Fuck off with your dollards, we don't want monopoly money here.
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He "gave him the key" because we had no other creative attacking options at the time unfortunately. Our No 10 was Siggy for a sizable amount of that time, and in that time our No 10 had zero assists and zero throughballs.
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Lamela's not really a No. 10 though:lamelawtf::holtbytongue:
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Agreed. Forgoing loans entirely would severely limit incomes and player development in the very near future after doing so. Our loan situation is no worse than any other big club with players going throughout the tiers of English football, and off to the first tier of Spain.
Exactly, they weren't played there in the majority of the time mentioned. Holtby almost never played with Townsend during that time since Townsend was in the league team and Holtby was seeing his minutes in the Europa, and Eriksen was still trying to find his feet.
Lamela's not really a No. 10 though
So? He should have been part of our creativity.
And he's certainly not built for the wing in the prem IMO.
Ok. Scholes, Cabaye, Modric, Fabregas, Allen, Henderson etc etc - all PREMIER LEAGUE midfielders that aren't "genetic freaks" but have some exceptional passing stats.
You JUST said to me mentioning Carroll in the same sentence as Xavi and co is the "lamelaphant in the room" - then you suggest Giovani Dos Santos upstaged Bale and Modric when he scored 12 goals in all competitions last season "in a slower league" as you also said, which also renders saying he is a "star" that we should have kept nonsense as well.
Again, completely contradicting yourself post after post.
Again, if you look at the line ups for the early games you'll see AVB was trying to bring him into the first team slowly as a winger. As he is a winger. He was stunted by injury.
How you come to suggest that because we were good in the 60's is why we hold onto INTERNATIONAL footballers like Darren Anderton and that's why our goal difference is not good enough is absolutely puzzling!!
I wonder if Fabracunt or Scholes etc scored almost as many league goals in one season than Modric did in his entire pro career?
That would be a fun fact.
Anyway, I don't think this board needs another Modric conversation. I was gutted Real got that equalizer from the ratty cunt.
It would have been perfect for the most expensive team in the world to get done by hard work and solid pro's on the biggest stage like they did in the league.
So Bale won the Copa Del Rey and Champions League on his own? Sure, he scored the winning goals, but did you watch those finals? Fuck me, he was a ghost in the CL final, and just popped up with a header after missing several chances throughout the game. Playing for RM, you are bound to get 2 or 3 excellent scoring opportunities each game. Personally I felt he was wasteful and had an awful game, result aside.
You are once again looking at this in a very simplistic view - he scored 2 winning goals therefore he is the best player in the world. No. Smicer scored the winning penalty against AC Milan. Juliano Belletti scored the winner in a final.
Your method of thinking reminds me of this:
56 goals in his career so far. Don't recall either Fabregas or Scholes scoring near that amount in one season.
So Bale won the Copa Del Rey and Champions League on his own? Sure, he scored the winning goals, but did you watch those finals? Fuck me, he was a ghost in the CL final, and just popped up with a header after missing several chances throughout the game. Playing for RM, you are bound to get 2 or 3 excellent scoring opportunities each game. Personally I felt he was wasteful and had an awful game, result aside.
You are once again looking at this in a very simplistic view - he scored 2 winning goals therefore he is the best player in the world. No. Smicer scored the winning penalty against AC Milan. Juliano Belletti scored the winner in a final.
Your method of thinking reminds me of this:
You can say Bale out for the last 2 league games cost them the league. With him (and I think Ronaldo was out for the last 2 games too) out, ratty Modders could only get them 1 point out of 6.
The way results went, if they had won those games, they could have won the title too. No Bale, no title.
Anyway...I'm going to drop the Bale and Modric thing. This is a Carroll thread. It's ridiculous you brought up the player you did to prove a point.
Lie.
I just checked. Modders has scored less than 20 league goals in his entire pro career in all clubs according to ESPN.
Real Madrid won their last game, against Espanyol. Modric didn't play. Bale and Ronaldo did. Bale scored.
Utter bollocks coming out your mouth.
No Gibbs, what's ridiculous is the way you make a completely bizarre comment, and then completely ignore counter-arguments by digressing to completely different topics in your response. And then accuse me of bringing up players off-topic when you have been talking about Dos Santos upstaging Cristiano Ronaldo!!!
Happy to leave it there.
Don't change from "Entire pro career" to "league goals"to suit your point.
My quote
I wonder if Fabracunt or Scholes etc scored almost as many league goals in one season than Modric did in his entire pro career?