That’s not exactly difficult this season.
Mo Salah
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I mean, do you want him to pass the ball to Bobby “no goals” firmino or Mane who looks like he suddenly aged a decade. Considering the circumstances, his selfishness is understandable.
Maybe but they’d both have more goals if he looked up more.
Thought this was interesting, and I say that as someone who didn’t predict great things either..
Wow...look at you Nicola. Take a victory lap after all the historical research.
I'm always slagging him off but tbf hitting 30 goals when we've been garbage for half the season is pretty impressive. Henderson basically gave him his goal yesterday. Bizarre goalkeeping.
Took all of 3 minutes mate, as you surely must know as an admin, don’t be so sensitive. I recently said on another thread that 15 years ago I loudly claimed to anyone who’d listen that I didn’t think Messi was anything special, so don’t assume I’m taking a holier than thou position.
That was a great moment in low brow telly, I’m sure you meant it as an insult but thanks for reminding me of it!
I love these "the internet never forgets" posts. Should be more of them.
I was going to paraphrase what the guy by itself, but thought I would put the video in just incase you didn't catch the reference.
I don't care that my opinion 4 years ago was incorrect plus it's not like I slagged off Salah. So not sure why you thought I was insulting you, but carry on.
my point is somewhat validated for the time. Scouse went and got Virgil 6 months later and Alison a year later. Flogging Coutinho to make space and cash. Decent acquisition turned out to be an understatement
they acted quick to plug the issues.
I would somewhat get this if all these people had slagging you off back then (although I still think it's small-time) - but you didn't even post on the topic at the time! (In fact, you only had two posts before December 2020.) So I'm not sure what your point is here. You could make these collections of posts that turned out wrong in pretty much every thread, and surely people who thought lowly of Salah some years ago know that they've been proven wrong.
216 posts in 5 years, and about 30 of them in here, some of them mocking a MOD.
Superb stuff
He'll be over to the Moyes thread now and outing everyone who tried to convince themselves it was a cunning move.
Actually, given Moyes's current work at West Ham, it should be post mocking the make-believers for Moyes's work at United and the haters for his work at West Ham - all in one fell swoop! It can't wait for the sheer epicnosity of it all.
Fantastic footballer, underrated by our own fans because of the levels he set in his debut season. His passing and creativity doesn’t get enough credit either, yeah there’s been occasions he should have passed rather than shot but people act like it’s all the time
Just the context of you replying to me by referencing someone insulting people! It’s a fair assumption, but I’m happy you weren’t. My point wasn’t that you should care, my aim certainly wasn’t to single you out as being a bad judge of a player, more just how badly we (all) get things wrong sometimes
Hey man. My point was exactly that you could make these kind of posts with lots of transfers and I did say in my original post that I didn’t think it was a good transfer either, so if you really think I was slagging all those people off then I was doing it to myself too. And I also said I thought Messi was a flash in the pan, which is the absolute pinnacle of misjudgement. Wasn’t meant as a personal attack on those people I quoted, was just trying to make the point that he was significantly underrated. If i HAD been active on the site at the time and had praised the transfer then I think you’d have a point about this being a ‘I told you so’ gloat of a post.
That said, someone replied to me in a different disagreement the other day by saying “fair enough, sorry”, which took me by surprise as people don’t generally do that here. So I’ll take the criticism and say sorry to the people I pissed of!
216 posts in 5 years, and about 30 of them in here, some of them mocking a MOD.
Superb stuff
He’s a Mod not a God mate, don’t be so ridiculous. Beyond that I have zero idea what the rest of your post shows, other than that you can count!
I agree actually, we all reel off guff on here all the time absolutely certain that our opinions are right. It doesn’t hurt to highlight how wrong we can be once in a while.
I remember being absolutely delighted when Roy Keane got the Ipswich job. It was as close to universal assent as I can ever remember.
I actually made a thread on this (You can quote me) and it started with me making a terrible prediction about Obertan
But that's just normal for you
If you were expecting my come back you’ll have to ask your mother.
She's dead
Fair enough, but then isn't that super common? I mean, all the football threads are full of opposing posts, and one half of those will always turn out wrong. (To different degrees depending on the subject and point made, but anyway.) I just don't see much point in highlighting those just like that. If you were making a larger point about how come people got it wrong like this on Salah, or in general, then sure. But just saying that it happened is kinda 'duh'; and the only outcome you can expect is that some people won't like being quoted that way.
I personally also get it wrong all the time in football and don't mind being corrected btw; just with a bit more substance is how I'd personally like to see it.
Fair enough, but then isn't that super common? I mean, all the football threads are full of opposing posts, and one half of those will always turn out wrong. (To different degrees depending on the subject and point made, but anyway.) I just don't see much point in highlighting those just like that. If you were making a larger point about how come people got it wrong like this on Salah, or in general, then sure. But just saying that it happened is kinda 'duh'; and the only outcome you can expect is that some people won't like being quoted that way.
I personally also get it wrong all the time in football and don't mind being corrected btw; just with a bit more substance is how I'd personally like to see it.
Fair play. I picked Salah probably because the difference between the initial assessment and the reality was so stark. Probably could/should have found a way to quote the posts without quoting the poster, if that makes sense.
Excellent post Nicola.
This guy.
In fairness, Salah was pretty ordinary before coming to Pool. He was in that Lukaku category where you would've expected him to become a decent player but certainly no world beater.
Mmmm, he looked like that, but the advanced metrics that liverpool relied on to sign him said he was already one of the very best forwards in europe in his final season at roma
And those first few months at fiorentina were unbelievable, he looked like an alien he was so untouchable. I think he was wrongly underrated, myself included
And to be fair to Lukaku, he kind of turned into a world beater himself these days
He's leaving right? ...
Seems to be doing well in Italy but I wouldn't put him in the pantheon of current best strikers.
If we sign MbappéHe's leaving right? ...
He's been carrying Liverpool big time this season. They'd be 10th without him.
My brother was utterly convinced by him early on
Bloody hell, that escalated quickly. May she RiP amol!
Job done, probably secured top 4 for them, time to make that big money move to Madrid while still in his prime
Wouldn’t surprise me if they sold one of that front three and replaced them with Jota, and then bought a forward several years younger as back up. Salah is about to turn 29, Mane already is, and Firmino a few months off 30. It’s not critical immediately but needs addressing. The last thing they’ll want is to have to replace two of them in one transfer window.