Match Day Thread 2016/17 Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

He's openly spoken about it mate, but he's obviously at the lesser affected end tbf.

An old mate of mine has a lad who's at the extreme end, to say it's a challenge is a massive understatement. I honestly don't know how he copes with him.

 

Not saying I am right, just that's the way I have justified it to myself.
From what I have seen if a player kicks the ball and then makes contact with someone it is seen as a clean strike, if he misses the ball or hits the other player first it is taken as a foul or dangerous play.

 

Title challenge over

So presumably he thought it was even on in the first place, in which case what does today matter given Man Utd apparently should have had a pen?

 

Balotelli scores twice in Nice's 3-2 win over Marseille to move them 2nd in the league!

Maybe we should have loaned him and could have got £10m for him after a decent season in France!!

 

Maybe Klopp should have at least tried to use him instead of accepting Brendan's failings as being final?

 

Na....he's a ****wit...that league is bollox and I bet he still goes off the rails before Xmas ..

 

Yeah, can never see him actually living up to his ability.
You can't deny he has talent (more than most probably) but he just has no drive or ambition other than to be famous. He would have been just as happy living in the big brother house or being on TOWIE or some other ****e thing that gets you well known.

 

Probably your most sensible post ever.

 

He'll be back to normal in his next post I'm sure

 

Nah, football is back now and I have found a conspiracy thread on the Hull board. Life's all good

 

My daughter's an LD nurse. Autism is a fascinating subject - a bit like diabetes in that many people, including some scientists, musicians and artists, are on the scale to some degree. I know it's fictional, but think of Sheldon in the BBT.

 

Yeah, it's understandable that a lot of successful people in fields that require intense focus in a particular discipline are on the spectrum as autistic people tend to fixate on a particular activity and display savantism, if the autism is too sever though it prevents the person from successfully developing and applying the ability in the real world with a career though due to the difficulties they have with socialising and so on

 

I watched the majority of the Nice game and he was very static for most of it. He doesn't make things happen, he waits for them to happen. At one point he stood for close to 2 minutes just outside the box on the right wing just watching the game pass him by and seeing his team trying to break through. He moved less than a metre in that time.

He's a massive 6ft3 powerful striker with a decent turn of pace and great technique. He should be banging them in for fun at a top European club but because of his lack of application he's ended up at Nice. And apparently that's Mourinho, Mancini, Rodgers, Klopp, Conte etc. fault and not his own.

 

He's got (or had) everything apart from a brain and a heart.

 

He's rewlly frustrating because as you say, he's a big powerful guy with then of pace, a blistering shot and when presented with a chance can stick the ball in the net in 18 yard box.

Just look back back to how he tore Germany apart in WC for Italy playing as a lone striker, was like watching Drigba in his prime.

In 5/6 years time he could well be looking back at a career of just what might have been.

Yes he's never going to be running around without the ball like some other players but if he would just learn when to make runs in behind and offer movement off the ball he could easily have walked into our team the last 2 years. Sturridge is a perfect example. Often cited as lazy, he's not really, he just doesn't press off the ball as much as others before him, but when we're on the ball he offers that movement to open up space.

He seems to always want the ball to feel no matter where he is and will stand there into someone gives it to him then he'll be interested. He'll drop too deep at times to get involved which is fine if his link up play if up to scratch but often it's not. What he needs to do is be a focus point up top but be looking to make runs in and behind defenders as he has the pace and power.

 

and since he has no balls either he's basically a combination of all three of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz's sidekicks ... scarecrow, tin man and lion ... no brains, no heart, no courage. And now a successful career will always be just a dream for him. There's no place like home Mario, there's no place like home

 

I wish to **** I was as unsuccessful as him, played for a few of the top clubs in Europe, Italy international and a millionaire in the bargain.
Poor misguided waste of a life

 

It's lazy for those people who say Studge is lazy; he just plain isn't. Firstly, he hasn't the tank of a Hendo or a Mane to run non-stop for 90 minutes - he'll just cramp/injure himself. I remember when he ran himself into the ground in the EL final and could barely move for the last 20 minutes. Some then said he was too lazy to run for the ball!

secondly, as Michael owen said, once you've had an injury it's hard to get over the subconscious fear of letting yourself go 100% for fear of pulling/tearing something again. Yeasterday (apart from unusually poor finishing), you couldn't fault him for that. He was hitting fifth and sixth gear regularily.

But you'll never get 90 minutes of that from Studge, and if you ask for it he could well injure himself again. I think Jurgen is getting to the bottom of it and realises this - 60 minutes of 100% Studge for 3 games out of 5 is worth managing. He is ****ing special.

 

Like the old George Best joke of a jorunalist asking him in the 70's when he retired to Spain, with his Roller in the drive, millions in the bank and Miss World on his arm "Where did it all go wrong George'?

 

Well yeh with the balotelli thing it depends how you look at it and what you'd want out of life doesn't it