Magic Lamps

I follow english football since 2004. Not my fault Scholes spent these 9 years of his career picking his nose on the Utd bench. But in my books this is not what good players do. Obviously I've not missed so much anyway, cos anything one can find about Scholes does not come anywhere near what Lamps has achieved. I also did not see Lother Matthäus, Bobby Charlton or Zinedine Zidane play much. Still I can compare them to Lamps, cos what I can find about them legitimises that. You know, they did not spend 9 years on the bench with players like Anderson, Fletcher and Hargreaves starting over them...

I also lmao at the comparisons to Scholes. No way should a player like Scholes compared to a player so much superior. Thank god not only statistics but also the football world (for those of you who prefer the survey method) have it the same @ Lamps vs Scholes vs Gerrard 1.Lampard prime > Scholes prime In 2005 Lamps was 2nd in world and European player of the year, which is quite some feat cos he is english&epl player, Scholes has never won an individual award of any significance 2.Lampard overall > Scholes overall reflected by performances, stats and statistics respectively. https://twitter.com/BigJohnTerry/status/291291194531651584/photo/1 They are not quite up to date (from end janaury or so)and only premier league but, updating and including more competitions only influences these stats even more in Lamps's favour, cos Gerrard has only assembled a massive 3 goals since then whilst Scholes has recorded a bombastic 0 goals and 0 assists. Lamps has scored at least 10 goals. If u include all competitions Lamps has 271 goals which is about as much as Scholes and gerrard have combined overall. Also Lamps's 0,34 goals per game ratio beats them both comfortably with 0,2 and 0,23 respectively. Interesting is also that Lamps has more goals in the league alone than either Scholes or Gerrard have overall( which are more matches). Also for England Lamps has a far better scoring record than both. Also funny is that Lampard has waaay more games, esp. starts than Scholes, despite being 5 years younger. Shows how much the two actually contribute to their clubs. Lamps has outscored Gerrard in 13 of the 17 seasons they have played in parallel, including the including the last 4 running, even though being older, outassisted Gerrard in every season they have played in parallel i have checked so far, outassisted and outscored Paul Scholes in every season since 2004. Scholes's prime 2000-2005 is not even close to Lamps's 2005-2010 in terms of goals and assists and most importantly titles. Yes titles. When Scholes had the biggest imapct on his team during his career before becoming a bench player in these years he won 2 leagues, 1 fa cup, Lamps won 3 leagues, 4 fa cups and 2 league cups when he had the biggest impact on the team. Now i have dug really deep to find some individual awards Scholes actually has won. He has been in the team of the decade 1992-2001. , Lamps has been player of the decade 2000-2009. Lamps has also won 39 individual awards to Scholes 7. Lamps also won 4 times player of the month, 3 times pfa team of the year to scholes's 2, Lamps has won silver award in european and world player of the year, world xi and countless other awards scholes can only dream of. That is why all in all Lamps beats scholes and gerrard in terms of all relevant statistics and individual awards. Let's not forget Lampard literally kicked Scholes out of the England team. Scholes was 30 when he retired form international football. Lampard still carries on with almost 35. In the ManU team Scholes was replaced by the mighty Steven Fletcher. Lampard had the competition of Deco, Ballack, Essien...and got the better of anyone. Scholes played his last season in which he contributed in and not only featured as a mascot that sometimes strayed into the starting lineup (as a consequence of Utd's chronically shit midfield), carried as charity cause, in 2003/4 when he was 29. Lamps at the age of almost 35 is still a massive part of the team. 13 years of worldclass vs half career as Utd's answer to paulo ferreira (post 2007 ofc). Lamps simply has performed better no matter what way you measure it and has done so over a way longer period. You can compare Lampard to Zidane, Bobby Charlton or Lothar Matthäus. Scholes?

simply recall him. We will be short on both RB and Cb, he would easily end up with 10-20 starts and 20-30 appearences overall. Hope he is in Mourinho's book.

I do not remember us being in the title hunt in 11/12... Ofc I mean 10-11. Torrid game, we should have got a penalty, no idea whether a player was sent off and in the last minute or so beckford scored a lucky solo goal. Did not matter in the end, but if you had played like that vs ManU, we might have had shot for the title.

He simply is not good enough. He is a one-trick pony, he is far too slow to become a great winger and I do not have a clue what built or commercializability (is this an English word?) have to do with it. I do not demand a big money buy. But another winger should be right-sided and fast, which Antoine Griezman is not.

This is gonna be uncomfortable without Hazard. Are Everton still in for anything? Probably doesn't matter, it is always hard for us playing them. They usually raise their game when facing a bigger opposition but we seem to be a special case for them. Remember 2011. We could have overhauled ManUtd who lost to Arsenal, if Everton had got a result but they gifted them easy points @Goodison, whereas they parked the bus when we came there.

wenger: "I would love play off game vs Chelsea" Of course he would, cos they have played 20 games less this season. Still we will slash them a 3rd time running.

I like him, too. I have seen him for France U19-U21 teams and I would strongly advise against signing him. He is surely good but nowhere near Chelsea level and probably never will. That is rather because of his physical than technical abilites.He is good at dribbling and has a decent shot too, but as a winger you should either be good at crossing ala Beckham, Figo or be able to get behind the defender a la Hazard, Walcott. He often takes on the defender, sees that he is not fast enough to take him on, than he tries some skills, which work when the defender is inexperienced but in most cases it does not so he passes it back, get some space adn puts an average cross in. He has some decent skills and also his finishing is good, but in terms of contribution as a winger he is simply neither the level nor the type of player we should look out for.

