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Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Eruditor: 8:08am On Dec 08, 2016
SmooshCHN:
So the 3 ball didn't fall today but GSW got 115.. Satisfied with the win especially when we don't force 3s.. More games like this is what I look forward to.
I agree and the fact that it was on their home court sweetens me the most. KD 5/17 Steph no single 3 and the score line could have been worse against the Clippers. That's great improvement on D coupled with great passing.

We are at Salt Lake tomorrow a court Klay and Steph always struggle on and I understand we won't travel with Iggy and Shaun. I hope we find a way to beat them sha, the Jazz are defensively solid.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 4:21pm On Dec 07, 2016
airmark:
Mata : 11 goals and 17 assists and Iniesta : 4 goals and 13 assists



Thats why dayo will always be his lord. He is smarter .



Now, i can see you have been joking all this while. Nice try, you got me.
Don't get carried away. He has already been voted and because of that someone said the award overrated him. Telling me again that players who voted know why they voted is moot. You cannot claim you know why they voted, hence why I raised other possible reasons. For instance, Messi can play from now till tomorrow and if Fergie is asked to vote for WPOTY he would vote CR7. It will always be subjective. Same can be said about Pep and Messi.

So come back to the discussion, don't get carried away by pretentious hecklers that know a little above nothing. Mata didn't win a league title, UCL, CDR etc the year Iniesta did all those. I thought we agreed we must consider individual contributions alongside team achievements or else was Kaka WPOTY simply because he outscored CR7 and Messi in 07? Come on!
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 3:51pm On Dec 07, 2016
airmark:
Iniesta with 4 goals was laliga's spanish player of 2008/2009 while David villa with 28 goals, got nothing. Footballers voted for kaka and they knew what they saw, it might be closely fought thats not my biz. If iniesta with 4 goals won ahead of villa, and barca fans like you had no issues with it, then kaka should be left alone with his serie a award. Even xavi who had 6 goals and more assists than iniesta that year was not awarded. so what are you saying? Experts dont judge performances the way you just did. A player like iniesta is overrated based on your analysis.

@ The emboldened, anyone who claimed kaka was overrated in 2007 is high on ogogoro. Even when ronaldo and kaka met at the biggest club soccer stage in Ucl, we all saw who conquered. Some things are better left unsaid. In the past there were sensible controversies that trailed wpoty, 2007's was never one of them.
You weren't supposed to introduce voting because it is subjective. People can vote Kaka because he is handsome and born-again. We must analyse things purely analytically so we can make room for the fact that he could have been overrated. I know Kaka beat CR7 when they met, similar to how Sneijder beat Messi and went on to outscore and out-assist him in both UCL and WC yet Messi won WPOTY and Sneijder didn't make top 3.

Even in 2014, when Messi was voted player of the WC tournament he rightly rejected it because he knew he did not do enough to deserve it. He knew he was being overrated WRT the tournament. That doesn't mean he wasn't great even in it. So again, players voting someone is not a sure-fire proof that the person "deserved" what they voted him for or that what they voted him for doesn't overrate him.

Anyways, I like how you said "a player like Iniesta is overrated based on your analysis". So based on A40s analysis, Kaka cannot be overrated? No, he can. He can if he is mediocre in all competitions bar one. He can if the only reason he is not, is because he was voted for it.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 1:41pm On Dec 07, 2016
A40:
My gee I don tell you make you no too waste your time with these guys. Imagine a full grown adult asking me how a good or great athlete can be overrated. Truly many are mad but few are roaming
You should not have mentioned me oh. They said you were ignoring me. What else will they use to insult me now? grin

The highlited part is so true and funny grin grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 1:28pm On Dec 07, 2016
airmark:
Better. Kaka won serie a player of the year award, voted by his colleagues with 8 goals and 7 assists. Just like iniesta won laliga award in 2009 with 4 goals and 8 assists. Kaka wasn't the main striker, he played behind inzaghi, oliviera, gillardino, his all-round performances as a midfielder impressed his colleagues and was voted for. In a40's words :
That very same season, Totti scored 26 goals and had 9 assists (Top scorer and Top assist man). His team AS Roma also finished in 2nd position whereas Kaka's team finished 4th. BTW Kaka had 6 assists that season not 7 he was 15th on the assist log.

