What are you trying to say. Did you even watch him play at all. He was our best midfielder when healthy. He was also Bayerns playmaker for 7 years. Christ, that’s like me saying Giggs was just an average player.
Thiago Alc*ntara | Retires
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Yeah, I remember at one point thinking that he was starting to do a bit better. Then he just sort of disappeared.
I'm not talking about what he did at Bayern. Comparing Thiago to Premier League royalty. The cheek of it!
Should go and team up with Isco at Betis
bold move to compare a 13 time title winner who has the all time highest number of PL assists with a bloke who made 68 PL appearances and has a total of 2 goals and 4 assists. Schweinsteiger would be a more apt comparison.He's not even a Bayern legend, just another playmaker they easily replaced.
Unfortunately, not. The current Bayern team has no playmaker in the "Thiago-mold". They haven't had one in years (well, since Thiago left) and that is why their creativity in attack is lacking.
They haven’t got to a CL final since he left, after he was superb in that run. I wouldn’t say they easily replaced him.
He played one season where all their defenders were injured as a CDM and looked lost there without someone to do the tackling for him, that was as lightweight a midfield as Klopp ever had. The next season with Van Dijk back and Fabinho in CDM and him further up he was brilliant as they got 92 points in the league and the CL final. Got injured in the warm-up of the final, which summed up his health record at Liverpool. He was PFA Team of the Year for that season. But ultimately it wasn’t a good signing when someone is injured that often on a big wage.
Retires. 33 years old.
Someone should tell Iniesta to retire
Why? I don't get what is so bad about players trying to play as long as possible.
Good decision for him. His body unfortunately kept breaking down. In hindsight moving to a more intense league as he got older was probably not the wisest move but I respect his dedication to try a new challenge. Could have easily taken the Saudi route too. Top player and top man.
Intrigued to see how his coaching career goes.
Intrigued to see how his coaching career goes.
It's a real shame and a big loss. He was a world class midfielder and insanely gifted. What I admired the most was the way he worked the ball through tight spaces.
I think it's underestimated how much importance he had at Liverpool and what they could have achieved with him fully fit.
I know that we were after him before he moved to Bayern (obviously for Pep) and was gutted that we missed out.
I think it's underestimated how much importance he had at Liverpool and what they could have achieved with him fully fit.
I know that we were after him before he moved to Bayern (obviously for Pep) and was gutted that we missed out.
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He's playing in the UAE now? I thought he would have retired after his Japanese adventure
Overrated.
My favourite player of all time.
Just got relegated
Imagine the alternate reality where we closed out the deals and got a 22 year old Thiago and 23 year old Kroos in back to back summers.
We’d still be shite with how badly the club has been generally.
Even if we had opted to bring him here I'm not convinced that we would have been able to prevent all the injuries that have shortened his career.
I somehow feel Thaigo is a player who is both overrated and underrated at the same time.
Opinions are either he's the greatest midfielder of the last decade, robbed by injuries, or a hack who makes sideways passes in a stylish way.
He was a really good midfielder, definitely amongst the best in the world, and had a couple of world class ones where he was a monster offensively and defensively.
I think the most impressive thing about him during his PL days was how many fouls he could commit without getting booked. He had a lot of talent but an underwhelming impact on the game.
Sad. One of the finest midfielders of his generation when fit. I was so happy when he joined Liverpool and I could finally enjoy his performances but it was a very disappointing tenure due to the recurring injuries.
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Did you know he was making 30m€ a year over there
He retired years ago in my mind.