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Who is the copycat?

Probably, unless Rooney wants to play as GK.

Oh god you killed me manpe.

"He picked me unlike the other fella." I really laughed when I heard that.

Ronaldo - Aguero - Messi Iniesta - Alonso - Xavi Coentrao - Hummels - Silva - Alves Casillas Failing that: Batistuta Cryuff - Platini - Maradona Matthaus - Zidane Facchetti - Baresi- Beckenbauer - Bergomi Zoff

Yep, he used it during the American tour.

Some already do. A lot are very worried about the high-line.

Mainly because the majority of things I say shouldn't be taken seriously. I have different reputations among different groups, some think I'm never to be taken seriously others take me seriously all the time.

Which is a stark contrast to how people treat me in the physical world.

That is pretty amazing.

Cap knows to not take me too seriously.

But Lukakau is not Drogba nor does he play like him.

Stop taking things to extremes, I never once said or implied that Messi was 'just some street kid with no talent'. Just because one is talented as a child doesn't mean necessarily translate to being a talented adult.

Shocked? Bloody hell, Cap you are good at putting words where there is nothing but silence. Where did I say I was shocked? Please tell me. No offense or anything Cap but it seems nearly everytime you quote me you put words in my mouth.

Bombastic.

There was no gaurantee that he was going to make it, just because he showed potential doesn't mean a thing. He was a child a that time and from a poor family that couldn't afford treatment, the fact that you say he can't do what he loves because of illness sickens me. I've said it once I'll say it again a 12 year old taking Growth hormones is different to an adult taking them. If he were to take them now, I would be against it, but as a sick 12 year old? I'd say that is fair.

Tottenham supporters.

You could almost apply that exact paragraph to Frank Lampard.

Simple, the standard of everyone else in football suddenly gets worse while Messi stays the same. Witchcraft at it's finest. It annoys me when people say Messi was doping, he wasn't. He was using Growth hormones as medicine, i.e. to get healthy. If he had been using them to become a better footballer than it would be doping.

There you go you just contradicted yourself. In your first post you said that if Melo hadn't not have scored that own goal Brazil would have won. Emphasis on the words 'would have' as they imply 100% certainty.

Nonsense, I bet Torres can beat many a defender in a 5-10 metre distance to say that he can't beat any is a blatant generalisation. Yes because we can now look back at his career and compare, when he was 25 we had no idea when he was going to peak or if he already had. Besides I have no idea what you are trying to convey with that statement. You have no proof that Messi won't get better just a few observations from the last season. The growth hormones were medicine not performance enhancers, I honestly doubt he still takes them.

That doesn't prove anything. Bayern Munich were in complete control of the Champions League final but who won that? Who is to say that Sneijder wouldn't have smacked on in from 30 yards or that von Brockhorst scored a header from a corner? Saying that Brazil would have won if that own goal didn't occur is insane, they could have won and that's that. That has nothing to do with anything.

Cahill is very flashy and extravagant. for an English CB.

You are joking right? Mikel beating Torres in a sprint? Torres has lost a fair bit of speed since his injuries but his still much, much faster than Mikel. Giggs has lost a lot of pace, he was very fast in his 20s and not so much now. A better example of someone who hasn't lost pace with age is Javier Zanetti, he was never the fastest guy but he still runs at the same tempo as he did when he was 25. It doesn't make sense to lump players into a classification 'at their peak/still have room to improve' because they are two contradictory terms. How can they be at their peak but still have potential for improvement? Besides to say any of those players are at their peak is idiotic, we can never know how good these players are till they retire. Only when their days are done we can look back and say he hit his peak at 27 or this guy hit his peak at 35.