Totti had a stronger case to be the Serie A player of the year according to the very same stats some other person on this thread wanted to use against Cristiano. Can we now conclude that Kaka finishing above Totti, flattered his performances in Serie A that year? What that translates to is that Kaka got more credit than his performances deserved. Which means he was overrated that season in Serie A in this context.

@Iniesta, I don't know the year you are referring to for Iniesta. In 08/09 and 09/10 Messi was the LFP player of the year and he had more goals and assists combined than any other player whose team won a title. So Iniesta would not have deserved it had he won it those years- in fact, winning it would have overrated his contributions to Barca's success those years (at least when compared with Messi)- and thank heavens he did not.

So Kaka did not win a league title. Nor did he win the cup. However, he won the UCL. Sneijder won the cup, league and UCL as well as getting to the final of a WC. Since, Mou who was Sneijder's coach at the time was adjudged coach of the year, yet his best player, Sneijder, wasn't adjudged WPOTY. Can we agree that whoever won that title that year did not deserve to win it? In other words, Messi winning the WPOTY 10/11 was overrating his achievements that year (even if Messi received more votes than Sneijder)

From the fore-going can we conclude that a player's achievements for a year could be overrated even if the said player is great the best, just like Messi was in 10/11?

1. So why is it flawed for anyone to say a player could be great and still be overrated?

2. Why is it 'flawed' for anyone to say Kaka was overrated in 07 when he only performed spectacularly in 1/3 tournaments that he featured in said season?

NB: I am here because some people said anyone who makes both claims is waffling. I am showing you how someone can make both claims (which you don't need to agree with) but it does not mean the person is wrong.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 12:40pm On Dec 07, 2016
AdisaOwala:
That's because your analogies are bereft of common sense & the funniest part is that your misplaced use of big grammar only amplifies your poor comprehension & analytical abilities....
If Kaka's supposed overrated status in the Serie A has nothing to do with the ballon D'or award he Deservedly won (Kudos to you for finally admitting that he deserved the award), why are you still spouting hogwash here?
Finally settled for option 2 init?

grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 11:43am On Dec 07, 2016
airmark:
Before i move to kaka's serie a issue, first accept you goofed by claiming ronaldo deserved 2007 wpoty . I cant waste my time on someone who couldn't accept his errors. The votes were not close, it was a very wide margin and done by coaches and captains. If you add messi and ronaldo's points together they didn't match kaka's. Every sensible analyst wouldn't argue the matter again. This is december, my job offline is demanding in festive periods, trust me i will still squeeze out time to engage you when i could see you are reasonable.
I goofed.

Now please answer the Kaka question. Thanks.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 11:19am On Dec 07, 2016
AdisaOwala:
The boy is confused...

I don envisage another daft analogy from him na why i say i no go answer am again...& he surely didn't disappoint embarassed
This is actually unfair. You where in a cul-de-sac. There were 2 options left: cop out or use invectives. It is the nairaland tradition na.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 11:16am On Dec 07, 2016
airmark:
That's one of the reasons buhari wanted to jack up data price. People like eruditor will vet their posts well before posting. smiley



I am just weak . One ''up barka'' guy said it was ronaldo that deserved it in 2007.



You see human being, you go fear. cheesy From wpoty 2007 to serie a 2007. smiley
Even for you, this is escapist. I thought someone else adduced Ronaldo's 3 CL goals as a reason he did not deserve WPOTY 07 and I agreed with the person. Please justify Kaka's 8 goals in 31 games with a 4th place finish as Serie A man of the year.

PS: You can't say he won it because of votes. (That is a cyclical argument regardless of if resident trolls disagree). You are the google proponent here I am sure you'd have looked it up.

What I want is logical consistency. If Ronaldo's 3 goals were insufficient why should Kaka's 8 goals be? Remember, the end point is to prove that popularity votes CAN overrate a player's ability or achievements.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor:
Nihilist:
Ode leleyi mehn...

