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raumdeuter:
No Kroos hasnt been playing in a deeper position than KDB
both play as CMs with a dedicate DM behind them
Both of them have a DM in Fernandinho and Casemiro

I am saying I cant argue with dayos point which seems to be correct out of assumptions I made....assumptions which seems wrong.

Nihilstjnr:
How's this for a fact:

"I haven't scored yet, but I'm playing as a defending midfielder. My role changed, but my games are good. I know what I bring to the team and what my role is. No one knows what I had to do. People think I play as an attacking midfielder, that's wrong. They see Kevin De Bruyne, attacking midfielder so he has to score and give assists. But they don't look beyond that." - Kevin De Bruyne

raumdeuter:
No Kroos hasnt been playing in a deeper position than KDB
both play as CMs with a dedicate DM behind them
Both of them have a DM in Fernandinho and Casemiro

ok...I cant debate further with assumptions which are not facts... enjoy

raumdeuter:
KDB played in Bundesliga just like Kroos did and KDB led the assists chart and won the player of the year.

Went to EPL and in 3 seasons topped the assists chart twice

Incase you didn't get my point earlier... in those 3seasons kdb have played in the epl with city.... haven't kroos been playing in a deeper position in the same time frame?

raumdeuter:
The midfield Kroos played with was Martines Schweisteiger and Kroos and he was the most attacking of the trio
Also played the 10 role for Wolfsburg topped assist charts and was player of the year

At City he was moved deeper and still continued to boss the assists chart

raumdeuter:
KDB played in Bundesliga just like Kroos did and KDB led the assists chart and won the player of the year.

Went to EPL and in 3 seasons topped the assists chart twice

Let's thank useful strikers like aguero and not ediots like benzema........ meanwhile didn't kroos play in a deeper position compared to kdb in those 3years?

Roland17:
Would you make the same argument against KDB if he played with Madrid? After all he plays with superstars with City, does that diminish his role and impact with the team? I think this is the problem with playing with super stars. However, the good thing is Kroos's position on the field can be evaluated independently of the team results like goals and assists. Real Madrid is not his first rodeo, we have seen him play for Bayern in the champions league before Madrid and he started for both teams. It would be deceitful for me to argue against KDB because he is an excellent player but in comparison to Kroos who is tested and a champion in all competition? hell No!!no comparison abeggi.

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obainojazz:
Get there first

Oar blussss

the gods of okija shrine will feast on your rotten balls you blaaady shyt eating scumcvnt...

Pogba aka adabawole in madrid to bench who? Anyways maybe he will stand a chance against one of the ball boys...

Useless bakayoko 2.0

Mateo Kovacic to Chelsea: Can Maurizio Sarri unlock his potential?


Mateo Kovacic has real pedigree but is still in search of a home

Chelsea have agreed the loan signing of Mateo Kovacic from Real Madrid. He is a huge talent but unlocking his true potential is the challenge now, writes Adam Bate from skysports


When Inter signed Mateo Kovacic at the age of 18 they were acquiring the signature of one of Europe's most coveted teenage prodigies. There was hardly a major club on the continent that had not had their eye on the midfielder from Dinamo Zagreb. It was clear that Inter, the club with which he had once trained as a 10-year-old boy, had pulled off a coup.

Croatian legend Zvonimir Boban described Kovacic at the time as "the complete midfielder" before adding: "I would say that he has the potential to become a better player than I was." The iconic Inter captain Javier Zanetti swiftly declared that this was the most promising youngster that he had seen at the club since the great Ronaldo rocked up there in 1997.

It was always going to be tricky to live up to those expectations, especially when handed the No 10 shirt. Kovacic was in and out under Walter Mazzarri in the 2013/14 season and the situation did not improve once Roberto Mancini returned to the San Siro. He was urged to work on consistency but how was that supposed to come without consistency of selection?

He was sold to Real Madrid in 2015 just days after Zanetti had declared that the club had "total faith" in him, but with Inter no nearer to solving the Kovacic conundrum. Goalkeeper Samir Handanovic insisted that he had "the ability to become the best player in the world in his position". The problem was that it was still not clear what that position was.
Boban saw this flexibility as an asset but it did not always feel that way for Kovacic. In Italy, he was a left-winger and an attacking midfielder as well as a deep-lying playmaker. He took Andrea Pirlo and Luka Modric as reference points - "I like to be in the heart of the action" - but others disagreed. Giovanni Trapattoni described him as "a mix of Kaka and Seedorf".

Anyone who can be compared to no fewer than three of AC Milan's classic Champions League winning team of 2007 evidently has an unusual skill-set. Kovacic can dribble but he likes to play from deep. He does not have the defensive qualities preferred in a holder but is not purposeful enough as a No.10 either, where goals and assists are the only currency.

Andrea Stramaccioni, his first coach at Inter, worked this out pretty quickly. "He won't be playing in the hole as he did as a kid," he had explained, while also noting that Kovacic "does not give you that protection in front of the backline" either. Classy and elegant, yes. But it is tempting to wonder whether Kovacic has too often been defined by what he is not.

"He is not a typical defensive midfielder," pointed out then Real Madrid coach Rafa Benitez upon Kovacic's arrival in the Spanish capital. "He offers quality. He goes forward, he's dynamic, and uses the ball well." He did all of those things throughout his three seasons with Real Madrid - and the statistics highlight this rare combination of gifts.

