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Kimbeast:
The reputations of many past players have aged gracefully largely because their flaws were never subjected to todays level of exposure. They didn't play in this era of intense social media scrutiny. Now every single game is analyzed to the bare minimum, every misplaced pass, failed dribble, missed chance, and poor performance is clipped, posted, and debated across social media by even amateur viewers like us. Even Messi and Ronaldo were not spared.


With past players, most people remember the highlights, the iconic moments, and the occasional big matches they watched. The countless average performances and bad games are forgotten.

Modern players are also expected to do far more than their predecessors. Strikers are no longer judged solely on goals. They are expected to press from the front, drop deep to link play, create chances, and contribute defensively. Mbappe is coming off a 42 goal In 44 game season yet he's still being labelled a problem at Madrid because he doesn't press enough.

Thank you for this

Mancity have gotten their 130m man


Make any club interested in Enzo prepare thier fee sha

Bluelines69:
Shey these ones done win WC? This celebration no too much

They were on the verge of going home.

And it's their first win in this tourney against a huge nation like Germany

Y'all really don't understand the importance of the world cup

Maybe na cos una country no qualify sha

Ecuador

Ihebu4chelsea:
Lacroix is solid shaaa, Fofana should look for a new team.

Another french cb
Not interested

Lana1:
We all hoped South Africa would get booted out. But they get to finish 2nd. Those that thought they didn't deserve to be there can bite their tongue.

If you want to be at the world cup then qualify for it. Nothing like "they for allow us" or "that team don't deserve to be here"

You're are minding Nigerians

About 5 African teams will qualify to the next stage


But "dem for allow us qualify"😂

Make dem dey play nonsense dey go

[quote author=Illimitable post=139820897]Which of these players was 20 years of age?

At 20, CR7 scored 9 goals in 50 apps
At 20, LM10 scored 16 goals in 40 apps

Your best players in this era couldn’t clean R9’s boots at 20. [/quote
Neymar scored 43 sha
Mbappe scored 39

Nemesis0147:
these arguments are funny
Mbappe and his people are getting these stats now because the game has gone soft and na fraudsters Dey play ball now.

You can’t compare the kind of defenders,,goal keepers we have then to these yahoo boys…

Football then was war!!
It was a do or die affair….not what they are playing now
Most of these new players will be going on injury every week if the game intensity was the same

Na so

Even some the goal keepers and defenders of those days were mid

Players were spamming goals from outside the box

Defenders would afford attackers space to dribble you 100 times


Only few we rugged and it's was mostly unnecessary and dangerous tackles that the players gets sent off or carded for

Capaldi:
I am convinced that if you asked guys on the street who the better player was between Vardy and Adriano , 95% would pick Adriano due to that nostalgia. A player that should be compared to Igor Thiago.

Omo you don dey carry agenda pass wetin I start o

Ah 😂

BlueRayDick:
lolz

You must really love Mbappe gan o ; for you to have rated him like this.

You should also not forget that some of the hire killers disguising as defenders may have ended his career early if he had played in those era dem Henry and co played. At least we saw what injury did to Ronaldo De Lima's career

I understand football has gone soft

Kylian mbappe has delivered for his country on the biggest stage

Twice for that matter

Champions league and balondor are the things keeping him from certain conversations

But currently he >>> drogba and Henry

Once he retires he would have surpassed R9 properly

Capaldi:
Don't let anyone gaslight you into retracting this statement. Some of those past legends are very very overrated. Nostalgia won't make people accept it. You just have to watch past games on YouTube to see it.

See how I'm not indulging it

Mbappe > henry, drogba and R9
Vini > Ronaldinho
The rest is debatable

Aside Ronaldo and Messi they are all timer



We go need discuss some the this fraudulent legends (r9,Henry,drogba,cyruff, Ronaldinho and co)

Once this world cup finish they explain what they have over mbappe,haaland,vini and the likes

andrewbaba44:
Dembele no Dey help matters ,always flopping for France

Kane
Mbappe
Olise

These are the top 3 ,at least for now and base on my favorite to win the wc

Second grade

Yamal
Messi
Dembele

But many things can change

Dembele was good last season

But this season he is not balodor worthy


Those 5 players you mentioned are above him

MorataFC:
Sincerely speaking, Argentina no play anything in this game, they are just lucky to have Messi.