What does the above have to do with Kaka?

The example up there doesn't even make sense. Murder is a very specific term and involves killing under specific circumstances. Killing a person cannot be automaticly be conflated with murder. Soldiers who kill in war are not guilty of murder. People who kill in self defence are not guilty of murder. So there is zero fallacy in arguing for a death sentence as a penalty for the very specific infraction of murder. P

This just shows that you like to talk for the sake of it.



Ode Gidi Gaan ni bobo yii...

So we should discount the votes of the Serie A players who played against Kaka for the opinion of a mumu philosopher who is incapable of following a coherent argument from the beginning? grin grin



LMAO

So we should discount the votes of coaches and captains of national teams for the opinion of a mumu philosopher who is incapable of following a coherent argument from the beginning? grin grin


Dude go and sleep and preferably never wake up.
Hahahaha. Hehehehehe. 15 likes. 200 shares. You are not nice. You have no chill. ROTFLMAO.

After that, what else?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 8:34am On Dec 07, 2016
bi0nics:
By wide margin sef..
Can't believe someone would come here and say Ronaldo deserved the WPOTY 2007..ErudiShyte..are you high on crack? huh
A: I think people who commit murder should be given the death sentence.
B: Why?
A: Well, because people who kill others deserve to die themselves.

This is called fallacy of circular reasoning.

B: Kaka deserves to be the best because the votes say he is the best.
E: But why do the votes say so? He only played well in competition X he was average in competition Y and Z.
B: Who do you think should have won it?
E: I won't join issues WRT that. I just think that best player to Kaka overrates what he actually achieved in the said year. In competition Y his team didn't win a pin and he scored only 8 goals. Why was he still voted best player in competition Y?
B: First tell me who should have been the best player?
E: Ok CR7, now tell me why Kaka won best player in competition Y without achieving anything in it?
B: Your judgement is wack. I can't take you seriously. You are confused like Mourinho. *goes on to justify his claim through votes again*
Kaka- 1Billion votes
Messi- 504
CR7- 426

E: huh
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 12:00am On Dec 07, 2016
AdisaOwala:
What is this again for Christ sake?

Did Columbia lift the WC in 2014? Where dem even reach for that particular tourney?

In 2007, Ac Milan won the CL with Kaka as top Scorer - he was the best player in an important tourney his Club won Oga.

I also clearly stated that he was also one of the best players in the world when he was at his prime.





Assuming you were an ardent poster here, you woulda known the people to ask that particular question cheesy



It's common knowledge that the most outstanding player in a triumphant team in the CL or WC is almost always certain to be the best player in either competition ....in the process boosting his chances of winning the WPOTY award DESERVEDLY - your Hames comparison (just like the others you've been making since morning) has flown off tangent yet again.

You really need to calm down, take a deep breathe & re-analyse the whole argument from the beginning.

P.S. : This is my very last response to you on this particular issue..
I am happy it is your last post on the issue. It has been painstaking needing to redirect you to the logic that 'herd mentality' does not let some people on this thread see.

I can understand if my analogies were flying over you like airplanes. If you took deep breaths too perhaps you may have understood some of them. For e.g, you see how you asked if Columbia won the WC? Good, that is the question I asked about Kaka and Serie A yet he was adjudged best player in Serie A of 2007 and someone may use a screenshot from Wikipedia to show it to me without considering that he proves Kaka was being overrated at least in Serie A for that particular year.

You are a good sport I'd give you that. At least you did not resort to vitriol to hide illogic the way some others did.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 11:47pm On Dec 06, 2016
airmark:
wpoty2007







This dude is more confused than mourinho.



When eruditor mentioned ronaldo, i gave up. That's why i didn't honour him with a reply. I didn't want to use bad words to qualify him, he just wasted my time. Davidbanky with bad grammars would come up with something better.
You gave up when you could not answer the question on Kaka that is why I LOLed. I said CR7 for two reasons: it was a bait to get you to answer the question on Kaka which you skillfully dodged. Tuale! The second reason I mentioned CR7 was to show you that holding onto one competition as the sole reason a player should be WPOTY is hollow and that is the kind of process that begot Kaka.

