Imagine a Jogginghoe who if they do Chelsea POTY will not make top5 in any season using luck of Donnaruma aligning calendar with Kante to claim award. A nigga that has never been even shortlisted for Chelsea award, getting bullied by common Willian and Mount for Chelsea award, while when names are put forward, won't even be mentioned with James, Silva, Mendy, Kante or Rudiger in his best season
timbros: You told us that Donnamura covered Jorginho up because of saves he made, but VVD didn't put a foot wrong when Allison was breaking UCL final records. Be lieing to yourself
Did Alison save penalty shootout in Semi and Final like Donnaruma while Jogginhoe even missed his penalty?
swiz123: Award you disregarded immediately Jorginho won them
Busquet has been consistently an integral part of all his wins, and he has won a lot.
Award given him by Kante and Donnaruma
Any fool can fluke one summer with help from teammates
That's why his award cupboard is empty except for 2021 summer. Even common Miralem Pjanic used to bully him for Serie A midfielder of the year which Pjanic used to win back to back while Jogginhoe never smelled it
swiz123: All these epistle on Fernandinho and yet not a single reason why his robustness didn't account for any UCL trophy which escorts have. Even Rodri has made UCL final unlike robust Fernandinho. Rodri could have made another final if not that Fernandinho was caught shamefully escorting Vinicius after treating him like a 500 naira Olosho.
Anybody can fluke a tournament with luck and penalty saving goalkeepers like your Jogginghoe, league consistency has spoken for Fernandinho
FirstbornWds: The same against Spain where he made 8 interceptions which was the highest number made by any other player in that competition.
I'm not even a fan of his to begin with... I only interfered cos Hesben was trying to compare him with one of the greatest DMs of all time.
When you park the bus, a DM makes many interceptions because space is tight and most opposition attempts to pick through a parked bus will run into interceptions from the DM. That's where he racked up interceptions to fool the gullible with false stats. You can check Chelsea interception stats in 2012 UCL to confirm
More telling in that game is how he was hiding from the ball as usual under the press, and how he made virtually the same no of passes as Veratti who left the pitch on 73 mins while he played 120
And he still didn't make the top interceptions per 90 mins for the tournament despite his bus parking extravaganza against Spain
FirstbornWds: The same seven matches that cemented him as UEFA best midfielder... Nah.. You don't know better than them
Jogginghoe was nowhere near top of anything per 90 mins
He is the only non defender that played every minute of 7.matches including 3 that went to extra time. He simply had far more minutes on the pitch than any other non defender. Veratti within his own team performed above him in all the metrics per 90 mins
Jogginghoe simply went hiding when teams matched Italy 3 for 3 in midfield, he was lucky to have a parked bus defence and a goalkeeper that saves penalties. You have no clue what you have been yarning since morning. Lazy and clueless people point to overall stats as if they are sharing good information and making foolish assumptions on that. That's why Oyinbo man say a little information is a dangerous thing
Who can forget against Spain when Jogginghoe was actively hiding from the ball behind players, Veratti was the only one even showing for ball that game.
FirstbornWds: Maybe I should juggle your memory a little. Jorg's style of play was limited by a long stretch because Tuchel believed that he had a midfielder in Kante that could make dashing runs with the ball into the box and Kovacic who'd load the sideways for either Chillwell or James to overload the box until something happens. Jorginho's work was just to serve as a figure head for protecting the defense and maybe maintain tempo of the game which he shared with Kova too. This was different in the Italian national team as he was VERY pivotal to their winning it.
Mount was the only one tasked with creating chances from the middle and he was also a forward player which didn't really make it too obvious and now that he's no longer in form, it feels like a herculean task for the rest of the team since they are not used to it.
Maybe the overhaul is what you guys need but I tell you again, it's not completely Jorg's fault that he was limited.. The Chelsea's managers, were primarily at fault.
This is nonsense stats from being the only DM playing 7 matches, playing extra-time in 3 of them, and parking bus.
swiz123: Busquet and Jorginho all have a champions League whereas Pep hasn't produced a UCL outside Busquet. Does Pep coach Spain and Italy where these DMs won trophies?
Just remove Fernandinho there before I ask you where is his UCL and international Trophy. Lastly, I am glad you didn't mention Horjtout!
There are a million clubs in this world and slow and weak DM are bounced out of their position in every club, you only have an anomaly sample of one or two weak DM whose teams were so good, their lack of defensive ability did not matter
You can only harp back to the Xavi and Messi carryalong years from a decade ago and a "regista" DM who had to bus park and rely on penalty saving goalkeeper instead of winning it in true regista fashion
Anybody with sense knows that despite the Rodri hype, he is a downgrade on Fernandinho, and Rodri is only weak in stopping counterattacks (unlike Joggingho who is weak in counterattacks, keeping the ball under pressure, and aerial duels), yet that is enough to show the difference between him and Fernandinho
Before Rodri, Fernandinho had marshalled Man City to 100 and 99 points back to back. Immediately Fernandinho was replaced, Man City dropped to 81 points, 86 points and 93 points even with Walker being held back to cover counterattacks that Fernandinho used to cover
So while you felate on Rodri for how he looks on the ball, those who watch ball like me count the number of occasions they were counterattacked and Rodri was not there, and compared to how often it used to happen before. Those incidents are the difference between 100 points and 80 something points. Like I said:
Ibime: You only see what is Infront of your eyes, while I think in terms of how players qualities affect the spaces on the pitch, we can never be the same.
