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My updated sig says it all. GTFI Deutschland! And thank you for doing it so late. Even sweeter than I could ever imagine. Argentino, me diz como se sente... / Perder na casa do papai

I really hope you mean literally the mom, because there's no way he's been better than Schweinsteiger this half.

I just absolutely love Schweinsteiger when he plays for Germany. What an absolute monster he is, every ball is his, every attack is begun from him, just everything is about him in games like these. Fantastic player who I thought had an average Bundesliga season for a player of his calibre, really picked himself up for the right moment. Hummels has also shown why I don't think he's the best defender in the world and belongs to the group of 'one of the best', he's just too slow.

Why would you take Enzo Perez out, I watched only bits of the semi-final but at home people were talking about how he was probably their best player, van Gaal subbed Martins out because he was having problem with him and Argentinian media are still questioning the decision to bring him off in the game as he was their biggest threat.

Interview with Beckenbauer where he was asked the question whether Messi would become the best ever if he won the World Cup today. He answered that yes, Messi will become the best that it's possible for him, he'll reach the same level as Maradona, Beckenbauer, Cruyff etc. But there's always going to be one player he'll never eclipse. Beckenbauer knows his stuff

GTFI. Now please let him and Ben Arfa play together.

Which we were, everyone saw that. Scolari made many errors and relied on Fred, Oscar and Hulk waking up when Neymar went down. To be fair to Scolari though, without him we'd probably not even gone through the group stages. The work Mano was doing was the worst job I've witnessed by anyone, even by Pardew. How on earth are you putting Fred and Hulk in the same bracket as Oscar? Oscar is a footballer. The other two might as well be lumberjacks brought in from a ranch. Seriously can't get my head around the selection of those two ahead of Bernard, Moura and Coutinho. Could easily have played Neymar centrally and taken a pick from who to play around him. Fred is the worst striker I have ever seen play for a major footballing nation. Ever. Hulk and Jo are the second and third worst. It's painfully baffling to me. This. If there was any shining light in this world cup for the Brazilians, it came from Oscar after Neymar went out, and I would also say Julio Cesar... not much he could've done about many of the goals, and kept the score down in many other games. Oscar was f***ing mint (not against the Germans, obviously, but what the f*** can you do inside a tornado...) Oscar wasn't fucking mint, Oscar is the biggest disappointment that I've experienced as a brazilian fan in a World Cup. Comparing the expectation off him to what he produced is the biggest gap I've witnessed in my life. For all the shit Hulk and Fred got they are still players capable of scoring goals and were really abysmal compared to what they usually produce, but the gap between what they produced and their level isn't the same as Oscars. Oscar is one of the best #10 in the world. Oscar started the World Cup with 20 horrible minutes, then he grew into the Croatia game and took over. After that game he was gone hiding, don't ask me why or how, but he disappeared from every single footballing pitch until yesterday. Every time the ball came to him his first touch was like the ball was as we say in portuguese a 'hot potato', the ball just wouldn't stick to his foot. He didn't create a single chance in 5 games. He was given the same role in 7 matches, and failed massively in 5 of them. I'll say it again, Oscar is the biggest disappointment I've witnessed in World Cups not because he was shite as there were many like him, but because I know of the football he can produce, because I know how good he can be and because despite all of that he didn't show any of it. Would've definitely been a better party at the very least. Aye fair enough, but he won the CL with Chelsea, so I don't really buy that. Also think that with Neymar and TSilva anything could've happened against Germany. Team was lost as Argentina or Holland or anyone except Germany would be without their two best players. But yeah ultimately you're probably right. I said it all along that we should've gone for a 3-4-3 where I see him thriving more.

FWIW I was at the Costa Rica game and he was a threat consistently. He just didn't make the most of it and the dutch played a bit too negative considering the opposition.

Ronaldo could never play the #10 role and no Ronaldo doesn't have all of that. Ronaldo is an effective machine, one of the best goal scorers I'll ever see, but he's not near the top guys when it comes to technique, intelligent and vision on the pitch. He's got dribbling skills, goal scoring ability and is physically superior to most players nowadays. But he's no Cruyff, Messi, Maradona, or Pele.

You're just forgetting brain, vision, creativeness which made Pele the best. Pele could be the #9 as well as the #10 faultlessly.

to van Gaal for using all 23 players in the WC. First time in history.

Think him, James and Muller should fight it over. But FIFA will give to Messi if they win no matter what. If Germany wins it, then maybe just maybe James or Robben might win it.

I'd love to see Robben in the PL. With Suarez gone this league really needs it's class player to replace him.

Guess that's fair enough, can't argue much against what you posted except that not even the best defender in the world can put in performances like he can and that's why I think PSG is the perfect fit. He needs to learn to maintain concentration levels up and where else can he learn to do that with a team that will run it's league easily and he'll have to play most parts of game up comfortably. We've already seen him in the big games, and I'm honest when I say that except this week I've never seen him have a terrible game in big game situations.

Which we were, everyone saw that. Scolari made many errors and relied on Fred, Oscar and Hulk waking up when Neymar went down. To be fair to Scolari though, without him we'd probably not even gone through the group stages. The work Mano was doing was the worst job I've witnessed by anyone, even by Pardew.