Also, choosing not to use invectives doesn't mean you alone reserve that right. I avoided it as well because you don't need to take everything personal.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 7:38pm On Dec 06, 2016
AdisaOwala:
With his paltry 3 CL goals that season?
Guess what? I agree with you. Same way A40 cannot now be amiss to bring up Kaka's 8 Serie A goals and 4th place finish. I know the UCL is a bigger tournament. But you agree too that James Rodriguez shouldn't have been WPOTY 2014 simply because he scored 6 goals in the WC or that Gotze shouldn't have been player of the year simply because he "outperformed" Messi in the WC final that same year. If James was now voted WPOTY like Cannavaro was in 06 can't we say he was overrated?

I think that's the argument A40 is trying to make. That just because Kaka outperformed everyone in the UCL of 07 despite having a mediocre league season shouldn't have been enough to put him in the pantheon of WPsOTY.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 6:56pm On Dec 06, 2016
Nihilist:
Lmao at seek your attention.

You stuck your long ostrich neck into a discussion that did not concern you only to start vomiting uninformed rubbish.

How many more people are going to tell you to go and start from the beginning?

Nobody is debating whether Kaka is overrated. What we were discussing until you came along was a specific set of criteria that A40 mentioned.

So far, nobody has discussed whether any player deserved his award or not. We are merely discussing whether the criteria A40 described can be applied in isolation to any footballer while yielding consistent results.




Nobody gives a rats arse about your opinions rewarding the WPOTY

You said and I quote:

".. someone's subsequent performances can act as validation for if he is rated rightly or overrated.."

Which is quite a daft position to take as the WPOTY award only considers a very specific historical timeframe.

The WPOTY is award for actions performed in the past. Only a fool like yourself will try to qualify the award with future events.

GTFOH nigga.
Yes I did. The people I mentioned responded. You are the architect of minding your business I don't know why you responded. I didn't mention you. If I wanted to have a conversation with a woman on her period I can get them around me.

Nobody gives a rat's arse about my opinion but you keep responding to it. Talk about irony. The people I am conversing with, regardless of their predisposed biases are still keeping it relatively civil. If you hate yourself I don't need to be your punching bag. This is becoming groupie stuff. At this rate if someone says "In Eruditor's name you'd say Amen"
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 6:50pm On Dec 06, 2016
airmark:
I asked you a simple question, who deserved wpoty 2007, if not kaka ? You wrote all those lines and couldn't give a name? You needed to use that stale trick of bringing other stuffs to change the course of arguement. Though , i saw many flaws in what you wrote but i will ignore them because i understand the trick. Just tell me the player that deserved it 2007.
LOL. Just as I suspected. Christiano IMO deserved it. Ok please now answer my question.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 5:02pm On Dec 06, 2016
Nihilist:
Honestly I have never seen anybody so willfully obtuse and incapable of comprehension...

Let me remind you that neither Airmark nor AdisaOwala are concerned with what happened to Kaka post 2007.

AdisaOwala clearly stated that Kaka in his peak period was clearly one of the best in the world and this cannot be said to be overrated

Airmark told you specifically that he is talking about WPOTY of 2007 not WPOTY of 2007-2015.

Why are you determined to dispute points thar nobody else but yourself is making?

Are you not tired?



So what about Ronaldinho's performance post 2005? Afterall he did not live up to his previous performances...he must be overrated.

What a dumb stance to assume.

The law of diminishing returns means that every player declines. Only a fool like yourself will look at a player's 'subsequent performances' to see whether the player was overrated or not.

This precisely the reason why both AdisaOwala and Airmark are not interested in the BS you keep spouting in such eloquent manner.

Even A40 refused to encourage such Inane arguments and based his decision to label Kaka overrated on league performance the year he won WPOTY.

Please gerrahia. Your mumuness is so annoying.
Even the women in my life don't seek my attention this much. You get all the ooouus and likes you want and it still doesn't satisfy you. "Stoopid, fool, obtuse, mumu" for someone who barely makes a post at you. Are you unhappy with your personal life? Where is all this vitriol coming from?

