane could not break into far less quality teams at the age Foden did.
6. Kane did not show the same passing range at the same age.

The only English player with similar talent range as Foden was Rooney - not even Owen who was just a goal scorer.

Bacteria8:
PTSD ?? Real Madrid ?? Lol 😅

Anyways, we shall see

Yeah, 4-0. The game Vini and Valverde said was the worst and most intimidating of their lives. The one RM only mustered 13 passes after 20 mins.

Capaldi:
You type too much hogwash.

Hmmm.

Bacteria8:
I respect your analysis.

So you mean that the tie is greatly dependent on home advantages...??

If yes, what if Madrid took the first advantage by beating City with a very wide margin in the first leg ??

Home advantage goes both ways you would agree yes ?

Madrid cannot beat City by a wide margin. Since Pep took over City they've been better than RM and nothing we have seen this season can upend that.

Madrid can win City at the Bernabeu but I think it can only be by a goal margin which City can easily overcome at the Etihad.

People hype LFCs record at home but forget to concede that City have been perfect too especially per the UCL. And Madrid still have PTSD from last season.

Spy360,

You're correct. Hope you're not dissuaded by the propagandist group-think nonsense people are poking your way. You'll never find a more incompetent villain than this Biden-led band of globalists.

Apparently ISIS conveniently kills innocents in Russia as a motivation for Ukraine to get more US funding. Have you ever seen that type of malaria logic before?

ISIS always shows up when a failed war is losing steam . Now Putin has to react and of course the US via the CIA have also conveniently become the good guys who warned bad bad Russia about an impending terrorist attack. The same WARNING Biden and then Victoria Nuland gave before Nordstream was destroyed by wait for it. . . Russia itself. LOL. <--- according to US media.

popizaino:
Real Madrid na easy draw?


Calling the best team in the competition an easy draw only confirms what have always said about you.

Manchester City is the best team in the competition by every possible metric.

raumdeuter:
Interesting draw,

Gnabry back to London.
He destroyed Stamford Bridge and Spurs stadium last times he visited London

Kane to stop by to visit friends

unfortunately our fans won't be at the Emirates, as we are serving a ban

Second leg is at your ground. No excuses.

The 2nd leg is at the Etihad.

I think that is the major reason I am pretty sure City are through.

Godx:
Disgraceful performance from Haaland, Rodri and Alvarez.

Nah. Rodri played well. He could not overcommit after the yellow card.

Alvarez was largely poor and caused Rodri's yellow when he lost the ball and Rodri had to foul to stop LFCs counter.

Rodri has been playing his and Gundo's role all in one. I don't know when Pep will quit this Alvarez experiment. I know he works hard and has a striker's instinct to arrive in the box but he is not great in possession. Loses the ball with his first touch and gets breezed by in midfield when defending.

raumdeuter:
But Pep starts him in all the big games ahead of Grealish

No. Grealish has been injured most of the season especially after Doku's initial gra gra.

spillo1:
He left Chelsea by mutual consent. Great coaches gets sacked and it doesn't diminish their achievements. Ancelloti has been sacked ditto Hansi flick, Conte, allegri etc

Mourinho was fired twice.

Mutual consent is firing. It is a euphemism for firing someone politely.

oliverano:
Foden is better than Saka...locked bawo lol!

Worse case scenario, Foden on the left, Saka on the right. Foden will start games for England either on the left or as a goal keeper.

Foden nah comfam Agba!

I wished you wouldn't discuss Foden here. You have to understand the type of arguments people make here where everybody's player is better than City players until Pep is involved and then they conveniently become world class. That's why I don't indulge in the Foden vs Saka arguments.

Foden is like Rooney. Versatile players never get truly rated because they are the easiest pieces to move around for the balance of a team. It is why anyone thinks it is a debate worth having to decide if Foden (the most talented English player of his generation) should start for his national team. People are even talking about Jude Bellingham that will be lucky to retire with Foden's current trophy hall and achievements.

Raumdeuter you see what I told you about Doku?

I thought you guys said coaching Bayern was easy?

If you torture the video data long enough, it would confess anything you tell it to.

IYKYK

popizaino:
These are the players from close range.

Guy in dark shades is Khalilou Fadiga that played for Senegal (I think he failed a medical for Inter). First guy is Gelson Fernandes that played for Switzerland.

My question is, is the league competitive? Can other teams potentially win the league? Notice nobody's talking about City squad or how much was spent on it.

