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Adrien Rabiot
BBZ8800 Ok I'll take it bit by bit. You used the point distribution method as I did, but you made it go from 6-17 rather than 10-20. I was simply trying to categorize teams as "top" and "bottom" to go by halves. The reason being teams around #6-8 in the table, especially in the cases of La...- DonAndres
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- Forum: Other Players
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Adrien Rabiot
You know what is arrogance? Thinking that just because you "watch a league" more than someone else you are the only authority capable of making arguments about it and completely above a metric like the UEFA coefficient designed by people who's careers revolve around football which basically...- DonAndres
- Post #809
- Forum: Other Players
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Adrien Rabiot
Your way is actually far more inaccurate, it is completely unstandardized. I've been watching all of Ajax's games this season. The quality of football they play relative to their competition puts even Barca and City to shame. The information I gain purely from watching them is that they play...- DonAndres
- Post #804
- Forum: Other Players
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Adrien Rabiot
You've brought up Kante like 100 times with no relevance at all. Tell me plainly. What does Kante coming from Ligue 1 have to do with the strength of bottom Ligue 1 teams? Not "but they produce talent that goes elsewhere", their ACTUAL success in the league. Does the fact that Kante went on to...- DonAndres
- Post #802
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Adrien Rabiot
Lol, Kante played a whopping 1 season in Ligue 1 and finished 13th with Caen after which they've as usual been entrenched in the bottom 10 and the bottom 5. Really resounding argument about the ability of bottom Ligue 1 teams to compete with the top ones, eh? N'Dombele and Lemar also left tiny...- DonAndres
- Post #798
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Adrien Rabiot
Again, Jair Ventura, what does that matter when none of those players play there? The upwards mobility in Ligue 1 is disgustingly poor compared to La Liga, the bottom teams pretty much exclusively stay there whereas in La Liga lower table teams routinely move up and historically...- DonAndres
- Post #796
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Adrien Rabiot
The midtable teams in la liga is inarguably FAR ahead of Ligue 1 for the reasons DonAK has listed and a few more (like how lower table teams seem to routinely knock RM out of CDR, even if RM aren't trying as hard that still shows strength in those lower teams). And I'm completely discounting...- DonAndres
- Post #792
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Gianluigi Buffon
It's a moot point that France has much more talent production atm. France just won a WC on the back of what is a golden generation for them in terms of talent. Yet how many of those players actually play in Ligue 1? 2 of the starters, only one of whom is a key player? Compare that to Spain's...- DonAndres
- Post #174
- Forum: Other Players
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Gianluigi Buffon
Being a source for talent doesn't really correlate with competition level. Otherwise why aren't the Eredivisie, Portuguese league, and to a lesser extent the Belgian league competitive when all 3 produce more talent than some big leagues like EPL or Serie A? And yes, it does matter when you can...- DonAndres
- Post #152
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Gianluigi Buffon
You misunderstood my point. I didn't say any of them were bad players.... The ones that were 'bad' immediately prior to coming to Ligue 1 were mostly way past their peak, and then suddenly jumped up again in Ligue 1 (but coincidentally, only in Ligue 1 and not the other comps they've played)...- DonAndres
- Post #144
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Benjamin Mendy
Yours and everyone elses :lol: had at least 3-4 friends tell me independently they were getting him after those two games. Dude's gonna be one of the biggest name fullbacks by the end of the season I reckon.- DonAndres
- Post #21
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Frenkie de Jong
He was everywhere defensively today, at least 8 or 9 times winning back possession - and that's only what I noticed. Offensively not as good today, a couple spells at the beginning of both halves where he was sloppy with the ball in questionable situations. Even then his overall play was smooth... -
Gianluigi Buffon
That's a bit disingenuous. Both of those are examples of young players developing over time, who hadn't previously broken out until they got to Valencia. You're really flaming a 20 year old at the time for not breaking into PSG's lineup? Kondogbia wasn't even bad for Inter, had some good seasons...- DonAndres
- Post #140
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Gianluigi Buffon
Well it's not like Neymar just went from scoring a pathetic 13 goals in La Liga to basically at least 1 goal and 1 assist per game in Ligue 1 just off sheer improvement. And then when you look at how much he underwhelmed in the WC and CL while simultaneously embarrassing pretty much every team...- DonAndres
- Post #128
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Champions League
FDJ's defensive positioning is really good. Seen him make like 3 interceptions and a couple tackles already, their most consistent ball-winner so far in midfield. Also a couple nice runs/passes and good overall play. -
Ivan Rakitić
I personally don't care if that's what Rakitic is even doing, which is unlikely in the first place. My point was on the double standards that those players suffered so much vitriol regarding their contracts and how they "don't deserve higher wages and yearly extensions, let them go elsewhere"...- DonAndres
- Post #7,284
- Forum: Barca History
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How old are you?
20 going on 21 in December Thought after all these years I'd no longer be one of the youngest on the forum but seems like that's still the case :lol: -
Ivan Rakitić
He thinks he's more than he is. He's a niche role player inflated by the 4-4-2 we were forced to play, not even close to being one of the star players that deserve a fat contract or a legend who has brought us a career's worth of success. Anyone gonna utter a word about Rakitic "using PSG to...- DonAndres
- Post #7,280
- Forum: Barca History
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Ernesto Valverde - V1
What a joke of an interview. This guy is honestly a Mou level idiot with his comments. I have never seen him make a comment about Dembele that wasn't backhanded and loaded, yet he won't ever utter a word about Suarez and his form. Also as messi2140 pointed out he keeps harping on about... -
Frenkie de Jong
Yeah, the last 2-3 games I've watched he has been playing in midfield as LCM in a sort of Iniesta/Modric looking role, so not even as a CDM. Dynamo Kiev might be tough for them but I really can't tell, it's hard to gauge the difference in quality between all the lower leagues. They have to try...
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