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Prime Iva was top5 RB in the world. I think there was a moment when he was the best after Dani Alves and Maicon. Best two seasons from Azpi came when he was LB (Mourinho title season) and when he was RCB for Conte winning season. As RB he was solid at best. Talking about trophies yes CL is a big difference. Iva was major part of that team at highest level. Goal against Napoli, heroic defending against Barca... Winning goal in EL final was also big. This is why he is a leader! There is a reason why we did not do shit in the CL since Azpi is our leader. Also number of trophies is important and Bane have more. Not to mention individually... UEFA European Under-21 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2007 PFA Team of the Year: 2009–10 Premier League,[24] 2014–15 Premier League UEFA Champions League Team of the Season: 2014–15 FIFPro World XI 4th team: 2014 FIFPro World XI 5th team: 2013, 2015 UEFA Europa League Final Man of the Match: 2013 ... Azpi has nothing of this. But my point was never to compare those two. I respect Azpi, work horse, great buy for 7m, very pro player but not a legend and leader that is all!

You are speaking only about this season. You seem to completely ignore last season when he was after Eden and with RLC our top3 player. Would we win EL without his penalty saves against Frankfurt? No. Even this season you mentioned Valencia game where again he saved us with a penalty save. He was dropped in January and he was our MOTM on January 1st against Brighton and kept clean sheet 10 days later against Burnley. He did not had any howlers like DDG many times just situations where he should do better. With better defense he would not be a issue. Also, he breakup long relationship I think in autumn and this definitely had impact. Kante, Rudiger also dropped in quality a lot this season. Arsenal away? Header from 3m? How can you blame him for that? Many situations you mentioned there are players more responsible for goals than him. Basically worst his mistake is Newcastle away and that is nothing like WOW WHAT A MISTAKE, just something like oh, he should do better but happens... And if we had just solid attack we would finish that game earlier. Bournemouth home? Really? If that is one of his biggest mistake we have no problem. Azpi, Emerson and Zouma are all more responsible for that goal. Everton away again horrid back 4! How can he feel confident with Zouma and Emerson in front of him? He was great against Liverpool and Everton lately after being dropped so this is a positive sign. We need better backup tho to push him and that is it!

I hope Liverpool do not sell any on them. They are all 28+ years old... Let them stay and block their chance to rebuild with younger players.

Schmeichel, Chilwell, Soyuncu, Pereira, Vardy would make starting 11 for us easily. Ndidi and Maddison would be in discussion too. So, we do not have far superior squad. At least not starting 11.

World class by Pepe.

Goal and assist today.

Delate

Hahaha how did I disrespect Azpi? Look bro in terms of accomplishments or quality he is nowhere near Ivanovic and not sure even Bane is a legend. But Iva was at least leader. So no, Azpi is not a leader and not a legend. Just solid squad player like Paulo Ferreira or Alonso.

United got penalty? No way!

He is not a leader and certainly not a legend.

One year left on contract but still very young and top player. And he will leave for what? Like 40m, 50m max? Just shows us how good we did with selling Eden for 100m in the same situation.

This kind of suggest Timo will play as a striker.

It is not. Liverpool have American owners and they operate like this. If they did not sell Torres then would never get Suarez. If they did not sell Coutinho they would never get VVD and even Alisson. You underestimate Covid influence. We are in different situation unlike all the others. Liverpool wanted Werner for discount. Utd, City also had interest. Bayern before. Real spent 60m on Jovic last summer. Zidane still rates Benzema a lot it does not make sense to go for another striker. Same for Barcelona.

I actually think about Cristiano. And it is so obvious to me. Every gay I know if you ask them about him would start laughing and say ofc he is gay. Many gays are married to girls with kids so that is not a argument. But tbh we are always like gay vs str8 but I think many are bisex.

This is from this morning... I just hope no one ever again quotes Express on this forum. They are just a big joke! And always have been!

They barely publish agent fees. 12m in this case = transfer is 60m. I remember Barkley was 15m + 7m for agent fee.

Yeah, but you know what average fan thinks about that. Players would get abused on every stadium... But I am sure there are many like Ronaldo. And I suspect about 3 of our players. LB, CF and MF

Oh, I meant all together...

Italian cup final is so boring. In general, football is not the same for me after the break.

Starting to think that Giroud up front would work wonderful with Werner and Ziyech and even maybe Pulisic/CHO. We know how good he looks for France with Mbappe and Griezmann. Hoping for something similar here.

Unbelievable and funniest part is that they payed 24m for him to do this shit for just a season