CorneliusSulla8: Basically What Chelsea fans crucify Mikel for is what Barca fans glorify in sergio.
What an insult! Why bring Mikel into the same line with Busquets? Crucify mikel all you want. There's a reason why Busquets has won the treble twice, and Mikel is sitting on the bench.
sinizia: The embolden words are your own words and NEVER the words of Barca or Yaya. Barca sold Yaya because Busquets is Spanish and a La Masia product. It's more of being biased. Even in that same year, Busquets was introduced, Yaya outperformed him. So how can a Yaya that outperformed Busquet be a failure? You are just neglecting the truth - Yaya was never sold because he failed in his role. You won't agree with me, so i won't debate it further.
Like I said earlier on before I logged out, if Yaya was that good, he wouldn't have been sold off, and we kept Seydou Keita. Mascherano is still @ the club despite the fact that he became a CB.
Keita was the one that truly shared that DM with Busquets.
SIRcumalot: Examine them outside of the team concept. Because barca's brand of football is suitable to a particular kind of player which Busquets his. He hasn't shown anything to suggest he'll triumph outside this system. Yaya did well with barca only got replaced by a player that better suits the system not a better overall player.
This same trash was said of Messi prior 2013; that he can't play without the guidance of Xavi and Iniesta.
airmark: You should be analyzing snake and ladder game not soccer. Have you heard the slogan " Attack is the best form of defence" before? That's what have been working for barca over the years. They have the best offensive play and retain ball more than anyone. So opponents have little chances of going all out to attack them. Please watch video below:
Story for the gods... Did you comprehend my 1st paragraph?
You might as well call Puyol/Pique/Macsherano/Abidal/Alba the best defenders in the world.
Valdes was also the world best keeper.
Abi what is this rubbish?
Overhyping the defensive component of a team that averages 70% possession per season.
Busquets is the one that covers the azzez of Xavi and Iniesta. These are players that can't tackle or stop a counter attack. Busquets has done that times without number.
Pique is not the best defender in the world, Valdes is not the best keeper either. Busquets is one of the main reasons Barcelona concede the fewest number of goals in Europe.
Nihilist: I will pick Toure over Busquets in my 11 anyday.
This fawning over busquets is something I don't actually get. The guy is good no doubt, but plays for a team containing some of the best players in world football.
He's very slow, not particularly good in the air, and isn't particularly strong either. He is a deep lying playmaker that plays in a possession based team.
Let us see him do it outside Barca/Spain, playing for a team doesn't average 70% ball possession per season, and actually has to defend for once...before we label him the Jesus Christ of DM jare.
raumdeuter: ^^ you dey yarn too much English, Try understand say na Shekpe fans you dey deal with
According to them Yaya is the best Defensive midfielder though he doesnt play in the position because he scores
I now ask, What are the goal scoring returns of other modern DM in the game Though all his coaches would rather get another DM behind him. If not De Jong, its javi garcia, gareth Barry Fernando, Fernandinho How else would you know you are on a Chelsea thread if you dont get those ignorant opinion from time to time
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When a DM is called a deep lying playmaker, then you know you are on the Chelsea thread
My own view.... To me Busquet is a good player, he is the one that does all the work in the mildfield, but for me he is a kinda anonymous players. You hardly notice that Busquet is in a game, and i dont like that kinda player, he also lack attacking instinct.
A Dmf should at least possess one trait . Which is been a goal threat (yaya toure ) Also able to shoot from different angle and score gals. In this era of football what matters is putting the ball at the back of the net and if your opponent score, you score one more.
To me yaya toure is best cause he possess this trait.. Last season he helped mancity win a lot of games
This is my verdict.. We no dy use same eye watch ball
This is the worst quality of a DM. A goal scoring threat? I guess the likes of Gattuso, Makelele, Mascherano, Albertini, are legendary goal scorers
A DM is one who protects the back 4; not one who does the job of a striker. No wonder Man City is leaking in goals like basket in Europe.
StarBoard: Yeah, we beat a "chicken" club, but their side got eaten up by a teenager who by all accounts is yet to start having wet dreams.
They will never be us all in their life. no matter how they shout or speak cockney like that Feminine Bonobo monkey. Two FA Cups in 11 years is all they are masturbating about. One had the gall to say he understands if Chelsea fans troll them. As if he is making any sense.
