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Ibime:
James has never proven his speed endurance / stamina in a back four.

Guy used to gas out sprinting back from attacking positions. Not surprising given his body size. Large muscles tire quicker.

For now, no one can say definitively he is better than this or that until his stamina is tested in a back 4. His recovery runs were not great in comparison to Trent. A wingback can sometimes catch their breath after bombing forward while the RCB come across to cover. A fullback hardly has such luxury.

Liverpool play 3 stationary midfielders who hardly ever venture forward, most of Trent's defending is done by Fabinho and Matip. You'd wonder why he doesn't make similar attacking forays when playing for the 3 Lions.

Shukusheka:
Liverpool play 3 stationary midfielders who hardly ever venture forward, most of Trent's defending is done by Fabinho and Matip. You'd wonder why he doesn't make similar attacking forays when playing for the 3 Lions.

Not necessarily. He still has primary responsibility for that right back and comes back more than you would expect. A lot of times what we call poor defending from Trent happens after he has run the length of the pitch forward and chased the length of the pitch back again and just run out of steam in the last 5 yards to follow a quick dart from the attacker. When I've seen Trent told to focus on defending mostly like when he faced Leroy Sane, he was solid.

James I would say start gassing on the halfway line on the way back. And James also played with stationary midfield of Jogs, Kante and Kova in Lampard first season when I noticed his recovery stamina is not great. Just looking at his body, you can tell. It's not rocket science. You don't see middle distance runners with such body frame, only sprinters. It's not a problem per se. He would just have to adapt his game slightly to be a bit more conservative as a fullback and choose his runs, he can't do what Trent, Dani Alves, Hakimi, Alphonso do, running up and down non stop.

CAPdan21:
Elruditor is still here na....just masquerading on another monkier...by their fruits we shall know them

Exactly. Don't know why people can't recognize his new moniker. He's not hard to figure out using his allegiance and love for anything Pep.

Beorn:
Exactly. Don't know why people can't recognize his new moniker. He's not hard to figure out using his allegiance and love for anything Pep.

Nobody is Elruditor. I can spot him from a mile off. Who do you think it is?

Beorn:
Exactly. Don't know why people can't recognize his new moniker. He's not hard to figure out using his allegiance and love for anything Pep.

As in... it's obvious, even some of his arguments are that which elruditor has argued various times as well as his intense dislike for klopp

Ibime:
Not necessarily. He still has primary responsibility for that right back and comes back more than you would expect. A lot of times what we call poor defending from Trent happens after he has run the length of the pitch forward and chased the length of the pitch back again and just run out of steam in the last 5 yards to follow a quick dart from the attacker. When I've seen Trent told to focus on defending mostly like when he faced Leroy Sane, he was solid.

James I would say start gassing on the halfway line on the way back. And James also played with stationary midfield of Jogs, Kante and Kova in Lampard first season when I noticed his recovery stamina is not great. Just looking at his body, you can tell. It's not rocket science. You don't see middle distance runners with such body frame, only sprinters. It's not a problem per se. He would just have to adapt his game slightly to be a bit more conservative as a fullback and choose his runs, he can't do what Trent, Dani Alves, Hakimi, Alphonso do, running up and down non stop.

Baba, you couldn't have put it any better. You just said everything in my mind.

Another thing i've noticed about Trent is how he defends 1v1 well against 'shakushaku' wingers who like to hold on to the ball but struggles against those fast, direct and pacy ones. I've seen him nullify players like Sane and Ribery only to get rinsed by Dwight McNeil, Rashford and even Sterling on occassion.

pkasso:
Baba, you couldn't have put it any better. You just said everything in my mind.

Another thing i've noticed about Trent is how he defends 1v1 well against 'shakushaku' wingers who like to hold on to the ball but struggles against those fast, direct and pacy ones. I've seen him nullify players like Sane and Ribery only to get rinsed by Dwight McNeil, Rashford and even Sterling on occassion.

Correct. I would say he struggles against those direct wingers darts mostly after coming back due to tired legs. It get the way someone will quickly make a 5 yard run that you can't keep up with due to lactic acid in your legs when you've just returned from the other end of the pitch.

pkasso:
LOL. You must be joking. Hakimi was only behind Lukaku and Lautaro Martinez in helping Inter win the Serie A last season, their first in the last 10 years. He was unarguably the best RB/RWB in the whole of Europe last season.