I will wait for you to take us to the meaning of world class.
Rubbish
You just named 2 carryalong DMs that get disgraced consistently and a Rodri who has never been able to match the consistency Fernandinho brought to Man City that was taking them to 99 and 100 points consistently
All the DMs you mentioned are living off Pep tax while the spineless Jogginghoe had one lucky summer living off other people's efforts
It's funny when leprous fingers are asked to mention DMs, they always mention Pep DMs. Pep the saviour of spineless DMs. Is it only in Pep team that you find spineless DM to mention. Show me their success outside of that, there are 1,000 plus clubs in this world. Fairy cōcksuckers whose fantasy of effeminate DM only comes to life when Pep is involved
Nobody you mentioned can lace the boot of Casemiro or Fernandinho
airmark: There's nothing old school in Ibime criticizing spineless DMs. Ancelotti must be old school for bringing Tchouameni right? Real Madrid had Casemiro who's not spineless and won multiple Ucls.
If not for Kante, do you think a midfield of Jorginho would have seen us go all the way in Ucl? In fact these days there must be steel in your middle.
Having a solid anchor man, is not old school. Arsenal without Partey will be like scotch egg without egg, and Arteta is not old school.
They are the old school ones, thinking fast modern AMs will pity sluggish DM like in those days
swiz123: Bro, there is everything wrong in being an "old school" analyst in an evolving sport. Most of the time, their logic leaves modern analysts confused.
Two and these old school analysts are Popizaino and Ibime.
The former believes being fanciful with passes is enough to be make one a DM hence be suggested Pirlo can play DM in this Chelsea side facing demonic pressing week in week out.
The latter believes that a DM must be strong and fast first before having other qualities hence he hates any DM that doesn't have that attribute no matter their achievement in the modern game. Recently, he hid under financial reasons to suggest his preferred type of DM Amrabat ahead of Enzo.
My point is, take everything old schools say with a pinch of salt. With them, what is good or bad depends on whether they are vintage enough.
You talk nonsense. I am responsible for what I type, not what you understand
I've always said a DM must have no weakness, whether technical or physical. That's why I hated Bakayoko more than I hated Jorginho even before Bakayoko was signed.
I'm a big fan of Enzo, I always believe £100m figures is better spent for world class forwards, not defensive midfielders. A team can function very well with a good DM, he doesn't need to cost £100m. Despite spending £100m on a DM, did it make us defeat common Fulham and West Ham parading £20m DMs?
My knowledge of football is very well rounded, unlike you who went from Jogginghoe biggest hater to Joggingho biggest fan, even hyping that we would win league last season just because you thought with Lukaku added to your Jogginghoe, you now have firepower and defensive solidity, while I told you Jogginghoe drags the team into a defensive shape and can never form the foundation for an attacking team which is what you need to win points consistently. You only see what is Infront of your eyes, while I think in terms of how players qualities affect the spaces on the pitch, we can never be the same.
I need to know where Robben picked the cross from and where he was playing from in the highlights? It is almost strange that some of you will disagree with me about were we should play Ziyech.
It is how Amoto94 calls my take ridiculous even in the face of overwhelming evidences.
I wonder why Robben coaches switched him to RW for 90% of his career
See the examples you were giving like Bale and Robben from over a decade ago
We are not going back to Amuneke 4-4-2 winger style to fit your Ziyech fantasy. When we see winger that can dribble well on the same side as his favourite foot like Leroy Sane, we will know.
Cross field pass from Sabister to Shaw. Shaw picked Rashford with a perfect cross from his favourite left foot from the left side of the pitch.
Potter keep playing and be playing Ziyech from RWF. Na you go chop sack laslas.
Fullbacks play on their favourite side while wingers are inverted. Same foot, same wing cross usually comes from fullbacks
Ziyech played right-wing at Ajax. He no fit dribble on the left side, not many wingers can dribble when stationed on their strong foot side, except Leroy Sane. We are concentrating on better things, you are talking about Ziyech. Before we think of who to play LW, Mudryk, Pulisic and Sterling are the ones who are stronger on that side and take precedence over your Ziyech obsession
lordfalcao: Ibime come and tell us why the robustness in hojberg was conceeding cricket scorelines against a team that their major signing is the metersaeker looking soutter
Since you didn't mention me last week, don't mention me this week