Please ignore the tsetse flies trying to perch on our scrotal sacs.
airmark: This define the wack level of your arguments. Yaya toure is the African best player 4th year running. May be mikel was doing another sports during those 4 years. Please don't quote me in asinine stuffs like this.
Honestly speaking, I don't care about Mikel
The fact that you didn't quote my case on Busquets shows that you are what Yoruba people call "olote".
airmark: They don't play same role presently, but if he were to be Spanish he wouldn't be pushed out for that diver when he was Dm there. DMs don't play like a lazy a.s,s boring midfielder like Busquets these days. Only drunkards and racists would push Yaya out for that diver in 2009 as guardiola did. I wish de Jong bursted his nose last week with massive punch and send the m0f0 gasping for breath
This is how you guys overrate the EPL. Who the hell is west Bromwich? He is now forming Hulk Hogan against minnows. When UCL gets underway, he will be gasping for breath against the likes of CSKA.
A rookie Busquets knocked Yaya out of Barcelona because he was not good enough for us. The same Busquets is the reason the best DM in EPL then (Mascherano) became a CB.
Busquets has helped Barcelona win 3 UCL trophies, a Euro and a world cup in 6 years. Yaya has not achieved a continental title for Man City.
Even in AFCON, Yaya was not as good as Mikel when they faced each other.
Greatihex: imagine what u just typed. So, hazard has nt saved his team in important moments yet he is considered one of the best in the world currently. You shld nw tel me y he is considered one of the best. Neymar wl bury that chance; U must tink u are telin someone who does nt knw neymar or who has nt seen him miss beta chances than that one.
Show us one very important match Hazard has rescued your team in Europe. Even the Europa league you won, he wasn't your best performer in your team. Even Ivanovic had more impact than him.
Where was god-Messi against the likes of Man City and PSG (your nemesis)? Neymar was the one that destroyed them with his vital goals.
Neymar is the only player in UCL history to score in every knock out stage match from Q/F upwards.
While Neymar is already up there with the likes of god-Messi and CR7 in UCL goals per season, your 2 goals per season player (Musa Hazard) is busy displaying Ikebe Super and was "404 not found" against Arsenal.
Greatihex: even the messi and ronaldo do have day offs. Why must he be an exception.
Because Messi and Ronaldo have paid their dues. They can commit some errors and the fans and critics won't crucify them. Reason is that they've saved their teams many times @ important moments
Hazard hasn't reached such status. He's not @ the same level with Neymar. Give Neymar that chance, and he'll bury it.
airmark: Prior to Suarez moving to barca, he never won epl and the glamorous UCL, but based on your analogy Pedro was a better player because he won 2 UCLs with barca, world cup and euro championship with spain. You are pathetic.
You are comparing Pedro, a bench warmer with Busquets, who sent Yaya and Alex Song packing, and was responsible for Mascherano's (best DM in EPL then) conversion to a CB.
You are comparing Pedro with Busquets who sent Marcos Senna (one of the best DM in the world then) into retirement, and the world didn't blink an eye.
When you wanna compare player, do so intelligently, and don't lemme class you as one of the typical agbero Shekpe fans on the streets of Lagos.
airmark: Nepotism sent Yaya packing not mr diving diver's performance. In fact Yaya was awarded 3rd best midfielder by LFC(la liga) that year he left barca, Sergio was nowhere to be found. . Get your facts right. So, you are free to pass.
And your Yaya is no where to be seen in Europe since then, while Busquets has added 2 more UCL titles, a world cup and an Euro Championship.
By next week, Busquets will deliver a virtuoso performance that will propel Barca to her 4th major title of the year. Yaya will be playing against the likes of Crystal Palace.
airmark: Yea it would look like epistle, since it's against your overhyped player. Next time don't join the gullible ones and rate that diver ahead of better players. Peace
You called the guy who sent Yaya packing overrated because of a meaningless friendly?
I just watched it. I was nt surprised. I said it. He is very sluggish, in 2 years he may get a goalkeeping job in a middle east club. No sensible person will call him the best DM in the world. Barca's awesome offensive play has been covering his a.s.s. In 2013 Illaramendi at sociedad as DM was given best midfielder in laliga under his nose by LFP. He has never been awarded such in spain. What an hype of a Spanish player. He should not cost more than #5m.
All these epistles just for a meaningless friendly match are not worth it. Your hatred for the guy is legendary.