The issue is he lies.
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The issue is he lies.
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
Oh my God what's going on just sort it out FFS !!!!!!1!
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
Oh the irony of you accusing someone of being in a relationship with a transsexual.
billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
Waiting for Swansea to accept 40m plus add ons when they realise he wants out.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
I think the steroids have entered your brain, or you just don't understand irony.
Probably both bobo.
None of them have a better weaker foot, none of them defend better, none of them can score goals like him, cross/shoot like him.
Only Fabregas's passing ability is similar to Sigurdsson's because Fabregas & Gylfi are the only both footed passers in the league. (Cazorla is injured)
So what prevents Sigurdsson from being talked about like those other players? He's slow and not very strong. That's. It.
They're not better, in fact none of them are. Why? Because they would have better statistics playing for a much better team. That's why.
Spurs were after him early on the season, but apparently chose Barkley over him because of the price tag & wage demand being higher than Kanes & Lloris.
But is Eriksen actually a better Player than Sigurdsson? You tell me. Here are his 15 assists last season.
2 or 3 of them shouldn't have even counted due to offside & deflections. That's the difference between finishing 2 assists above Sigurdsson and 1 below him.
And how many of the other assists aren't one bit impressive? Why is Eriksen being hailed as an open play genius when 7 of his 15 assists were from set pieces? Gylfi with 3 less open play assists is apparently crap in open play and Eriksen is the best in the league? Makes sense.
Heck, let's go one further and compare their last season statistics.
Eriksen finished the season with 23 goals/assists, one more than Sigurdsson.
Yet there is no doubt who had the better season. Eriksen accumulates most of his goals & assists against the worst teams in the league in few games, Sigurdsson scores & assists evenly throughout the season, scoring 7 of his 9 goals against the top 8.
Now their statistics for Spurs & Swansea
Eriksen: 134 apps, 31 goals & 38 assists. 51.5%
Sigurdsson: 124 apps, 34 goals & 32 assists. 53%
21 of Eriksen's 31 goals are against Swansea/Sunderland/Southampton/Hull/West Brom
21 of Sigurdsson's 34 goals are against Chelsea/Everton/Tottenham/United/City/Arsenal
One player scores most of his goals against the worst teams in the league, besides Southampton & West Brom. The other scores most of his goals against the best teams in the league.
The fact that those players are younger mean nothing. Eriksen is heavily reliant on pace and will have a much shorter career in the PL than Sigurdsson, who never relied on pace or anything that he will lose with age.
Honestly I have no take/opinion or anything relevant to say about that. If I did then I would, but sadly I'm not fully aware of what went on/occurred with that whole thing. If I did then I would probably break the numbers down and try to compare their financial situations with a club like.. Swansea for an example.
I think he was referring to specific traits that Sigurdsson has an advantage over some of the other Playmakers. Like height, strength, heading, defensive ability, etc.
Which is true, this is what Barkley offers to the table. He might not pass like Fabregas, shoot like Coutinho or cross like de Bruyne but he will defend better than any of them. Win headers, bigger presence in both box's, and will set up or score the occasional goal.
This means Barkley can play CM/DM when those other Playmakers cant. He's still too technically limited to play any of the front 3 roles, but that's something Pochettino will try to improve. Barkley could become a more goal scoring/assisting version of Dembele, and could potentially be the missing key to Spurs winning the league.
But even if he doesn't start there, it's not like he was going to start here anyway. Rooney/Klassen are better in attack and his defensive duty isn't as much needed after Schneiderlin/Gueye began starting every match.
With those factors, plus Sigurdsson probably coming in.. It's obvious that it would be smarter to be a squad rotation player for Spurs than Everton. He'll definitely perform better than what Sissoko has, and will offer a different dimension going forward & in defense. I fully understand his decision to leave.
Fair enough opinion to have, but I disagree that Sigurdsson's price is inflated.
Name any starting Playmaker for the top 6, they'll be sold for £60-80+ million.
Do you believe being 1-2½ years younger is worth £10-30+ million more? All of those players HEAVILY rely on pace, which means all of those players will only play at this level up until they're 29-31 like what has happened with Rooney. Sigurdsson's whole style of play is based around being slower & weaker than his opponents, so he wont experience this until he's 36-38.
He's also injury free, having only missed 1 match for Swansea due to injury out of 131, and has spent a lot of his career benched which means his legs are fresher than someone like Michael Owen who notoriously was played too often at an early age which resulted in a short career.
Better players perform better with.. Better players.
Now, unless if you think Everton's players are worse than Swansea's.. Surely he'll perform better here?
I'll make this an easy comparison for myself.
Let's compare Swanesa's wingers & striker to.. Spurs. Past 3 seasons.
Swansea's Wingers
Routledge/Dyer/Montero/Barrow/Narsingh
255 apps, 13 goals, 21 assists. 51 apps on average each
Spurs's Heung-Min Son
62 apps, 18 goals, 10 assists. Only 2 seasons.
Son scored 1 more goal in one season for Spurs, than all 5 of Swansea's wingers have in the past 3 seasons.
Son has scored 5 more goals since joining the PL 2 years ago.
Swansea's Strikers
Llorente/Bony/Gomis/Oliveira
127 apps, 38 goals, 5 assists.
Spurs's Kane
102 apps, 75 goals, 13 assists.
Last season alone he scored 29 goals and created 7 assists in only 30 matches. At that rate, he could've scored 34-37 goals last season. Almost the same as all of Swansea's strikers in the past 3 seasons.
Obviously it's easier to get assists for Spurs than for Swansea or Everton. Because they'll want to win 5+ or more and have Son/Kane/Alli all capable of scoring outside the box.
