"He's the best player in the world and the history of football. Along with [Johan] Cruyff and [Diego] Maradona he is the best we've seen in Barcelona," he told Canal +.
joan laporta overdoes the hyperbole
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link
overdoes?
messi at barca >>> maradona learning he likes coke at barca
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 22 March 2010 10:48 (fourteen years ago) link
no.....
give it time though
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link
best part of the goal is the first man he beats - in beating the last defender he actually loses control at one point, but the defender plays for a spanish club and thus is terrible
but v good goal
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Monday, 22 March 2010 10:50 (fourteen years ago) link
lolj
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 22 March 2010 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link
and if he was up against tyrone mears, emmerson boyce, paul mcshane, ricardo rocha or other teams approx at the level real zaragoza this season......
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
messi vs clarke carlisle
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link
messi vs sol campbell oh wait
ryan shawcross amirite
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Monday, 22 March 2010 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry but I always thought Maradona's time at Barca was just kind of LOL? Injuries and pissing everyone off and doing lots of coke. I mean they sold him to freaking Napoli, of all teams. I'd assume Barca fans have fonder memories of his replacement the crisp-eater.
Also still love the lol alternate universe where Sheff Utd get their bid for Maradona accepted.
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 22 March 2010 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
nakh- don't worry, 'lol spanish defenders' is one of lj's main football thread trolling points.
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 22 March 2010 10:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that the universe where Spurs choose Zidane over Tim Sherwood? xp
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Monday, 22 March 2010 10:57 (fourteen years ago) link
that wasn't the troublesome part about that quote.... xxp
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I think that was Blackburn but yeah. (I guess in that universe I wouldn't get frustrated everytime Wenger bangs on about who he was close to signing and we do actually have a forward line up of Ronaldo-Kaka-Essien-Cesc Drogba-Zlatan and I literally wee myself every matchday.)
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 22 March 2010 10:59 (fourteen years ago) link
'lol spanish defenders' is one of lj's main football thread trolling points
some of the defending can be really shit, eg tenerife vs madrid were disgraceful, but it's a little awry this season especially when the lower half of the prem is so crap
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:00 (fourteen years ago) link
ferenc puskas gonna do some poltergeisting chez laporta imo
ah mr nakhchivan, you weren't there when I was all 'this is the worst Premiership since 2000' and everyone was all 'wut' and I was all 'look at 11th place downwards'
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link
generally in Spanish football, especially regarding the lesser (i.e. not top 2) teams, defences really aren't as well-organised as their Premiership equivalents - this is empirical observation
otoh, hull city would not enjoy la liga
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:04 (fourteen years ago) link
three teams in contention for the title within a few points of each other in late march probably invalidates the larger claim
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:04 (fourteen years ago) link
There's an alternative universe where Romario and Ronaldinho played for St Mirren. I'm still kind of amazed that I ended up in the one where Caniggia played for Dundee.
― sock for injustice and evil (onimo), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't listen to him, nakh - he was all 'Robinho is going to walk this'
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
that's more or less true xxp but it doesn't affect claims to messi's greatness, even if you take 25% off his domestic goals total to compensate for it he still has unreal figures
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link
when I say the Premiership, I mean the icosahedral nexus of equally-privileged factions in buoyant concomitance
it is perhaps the most exciting title-race in years too, but the overall quality beyond, say, fulham and everton is diabolical
of course messi is fucking great - would like to see him savage a few Premiership defences
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:09 (fourteen years ago) link
rly like dunn-diouf-pedersen-kalinic tho
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean the icosahedral nexus of equally-privileged factions in buoyant concomitance
and individual primera liga clubs selling their own tv rights leads to insane levels of disparity where ronaldo earns 100 times more than some of the miserable souls tasked with defending against him
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
you're probably the only ILXor bold enough to come out as a fan of anything about Blackburn Rovers let alone Diouf, so kudos for the chutzpah if nothing else. although Dunn has some nice touches.
that's kinda capitalism gone bonkers :/
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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;_; you'll see it next week
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
kalinic is rightly going to obtain the patronage of a hoy hoy as THE NEXT ZLATAN sometime next season after a backheel thru the legs of kieran gibbs, followed by a £16m january move to juventus and a bidone d'oro
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
ahhh but that's a European Cup defence, not a Premiership one ;)
xp
kalinic is the shefki kuci it's ok to warily praise
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean, surely the opposite? the only reason ronaldo escaped unbussted is because there were no defenders quick enough to catch him. and he played in the same team as vidic.
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
hence 'ryan shawcross amirite' - crippling messi would be an act of great artistic expression - very futurist
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:18 (fourteen years ago) link
messi has such stubby little legs unlike poor spindly calcium deprived aaron ramsey who subsisted on leeks and haribo until he was 17
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Shawcross- "It was an expression of my determination to destroy the artisan ideal that has prevailed throughout the footballing landscape for what seems like aaages, darling"
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
kalinic? really?
my stance on underrated forwards-
klasnic and lee @ bolton - cool.cameron jerome and chucho - cool. (ruined by what team they are at obv).kalinic - not done anything to ever make me care.llorente - never gonna get a chance because of more attractive spanish strikers but i like him.rocchi - see above, change spanish to italian.cavani - looking pretty exciting last couple times i've seen him. closest lol midtable striker to be on a NEXT ZLATAN type shizz, I guess.acquafresca also looking pretty exciting
player i'm most wtf he looked awesome where did he go - victor obinna
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:26 (fourteen years ago) link
ur forgetting rodallega for sure.
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:26 (fourteen years ago) link
ha, i thought about incl. him. too inconsistent to make the WIGAN PLAYER GOES TO BIG CLUB jump (but then I thought the same of Valencia) but occasionally he looks class.
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link
more likely to be kenny jones replacement at sunderland
oh and i guess torres counts as a midtable striker these days.
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
rodallega and jones- arsenal really should be looking hard at these guys imo.
spurs too tbh.
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:31 (fourteen years ago) link
there are loads of promising players at wigan
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
if only their chairman would promise to stfu
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:34 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe in exchange for you rebranding as dwmac
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
also 10% of the ownership rights of guetamalan wing back twins
what do you know about me and guatemalan twins? i have a very good solicitor on retainer u should know this
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Monday, 22 March 2010 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I heard Andy Townsend say exactly the same thing on ITV the other week.
― Maraca Son Sistema (Matt DC), Monday, 22 March 2010 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
haven't kept up, has this vid been posted yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Rfvorw9Ao&feature=related
― he takes the account of everything in the universe into consideration (dan m), Monday, 22 March 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
that's pretty much the same goal he's been scoring a couple of every week lately, ya? No creativity that lad.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Monday, 22 March 2010 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
kalinic's is the classic slavstriker career arc so far of awkward first season followed by great second and subsequent £16m move to big club, or the more likely £3m sale to midtable spanish team and seven years of pichichi awards. (alternatively he'll be turning out for panathiaikos in 6 months, whatever. also no you can't have 'pichichi man' as your username.)
can't be bovd to load whole thread but if anyone's put forward the "somehow just cannot give a shit about leo fucking messi" challops then i got your back homie.
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe you could get dr morbius to cosign?
― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah not giving a shit about messi is like hating anything enjoyable ever done with a football
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 22 March 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I still think is too early for him to be put on THE LIST with cruyff, maradona, di stefano... He's going to have to do a lot more with the Argentina shirt on before that
― chupacabras, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link