I'm not sure who comes close tbh
I think if Liverpool come crashing out against Paris really early and one of the other outside shout guys like Raphinha, Mbappe, Kane etc. have a good rest of the CL, maybe they can pip it. Maybe.
Not all the time...hence why I said easy tap ins. Sometimes that comes down to luck rather than good positioning and timing. Same with the assist metric, it can be the easiest pass in the world and it's an assist.
Absolute nonsense. Teams are setup so much better than 20 years ago. The defending and midfield play are miles above back then. The tackles might have been harder but the basic style of play doesn’t come close to today’s style of playing. There’s no way Gigg scores that goal in today’s PL. Those players used to make 50-60 yard runs whilst all defending players either backed off or looked like traffic cones. Salah would make mince meat of any team back then.
This season has been brutal with so many teams being really fecking competitive and relentless. The "easy" games are so damn diminished now.
What a lot of bollocks.
I think he is right.
The style of play and quality in the game now is shite. Doesn’t mean Salah isn’t a good player but I don’t know why we’re disparaging Giggs to big him up. Who is the best left back in the Premier League right now? Are they a patch on the likes of Cole, Evra or going back further, Irwin?
Neither were shite. They're just very different periods that have focused on different things and skill sets.
Well you are focusing on individuals and not teams, and even with those evra was suspect defensively.
There are more goals per game now than there were in those days. That doesn’t point to greater defensive organisation such as is being implied. Unless you think the likes of Chris Wood and Mbeumo are just that good.
You are very old fashioned with the way you look at things, so focused on individuals. Teams are far more efficient at attacking now, and more importantly fit
The reason Giggs was brought up is because to me that could be the best run I have ever seen in the league. Not an over the top long ball but a legit run leaving the opposition in shambles. I just don’t think that’s possible in todays football and I also think Salah would make those runs against those teams in that era.
So that would suggest stamina being more important than ability. You have some recency bias.
Salah would’ve been asked to play as a natural winger in those days against full backs with free reignto kick him up and down the pitch. Maybe he would dribble more, but he’d score less.
I would say stamina has been proven to be far more important than previously realised.
The only issue with this is that even conversations within those 5-10 year spans are wildly contentious, and none of us will budge on our opinions on teams or players. I'm exactly the same.
Partly true but I think it is also partly the sides around the top have weakened. Arsenal, City, Spurs, United, Villa are all much worse this season. This cannot be denied.
There are indeed Liverpool fans who moan, but I find it tiresome. Obviously any side can improve, but Liverpool have effectively had one properly bad result since August so I think finding fault is a very modern vibe - certainly from our own fanbase.
Eto'o is better than Salah for me, I haven't seen anything from Weah.
Think Drogba deserves a mention in this discussion too, although think Eto'o was better
Agree, and I’ve even called them out on it. One loss all season really. The psv and Plymouth games were second string.
Mindset seems excellent, I agree
Depends. Weah is still the only african winner of the Ballon D'Or, he's the guy who truly put african football and african players on the map worldwide
I'd still have Eto'o above him, personally. But others will disagree, I'm sure.
Nonsense
The AFCON factor is something that people who are focused on European club football may overlook in this discussion. Eto'o is a 2 time AFCON champion and the top scorer in the history of the competition. But, in reference to one of my posts above, I'm sure that people who favour Salah would say that Eto'o had better teammates in his national side. You can't win with these things!
Please
Pep hates Africans. That's why
Exactly this. If you had a Lindelof taking pennos he´d have simillar record to Salah - scoring 9 goals out of 10 with just one miss. Penalties are just much much easier than any type of goal from an open play.
