Maybe. But I'm a bloody good surgeon should you ever need me.
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It’s not well thought out.
It’s an opinion that goes back to him claiming Fernandinho is twice the player Roy Keane was.
Its based on stats that weren’t available in the early to mid 2000s so in his mind the heat map always wins
There’s not one single player in Europe on this level today
Don't think you grasp the theory of evolution .... I'm starting to think you’re new to the human race
Man / Woman get better every generation, not guesswork but fact, just look at world records in every sporting activity and they are constantly being improved. That's not hard to understand with medicine, diet, conditioning and training methods all invariably improving it's to be expected.
Football is exactly the same, players are faster, stronger, fitter than they were a decade ago and on a completely different planet to their smoking, drinking pie and mash eating counterparts of the '70's.
To imagine the richest sport on the planet has not seen the highest level of player development is naive, as for managers? The argument has little merit, given eleven stronger, fitter, faster players you or I could manage a team to beat Wenger or SAF's team of 20 years ago ....
You're saying that physical improvement is a factor of management, not really, the best teams, the same teams, have dominated Europe for decades with dozens of different managers. Having the best players is what matters, the manager is just the final piece ... if not Forest Green would appoint Wenger/SAF and be EPL champions in three years ...
No there's hundreds ... Keane wouldn't last 45 minutes let alone 90 ... players today cover 25% more yards per game than they did in Keane's day ... he wouldn't even make the bench at Villa and if he did get on he'd be red carded after about 5 minutes .... world's moved on get used to it.
Remember not one winner of the 100m from the last century would even make it through to the first round at today's standard ... football is no different.
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I see what you're saying ... 100% the Championship clubs will have no case if they don't complete their league ... not sure where you're at with the parachute payment, if the league is voided we go back to the end of 2019 so the parachute payment will again go to the three clubs relegated that season, they've already spent this year's so will need it again. If you void the season you must start everything back at square one, including parachute payments, or the courts will have a field day.
Voiding the league more and more looks like a sensible option ...
No it doesn't, the PL currently holds the Europa and the CL titles having filled all four places in those two finals.
The elite have developed, just not all of them at the same time, it's always cyclical. ManC and Liverpool respectively have just had two season of absolutely smashing everything that moves and getting record points totals.
Solskjaer and Lampard will either prove to be quick learners or Utd and Chelsea will get proper managers in and resurge sooner or later and Guardiola will leave City and it will all swap about a bit. But there's now a top 8 bunch of clubs who can all easily hit Top 4 - that was never even remotely possible 15 years ago.
Why would player contracts running out on June 30 (which I know many will) stop an extension to the season? Clubs would either have to re-sign those who's final year runs out, sign new players or just play without those players who's contracts have run down, no?
That's if they chose to extend the season?
I didn't use any stats.
Crisis discussions are on going at clubs anf FA.
- VISAs for foreign nationals in non-essential jobs likely to be halted for at least 1 year (i.e. no foreign signings)
- Players may choose to return to their home country
- Transfer window likely to stay closed over summer
- A significant number of clubs require a 'bail out' to keep operating. Expect a couple of Prem and a lot of lower league clubs over the next month to announce that they can no longer pay staff and players.
Clubs are worried that they will be stuck paying salaries to players who are unable to return to England; through fear, ill health or commitment to family. Expect the number of home grown players to increase significantly when football starts up next; with a lot of the youth team getting a chance to play.
The good news is that they days of 30m+ players on 100k+ a week are now GONE. Players WILL be forced to take pay cuts to prevent the clubs going bankrupt.
- VISAs for foreign nationals in non-essential jobs likely to be halted for at least 1 year (i.e. no foreign signings)
- Players may choose to return to their home country
- Transfer window likely to stay closed over summer
- A significant number of clubs require a 'bail out' to keep operating. Expect a couple of Prem and a lot of lower league clubs over the next month to announce that they can no longer pay staff and players.
Clubs are worried that they will be stuck paying salaries to players who are unable to return to England; through fear, ill health or commitment to family. Expect the number of home grown players to increase significantly when football starts up next; with a lot of the youth team getting a chance to play.
The good news is that they days of 30m+ players on 100k+ a week are now GONE. Players WILL be forced to take pay cuts to prevent the clubs going bankrupt.
So Greaves was shit then I guess
Oh I get evolution but I also get that VVD wouldn’t be considered a top CB in 2004
Playing today he'd struggle in League 2 .... but in the 60's he was the dogs ... you do realise you're destroying your own argument, Jimmy loved a fag and a pint, couldn't run fifty yards without running out of breath.
No you are taking today’s fitness levels as a skill set
Roy Keane in today’s training program would be the best CM in Europe by a country mile
You do realise that Henderson plays for the best team in Europe right?
Now that may indeed be true, but 2004 Roy Keane might today get a game at Southend, but at a top team not a prayer.
Liverpool are not the best team in Europe ... wash you're mouth out with soap.
Are you applying the same logic to the likes of Paulo Maldini and Gattuso and Zidane?
What about Hoddle, is he also shit because the games changed?
You are only talking about relative fitness.
Might as well say that Janssen would be better than Klknsmann then
Not at all super stars all of them, Janssen might have been a god in the 60's ... Hoddle is my all time favourite player (well maybe Stevie P) neither would get near our current first eleven based on their 1980's abilities.