If you come back after City have done the 4-peat to bring up the foregoing arguments, God will punish you.

Nigeria will still win.

I watched the game already.

raumdeuter:
Drop Kroos with Pep...

Yes we did and Madrid crushed Bayern 5-0 home and away. Peps worst CL loss

Without Kroos Bayern won the CL

That world cup final, Kroos biggest impact was that wayward pass to Higuain which sent hundreds of German supporters into heart attack mode

Since Schweinsteiger and others retired and Kroos was handed the German midfield, na embarrassment

You don't need to rob Peter to pay Paul. Xavi is better than Kroos but Kroos is one of the greatest midfielders of all times. You don't stay in Bayern and RM this long and be average. Our issue generally is in assuming any player that is not considered in GOAT debates should be rendered useless or we are a tad too radical in our player to player comparisons that we amplify the worst attributes of any player we want to say is inferior to our preferred.

Yaya Toure does not have to become rubbish because I want to say KDB is City's best ever player. Same way Kroos does not have to be scum for Xavi to be better. Xavi is objectively better because he revolutionized the CM role and showed more leadership and peak consistency but Kroos was a necessary part of a European dynasty that started from his WYC 2007 days in the German National team, playing finals of many FIFA, UEFA and I think Olympic games to Bayern's winningnest team, to RMs most successful UEFA CL team. Kroos typifies the much famed German precision and accuracy. He was a 96 at his peak but played at 82-91 for any other season than his peak while Xavi was a peak 100 who also had 70-ranked years atleast in his earlier career days. In other words Xavi's highs outstrip Kroos' but so does his low. We should be cognizant of this.

Are Bayern's players good?

You said Tuchel needed a season under his belt to implement. What's up? Have you watched Bayern lately?

Do you honestly think Poch would have been worse than Tuchel at Bayern or will you accept that your players are not as good as y'all are claiming.

For context, your best player so far this season is Cole Palmer who was replaced readily at City even as a bench player.

Give Pochettino time.

pkasso:
Nothing new here. Every big game na opportunity for Tuchel to disgrace himself. I trust Hamann and Matthaus to squeeze his neck like crazy this night, e never see anything. Useless coach.

There's no stopping Leverkusen now. They are going to coast to the title and we are going to drop more points. God go forever punish the fools that sacked Nagelsmann and brought in Tuchel. They just set the team backwards.

Harry Kane is definitely ending this season trophyless. Poor lad. Dem go use trolling kill am.

Your Team has lost its confidence. The proof is Tuchel reacted and tried to change the way y'all play to adjust to Bayer. I understand the practicality of it but do you know what it can do to a team's psyche? It means the manager does not trust "us" and it translates to the field. Your team needs to see a psychologist or mind coach or something. I know what I am saying. This feels different than last season where Naggelsman overthought some things and fought with influential players. Right now, your players feared that Bayer would whoop you and you could see it. This smells like LVG again.

Skrrrrrrr:
Omo. Klay isn't even a good role player at this point. Can't knock down open threes, blowing layup.
Sad to see.

I know I was right about him but you have to understand the power of the mind.

Klay has lost his confidence.

One day we will be honest about the greatness of Stephen Wardell Curry. We will accept that he is a sure-fire top 10 player in NBA history and no doubt the best score Guard the league has ever had.

It appears like the players are playing for their manager, right? They are just inconsistent like young players will be, right?

Yea.

That's what I thought.

Kimbeast:
Absolute nonsense. Even the case was confirmed by Uefa but time barred was the reason they got off free. Epl case is not time barred and they will rightly be punished.

Nonsense.

You guys are so bullish when discussing issues you don't even understand. City won fair and square and the EPLs 115 cases are just mere and poorly worded rehashes from the same UEFA case that CAS ruled in City's favor. City's only fine was for not cooperating with UEFA. City cooperated with CAS, ambushed UEFA with hard core and thorough evidence and bludgeoned them in the court of appeal. In fact, CAS concluded that had City presented the same evidence against UEFA before the initial ruling, they would have won the case.

Stop living in La la land. United just hired City's former COO to become their CEO. Hope you know it means even United have concluded City would win their case against the EPL. In case you did not know, Omar Berrada was signatory to most of the deals in question. If City are guilty, he would be too. QED.

Read here: https://theathletic.com/1959998/2020/08/01/man-city-v-uefa-cas-verdict/