Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
He can play football. He's physical, can run, can pass, can head the ball, can shoot, can take on a player and beat him, has a brain - all the things most modern footballers can't do. So he's a rarity. Watching him play is like watching football again, after so many years of watching whatever this shit is.

You can't SERIOUSLY watch a PL game with all the tip tap and bullshit 9D chess fuckery from untalented coaches and thing, yes, this is what it's all about? If you were 12, maybe. But you;ve actually seen REAL football! You can see the difference, even if you can't accept it for some reason.
That’s like watching a non league game where a striker scores after running past defenders like they aren’t there because the defenders in question are incapable and saying that’s proper football.

I think there’s an argument that can be made that there’s too much emphasis on being spoilers because the amount of money in the game means losing is less acceptable. I also am genuinely concerned at the stratification effect. Before last season it was 25 years since all three clubs promoted to the league got relegated, it’s now happened twice in a row and there’s little evidence to me that we aren’t on for a hat trick.

But at the same time there’s clear undeniable talent in the game, I’ve expressed concern that there’s more reliance on speed and athleticism over technical ability. But equally you blast someone who has been one of the best technical players in the game, because of some arbitrary belief that football was better before Pep Guardiola (who didn’t even invent the form of football you detest) ruined it all.

Mateja Kezman was meant to be the next big thing, he’d been tearing things up for PSV and was considered to be a great signing for Chelsea? He was fucking awful in the premier league. Similar story with Vincent Jansen when he went to Spurs

I’d love to be wrong but I think signing any players from the Portuguese league is a big big risk.