Ibrahimović vs Rooney

ppl will only vote zlatan cuz he is muslim and not english

this wd be a lol mma fight btw

I tried to paste this photo as well.

zlatan all the way.

Oh and the poll apparently closes in one hour. The consistency of my own end product will have been questioned by the ILF massive by then.

zlatan apparently is getting bored with football :/

I'm going to vote Roo first, then I'm going to go and find the sending off and watch it.

report back plz

Was a red tbh, I can't front. Got to say I think Zlatan would've found a more stylish way to get himself sent off.

StanCollymore Stan Collymore
Everyone is different when it comes to adversity.Parker played after his dad died,so did Collison.Rooney different bit just that.Different.
24 minutes ago

yeah but i mean parker's dad only died.

i've seen rooney play well

i really like the idea of ibrahimovic (huge fucker who can play more than a bit), yet next to messi et al he looked a bit old hat

also he is a cunt

rooney used to be nearly as good as they said he was circa 2k5 so voted for him

elf vs barbarian

roll a 20-sided die

zlatan. but then i'd probably pick him over aguero as well...

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ok, we're gettin closer, aguero, zlatan, who next?

i would pick rooney over tevez.

or torres. or drogba.

sturridge

ibrahimovic is a pile of shit, cowardly flash waster who never performs when it matters and is labelled "unorthodox" cos he can't play basic football. most overrated player i can think of.

ibra=crouch with fancier footwork.

just because ibra has never done much in europe or at international tournaments doesn't matter he hasn't performed when it matters. he has been a key player for a number of championship winning teams over the years. shit even his p shitty spell at barcelona he scored the winning goal in a clasico.

doesn't mean

jim, wrt picking rooney over those demonstrably better players listed above, d'you mean current form for all, top form for all, or in their usual form?

performance over their career.

rooney is one of the best players i've ever seen play in person. not quite xavi, ronaldinho, scholes, cr7, larsson, klinsmann or whatever, but up there.

rooney's got a headstart on drogba, so ok.

Torres only had a couple years as a world class striker before rafa ground him into mess he has been lately, and he had a long gestation at atletico, but still wouldn't have him below rooney tbh

Tevez is v similar too rooney, but more effective and more consistent. Definitely not having that.

peak, the other two are better imo, btw, and again imo i don't like tevez, just can't argue his record

rooney pretty much scored on average a goal every other game in the PL for man u. in what, 5 or 6 seasons? not exactly shy with the assists either.

ya, look, i'll admit it's troubling.

if it was easy we'd have sorted it ages ago.

imo we need a rolling

Pure ignorance, pubtalk, nothing bluster

― talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 11:02

thread, for quality material such as LG's posts itt

tbf i did make one for dunphy, straight port imo

Wayne Rooney 5

FUCK IS RONG WITH ALL Y'ALL

ITS FUCKING ZLATAN, GUY HAS SCORED MORE BEAUTIFUL GOALS THAN P MUCH ANY PLAYER EVER

not the question tbh

no matter how shitty his barcelona spell was he still had a better goal avg than villa in his debut season so suck it pep and the rest of youse

villa has scored 0.55 gpg this season :D

also he doesn't play as a cf.

also he's part of a great barca team where zlatan was a spanner in the works

http://www.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/272477_o.gif

can't say the fat prick hasn't scored great goals in his day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efqmPX5L0JM&hd=1

thinkin baout

uhm, I came here super intrigued thinking you guys were spitting outrageous challops about Marina Ibrahimović.

abramović

http://www.chelsea.vitalfootball.co.uk/forum/forums/get-attachment.asp?action=view&attachmentid=1568

i would definitely cry if i found myself sitting staring at that.

ronan otm about ibra

There are two ways to play the game as I understand it, 'basic football' and 'fancier footwork'.

rooney pretty poor at either tbrr

I don't know what the fuss over David Silva is all about, he's just Martin Petrov with fancier footwork.

petrov is to silva as lennon is to modric

neil lennon, like

id pay probably eight thousand of some low value currency to get to see the transcript of his boozy supper with johnny evans and darron gibson

http://i.imgur.com/MHBeL.jpg

his face looks grotesquely distended, as if it's been poorly photoshopped onto someone elses head

yeah the it was taken from this pic
http://arsenalfc.com.my/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/david-seaman.png

http://i.imgur.com/B7Xi1.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3mfmjPk0o1qfha0wo1_1280.jpg

he looks so much older than 30

he doesn't look anything like 60m, i'll say that

could pass as a 45f after a few pints

what's that in celsius

They scored 55 league goals between them this season, Zlatan and Rooney. More than (for instance) Van Persie + Aguero.

But I gather some still don't consider them top players, and would like another venue in which to share their misgivings.

So here's this thread again.

ALAN SHEARER, the former England football captain, doesn't think much of my theory.
I'm loitering outside an interview room half a mile from the grounds of Old Trafford, home of Manchester United, waiting to interview the team's mercurial striker, Wayne Rooney, about his singular football genius. My suspicion: Behind his prominent brow and famously thick skull resides an underappreciated mind.

http://espnfc.com/us/en/news/1071240/beautiful-game-beautiful-mind-.html

pretty interesting actually

www.youtube.com/watch?v=57TiSbbgqRk

idk i think he might have his best season this year

Nice pass by Menez for that first goal.

hat tip to ligue un for putting their hd highlights on youtube

he's a liability defending the near post from corners judging from the Euros and this game mind you.

Sweet pass from pastore for the 2nd goal too.

