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If Maradona was still coach he’d leave Lautaro at home for Higuain and Papu Gomez

If Maradona was still coach he’d leave Lautaro at home for Higuain and Papu Gomez
What a load of bullshit. Vieri was not only a clinical scorer, he was great technically as well. He wasn't particularly fast but he wasn't slow either plus his strength would actually work well as Target man. Great strikers like Vieri would adjust to today's game no problem.. Vieri would also have much the same struggles we seen with Lukaku, many teams would simply have hard finding a use as he simply wasn’t the sort of player in high demand today.
I would not exactly define Vieri as great technically that is really an over estimate of the mans ability, he did well for size but that’s about it. Also last bit is really the biggest none statement ever written, someone isn’t fast but also not slow.What a load of bullshit. Vieri was not only a clinical scorer, he was great technically as well. He wasn't particularly fast but he wasn't slow either plus his strength would actually work well as Target man. Great strikers like Vieri would adjust to today's game no problem.
Vieri's burst of acceleration was actually incredible until his 2002 injury.What a load of bullshit. Vieri was not only a clinical scorer, he was great technically as well. He wasn't particularly fast but he wasn't slow either plus his strength would actually work well as Target man. Great strikers like Vieri would adjust to today's game no problem.
A player like Materazzi would never find himself into a modern top team today, as he lived and survived largely because of the fact the sport allowed more physical and more brutal contact, that reality allowed players as talented as a piece of wood to excel as bac
Rubbish, he was too much of a nutcase, a walking yellow/red lol also painfully slow. Would largely depend on who he's partnered with and under the right manager he would thrive. Loved the guy lolIf Materazzi was playing now he'd be somewhere between Manchester City and Real Madrid...
What he means generally is that he was quick thinking. When someone isn’t hesitant as a striker, it creates the illusion that the player is faster than he really isI would not exactly define Vieri as great technically that is really an over estimate of the mans ability, he did well for size but that’s about it. Also last bit is really the biggest none statement ever written, someone isn’t fast but also not slow.
Agreed, I don’t see Vlahovic as any more technical for example.What a load of bullshit. Vieri was not only a clinical scorer, he was great technically as well. He wasn't particularly fast but he wasn't slow either plus his strength would actually work well as Target man. Great strikers like Vieri would adjust to today's game no problem.
Nor Lautaro , nor halaand, they all are crapAgreed, I don’t see Vlahovic as any more technical for example.
Prime Luca Toni would play at City instead of Haaland and killed EPL. Lewandowski was the last good striker in the last decade imo.Nor Lautaro , nor halaand, they all are crap
For Example Berbatov or Ibrahimovic are like gods to these now best strikers in the world, i wont even start with David villa, Torres, Aguero, Drogba , shevchenko, Ronaldo etc
Hell even Mirko Vucinic is better than these newdays Strikers
Rubbish, he was too much of a nutcase, a walking yellow/red lol also painfully slow. Would largely depend on who he's partnered with and under the right manager he would thrive. Loved the guy lol
Prime Luca Toni would play at City instead of Haaland and killed EPL. Lewandowski was the last good striker in the last decade imo.
Oh yeah forgot to mention Aguero and Suarez. Contrary to the striker in current era, i think current/post 2010 wingers or wide forwards are superior to the 00's wingers. Maybe Giggs was the only good one. Robben, Prime Ronaldo, Salah and Bale are more superior to the likes Pires, Beckham, Figo, Camoranesi lol. Yeah football has been evolved so much.There were some great strikers honestly but the game is also different so you need to be able to understand how that translates.
Lewandowski is definitely a generational striker.
Benzema as well.
Luis Suarez is another.
Our old boy Dzeko was another great striker in his prime, but he wasted his time in Manchester.
Aguero was a great forward that wasted his entire career in Manchester City of all places.
Higuain was another phenomenal striker that wasted the end of his career on poor choices, both career and life.
Ibrahimovic was an amazing player, even if you guys love to hate him for his attitude.
These guys would be playing for top sides in any era.
Then I think 2nd level would have these guys:
Icardi as well was phenomenal as a striker and was unlucky to be in a shitty club situation at Inter.
Falcao was a very good all-around striker.
Kane is overrated but he's also a very capable striker.
Cavani was a very good striker as well, despite the frequent misses.
Griezmann is an amazing forward.
Alexis Sanchez as well, amazing forward.
Tevez, very good forward.
Lukaku had potential but he couldn't shine at a top club or in big moments.
Salah as a wide forward is having a great time at Liverpool but we've seen in him in other systems and his wastefulness just shows.
These guys could have been the main forward at top teams if the system was right, but most would have had better luck at teams that don't compete. Or as the secondary name in the striker partnership.
Then you have guys like Morata, Aubameyang, Diego Costa, Mario Gomez etc that got overrated as fuck just because there was a relative drought of important strikers for years at the top level.
Giroud on the other hand is your typical cult striker that gets a bunch of goals but gets unnoticed and ignored by the history books, but in this era he shines a bit.
But you still had reliable scorers such as Huntelaar, Aduriz, Ben Yedder, Immobile, Bacca (for while it lasted), Mandzukic (till he moved to Serie A), Belotti, Aspas, Vardy...
There used to be more of these guys out there and enough to spread around all over the leagues. A top scorer from a bottom half team is extremely rare now, used to be much more frequent in other eras. Out of these, only Aspas, Belotti and Vardy didn't play for one of the important sides of their respective league (Vardy won one of course).
There's definitely less great strikers now but the 2nd tier seems adequately populated. The problem arises when lots of those 2nd tier guys are elevated to top tier status and some random guy after a good couple of seasons is overrated.
[Don't want to mention Cristiano or Messi here, but they could be mentioned I suppose]
I'm not sure how Haaland translates in older eras, but I trust he'd still be an important striker with his characteristics. Not considered the best in the world, but definitely a difficult player to compete against. The only one that I think would still be dominant is Kylian Mbappe, provided that he'd be in the right environment, just like Thierry Henry for example was at Arsenal but he wasn't really that good anywhere else. Not comparing the two, as people often do, I think Mbappe is far more complete and dangerous as a player, but Henry had a killer instinct whereas Mbappe doesn't seem to possess it.
Oh yeah forgot to mention Aguero and Suarez. Contrary to the striker in current era, i think current/post 2010 wingers or wide forwards are superior to the 00's wingers. Maybe Giggs was the only good one. Robben, Prime Ronaldo, Salah and Bale are more superior to the likes Pires, Beckham, Figo, Camoranesi lol. Yeah football has been evolved so much.
Struggles everywhere else? Where exactly has he struggled that proves that absurd claim? Chelsea at age 21? Give me a break How do you know that he struggles outside that system considering he has only played for two clubs since breaking through at Roma at age 23 in 15/16?brehme1989 - Salah is one of the best performers in a system, he struggles anywhere else. Egypt isn't doing any better with him labelled as world class for example, they actually stopped winning.
Dude, the bias with you is real. Salah is one the best players of the recent years. Just check out some stats. He is in pretty much every top10 goal/assist tableSalah is not a wc player to me. He is so overrated and he even couldn’t make any significant difference in Egypt national team or somewhere else as far as I remember.
This is the same as Mane. He left Liver and had shitty performance in Bayern and ended up in All Nassr.