Lukas Podolski Thread

[Niall_Quinn]

Podolski is relentless (like all the Germans tbf) Runs 90 minutes, is always available for the ball, does his defensive shift, looks extremely disciplined. He lacks the natural ability of Arshavin (by the look of it), but he'll be so much more effective in the PL. Looks to be a super solid pro. Now if we were signing Bastien I'd be splaffing all over the place, but Podolski will do nicely. You don't get to play in that German machine if you aren't a high quality part.

[Niall_Quinn]

Just saying that's all, think he's a decent player and signing myself.

Been poor in this tournament though, think he perhaps needs to be played centrally to get the best out of him as it's always harder to score goals from out wide.

He hasn't been poor, what are you talking about? Nobody has been poor in that German team, they have all played as part of a highly effective unit. His goal as part of that unit has been to get the ball to Gomez in front of goal and I'd say that has been achieved to great effect. Stick him in front of goal and maybe he's the one getting the headlines but that's not how you define decent and poor in a team game.

[hobson's choice]

I think it's probably best to ignore his 112 goals in 291 games over his club career and focus on 2 international games.

FFS, I don't know much about him but his stats are decent enough, let's give him a chance.

Where did most of those goals come, Koln, not much pressure there. I wish was excited about him coming, and I hope i'm proven wrong.

[Kano]

Where did most of those goals come, Koln, not much pressure there. I wish was excited about him coming, and I hope i'm proven wrong.

nearly 50 for germany too. def no pressure there.

[Niall_Quinn]

Sell him he's shit.

[Özim]

He hasn't been poor, what are you talking about? Nobody has been poor in that German team, they have all played as part of a highly effective unit. His goal as part of that unit has been to get the ball to Gomez in front of goal and I'd say that has been achieved to great effect. Stick him in front of goal and maybe he's the one getting the headlines but that's not how you define decent and poor in a team game.

To be honest dude, he's barely touched the ball, I was wondering if he was still on in the 2nd half yesterday as he didn't seem to touch the ball at all.

[LDG]

To be honest dude, he's barely touched the ball, I was wondering if he was still on in the 2nd half yesterday as he didn't seem to touch the ball at all.

They played pretty much down the right yesterday and exposed Willems though.

First game he had much more of a role to play, and was a bullish little ****, which is just what we need.

[Cripps_orig]

New Arsenal striker Lukas Podolski has marked Germany's progress to the Euro 2012 semi-finals by releasing a pop single.
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