Argentina have been very underwhelming for the amount of stars they have


It's literally just Messi running everything

Make dem no even try give dembele that balodor


Olise
Kane
Mbappe
Yamal
Messi

Should all be above him
If he wins then football has lost its value

A40:
He was struggling to see shirt at Brighton. Football is a funny game.

One thing I know as far as he's fed with chances the guy will score. His eye for goal is good

Was a shocker cos he was really good at union st guiilose in Belgium, discovered him there

And he's not been bad for stuggart too

And Belgium


Dem useless gan 😂

After watching the teams play

France and Portugal (personal bias) still remain my favorites

Japan and Morocco and dark horses

England, Brazil and surprisingly usa will go far in this world cup.

Omo tf
Not Enzo too

I know I slander you a lot but na joke I dey joke, please stay 🥲

Bombblacks:
When has Nigeria ever represented Africa well at the world cup with our numerous group stage exist.

Nigeria is the African country with the most world cup matches wins.

Morroco might surpass it this campaign though

BlueRayDick:
Una wey dey watch this world religiously dey try o. The timing of the matches are just so odd due to time zone issues; to even watch the 9 O'clock matches complete is a big struggle for me, talk more of the 11pm, 2am and 3am matches.

I hope European and African countries get to host more World cup tournaments in the future ahead of the Americas and Asian countries with their unfavorable time zone.

The one in Qatar had the best timing

11am to 9pm

MorataFC:
I know, but that is not the point I am making. Are you saying Canada alone does not have the capacity to host a World Cup event? Why give them such a small allocation?
They have now denied them the opportunity to bid for hosting the World Cup in the next 20 to 30 years because it will be on record that they hosted in 2026, even though we all know they are just like second supporting striker to the USA.

Yes they don't.

Leyqute:
Chelsea needs Cucurella more than Madrid needs Cucurella. Una no get many decent defenders yet una let go one of the few decent ones. Did Alonso sign off on this as well?

Be like say na suffer Una wan suffer this new season.

I don't understand
The team finished 10th

The players wants ucl footy and Madrid was available for him

CrystalTiger:
Who allowed this country to come to WC?

They are young inexperienced side nothing to insult them over

Brazil sef chop 7 for Germany hand

Bluelines69:
We done finally turn stepping stone club, because why are we selling Cucu one of our better players when we all know we’d not get a replacement

He is 28 , he wanted to leave

The offer was good enough

andrewbaba44:
Very weird

Barca never serious for that position ,cucurella is the best man out there alongside di marco

Very Good signing for Madrid ,but what will happen to carreras and Fran Garcia ? Lmao

Fran Garcia and Mendy will leave

Carreas will be back

Madrid just spent 100m on 2 lbs in back to back seasons

andrewbaba44:
😂😂

I'm sure barca was his choice but it seems barca had no interest in him

Weird seeing a la masia graduate play for Madrid

Sportsweb:
Yeah, Hato that is still developing.. Chelsea usual coping mechanism whenever a player leaves

My stance is well documented here

You fit follow cucurella go Madrid sha

A player wants to leave what should we do

This is the most surprising transfer I've ever seen

Hato is 10x better than him sha so good riddance

AirBere:
Eh, that's the problem with narratives.

Abde had elite dribbling but poor end product in previous years. But last season, he had a breakout level season. His dribbling remains absolutely elite and the numbers are coming through now. There's a reason why Newcastle wanted him to replace Gordon until his recent injury.

Laliga: 10 goals, 9 assist in 29 appearances. That's 19G/A

Europa: 4 goals, 3 assist in 12 appearances. That's 7G/A

Copa Del Rey: 2 appearances, 1 goal, 1 assist 2G/A. That's 28G/A in all competitions(43) last season with no penalties.

If Abde played, Ibanez would've been sent off. He would've cooked him so bad.

Wow , was a huge fan of the guy but I stopped following since his end product was poor

I had no idea he had massively improved like this

Then he is a huge miss for Morocco

Roland17:
Watching the snake 🐍 lose his opening game after running his mouth in the pregame match conference is all my soul needs!

How many years you never still forgive cahanoglu 😂😂😂

BlueMann:
Bro bias aside, Morocco dey ball abeg.

That Brazilian right back dey go through a lot right now

Omo that midfielder, the young Moroccan na confirm baller o

Omo