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Youtube told me to listen to this
Not bad. Except the title

I was watching the other day a video asking people to build the best XI between 2012 and 2021 Italy teams. People asked picked Barella over Marchisio.
And the comments were wild. It felt like the only no contest option out of the lot, yet... it was the only thing that was commented on. Bunch of gobbi were upset at this and there was pretty much no one backing Barella there. It was like 200 comments total, 185 on why Barella over Marchisio (either laughing at the choice, or sort of mesmerized) and maybe 2 saying how Barella > Marchisio and the rest were random.
I mean, do gobbi really feel this way? And don't neutrals see how amazing Barella is?
Maybe the channel was from a gobbo cunt, it was Tik Tok so it just randomly appearwd and I didn't pay more attention to it.
But wow... And ironically they left out Spinazzola and had Emerson as the LB choice, meaning they just picked the finalist lineup coz I think Spina still played more minutes than Emerson in the tournament.
Well, I played for Barcelona, which was amazing. I'd probably go Inter Milan, which sounds a bit weird, but the reason is that I nearly did and I was quite excited about playing in Serie A because that was the big league of the day really. It was like the Premier League is now, or La Liga was for a while.
I met Trapattoni in Germany, a secret meeting because Terry Venables had been fired at Barcelona and it was halfway through that season and I was still playing okay and scoring goals. They came to us and we thought it might be quite interesting because obviously I didn't know what the future would hold. But Barcelona wouldn't sell me at that point. So it didn't actually happen.
What happened then was they'd already got Andreas Brehme, who sadly died the other day. I knew Andy Brehme really was so RIP. He was an unbelievably brilliant footballer and a lovely man. He'll be missed, that’s terrible news.
So he played with Lothar Matthaus and you were allowed three foreign players in Serie A back then and they went for me, but they couldn't get me, and they ended up signing Klinsmann. I think they definitely won a couple of Serie A’s and I didn’t!
I said the same before. If you are not player at 22, you will never be. At 18-19 you can be talent, but after that you are player or not. Very simple.issue is if you have 22 year olds they probably should be getting 1st team minutes in Serie B or A or probably aren't good enough to ever play for a top team. It's not like it's a U20 team. Fine for a 19 year old to be playing at that level but a 22/23 year old you should be good enough at that point or sold
I disagree with this sentiment. Not all players have the chance to develop on the highest level at the biggest clubs. And not all players are the same. Some go from low pressure clubs to big clubs and don't stay the same player after the transition. Some do.I said the same before. If you are not player at 22, you will never be. At 18-19 you can be talent, but after that you are player or not. Very simple.