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so the best goalscoring record= the prime of a player? well i would rather take his performances. also prime would be a period rather than a season. did xavi do that individually? i remeber united butt-fucking barca for first 10-15 minutes before barca scored and barca as a team (iniesta included) did what u said.also, that performance is nothing different from what he did against every team barca played under pep from 2008-11. i would rather count that whole set rather than one moment.

chill dude, why getting so testy? just a funny statement. infact i did say it is a co-incidence.

zlatan went to psg at 31. so u think his prime was at 31??? strange.i just hope no one says DD went to china in his prime. LOL. i cant recall xavi's moment of magic. seems he is over-rated too. mean while iniesta has a couple in a world cup and that goal against us in 2008. so he is fine. what kind of an argument is this?

so lets actually go deep into this DD comparision and the awesom reasoning u give. JOSE saw something special in DD. he wanted to buy an unproven striker for a large sum but unfortunately dint have the funds to do that in porto. is that why jose dint buy costa with RM? cos there were no funds? or is that the reason jose dint buy costa for us? cos there were no funds. but wait, we OFFICIALLY had a 30mil deal for rooney rejected. hence what could be the problem? maybe jose does not see the most obvious comparision and similarities that costa has with DD. or (and this is more likly), these comparision are stupid. or one could look at soldado and forlan (who was a massive flop at united yet such a hit in liga). yes, there is a point that mario plays for a team that plays exactly a system like ours (4-2-3-1), high pressing. plus any1 who has seen baayern will vouch for his pressing and workrate. also, bayern are LETHAL on counters and again, mario is very integral t that part of their play. add to that the fact that costa's best goalscoring period was in a system that had 2 strikers(him and villa) and that he actually had an average run-in in matches after villa got injured when he had to play as a lone striker. one would ask the question how exactly does costa fit our system better than mario. hmmm,,, interesting? throw in the fact that costa to chelsea has not been confirmed by the club and hence is simple media bullshit, who by the way also say that we are in for cavani. and taking into account the fact that cavani would actually cost easily more than 50mil, i think we should say that mandzukic too is someone in our budget area. oh well,,,, selective memory here at play too.

does anyone find it weird that TOPTB was nowhere in such a massive argument/discussion on the forum. but starts posting as soon as the "benches" guy gets banned. probably just co-incidence. ps - had to post it here, since both "those" threads were locked.

second tier league? ac milan won CL in 02-03, finalist in 04-05, won again in 06-07. inter won it in 09-10. infact i would say, zlatan spent his prime playing in one of the best leagues in the world. their is no one defining moment. there are SEVERAL. the fact that he won 8 consecutive leagues is the defining moment. the fact that he can score one amazing goal after nothing, so much so that, it almost becomes a part of a daily schedule is the defining moment.

again with the DD comparision. FML. dude, if u r running out of things to say then dont. dont bring up idiotic, no good comparison which in no way helps costa's acquisition for us. highst goal scorer in PL but so what???? hahahahahahahahahaha... LOL... hhahahaha... oh god, such vain arguments. but yes, costa's 20 odd goals courtesy of his 3-4 good months in LA-liga where the defence is anonymous for atleast half the teams is simply something that cant be compared. did u see the bloody group that ATM had in CL? zenit qualified with 6 points!!! 6 points!!! thats how pathetic ATMs group was. porto were abysmal, and who was th 4th team??? i would rather take his record over a period of 2 seasons than in one competition. the only thing that pathetic is u trying to prove to me that costa is better than mario cos he has more goals in 1 competion. LOL

zlatan has one la liga medal, how many serie a medals? one eredivisie, and one ligue 1 medal. well, here is a player who has consistently performed at the top of his game, rather than had a moment of magic. i would definitely take that!!!! his perfect place is in a team like PSG where he is a top-dog. a team like PSG who is in the CL QF (already even though the second leg is to be played), and one of the favourites to win the league.

oh god!!! again?? since you really like to repeat the same things over and over again, i think i will start doing to same COSTA ONE GOOD SEASON EVER!!!! also now we are down to selectively counting goals in a particular competition. forget that mandxukic is the bundesliga highest scorer and an integral part of the team that won the CL and every other competition they played in last season. seems fair!!!

mumbai, india.

of all the people in the forum, u seem to be the biggest plastic asshole on here. infact to be honest, the ONLY plastic asshole. but do continue with your "agenda". an old man with nothing much to do or look forward in life to, hence just trolling and bigot-ting on the forum.

actually i feel there will be a choice. costa is definitely one of them. rvp is creating a massive ruckus. and if united dont have CL, he might very well want to leave. mandzukic is another option. with lewa coming in, his playtime is going to reduce drastically. then their are splash the money and get them strikers in benzema (if suarez comes to RM) and falcao. so there are options.

i dont get this. suppose a 10 year old kid, wanna-be football superstar, starts watching football and idolises hazard. so he starts supporting chelsea but unfortunately he is NOT from london. so he is a plastic? glory hunter? how idiotic can a person's opinion get?

