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31. bobotonto
    

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    Posted 3 months ago #

    To play total football you have to have the horses. Sergio Ramos, Michael Essien, Owen Hargreaves, Yuri Zhirkov and Dario Srna are all the real deal, ready, willing, intelligent and able to perform in different positions and I'm sure you guys can come up with some others. Ibrahimovic as 'Street Footballer'? Would that be on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills? Zlatan ought to shine in Spain indeed; but, if I was Pep, I'd still prefer a warrior with a set of elephany cojönés like Eto'o for big games. That was definitely a LaPorta decision. Let's see if he's willing to satisfy Pep's desire to get Mascharano as sincerely!

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    Posted 3 months ago #

    RQ,eto'o may have appeared to behave better last season but there were still quite a few fallouts between himself and guardiola.guardiola is no superman.and fateh,you mentioned that the lack of work rate will be made up by the increase in quality.how so?eto'o is actually a better player than zlatan

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    Posted 3 months ago #

    duffman-i gotta disagree with you.FIrstly as i said before eto'o wasn't a rooney or a tevez,its not as if he gave his heart to the team and chased every ball.and before saying eto'o works much harder than zlatan,i would like to compare statistics of the distance covered by both of them in a match,and than make these assertions.
    Secondly Now this is subjective.Eto'o works hard and switches positions.Ibra lacks these qualities but has his own,like dribbling through five people and scoring,giving wonderful lay offs, making clever touches which i think will do more for barca than what eto'o does
    RQ i never spoke of barca's domination as bad for the sport,i think they are wonderful for the sport and pleasing on the eye.I'm only a little anti-barca right now because of our humiliation in Rome.
    And i think its pretty ridiculous how many people automatically brand players as being unable to preform in big games.They used to say that about ronaldo before he singlehandedly destroyed arsenal last season.they used to say that about messi before he delivered a man of the match preformance at the final against manu. Ibra will answer his critics too.But you will notice that its not ibra who has a terrible game,its inter who dont create enough and ibra is expected to be superhuman and win the match single-handedly with a great goal (which he often does).Against man u in the knockout round,he did look dangerous,its not as if his preformance was awful.I think against barca who create more than the rest of spain combined,ibra will put in a match winning preformance in a big cl match.

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    Posted 3 months ago #

    those 2 you mentioned who used to not perform in big games are still young,zlatan is 27.if a player at his peak has never shone in a big game before,its unlikely he will do it again.the pressure on him is going to be insanely high,and i dont think his temperament is right

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    Posted 3 months ago #

    back in 2004, Juventus's Fabian Carini straight swapped with Fabio Cannavaro of Inter ... looking back Inter was on the terrible end of the deal. tut tut.

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    Posted 3 months ago #

    Bottom line with the Ibrahimovic/Eto'o is that we all talk about the situation as if they're, more or less, equals. Yet Barca, who valued Eto'o at between 25-30M couldn't flog him because of his stratospheric wage demands. They finally find a taker in Inter, who are in a similar predicament with Zlatan. Yet Zlatan's value, once the extra 40M quid is thrown, seems to be app. 65-70M. They're both prima donnas, although Eto'o seems to have an entourage of thirty, which beats even Becks. There, however, the similarities come to a full stop. Eto'o has won the Champions League twice. Ibrahimovic, at 28, in his pomp, surrounded by a pretty decent bunch at Inter(even if Fatehsmann seems to think they're not very good, they always beat A.S. Roma), scores more than a few ooh-ah goals, but is completely AWOL against United. Compare that with the predatorial instincts of Eto'o, who, on a mediocre day against United, barely registers a blip, BUT THEN SCORES! A very strange story indeed!

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    Posted 3 months ago #

    I never said Inter;s bunch is bad...but is it anywhere near what they have at barca?Secondly i think describing 29 goals as 'more than a few' is being pretty hard on zlatan.
    You guys seem to treat ibra the way everyone used to treat ronaldo before the 2006 world cup,calling him all flash and no end-product.Might i remind you that the striker is a tried and tested package whos excelled at the very highest level in football).Okay agreed that maybe he hasn't preformed upto his potential in big matches.Its not as if he was awful against manu,he offered the best attacking threat among the, as bob calls them, 'pretty decent bunch' at inter,which isn't bad.
    And why do we concentrate only on eto'o final preformance (pardon me but am i the only one who thinks vidic allowed him to turn 2 easily and van der saar should have done better with that shot,though not taking anything away from eto'o,well taken goal) and ignore his semi-final preformance,over two-legs.Or the fact that most of his 35 goals were tap-ins and about half of the tap-ins were not due to superb link-up play and great positioning,but simply the awesome ability of his peers.
    Don't get me wrong.Eto'o is a world class striker no doubt.I'm just saying that Zlatan can do things with a ball which eto'o cant dream of doing

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    Posted 3 months ago #

    Inters squad is definitely near what Barca have, they're a good game for any of Europes big sides on their day and by removing Zlatan for Hleb and Eto'o I think they've only improved it. By losing Ibra, they don't have to concentrate their attacking threat through the Swede much like Man Utd with Ronaldo as they both now look to lose their focus around one star man.

    Whether Eto'o scored a great goal or not is besides the point, he did more than Ibra did in the two games against Utd and Barca's play was not focused through Eto'o. On top of that, the play was against Barca at the time he scored which clearly indicates that you shouldn't give the Cameroonian one chance inside your box or he'll make you pay.

    If we 'ignore' the below par performances in those two legs then we're still not left with a decent record on either the International stage or in the CL. He's only been top goalscorer in a league that has recently become infamous because of it's decline in quality when compared to the EPL and La Liga. Ibra can do things with the ball that Eto'o can't, but Samuel can score more goals against better defenders than Zlatan can. Barca wanted to buy goals, they've already got plenty of players who can do tricks.

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    Posted 3 months ago #

    Great post, I completely agree. Now Inter are forced to use more players in their attacks, and the team will play, well, more as a team. Plus, Eto'o will give back most of the goals that they have lost from Zlatan, and the team will score the rest.

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    Posted 3 months ago #

    There's no point in endlessly debating it we're getting nowhere.We'll just ibra and eto'o do the talkin

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    Posted 3 months ago #

    Hleb is going to Stuttgart on loan instead. Perhaps this is for the best, because, with all his aimless dribble, dribble, dribble, this hubris-ridden narcissist would have quickly felt an impatient boot up his arse from Balotelli, Stankovic and, of course, Mourinho.

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    Posted 3 months ago #

    Going to be an intresting Classico indeed......

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