Since Emery arrived, they have accumulated the third most points, behind Man City and Arsenal. That’s over 38 games. They are top 4 contenders.
Since Emery arrived, they have accumulated the third most points, behind Man City and Arsenal. That’s over 38 games. They are top 4 contenders.
Oh man, that was such a bad England performance. Against 10 men for 35 minutes and we were still outclassed.
Dean Ashton is one of the players who really could have been a fantastic player. Not World Class, but certainly could have had a solid career at the top level.
Ledley King and Jonathan Woodgate. I reckon if they were both injury free, they would have been better than Rio Ferdinand and John Terry.
“Bang average footballer”
Proceeds to name players at the World Cup and Premier League
Nigel Martyn, Roma Vs Leeds, UEFA Cup 4th Round 99/00
Obviously excluding the GOAT Carlton Palmer, I’d say Makelele.
Only the cunty ones.
Kane scored 30 goals last season for a team that finished 8th in the Premier League. He’s now playing for a team that goes into every single league match as the clear favourite to win.
Lewandowski had probably already peaked as a player at the point that he left Bayern Munich.
In general, the Bundesliga is a bit more open and attacking than La Liga, and the Premier Leauge. Here is a Reddit post from a month ago outlining this statistic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/17c5jld/current_goals_per_game_average_of_the_top/
So I guess on the one hand, you could say that a top striker going to Bayern would be “statpadding” as they would expect to score a lot more goals than pretty much in any other team, but that phrase belies the quality of the league itself.