E say James played a huge role in.Chelsea winning the CL last season. LOL. I fit mention at least 6 players that contributed more to Chelsea's CL success than James.

Name the 6 players.

I dare you.

Kloppo:
Don't even near the managerial stuff because Gerrard did an invincible in Scotland and stopped Celtic from winning their 10th straight league trophy while Lampard was sacked at Chelsea,bottled Derby county EPL playoff

UEFA team of the century,most EPL team of the year,most UEFA team of the year,most FIFA team of the year > goals and assists

Trash talk!!

Goals and assists, trophies.... Gerrard will always be under Lampard.

Let top Club appoint Gerrard first, then will he be qualified to be compared to Lampard.

New York times did a good piece on Fabrizio romano and gave an indepth view of the inner machinations of football transfer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/sports/soccer/fabrizio-romano-transfer-rumors.html

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CAPdan21:
Elruditor is still here na....just masquerading on another monkier...by their fruits we shall know them

Shame on him if he is really here.

pkasso:
You are right. James has been the better player this season. In the same light, i can name over 20 players better than Messi this season. Does that mean they are actually BETTER than him? Recency bias is really a thing.

Messi has won it all, individually and collectively so doing comparison in that manner doesn’t make sense. James can be compared to Hakimi due to their individual and collective achievement so far.

pkasso:
LOL. You must be joking. Hakimi was only behind Lukaku and Lautaro Martinez in helping Inter win the Serie A last season, their first in the last 10 years. He was unarguably the best RB/RWB in the whole of Europe last season.

E say James played a huge role in.Chelsea winning the CL last season. LOL. I fit mention at least 6 players that contributed more to Chelsea's CL success than James.

Not the first time I'm seeing something along this line about a player..."he didn't play a key part in our UCL success, I can name X guys who did more than him..." So if six guys indeed contributed more than James, that means James couldn't have played a huge role in our CL success, or those six guys are the only ones who contributed greatly?

Someone who was a regular fixture in the squad, starting half of the games in the knockout stages then playing full 90mins in the final, delivering a MOTM worthy performance in the process...but somehow he didn't play a huge role in the UCL triumph.

Na wa.

izzou:
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3-1 against Manyoo with some of our key stars like Kerrby and Eriksson missing.

donstan18:
Name the 6 players.

I dare you.

In no particular order; Mendy, Rudiger, Azpi, Kante, Jorginho and Mount.

BlueMann:
3-1 against Manyoo with some of our key stars like Kerrby and Eriksson missing.

Someone said Pernille Harder did this to the female Maguire

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Pep yet to win European cup outside Barcelona. Not that he went to poor team after leaving barca. Raumdeuter and popizaino make Una Dey overrate pep because him get luxury to play how him like.

hensben:
Pep yet to win European cup outside Barcelona. Not that he went to poor team after leaving barca. Raumdeuter and popizaino make Una Dey overrate pep because him get luxury to play how him like.

Stop this rubbish. What kind of jealousy is this?

You think Pep is overrated for making a mockery of EPL? You think it is easy to stay competitive for 38 matches? Any team can steal results in cup games but winning a league in that parades 6 top teams requires consistency; and to win it repeatedly requires even more genius-like consistency.

Only a fool or probably a troll will undermine consistency. I would prefer Chelsea to become consistent than win an UCL and go on to disappoint the next season.

BlueMann:
Not the first time I'm seeing something along this line about a player..."he didn't play a key part in our UCL success, I can name X guys who did more than him..." So if six guys indeed contributed more than James, that means James couldn't have played a huge role in our CL success, or those six guys are the only ones who contributed greatly?

Someone who was a regular fixture in the squad, starting half of the games in the knockout stages then playing full 90mins in the final, delivering a MOTM worthy performance in the process...but somehow he didn't play a huge role in the UCL triumph.

Na wa.

Una suppose dey calm down. No be everything una go dey emotional about.

I'm not saying James didn't try but when more than half the team contributed more then, you can't be said to have played a HUGE role. Simples.

Which MOTM performance did he deliver in the final? Kante was clearly the best player on the pitch that day. Later, una go dey vex when Havertz.10 claims Havertz won the CL for Chelsea

I just even checked the UEFA CL Squad of the season to confirm. There were 7 Chelsea players on that list and James didn't even make it. Na persin wey play HUUUGE role be that oh!

pkasso:
Una suppose dey calm down. No be everything una go dey emotional about.