1-3 to man city tnight.

There is no denying who the better person is. DD is a great, no doubt. But one can make an argument that was not he knocked out of CL by an inter team? Was not messi's barca??? The same team and league zlatan was playing for a year before. These individual and isolated events can't be used as an arguments for every player.Gerrard for all his greatness doea not have a PL title. Does it make him any less great??? DD had a story and an ending that any sportsperson in the world would envy... absolutely envy. It was perfect. Add to that DD's affect on a dressign room compared to ibra's, u literally are comparing apples and oranges here. Every player is different and thrives under different atmosphere and presaure. Seems zlatan has found his perfect place in psg. U can't deny that he has been one of the best players in the world in the last one and a half year. Hence people are "overreacting" (as u would put it) to evrything he does.

From india. Cricket is a religion here. Infact in my teens when I was a football buff, I was looked at like some weirdo. It is only now that football has started gainibg popularity here. Anyways, when I started watching football it pretty much co-incided with chelsea's rise in 2005. But it was when BALLACK came to chelsea that I knew I had found the thing. After that there has been no turning back. And this is something u simply can't explain why? Just like u can't explain why u love someone or something??? Sure u get attracted to that someone cos of beauty or blah blah (in this case it was ballack)... but after that things just sometine seem perfect. I love watching, discussing doing anythibg concerning tochelsea. Why?? I dont know!!! Just do. I am planing to do my mba in london so that I can have 2 years of actually watcging chelsea. Hope I will be there soon in a couple of years as I know it would be tge best day of ny life

the image of zlatan is that of a non-chalant, cocky, arrogant, takes no shit striker who can score goals, other can barely dream of!!! not every1 can be a DD or a CR or a messi. the fact that we are comparing zlatan to these guys proves that he is a great player himself!!! (which u do admit, so no point going in circles) as for over-rated, i dont think so. he is simply getting a lot of limelight which he deserves.

HAPPY BDAY LEGEND....

U r right. Papers don't. But managers do. Hence I said give this squad a year with someone like LVG.

Seriously???? People doubting zlatan. A player who has won the league with ajax, juve, inter (after a gap of 15 or so years), barca, ac milan and then psg. After winnong the scudetto with ac milan, he was on a streak of eight straight league wins in three different countries and with five different clubs, including the later stripped wins withJuventus. But since he has not played in PL, he can't be THAT good. Can he??? Also this is the guy who has scored so many amazong goals that it is unbelievable. He has about 3 or 4 goal of the year awards. Anyways #daretozlatan is a nike campaign or PR stunt. I don't think zlatan actually was on twitter all day long giving back replies. I would say it was a nike-guy using his image as ego maniac to further whatever they are doing. PS- Just to be clear about his time in barca. Zlatan was not the one who actually caused the problem. It was messi's inflated ego to play as a ST rather than a winger that was the root caise for the shit.

Give this spurs squad a good manager and then see the wonder. Despite the fact that spurs have massively underachieved this season, they are still fifth. All their buys are pretty decent ones. What they don't have is a core to play around. They don't have a JT-FL-PC-AC to soak up the pressure. Also if the rumors are to be believed and of van gaal actually joins them, it would massively improve them.

How can the best striker in the world be overrated????!!!

Nah. Dont think so. Veratti, matuidi, cabaye, motta. Add to that the defence partnership of luiz-silva which is one of the best in the world without a doubt. And an attack consisting of zlatan, cavani, moura, lavezzi,pastore. They are right AT The TOP.Barca is on the decline. Xavi was their main man. Alcantara would have been a perfect replacement but they screwed up their. Fiberglass is not half the player people hype him to be. Add to that puyol gone, alves having a shit season and waning continously, simply don't think luiz would improve them massively. A pique-luiz partnership is something I would never ever want to have chelsea.

Dude he is ESSENTIAL for CL games. Any pivot with the permutation or combination of rambo, mikel, lamps is poor compared to the one which involves him. I hope its just pre cautionary otherwise this is bad news.

What the hell!!! I thought it was a minor injury. We defo would have heard sonething if this was the case.