Re: Serie A Thread - 2010/11 Season
Naah man, his passing was shit that game.
oh so u were talking about the game against juve. if that's the case, yeah he was not up to his standards in that game... but to me it was his decision making which was poor, rather than his passing.
rfu said:
...and this was one of his better games, can you imagine how bad he is when he's not in form
now i see why u don't rate him that high... u see that game was not "one of his best games".... that wasn't even an "average performance" or a "not so good performance" by pastore.
that game was actually the second worse performance ever by pastore..... ever since he came here in palermo. infact those comments from Rossi i mentioned a few days ago were referred precisely to that match.... he said those things i wrote during the post match interview....
a journalist made the same comment Albi did.... he said to rossi "
oh come on! he was pretty decent, given he was playing against juventus in torino...... actually for a normal football player that would have been an awesome performance.... a 21 years old kid scoring a goal against juve... in torino".
and rossi replied that pastore is not a normal player. therefore his standards are different. what would be a good performance for any other player, isn't a good performance for him.
pastore himself admitted he wasn't at his best in the game against juve (wich is actually funny as most of the newspapers and media considered him the man of the match). he said his coach is right and that he feels lucky to have "
at least one person who can give him an honest feedback about his performances and teach him to do better" (he was talking about rossi of course).
so, rather than posting dozens of vids about pastore, i'll just tell u that.
watch again that video, the very same video u posted... watch it once again, keeping in mind this was one of the worse performances by pastore since he joined palermo......
he scored the fist goal (the most important), he he connected beautifully with ilicic and cassani for the whole match with some very nice one twos triangulations, he hit a post.....
and that's a bad performance for him (!), as he usually does a lot better than this (that, according to his coach and pastore himself).
that'll give u a pretty good indication of what kind of player we're talking about here. take ozil for instance (another very nice youngster i rate very highly).... if ozil would have done what pastore did against juve, that would have been one of his best performances ever! that's how impressive javier is.
i mean, come on, we're talking about a kid who just turned 20 (1 year younger than mesut), who is about to become an unquestioned starter for argentina's national team in a few months! we're not talking about an average national team, we're not even talking about, say, italy, germany or france..... we're talking about argentina!!!
as i said days ago, i agree with u about those ridiculous comparisons, and i also agree with u about the fact he still got huge margin of improvement...... but i was kinda surprised to read u considering him a "15 millions" worthy player or reading u comparing him with the likes of ozil (who is a very nice player, but definitely not on the same level of javier)....
but now that i read u calling the juve performance as "one of pastore's best performance" i got my answer...... u just haven't seen enough of pastore yet. that explains everything.
milanista said:
Did anyone see these photos from Eto'o's photoshoot?
i'm a huge fan of samuel too. seriously it's impossible not to admire this guy. world class player on the pitch.... and a fantastic human being off the pitch... and i'm not even talking about his very professional and low profile attitude (wich is already something remarkable, when u're such a top class fotball player).... i'm talking about the way he treats other people.. it could be fans, it could be journalists, it could be colleagues... he's always so nice, so gentle... he always has a kind word for everybody.
your son couldn't have picked a better "footballing role model" Gerd
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anyway, fiorentina - palermo today.... after the europa league match, i just can't se the rosanero having a good performance or winning the match either
seriously, he has good ideas but the execution... You guys need to watch Coutinho, and I don't simply rate him because he is an Inter player, the guy is such quality and only 18. Watch how is able to thread an incisive pass through a congested defence, even lofted passes over the defence. He needs to bulk up though, and he tires rather quickly, but taking that into consideration, and that he was playing in Brazil's serie B only a season ago and that he is only 18... best thing about him is that he's learning quickly from Sneijder to collect and quickly release the ball with a quick accurate pass. Very impressive player and to think I wanted him to be loaned out first 
he's still a work-in-progress but if he maintains this level he will certainly leave Pastore in his wake. And don't get me started on Kagawa... Dortmund got him for like 300,000 euros, you can't even get a ferrari at that price 
phenomenal player)
..... althought there's always a bit of truth behind every joke 
