re: 'top teams in their respective leagues' - meaning, teams currently #1 in their leagues? because otherwise, fuck whoever chose benfica in portugal. /yes, i'm mad.
wow, the salah / serie a article is one of the biggest piles of bullshit i've read lately. yeah, completely disregard technical & playing style differences in both leagues + player progress as a regular starter, why don't you. and if the epl is the be-all and end-all of the football world, why are english teams crashing out of europe one by one?
gahh boo, you deleted your comment. jazzypomMarch 13 2015, 09:23:55 UTC
wow, the salah / serie a article is one of the biggest piles of bullshit i've read lately. yeah, completely disregard technical & playing style differences in both leagues + player progress as a regular starter, why don't you. and if the epl is be-all and end-all of the football world, why are english teams crashing out of europe one by one?
LOL a question for the ages. I just remember how Jozy Altitdore was supernova in the Eredivisie and came to the PL and only got one goal with Sunderland the entire time he's been here, then went to MLS and seems to have started off well. It's just different leagues play up the different aspects of a player's style. Or it could be various tactics that suit Salah, or even the cliché of confidence. Salah is getting first team minutes and a coach who seems to believe in him, whereas Mourinho seemed to malign him on the sidelines
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Re: gahh boo, you deleted your comment.jazzypomMarch 13 2015, 10:26:53 UTC
Yeah, Guardiola really brought about a sea change with his positional football. He took Cryuff's ideas, distilled them and had the fortune of having intelligent game savvy players (short supply, them, never as much as you'd think!), and what with Mourinho's Real Madrid and such, it made for magic, during that period of 2009-2011 that's for sure.
I think English coaches/ teams saw that and something got lost in the translation. I look at Brendan Rodgers LFC and see what he's trying to do, and come away as him not seeing the entire picture. Yeah, LFC is doing well, I'm not going to deny that, and okay Anfield's pitch isn't what it should be I'm not going to deny that either - but something is lost in the translation
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RE: Re: gahh boo, you deleted your comment.marsykeMarch 13 2015, 11:09:09 UTC
Lol they definitely will. New coaches will find new solutions. Spurs are an interesting team that's for sure, if only they could indeed find a good balance between defense and attack.
wow, the salah / serie a article is one of the biggest piles of bullshit i've read lately. yeah, completely disregard technical & playing style differences in both leagues + player progress as a regular starter, why don't you. and if the epl is the be-all and end-all of the football world, why are english teams crashing out of europe one by one?
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LOL a question for the ages. I just remember how Jozy Altitdore was supernova in the Eredivisie and came to the PL and only got one goal with Sunderland the entire time he's been here, then went to MLS and seems to have started off well. It's just different leagues play up the different aspects of a player's style. Or it could be various tactics that suit Salah, or even the cliché of confidence. Salah is getting first team minutes and a coach who seems to believe in him, whereas Mourinho seemed to malign him on the sidelines ( ... )
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I think English coaches/ teams saw that and something got lost in the translation. I look at Brendan Rodgers LFC and see what he's trying to do, and come away as him not seeing the entire picture. Yeah, LFC is doing well, I'm not going to deny that, and okay Anfield's pitch isn't what it should be I'm not going to deny that either - but something is lost in the translation ( ... )
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