Just look at how many of those games Eriksen scored or assisted in that were won by 4 goals or more, Sigurdsson hasn't ever had that luxury.
2 less assists than Eriksen last season. Remove those 2 ''assists'' vs Stoke in the beginning of the video and they're joint 2nd place, with Eriksen having 1 more open play assist & 1 less set piece.
Who is Damo? Is that Damon? I can assure you, whoever that is it isn't me.
I have to admit
I am totally amazed and hugely impressed that anybody had the time , the patience and the due dilligence to post some so long on a football forum
I have previously addressed in this thread, here. I will copy/paste what I said.
Sigurdsson created 9 of his 10 assists in 2014/15 in open play.
This means he can contribute in open play. Why did he then only register 5 last season?
Swansea's goal scorers last season
Llorente (ST), Fer (CM), Mawson (CB), Routledge (RW), Olsson (LB)
6 of Llorente's 15 goals were from set pieces. 8 headers.
3 of Fer's 6 goals were from set pieces.
4 of Mawson's 4 goals were from set pieces.
How is Sigurdsson going to get assists in open play, when none of his team mates are good in open play?
Gylfi's open play ability is on par or better than any other Playmaker in the league. He can shoot, cross, pass & through ball on both feet equally from anywhere on the pitch.
There is nobody, better than him on both feet. You wont see anybody shoot, score, cross, assist, through ball or back hell like him on both feet from anywhere on the pitch. His lack of speed and poor last season due to being played out of position & averaging only 27 passes per match is what made his open stats so poor compared to past seasons.
Between January 2015 & May 2016, Gylfi only officially registered 4 assists in 55 appearances, 7%.
Before and after that dry-spell, Sigurdsson registered 27 assists in 69 appearances, 37.5%
Sigurdsson shouldn't only be 4th place in the assist table over the past 3 seasons, 26 assists in 104 appearances is 24.5%
If he kept up his 37.5% assist ratio, then he would have 39 assists in 104 appearances according to the projected statistics.
He is 2nd in the goals/assists table, but should be leading it by a lot.
He's assisting with awful players compared to the top 7, and still 4th in the table. But it's not like he cant score goals in open play either.
Both feet, volleys, headers, inside or outside the box, either side of the pitch, low driven punts or curlers with finesse, free-kicks, penalties.. He offers everything in regards to scoring goals.
Everton is about to sign the most both footed shooter, passer & crosser in the league.
Exactly what I mean.
You don't just suddenly go from 4 assists in 58 apps to 6 assists in 7 apps without having been improperly utilized.
From 7% assist ratio at Spurs to 26% at Swansea.
And then like I mentioned earlier, his 26% is actually dragged down from his 6 assists in 55 apps dry-spell, 11%. Remove that from his 124 apps & 32 assists and you'll get 26 assists in 69 apps. 37.5%
It might seem like cherry picking, but when you're playing for Swansea and you lose your best team mate Wilfried Bony.. It's going to take awhile to adjust, adapt or find a new striker. It took 1½ seasons for Swansea to sign Llorente.
Regarding Ted Knutson, I simply sent him an email, sent him a few tweet and even attempted to contact him on Skype regarding his poor analysis of Sigurdsson. You simply cannot brand a player ''poor in open play'' based on a single season. I made him aware of this, that is all. ''hounded'' is far from the truth, just like a lot of what you said in that post.
I post on reddit, I do admit that. I have said Sigurdsson is a better goal scorer & assister than Toni Kroos, as the statistics prove. I have not at all used Twitter other than that one attempt to contact the analyst I previously mentioned. Your portrayal of me and my actions is one of the most disingenuous and absurd things I have come across as a poster on any soccer forum I've visited so far.
Liverpool & Spurs were previously after him, Sigurdsson's a well-known United supporter so maybe he said no to Liverpool because of that? Which could rule out a move to City.
None of the top teams in the PL are after him because they are younger & faster Playmakers that they deem to have a higher ceiling/potential. Either way, statistically & technique wise none of those players can match him, not Eriksen not Ozil not Fabregas not de Bruyne.
Open play, assists, goals.. On either foot you cant name one planet capable of what I've shown you in those video's & with his weaker foot statistics.
Also, he has rejected offers from AC Milan/Inter/Roma/Dortmund. A £50 million offer from China was offered during January and Spurs were reportedly interested in him earlier this summer but chose to go for Barkley instead.
Eriksen never ''ousted'' him because he never played attacking midfielder for Spurs in the first place. Just like he never took free kicks, set pieces, corners or penalties for them. He played out of position, averaged 43 minutes per appearance, and plenty of other reasons why he didn't succeed nearly as well there as he has for Swansea.
Xavi & Iniesta have equal, or better both footed passing ability. Except they're much, much faster players. So they can execute passes faster and dribble past others in tight situations.
They do not possess his crossing ability on either foot, nor do they have his set pieces, free kicks, penalties, or defensive abilities. Which is why they can only play AM/CM and Sigurdsson can play anywhere in midfield or forward.
Whether or not if you choose to prioritize being smaller but superior at passing, or worse at that but superior in every other aspect completely depends on the XI, formation, role & players surrounding you.
I'd choose Sigurdsson over either of them any day of the week, but I'm obviously bias.
Fook me that's some impressive post
It's obviously way too long and I didn't read it and it may be pure tosh but it's mighty impressive in its length
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £70m
Jim White said something along the lines that we weren't close to their valuation of Sigurdsson about a week ago. Swansea are playing hardball and we refuse to pay the 50 million. It all depends on how bad Sigurdsson wants the move
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
I don't do steroids mate. But because I'm in such good physical condition people think I do. Mad really hahaha.
Kenwright tells lies
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