His contract runs another 2 years so he is not gonna cost 94m again However, this is not gonna happen. Apparently he has fallen out with Mou, so would make no sense to come here

Juan Mata weaknesses: Weak, small, one footed, slow, unconsistant finishing, bad leaper - yes, definitely a striker. Might also try play him as Goalkeeper or Centre back, would be probably as useful there.

Dortmund won't sell him. Great player ofc.

I already did. My brother and some mates of me agreed wih me, when I made this point. but this is not the point. Do you really think collecting opinions is an epistemologically valuable way to finding the truth?I will ask my mathmatics professor why we do not simply make a survey and ask the people what the right solution is instead of this strenious thinking and reasoning...yup just let's put an "Is there anyone else who thinks that?" and leave it at that

Lamps's performances in the very crucial games this season once again proved his critics wrong. He remains, no matter his age, one of the best midfielders in the world, individually (also if not in the pivot), and one of the best and most important players in the team. Prolonging his contract was the only reasonable decision and probably the threat of him leaving was never as great as the media made it look like. Funny enough, that the people who want him out of this club, in the end took all their medial vindication out of nothing but hot air. In the end they were completely alone with their delusions. I do not really like these Scholes/Giggs comparisons. They never were anywhere near as good as Lampard and their contribution, even in their prime, which feels like 900 years ago, is ridiculous compared to Lamps's. I got not the shadow of a doubt that Lamps will be waaay more effective. Lamps simply is the greatest player ever to wear the shirt and that is so much more than a career artificially prolonged into mediocrity.

Kalas, yeah forgot about this kid, you are right, he should be given achance next season.

He is finally gonna leave... A little sad, cos he has been such a loyal servant for so long, but no one should have given such a rapidly declining player a 6 year deal, so I am rather relieved. Hope the club don't fuck this up and get some decent replacement. Simply make Todd Kane or Wallace or anyone from the youth 2nd option. I do not give a fuck if they would benefit more from a loan or shit. We develop these players for them to play for us so we do not have to buy others.

Rafa finally showed that he deserves respect as a manager. Never liked here and we, the fans, did not make it easy for him in the first place and he surely has to acknowledge his mistakes in our other cup losses, but he has completed the top4 task which was necessary and he got one the most important trophy left after Premiership and CL got begging. Like it or not, but Rafa is indeed a champion.

He okay all round, with a couple of last ditch clearances, most notably the one when the ball wobbled around in our box like on a snooker table and ofc the match-winning tackle. He always raises his game when we are pinned with the back to the walls. We maybe can not rely him week in week out but somehow, in a final he never puts a foot wrong.

^no surprise really, just the usual nuisance you get from refs. The team accepted it and got on with it, so will we as we once again won against the ref

I'd rather not... I hope we do not play next season with an Europa League winners badge or shit like that on the kits. As happy as I am about this success now, the more happy I will be when this is part of our history and not of our current reality.

Maybe I am biased, but I think most members have been pretty respectful towards the Benfica fans who subscribed. Anyway, I liked your contribution before and after the match. Posters from other teams who behave this way are always welcome here.

Take it this way. 1. Mou and Frank love to work together, so him staying is defo a good thing 2. I rather fancy Mou win the trophy in his first year than Pellegrini or Moyes TBH 3. We will have Essien back, cos no one except Mou will pay wages that high for a shadow of a player 4. Hazard, Oscar will greatly improve next season. 5. We will either sign a striker like Schürrle, or even make a big signing à la Cavani or recall Lukaku, so our striker's department will get better 6. We will get rid of Paulo, Hilario, Yossi, Turnbull cos their contracts won't be extended. By replacing them we will get an upgrade in terms of quality in any case, cos there is no margin in the other direction 7. We will most likely not have so many matches again 8. We will have Romeu back, so more depth in midfield 9. There are no players like Meireles who will simply be sold in knee-jerk reaction by the board so we most probably will go into the season with a bigger squad 10. We will sign another big name apart from the striker in CB and/or in midfield so that will improve our first team, too.

I think there are enough traditional wingers out there, but they are not fancied any more and are told to cut inside and shit. My younger brother played for a youth academy team. He is two-footed,lightning fast and can hit a cross in full run, the ideal winger, but the coaches always played him in defence and said "everything you can do is run, so we do not need you further forward". Players who rely on their pace and play directly are often underestimated and used wrongly. It is symptomatically Schürrle is by some distance the fastest man in the German squad but is not that fast, maybe just as fast as Ramires btw. We should have signed Lucas Moura instead of Oscar...

whatever. Lamps has owned "Bastian" every time he faced him. +Lampard also won every time he faced Javi Martinez before he came to Bayern...

Just as the last time they faced Lampard and Mikel...Schweini and Martinez can only watch and marvel when Lamps hits his long rangers. Mourinho will scarp that lousy 4-2-3-1 and Bayern will not see any daylight when facing a 3 man midfield.

we do not need to cancel them. They bring welcomed money and cos there are no regulations we can simply send some youngsters to USA. This is a showpiece, everyone knows that and I am pretty sure this idea of buying European teams for post-season matches won't get popular anyway, so we do not really need to perform there at all.