People need to stop thinking about the price. We're a football club not a business. If you want bargains pop down Poundland. United quality and experience. Not another project
๐จ๐ฅ | Nemanja Matic replies to Andrรฉ Onanaโs comments about Manchester United being better than Lyon:
โWhen you are one of the worst goalkeepers in Man United history, you need to take care what youโre talking about.โ
Most of these influencers/YouTubers are in their early 20s, meaning they only started watching football seriously from the 2010s. Salah, KDB, Van Dijk, etc are the first decent footballers they watched, Pep and Klopp the first managers, etc. These are all they have ever known having never experienced anything else. By default, they regard these players/managers as superior to those from the previous generation.
When they have to talk about the period they did not/were too young to experience personally, they resort to stats.
Raw stats will tell you Salah has better numbers. But it will not tell you that Salah was bought by Liverpool as a fully developed player at 25 while Ronaldo came to Utd as a teenager and had a fair bit of development to do. A better comparison would be comparing their numbers between the ages of 18 and 24 (Ronaldo left Utd for Real Madrid at 24). But they won't do that.
Raw stats also won't tell you about the quality of defenders these players faced. While Ronaldo constantly faced Terry, Cole, Campbell, Carvalho, etc, Salah faced the likes of Kompany, Vertonghen, Baines and Cahill. Do you honestly think this is comparable?
Raw stats won't also tell you how Ronaldo terrorised teams with pace, power and trickery between 2006-09 that no player has ever been able to come close to that.
Raw stats will not tell you that 34 of Salah's 184 Goals are penalties while Ronaldo's numbers have only 11 penalties.
Raw stats alone can't explain why heโs the only PL forward to win the Ballon d'Or since Michael Owen in 2001. Why hasn't Mo Salah, 'the greatest PL winger' been able to win it?
Raw stats also won't tell you why Real Madrid forked out a world record ยฃ80m fee (inflation adjusted fee of ยฃ195m) for him in 2009 after pursuing him for 2 years.
I always say stats without context are meaningless. This is another instance.
Next time get someone who has actually experienced the PL to do these debates @SkySports
Eric Cantona :
" If Gaza is over this time the world is inevitably over. The world developed its way of murdering , its greediness grew and its desecration of innocents has extended.
If Gaza doesn't make it this time this mean that victory is for the most violent , and the most barbaric "
@Rayaana_33 Yeh there was me thinking oh finally have a friend maybe she respects my knowledge nope, she just wanted to party while watched CBeebies with her children loool