Mediocre players (in your view) with inexplicably long careers at a relatively high level?
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Peter Crouch must be a contender - he's not the best, but has had a very good and enduring career. He also gets points for being pretty much the only high-profile EPL player with anything even approaching a proper sense of humour. Good lad, Crouchy.
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Lukas Podolski. One-footed, slow, unable to hold up the ball effectively. I know he scored nearly 50 goals for Germany, but a fair few of them were down to Klose setting him up all the time.
And, although he's still in his mid-20s: Mario Götze. Yes, his goal won Germany the last World Cup, but what's he done since? (And, yes, I know he was ill, but all you ever seem to hear is "Mario's an excellent footballer, but he has to be given time.")
Come to think of it, what did he do BEFORE his goal won Germany the last World Cup?Last edited by treibeis; 15-12-2017, 13:35.
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- Mar 2008
- 9819
- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
Crouch should never be forgiven for pulling the Trindad & Tobago defender's dreads to gain EVEN MORE height advantage to score when England sneaked past them at the World Cup.
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Originally posted by Felicity, I guess so View PostCrouch should never be forgiven for pulling the Trindad & Tobago defender's dreads to gain EVEN MORE height advantage to score when England sneaked past them at the World Cup.
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The reason that Crouch has had such a long career is that it's easy for a lower level premier league team to construct some kind of rudimentary plan based around him flicking on the ball, or holding it up. It's not a great plan, and is worryingly reminiscent of stuff from the dark days of the 80's. but it's important to remember that most of his managers have been spoofers and conmen
If charlie adam was transported back to the 80's where players ran half as far, and at half the average pace, he'd look like an amazing player. Unfortunately for him, every professional footballers are now selected from the pool of people who could also be high standard triathletes, after a spell training in the pool.
He may be currently injured, but glenn whelan has as many caps for Ireland as Paul mcGrath, and made 277 premier league appearances for stoke, Did he look good in any of them I wonder?
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostThe reason that Crouch has had such a long career is that it's easy for a lower level premier league team to construct some kind of rudimentary plan based around him flicking on the ball, or holding it up. It's not a great plan, and is worryingly reminiscent of stuff from the dark days of the 80's. but it's important to remember that most of his managers have been spoofers and conmen
If charlie adam was transported back to the 80's where players ran half as far, and at half the average pace, he'd look like an amazing player. Unfortunately for him, every professional footballers are now selected from the pool of people who could also be high standard triathletes, after a spell training in the pool.
He may be currently injured, but glenn whelan has as many caps for Ireland as Paul mcGrath, and made 277 premier league appearances for stoke, Did he look good in any of them I wonder?
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostHarry redknapp was a charlatan and a footballing fraud. and rafa benitez signed forwards based on pulling individual letters out of a hat.
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