4 goals in 3 games not bad.

i don't know if psg will really become the sum of their parts, but they at least have fitfully great players like pastore and motta and zlatan works best as the undisputed big man of a generally solid but uninspiring side

judging by your kind words for qpr's prospects you have far too much faith in talent transcending chronic shambolicism

don't think psg will be shambolic as such, just mediocre, with zlatan driving them to the title

qpr will probably hover around relegation with intermittent heavy home wins until about february

mcnulty will describe them as 'the schizophrenic west londoners' provoking complaints

then they will level out to middle table form near the end of the season and stay up reasonably comfortably

http://i.imgur.com/K4J9r.jpg

Falcao to PSG in January, would that actually work?

Few clubs need him less, Ibra's scored 43 in his last 48 league & CL matches and they wouldn't work well together.

(Falcao 44 in last 55 league & Europa)

zlatan says he is better than he has ever been and is otm

he's found his level alright

during his most hyped period of 3/4 years ago he was never all that great a finisher, nor did he take advantage of his capacity to physically overmatch defenders

his tricks and flourishes are also a lot more efficient now

the first goal on the weekend was pretty amazing. Can't really figure out he managed to generate the power that he did

cuz he is a taekwondo expert

well there you go. Cool

Zlatan was so great during that game. PSG was shit and then, within 4min, Zlatan scores with the kungfu kick and then the bombastic free kick. so good to have this guy in our team (but then OM scores a second time and Zlatan looks like he's thinking "OK, I've done my part, if these fuckers in my team can't play better, too bad for them...").
and he's pretty fun to watch at the stadium. even when he does nothing/walks (which is most of the time) !

http://www.101greatgoals.com/wp-content/gallery/gimages/681990624.gif

eyes on ball tbfttl

Zlatan’s greatest quotes part 1: Interviews.

Upon signing for PSG, Zlatan was asked “Do you know much about Ligue 1 or the players here?” – “It’s true I don’t know that much about the players here in Ligue 1, but they definitely know who I am.”

Again, upon signing for PSG – “This is another step in my career, another dream that has come true. This has been a massive thing in the media, people chasing me in my home. This is not normal, I will chase them back.”

When asked if he had found a house in Paris yet – “We are looking for an apartment. If we don’t find anything, then I’ll probably just buy the hotel.”

When asked about Balotelli – “I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.”

When asked which other sportsman he would compare himself to – “I’m like Muhammed Ali. When he said he would knock someone out in the fourth round, he did it.”

When asked what his ‘style’ of football was – “Zlatan-style.”

When asked why he had scratches on his face after a game – “Well…I don’t know… you’ll have to ask your wife about that.”

In response to a reporter who asked “is it possible for Ajax to drop nine points in nine games?” – “According to my calculations it’s possible to drop nine points in only three games.”

When asked what he got his wife for her birthday – “”Nothing, she already has Zlatan.”

When asked “Who is the best looking woman in the world?” – “I don’t know, but when I find her I will date her.”

In response to Arsene Wenger asking him to play a trial game before signing for Arsenal – “Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.”

A female reporter joked that Zlatan was gay due to a photo of him hugging Pique. He replied – “Come to my house and you’ll see if I’m gay. And bring your sister.”

Zlatan’s greatest quotes part 2: Quotes from his book “I am Zlatan”.

“You bought a Ferrari but drive me like a Fiat.”

“I barely yelled at my teammates any more. Something had happened, nothing serious, not yet, but still. I became quiet and that’s lethal, believe me. I have to be angry to play well. I have to scream and shout.”

“It was David Trezeguet’s fault. He made me do one drink of vodka after another. I slept in the bathtub. Now I hold my vodka much better.”

“Messi is awesome. He’s unbelievable, but we are totally different. He came to Barça as a 13-year old. He’s raised in that culture and has no problems with that ‘school’ shit. In the team, the play is based around him pretty naturally. He’s brilliant, but then I arrived and scored more goals than him.”

“Guardiola started his philosopher thing. I was barely listening. Why would I? It was advanced bullshit about blood, sweat and tears, that kind of stuff.”

“An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.”

“At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous – it was no one’s business what car I drive – so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.”

“Jose Mourinho is cool. The first time he met my wife he said “Helena, you have only one mission. Feed Zlatan, let him sleep, keep him happy!” The guy says what he wants. I like him.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2244434/Matt-Le-Tissier-Dennis-Bergkamp-Wayne-Rooney--10-Premier-League-flair-players.html

ffs, et tu le tiss?

Cristiano Ronaldo

You have to include him. He was very special in what he did at Manchester United, the goal scoring feats and everything, and he's continued that at Real Madrid.

Hadn't ever considered Michael Owen a 'flair' player as such either.

now he is in stoke he is a lair player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT4LwbgxyHw

has he just been told he's being replaced by TWP?

augmented by, judging

can't view the video but apparently ancelotti said in his post-match interview tht zlatan got angry with leonardo cos leonardo was telling him to leave and go take his doping test and zlatan wanted to stay a bit more to enjoy the celebrations.

http://i.imgur.com/D0HQRnf.jpg

Within two months of publication in 2011, Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimovic had sold 500,000 hardback copies in Swedish.

Torres only had a couple years as a world class striker before rafa ground him into mess he has been lately, and he had a long gestation at atletico, but still wouldn't have him below rooney tbh

Tevez is v similar too rooney, but more effective and more consistent. Definitely not having that.

tbfttwp i'd have him above torres now, career-wise
but zlatan has obv made us look a bit foolish by actually doing stuff of late

trying to imagine an england after the fall where twp sells about three million hardback autobiographies

http://giant.gfycat.com/ImpishFearfulIndianpangolin.gif
https://vine.co/v/OrWmgv6iXzt

classic

http://m.bbc.com/sport/football/30589052

With due respect to the others

Definitively answered last night I think