I'm not saying James didn't try but when more than half the team contributed more then, you can't be said to have played a HUGE role. Simples.

Which MOTM performance did he deliver in the final? Kante was clearly the best player on the pitch that day. Later, una go dey vex when Havertz.10 claims Havertz won the CL for Chelsea

I just even checked the UEFA CL Squad of the season to confirm. There were 7 Chelsea players on that list and James didn't even make it. Na persin wey play HUUUGE role be that oh!

Emotional ke

MOTM worthy...meaning the performance in itself was worthy of the award, just that someone else had an even better performance.

Besides six out of the full squad is not half of the team na

James was a key player for us in our UCL triumph...whether hooge role or mighty role.

And as for Havertz...he did score the winning goal, so he did win the CL for us - at least in a certain context.

By the way, Pulisic scored yesterday ( abi early this morning) three minutes after coming on for the USMNT.


How I wish we can see this Pulisic again

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pkasso:
Alaba is the most versatile player in the world so i can understand your confusion. He started out as a LB but he rarely plays there these days. I think he has even played more as a CM than even LB in recent times.

He has played consistently as a CB for over 2 years, far more than any other position. The last time Alaba played as a LB on a regular basis was in October 2019. Even when Davies got injured for 3 months, he remained at CB. He has moved to Real Madrid now and he is still starting as a CB. What does that tell you?

Talking about the most versatile player in the world .. James milner has that position on lockdown..

pkasso:
In no particular order; Mendy, Rudiger, Azpi, Kante, Jorginho and Mount.

So James didn’t play a huge role in our UCL winning because of these players?

Nawao!

hensben:
Messi has won it all, individually and collectively so doing comparison in that manner doesn’t make sense. James can be compared to Hakimi due to their individual and collective achievement so far.

Hakimi has played at 4 top clubs in 4 of the Top 5 leagues and he's only 23. Someone that was playing CL football when James was still slugging it out in the Championship. The most expensive full-back of all-time. Even for individual accolades, dem no be mates.

The only reason i'm tolerating this argument is because of their age bracket and the obvious potential James has. Hakimi is better.

BlueMann:
Emotional ke

MOTM worthy...meaning the performance in itself was worthy of the award, just that someone else had an even better performance.

Besides six out of the full squad is not half of the team na

James was a key player for us in our UCL triumph...whether hooge role or mighty role.

And as for Havertz...he did score the winning goal, so he did win the CL for us - at least in a certain context.

James na your guy so i can understand why you would go all out in his defense.

I'm referring to the Chelsea average starting 11. James wasn't among the top 6 players for the CL success. His contribution wasn't that different from Chillwell. Mendy, Azpi, Rudiger, Jorginho, Kante and Mount were all better.

pkasso:
James na your guy so i can understand why you would go all out in his defense.

I'm referring to the Chelsea average starting 11. James wasn't among the top 6 players for the CL success. His contribution wasn't that different from Chillwell. Mendy, Azpi, Rudiger, Jorginho, Kante and Mount were all better.

Okay o. I sha know that he played a key role in our triumph. Even though those players you mentioned indeed played more.

pkasso:
Una suppose dey calm down. No be everything una go dey emotional about.

I'm not saying James didn't try but when more than half the team contributed more then, you can't be said to have played a HUGE role. Simples.

Which MOTM performance did he deliver in the final? Kante was clearly the best player on the pitch that day. Later, una go dey vex when Havertz.10 claims Havertz won the CL for Chelsea

I just even checked the UEFA CL Squad of the season to confirm. There were 7 Chelsea players on that list and James didn't even make it. Na persin wey play HUUUGE role be that oh!

E dey very obvious say you no watch that final well,if you're saying James didn't play a huge part

Saw a guy yesterday in traffic with his wife in the car, you could tell that their love was dead, I can't be in the car with my girlfriend and we wouldn't be talking, how? We will sing, gist and be abusing people

Kloppo:
Simple as abc....gerrard was partnered by Hamann,biscan,smicer in 2005 champions league final against star studded AC MILAN and he still shone.... played all his years with below average players

Only time he had quality midfield partners in Mascherano ,Alonso and played the "Lampard position",him and Torres did MADNESS

Please who partnered Lampard in 2012 on his way to UCL victory?