What and Taarabt is?
When did we play Real? Must have missed that one
In a far inferior league, lets see how the Spurs reject does in the premiership next season shall we?
As for Valencia stats why only include league goals and assists? Do those in the Champions League not matter? Or do they only fail to matter when it's for your argument (I seem to say the same thing to you over and over again)
Really? Funny that because in all comps last season he scored 7 times oh but I guess in the world you live in 3 extra goals is a chasm that cant be reached isn't it.... words fail me they really do
Yeah done nothing at United has he, only part of the PFA team of the season in his first year at United, MOTM in the Carling Cup final of 2010, set up god knows how many goals for Rooney last season, was integral to us wining the title this season and reaching the champions league final yep done absolutely nothing has he
Someone get on the phone to SAF and Gill and ask if Arsenal will trade us Eboue would ya?
Was Taarabt good this season, yes, is Giggs NEXT SEASON going to be great, as his age, if he even continues next season. You seem to have missed that I said he will probably be better than both next season, that he has the POTENTIAL to be better. Valencia scoring 7 goals, of which IIRC 3 or 4 being hilariously bad deflected goals, isn't fantastic, and that is his best season. In his less good seasons he... scored less, 3 goals and 3 assists isn't very good.
Premier league stats are simply more reliable, if you score 20 in the league and someone said they were all against West Ham, or all against Man City, that would tell 99% of the members on the board how good they were, saying someone scored 15 against CFR Cluj and most people would say, who? You can get to the champs league final 2 years in a row and not play a single team twice...... can you do that in the league? One season you can get every team with half the team injured, on their worst day in the champs league, thats far less likely to happen in the premier league, you have to play the best and the worst teams twice, often playing 3-4 times the amount of games.
I don't leave out champs league stats on purpose, infact, you only seem to point out when I don't even though I include them constantly, the fact is, they aren't very useful anyway.
Was Valencia in the PFA team every other year in the league? how often is he man of the match, does Cygan scoring a brace that won us a game, playing at left back while bombing down the wing mean he is better than Evra? Every type of player, brilliant and downright awful has great games, even a better than normal season, that really means...... nothing. Maxi was awful, for two years, and two flukey games and he goes from another rubbish 3 goal season to a 10 goal season(still rubbish but looking less bad).
Valencia's GREAT season was 7 goals and 11 assists, Nani got 9 goals 18 assists in the league alone this season.
His other seasons were, in all competitions 1goal/1 assist, 3 goals/3 assists, 3 goals and a massive 4 assists, 7 goals/11 assists, and 3 goals/3assists.
Epic. He's really not going to improve, he shows no signs of improving, he'll never be world class, across 5 seasons 1 has been decent, 3 have been poor and one has been injury hit.
Taarabt has had 2 very good seasons, he's 22, he's still improving, I've not once said he(nor Eboue) was world class, but he HAS POTENTIAL, maybe he'll be awful next season, maybe he'll have an even better season in the premier league, maybe he'll continue to get better for a few seasons and be a brilliant winger. Valencia will not be epic next season, or the season after, or the season after that, I rarely think he's even slightly good. I'd bring in someone who has the potential to be that good over someone I know won't be world class every time, one's a waste, one might be a diamond, if he ends up not being one, move on, thats football.
Was anticipating it being hiddink only because of Boas's previous comments and his rather hefty buy-out clause.