I thought you accused me of arguing with myself. What do you think you are doing now? I told you, you have got jokes and I mean it in the most deserving way.

FYI I clearly stated that Ronaldinho lived up to his WPOTY 04 status in 05 and that his post WPOTY 04 performance (especially in the following year) convinced someone like me who felt he was undeserving of it just the year before.

You are so quick to point out who reads and who comprehends well so I am assuming you'd figure out what to call yourself following this.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 4:46pm On Dec 06, 2016
airmark:
No you are still very wrong. If someone wins 100m in 11.04 (which is not feasible) that year and it's the fastest that year, you have no choice to accept the tag. But when there are strange reasons for him returning that time as the best then we can say he doesnt deserve it. There's a reason they have records in athletics. I dont even want to go to the genesis of a40's stvpid views which rendered your earlier defence unwarranted. I think nihilist and others had settled that. If you say kaka didnt deserve wpoty 2007, proving it with his subsequent average performances made no sense. I asked you who deserved that world best in 2007 if not kaka, you refused to answer. That hazard is shinning now would not change the fact he played rubbish last season, so also if kaka didnt impress you after 2007, it will never take away the fact he was the best player in 2007.
Like I keep saying this does not need to be another Us vs them argument. You can see the point without coloring it with your own perspective or dismissing it willy-nilly because the same can be done to your own point.

1. For instance, saying something is not feasible is not a tenable way to argue because it is feasible (and you gave one instance where it could be the case) and then insisted that it is the only instance that could warrant the case. In logical terms this is flawed. There are more situations where the fatest man in the world could have a perennially slower time than others. That's not even the essence of the analogy, the simple
question following it is will such a person be less-deserving of the term?

NB: Accepting a tag doesn't mean I can not feel the title overrates the person.

2. You reeled out Kaka's awards but I didn't see Serie A player of the year 2007 which I know he was awarded that same year. His team was 4th and he scored 8 goals in 31 games yet he was rated the best. Is that not also overrating his performances at least in the serie A that year? Do you expect the best player in serie A to have such a miniscule nearing insignificant impact on his league like Kaka did that year? So why is A40 being impugned for mentioning Kaka's serie A fiasco as part of his reason for him being overrated?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 12:54pm On Dec 06, 2016
airmark:
Porto won 2004 ucl because they were the best that season, whether you like it or not. feeling they didnt deserve it could only be reasonable, if other opponents had plane crashes and porto were presented the cup without kicking a ball. May be they were pushed by referees' decisions all the way, you should tell us. There's a reason they called it wpoty 07 and not wpoty of 2007 to 2015. If you extend the dragnet, then it's unfortunate. You should even tell us who deserved to win it that year.
I am not going to join issues WRT to who was deserving of the award in 07. Suarez has already told you people that it is a popularity contest.

Please, see my view point. If down the line say 4 years from now some X athlete wins the 100M dash in the olympics with a time say 11:04 secs and is crowned fastest man in the world, can I be allowed to say he is less-deserving of such an appellation compared to previous winners?

Or as Ronaldinho was awarded WPOTY in 2004 (which I felt should have been Henry) if he went on to play like Kaka did post-2007 won't I be allowed to say he was overrated? I am sure many of us that questioned Dinho's first WPOTY award felt he lived up to his billing subsequently.

Now I am saying this to show you how someone's subsequent performances can act as validation for if he is rated rightly or overrated.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 10:37am On Dec 06, 2016
airmark:
a40 don suffer. smiley