We already have Neymar, and he has everything to become the worlds best someday. He just needs to learn more from Messi and get more effective. I'm not the biggest fan of Cristiano Ronaldo either, but him and Messi differentiate themselves from others because they're so effective in front of goal, they're main objective isn't to make people jump out of their seats, it's to score goals and win games. Sometimes he wants to do the harder things, he just needs to become a machine because if he scored half the chances he got for Barcelona last season he'd be close to 40 goals no doubt. Nah, I mean...who is the best young player still in Brazil right now? I'm hoping we see more of this kid Mosquito. Don't know anything about him, but he's got the name to either be a tricky little player or a massive douchebag. Probably both. From the U17 there is him, Boschilia, Nathan and Auro who were all hyped up. But as always there's a maximum of one of them that will bloom and there will emerge someone random at some point.

TBH Holland didn't exploit anything. It was an early set back which set the game tempo, with a good ref neither of the last two goals would've stood. They deserved the win for the tournament they've done, and for the way they defended. It's a good thing you're not blaming the ref.. The ref was s**** for both teams. You should have had a pen, but we should have had another, Silva should have been off, and Robben should be one on one after that Silva slip that was called a foul by Van Persie. Where did I blame the ref though? I'm just saying you're team didn't exploit anything and yet you deserved to win. Like I said, the ref missed on Silva, should've been a red and a free-kick, but I think he gave a penalty so he didn't have to send Silva off. Also, you should never have had a 2nd penalty, was quite clear a handball by Robben when Fernandinho went onto him. Anyways, not blaming the ref, just saying that the scoreline doesn't really reflect the game in general, still think Netherlands are a much more deserving team to get that bronze than us. We aren't even a top 8 side in this World Cup.

TBH Holland didn't exploit anything. It was an early set back which set the game tempo, with a good ref neither of the last two goals would've stood. They deserved the win for the tournament they've done, and for the way they defended.

http://cdndata.bigfooty.com/2014/04/49997_b70e6ae14ce1652fa11bd1dda624afd1.gif ...on his day. Fuck it too much typing that I'm missing out on vital parts of my posts. I'm out, fuck this World Cup.

Ah, no biggie then Obviously didn't mean the sport But the way it should be played by our team.

We already have Neymar, and he has everything to become the worlds best someday. He just needs to learn more from Messi and get more effective. I'm not the biggest fan of Cristiano Ronaldo either, but him and Messi differentiate themselves from others because they're so effective in front of goal, they're main objective isn't to make people jump out of their seats, it's to score goals and win games. Sometimes he wants to do the harder things, he just needs to become a machine because if he scored half the chances he got for Barcelona last season he'd be close to 40 goals no doubt. Nah, I mean...who is the best young player still in Brazil right now? I'd say the one who looks closest to take the next step is unfortunately a CB. Doria, 19 year old and already reached 70 appearances for them. There are always few players who emerge every year, a lot of talk of Luan from Gremio. Never seen him play though. We've got some CBs like Marquinhos and Juan Jesus in Europe, but it's the last position we need players. I hope Danilo at Porto goes on to good things or that van Gaal makes Rafael seem like a competent player again because right back is a position that we is hurting right now. That's not quite true though, is it? It is, look, I know you hate David Luiz and I'm not disagreeing that he had two terrible games. However, he had five excellent games and I'm not looking past that. I think they crumbled under too much pressure and like I said, we had a non-existing midfield. He wasn't bought to PSG for that kind of money for no reasons, he's one of the best in the world but he needs to get some psychologist help to teach him to maintain focus in every game, because you can see before a game when he's going to play bad. Today was obvious, his first challenge was a dirty 'elbow' into van Persie. On his day however, no one can take his ability away from him. I'm sure that this will be an experience richer for him, he'll hopefully learn from it and playing four years next to the calmest defender can only further develop him.

Reached that conclusion after, what, 6-7 non-full games?

We already have Neymar, and he has everything to become the worlds best someday. He just needs to learn more from Messi and get more effective. I'm not the biggest fan of Cristiano Ronaldo either, but him and Messi differentiate themselves from others because they're so effective in front of goal, they're main objective isn't to make people jump out of their seats, it's to score goals and win games. Sometimes he wants to do the harder things, he just needs to become a machine because if he scored half the chances he got for Barcelona last season he'd be close to 40 goals no doubt. Nah, I mean...who is the best young player still in Brazil right now? I'd say the one who looks closest to take the next step is unfortunately a CB. Doria, 19 year old and already reached 70 appearances for them. There are always few players who emerge every year, a lot of talk of Luan from Gremio. Never seen him play though. We've got some CBs like Marquinhos and Juan Jesus in Europe, but it's the last position we need players. I hope Danilo at Porto goes on to good things or that van Gaal makes Rafael seem like a competent player again because right back is a position that we is hurting right now.

Instead of playing the likes of Sammy Ameobi and Papiss Cisse you mean? I wonder if you're as dumb in real life as you're in here tbh.