Kovacic ranked fourth in La Liga for completed dribbles per 90 minutes last season. He also ranked ninth for total passes per 90 minutes and 14th for tackles. Nobody else in Spain was among the top 25 players in the competition for these three disciplines. Kovacic clearly contributed, but only intermittently. Eleven of his 21 appearances came from the bench.

In total, he has made 109 appearances for the world's most successful football club, concluding each of his three seasons there with a Champions League triumph. Just as telling is that he has not started in any of those three finals. It sums up his career so far that he was involved in five of Croatia's seven games in Russia this summer but not the World Cup final.

At 24, there is plenty of time to become the heartbeat of a team with the matches to match the medals. It took time for Pirlo to find his natural role but he eventually flourished only when a team was built around him. It was impossible to persuade Real Madrid to do that for Kovacic. It is unlikely to be the plan that Chelsea have for their latest loan signing either.

Maurizio Sarri already has his playmaker in Jorginho, nobody can rival N'Golo Kante in that box-to-box midfield role and Chelsea have various creative options further forwards. But Kovacic can be an asset in any of those positions. Perhaps the flexibility that has proven so problematic in his career so far is precisely what appeals to his latest employers.That is good news for his prospects of getting on the Stamford Bridge pitch. It is rather less clear whether this increases or decreases his chances of evolving into the consistent world-class performer that many fine judges have long expected him to become. It is still exciting. Premier League audiences are about to get a close-up look at the Mateo Kovacic enigma.

obainojazz:
We are not talking bleached skins here
There are many factors at play, Zidane's eye colour is light green.. You also check how his skin react to the sun and so on. Remember there are different shades of white... Just the way I'm like 7-8pm dark, people like sinizia and neezar are 9-10 pm dark.. We even have shepkites like diggz and airmark that are 12midnight dark.. Bro Zidane is far from a black man.

u don dey madt abi?

Morata should join bakayoko and fvck off too..BIGGER FRAUD!!!!

eph12:

which shop for aba u take produce this one?

neezar:
As it stands now....I just dey come from fellowship

Yansh no be my problem....I just dey think of how i go survive thru out this week

Na wetin make me type this rubbish xo

you wey dey still thank God for yansh just few days ago naim dey form for here.... na wa

Nihilstjnr:
Emery no get sense.

How will you play Ozil on the wing.

No wonder Mendy left defence to go and provide 2 assists.

I hope we get more of the same next week sha.

I hope so too

EarthXmetahuman:
*knocks his head*

you dey knock elder elruditor head....shiorrrr

neezar:
Manu and arsenal 2 fight for the title

I just have this feeling within me it gonna happen

sharrap dia…. that nurse yansh don scatter ur head again this evening... yansh doctor

sod09:
I look like airmark or lamdeuter abi

you wan mia chop ur money finish then u go go call ya daddy for me say I be sars abi? na pity I just dey pity u o....

sod09:
you go bet?

Put 100k...

Una lose...I collect...

Una draw... I collect....

Una win... I still collect..

sinizia:
Elewon Diggz, your matter don tire me. I can't be seen fighting in the mud with a Yorukpite when I'd be hobnobbing with my fellow elites and royals in the UCL. When you win your Yorukpa group, I might consider getting you a seat with the elites. As for now, I wish you bad luck against Lech Poznan and Buraspor on Thursday nights.

Make I go for uwa mgbede jare. Today na Sunday. Elu uwa bu olili. I go bring pami for you on my way back.

you are useless May diadem,elampsbaba and coogs fall on you

Spy360:
Gerrarahia...

fvck you xhaka….

Ozil and Miki mouse are useless....


Afroman aka egusi is weak....

Mustafi and sokratis na joke dem be....

Emery is a goat....

I hope this useless gayner will open yansh and dash us the 3points like dey just did for man shytte?

sinizia:
I don't understand Yorukpa language, can you speak in the exquisite Champions League language? Thanks.

how can you claim to understand champions league language when you constantly get sent home by weak oppositions like sevilla?

lacasera just did a Morata..lol

Unlimited22:
Okay. Let's rest it here.
But Ozil shaa....

I no gree... I no wan rest the case again


ozil and miki mouse just dupe arsenal walahi...criminals those 2

sinizia:
Wetin concern me with una arguments. The main matter now is, how will the Clash of the Yorukpans (Chelshit vs Gayners) pan out next week? Who amongst the middle tier Yorukpa bound clubs will triumph.. Answer fast.

how will ur leicester is bigger than us club cope this season?

Unlimited22:
I hope diggz can see Cech makes weekly mistakes and Ederson doesn't?

my friend the mistake ederson just made was similar mistake cech made earlier.....and if cech dont have ediots like mustafi standing in front of him...he wont be making useless mistakes...


by the way...which keeper no dey make....even ur beloved cvntois was useless for us last season too..

ozil na dimwit walahi… e just spoil ball finish

I hope unlimited22 can see edersons own mistake too?

ole ref....

Unlimited22:
Lucas Torreira is a nice signing for Arsenal. He has good passing range and also provides the steely presence Arsenal so dearly need.

I hope we face egusi and xhaka next week...

sinizia:
Una wey pass from back why una chop am against Shitty?

stop arguing backwards prof abi you smoke eph shyte?

I said most keeper will fvck up if they have to pass from the back against a city team....your keeper inclusive...you dey do agidi then start to turn amala upanda like professor Linizia

torreira looks very decent ojare…

Unlimited22:
I saw a bit of him at Sampdoria last season. By accident shaa. But the guy is really good.