cheesy cheesy cheesy
They tagged something wpoty 2007 and not 2007+ and you said it overrated him. So the award should not be given to someone who would not shine in subsequent years? How did we get here for christ sake? The same kaka that bossed everybody in 2006/2007. Man, wpoty has nothing to do with failure to impress subsequently. That year award was well deserved.
Your logic is sound but your intentions, iffy. It must not be an airmark vs A40 argument all the time. I can accept that Porto were crowned UCL winners of 04 and still feel that even within that year winning the UCL (and by extension being adjudged best team in Europe) was over -deserving. Same way I can accept that Kaka was crowned WPOTY in 07 and still feel it overrates him. If I choose to make my argument based on the quality of previous and subsequent winners of the same award I am not out of place whether the sport section bellicose crew agree with it or not.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 10:19am On Dec 06, 2016
AdisaOwala:
That is the argument you made for yourself - not me....
The fact that great players players like Figo, Rivaldo, Shevchenko Nedved etc cannot be compared to the likes of Zidane, Messi, Ronaldo etc doesn't make them Overated - it's a relative thingy.
If Kaka deservedly won a WPOTY award & was one of the best players in the world for a stipulated period, why should the issue of him being Overated crop up when he was never compared to players that might be superior to him in the 1st place?
What is this again?
Wetin concern British hype & 'player Confidence boosting' (Typical of Mourihno) with the matter on ground? Were those players ever rated beyond their abilities by appropriate Footballing bodies?
You really need to go back and read the genesis of everything cos bruh - you are really posting off point!
Don't borrow their agbero style. You started civil keep it civil. I have no reputation to protect on nairaland.

1. If you say it is a relative thingy then what right do you arrogate to yourself to decide whether being great precludes being overrated. Again, I am saying that is my area of concern.

2. The issue of him being overrated can still come up within the ambits of him getting more credit than he deserves as well as when he is juxtaposed with other previous WPsOTY. If A40 makes a claim, he is allowed to set the limits of his claim. If he did so WRT comparing Kaka to other WPsOTY, then I agree with him.

3. Haba, how can you intentionally miss the point about those examples? All I am saying is, in those examples, the media and Mou were giving the respective players more credit than they deserved. In A40s case, Kaka being adjudged WPOTY in 07 was an overestimation. "Appropriate bodies" is moot. It is still subjective voting that is done.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 9:36am On Dec 06, 2016
Nihilist:
I know it maybe hard for you to read, but A40 did not call Kaka overrated in comparison to any other player...


Go back to the beginning and see the criteria he gave for deciding who is overrated before you come here to talk bollocks.



This is such a stoopid thing to say. The Media were saying Messi could win the world cup in 2014, Copa in 2015 and 2016 because they were overrating him too.



Oponu leleyi o. So a manager talking in private to his player, (who just so happened to be voted the 2nd best player in the world during the period you mentioned) is considered overrating....

Where do they find you people?

Don't reply please..
Don't worry I have noticed you. It is not my time you will waste. I will argue my ability to read with you on NL because life begins and ends here.

This information I am giving is free of charge and what you choose to do with it is your prerogative: I have no horse in this race. I came to explain to Adisa how someone can be great and still be overrated.

As for your illogic on media and Messi I am guessing that Messi had not won several WPOTY awards compared to a fledgling Rooney?

If someone is not the best in the world (by any standard) but you claim he is, are you not giving him more credit than he deserves? The English word for that is overrating.

See how you used "stoopid", "bollocks" "where do they pick this people from?" to qualify someone's posts or his person who didn't attack or even mention you. In the same breath you were throwing shades at those who jump into conversations and accusing another person of waffling. Hahaha

Jokes for centuries.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 9:11am On Dec 06, 2016
AdisaOwala:
Last time I checked, nobody implied that Kaka is the greatest attacking Midfielder of all time so I really don't get this your "Apples vs Oranges" comparison.
Maybe you should relax, take a deep breath & follow the Convo from the beginning...
Oga - 'Overated' in this context means he probably didn't deserve to win a WPOTY award or that he wasn't one of the best players in the world for the 3-4 years wey him take reign......an assertion that's clearly false!
As for his decline, it was hardly his fault...
He might have struggled in his debut season at Madrid but the injury(8months) he copped at the begining of his 2nd season literarily ended his career !
There was no way a 28 year old was gonna return to blistering form & fitness after such a lengthy layoff so I really don't get what you are on about.
You are smarter than groupie trolls want to make you out to look. Perhaps, you are the one who needs to pace yourself. If Kaka is being compared to previous WPOTY winners, he probably is OVERrated. That's the argument- not whether he is great or one of the best of his time. As you can see your definition of overrated is what is clearly wrong as you have made it out to mean that A40 is arguing that he wasn't one of the best players in the world at the time. That's an argument only you are making.

