Spag Legs, you've just turned 30 haven't you?
The whole thing with players getting written off when turning 30 has always been over played and annoying, the Suarez conversations about his age used to do my nut in, he's 27 = that means he's nearly 30! oh no the dreaded 30!, he'll soon be half the player! he'll lose this, he'll lose that etc etc etc... lol, load of bollocks mate.
It is not on!
Chris Bascombe @_ChrisBascombe · 51m
Despite polite pre-match words from Rodgers, LFC have no interest in Balotelli. None. Zilch. Zero. Nil… much to relief of their PR staff…
"Players like Kolo and Steven Gerrard, the older statesmen of the team, have been absolutely first class. We're hungry and ambitious; we went close last year."
Sorry Spags but 27 is not 31. Look again at the point I made earlier ... which other top team in Europe has a 31 yo as their lead striker ?
Zlatan, not that it means anything.
What you are saying is despite van Persie showing no genuine signs of decline he is suddenly going to drop off his usual scoring rate and performance levels next season all because a digit changes on his age in a few weeks? that is basically what you are saying, it's ludicrous.
You're not paying attention. His first year at United was worse (goals per game) than his last at Arsenal and last season was his worst in 5 years. Do you think logically this trend is going to reverse itself now he's a year older or is the trend going to continue on it's downward curve ?
Chris is well out of the loop. I'm putting in my reserve on the first Balotelli shirt tomorrow. (Though there is a possibility it could be misspelt as Bony).
That Macca dude is saying Konoplyanka could be back on.
You're not paying attention. His first year at United was worse (goals per game) than his last at Arsenal and last season was his worst in 5 years. Do you think logically this trend is going to reverse itself now he's a year older or is the trend going to continue on it's downward curve ?
Actually I'm not correct, memory failing me, last year was very similar to the year before but that % was obtained over his fewest games per season in 5 years (28) due to injuries. IMHO both games played and goals per game will be down again this season.
2010 52.63% (19 games - 10 goals)
2011 66.67% (33 - 22)
2012 77.08% (48 - 37)
2013 62.50% (48 - 30)
2014 64.29% (28 - 18)
Looks like you are tying yourself up in knots here, i have no idea why you are using goal scoring stats as they don't back up your opinion at all, they back up what i have been saying all along so dunno what you are up to there? maybe you need to start paying attention.
I said earlier if your opinion that 'he will be way off' being top scorer is based on him picking up injuries then that is fair enough, no arguments from me there but you have made it clear your opinion isn't based on him getting injuries, its based on him turning 31 soon and strangely other top European teams not having a 31 year old main striker, even though PSG do.
You're starting wriggle around a bit, hes going to play less than 21 PL games next season now?
Out of interest here are his stats for PL goals for the last 5 seasons...
2010, 16 games, 9 goals.
2011, 25 - 19
2012, 38 - 30
2013, 38 - 26
2014, 21 - 12
Poor the Jose Enrique.
PSG’s €75m move for Real Madrid’s Angel Di Maria is imminent [El Confidencial]
€75m? How are these guys not falling foul of FFP?
Bit of a joke, really.
They have fallen foul. But the sanctions they get hit with are farcical so it's business as usual.
They got a 60mill fine
If you call producing the facts and then correcting myself for an error I made (it's called being honest) 'wriggling' then I'd hate to see what you call posters that simply adulterate their opinions ? For your benefit since it seems it needs clarification - my opinion hasn't waivered one iota !
BTW your set of goal-scoring stats (I'd given complete season) in fact just goes to endorse my comments on an RvP in decline, (PL goals to games %) : 56%, 76%, 79%, 68%, 57%, the first 3 at Arsenal and final 2 at United. Ergo in decline.
However let's condense this into a simple Yes/No forecast. Do you think RvP (who is 31 this month and will be closing in on 32 when the season ends) will equal or surpass his 2013/14 Goals per Game stat (regardless of matches played) in the PL next season ? For me it is No. For you it seems to be Yes (though if in fact it is No then you have proved my point).
So what is it to be ? Yes or No ?