When the British media in 2004 started saying the English team could win the world cup (in 06) because of Rooney they were overrating him. That doesn't mean that he wasn't "one of the best players of the time". Frank Lampard said Mou would get into the dressing room circa 04/05 and tell him he is the best player in the world. Frank knew it was all a confidence booster because he knew he wasn't the best. Mou was overrating him. Doesn't mean Frank was not one of the best in the world. He was.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by Eruditor: 6:50am On Dec 06, 2016
AdisaOwala:
A40 even said a great player can be overrated.....all in a bid to defend a logic that's clearly outta sorts. grin
His initial response was even the funniest - the fact that Kaka contributed Zilch to Brazil's 2002 WC triumph shock am die...as he see say show no dey for that side, he kukuma decide say the Brazillian dey overhyped....all in a bid to Support his logic by force grin
Kaka at his prime...overrated?
E dey get some Kain Arguments wey person no suppose enter - this Kaka own na typical example.
Oga, the English involved is not that involved to understand. You see what I did there? I used involved twice in different contexts and both hold up perfectly in English.

The synopsis of it all is, a great player can be rated far greater than he is supposed to be hence, the term OVERrated. If an award is introduced termed "greatest striker ever" and people are asked to vote but somehow Aguero wins the poll. We can safely say that award overrates him. In other words, we may accept that Aguero in his prime has been nothing short of lethal, but for any one to stretch it that far into naming him the greatest striker of all time will be overdoing it.

Conclusively, if we are to critically examine Kaka as a player from when he was adjudged best player in the world to when he petered out, it will appear that the WPOTY 2007 that he won perhaps overrated him.
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Eruditor: 6:36am On Dec 06, 2016
SmooshCHN:
Klay for 80pts please cheesy Mizzzbeee, Eruditor where are you guys?
I was sleeping. Just woke up now to peep the score. I don't see GSW losing another home game in a bit so I pretty much knew Pacers had it coming. Klay has always been a savage but he is appearing streaky this season and it is becoming recurrent. Notice he had the same streaky performances during the olympics too. It is tiring. We need more consistency.
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Eruditor: 6:33am On Dec 06, 2016
Donlittle:
This guy, if i have a basketball team, no way you are in charge of trades grin grin
Hahahahaha. I agree. Dirk? At this age? Hahahaha
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Eruditor: 6:22pm On Dec 03, 2016
This game could have been lost as easily as it was won and with a more intimidating scoreline. I think there is a hasty overcelebration on this thread perhaps because Chelsea were a goal down and didn't expect the win. They deserve their win. However, this was not about 3-4-3 but about converting chances and Chelsea did so very well. Let us give it a rest, in the last 8 games Chelsea conceded more chances today than they had in the previous 7 others put together.
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Eruditor: 8:54am On Dec 03, 2016
sapiosexual1:
At .722 , I think you guys have a lot more to worry, don't even think of the Warriors for now. You're at the level of the clippers now grin
grin
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Eruditor: 8:22am On Dec 02, 2016
SIRcumalot:
this ryan anderson fella for the rockets is a beast!!!
harden needs to work on his closing,
if Curry never had foul trouble early or klay shot better this na warriors win.
great game.
Klay bricked hard today. 4/20. Rockets finally snap their 8 game losing streak against the Dubs. I knew Curry's foul trouble would bite GSW somehow but I still hoped for the W because of home court. Some questionable officiating but at least this L will make them serious for the next 8 game stretch again. So it is welcome.
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Eruditor: 8:13am On Dec 02, 2016
Deserved L. Moving on.
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Eruditor: 7:46am On Dec 02, 2016
Rockets should take this L and go home now. What's their stress?
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Eruditor: 7:46am On Dec 02, 2016
lolawilliams:
Yeah. its obvious a team that takes a 3-1 lead wpuld get it all, but you know good and well that the Cavs in playoffs is a diff team entirely. Well, lets just keep enjoying the reg season games for now cheesy
You get bragging rights for now playoffs wise. I'd leave it at that.

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