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Player of the year - halfway point

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭DSB


    dc69 wrote: »
    everyone to their opinion but I think 99% of people would have gerrard over fabregas anyday

    Eh no I really don't think 99% or anything close to that of people would have Gerrard over Fabregas. I wouldn't anyways.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,051 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    dc69 wrote: »
    I think 99% of people would have gerrard over fabregas anyday

    Fabregas please!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,176 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    We have a good few of that 1% on Boards.ie ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,606 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    jasonorr wrote: »
    Fabregas please!!!

    +1

    Has added the goal of gerrards game, but is far more intelligent on the ball and, imo, is a far better passer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    dc69 wrote: »
    everyone to their opinion but I think 99% of people would have gerrard over fabregas anyday,fabregas doesnt single handely win games for arsenal every couple of weeks and just isnt in the same league,although i would say he will be

    Fabregas for me easily. He rarely, if ever, goes missing during games.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,121 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    I'd agree with Dunne and Gallas being the best centre backs so far.

    Laursen has been excellent too.

    What are Gareth Barry's Goal/Assist stats?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    JimiTime wrote: »
    He just has that touch of class. Give me Fabregas before Gerrard any day!
    Add me to that 1% so.

    I think that poster meant that 99% of Liverpoool fans would have Gerrard ahead of Cesc.

    Cesc is a beautiful, sublimely skillful player. Gerrard is a powerhouse runner who can crack a shot off from thirty yards, and pass the ball diagonally seventy yards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    Fabregas again :) Cesc makes the team play well. Gerrard wins games on his own. I would always prefer the former.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Smegball


    Fabregas is more of a proper midfielder, he dictates play.
    Gerrard is like Lampard, doesn't control the game well but is there in the right place to get that assist or goal. Thats his game and he does a great job with it, but I'd prefer Fabregas in my team any day of the week.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    dc69 wrote: »
    everyone to their opinion but I think 99% of people would have gerrard over fabregas anyday,fabregas doesnt single handely win games for arsenal every couple of weeks and just isnt in the same league,although i would say he will be
    What's all this "single handed" talk? Fabregas is the most influential player in the team top of the league. Fabregas is overall, already, a much more intelligent player than Gerrard with a lot more tactical nous, imo. Intelligence is a lot more important than anything else in player, as much as it's ignored by many fans.

    Put it this way, do you need fabulous technique to play the best, quickest, one touch football in the world? Of course you don't. You don't need to be especially talented to pass the ball 5 or 10 yards. It's stuff like movement, positional sense, decision making and vision in players that make the difference. Obviously having excellent technical ability will be a huge benefit in terms of the type of pass you can play. But Gattuso claims to have square feet and he has no problem playing an excellent passing game. Gattuso isn't a great example though because his movement isn't anything like Fabregas'.

    Anyway, Gerrard is a typical British style midfielder that has spent so much time in the 100 mile an hour hustle and bustle of the premiership that he has never really spent much time sitting back and thinking. Fabregas is a genius. One of the most natural footballers ever to play the game.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ziggy


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    I'm sure Liverpool fans get frustrated with some of Gerrard's decisions from time to time. I don't think the same can be said with Fabregas. If he makes a mistake it's usually in trying to do the right thing.

    Put Fabregas and Gerrard in the same team and I know who'd be controlling it. Put Pirlo, Fabregas and Gerrard in the same team and Pirlo would be controlling it imo. I still think Pirlo is the best midfielder out there. Fabregas a close second.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 34,404 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    I think I'd take fabregas as well to be honest. Gerrard does go and win games on his own alright, but Fabregas makes the whole team play better so you don't need a one man show too often. Of course i'd be pretty happy with both in the same team!

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  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 15,001 ✭✭✭✭Pepe LeFrits


    eirebhoy wrote: »
    Put Pirlo, Fabregas and Gerrard in the same team
    *homer drool*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,246 ✭✭✭ROCKMAN


    Ronaldo's goals have him in top spot , and rightly so
    However for me Evra has being utd most consistent player Evra has being fanastic this season.Yes Ronaldo for all his goals and match winning performances has still has gone missing in a few games this year.

    Also think like alot of posters Dunne has being unbelievable this season.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 620 ✭✭✭NotWormBoy


    I think even the majority of Liverpool fans would take Fabregas over Gerrard. I am one, I would, and the vast majority of Liverpool fans I've talked to about it (a fair few) would take Fabregas over Gerrard any day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,555 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    eirebhoy wrote: »
    Intelligence is a lot more important than anything else in player, as much as it's ignored by many fans.

    Ah, come on now, if intelligence is coming into it, then Gerrard is below the corner flag, or goal post (though possibly above newcastle fans).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    eirebhoy wrote: »
    I'm sure Liverpool fans get frustrated with some of Gerrard's decisions from time to time. I don't think the same can be said with Fabregas. If he makes a mistake it's usually in trying to do the right thing.

    Put Fabregas and Gerrard in the same team and I know who'd be controlling it. Put Pirlo, Fabregas and Gerrard in the same team and Pirlo would be controlling it imo. I still think Pirlo is the best midfielder out there. Fabregas a close second.

    Xavi would destroy the three of them ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    At least we get to see Xavi and Fabregas in the same team. Fck that. I'm backing Spain for the Euros. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    eirebhoy wrote: »
    At least we get to see Xavi and Fabregas in the same team. Fck that. I'm backing Spain for the Euros. :D

    I do that for ever tournament and am disappointed each time.


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  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 15,001 ✭✭✭✭Pepe LeFrits


    Funny because it's true.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭dc69


    NotWormBoy wrote: »
    I think even the majority of Liverpool fans would take Fabregas over Gerrard. I am one, I would, and the vast majority of Liverpool fans I've talked to about it (a fair few) would take Fabregas over Gerrard any day.

    i dont agree at all,no liverpool fans i know would even contemplate selling gerrard,even my utd friends who dispise liverpool claim they would love him at utd and some even go as far as saying he is the best cm in the world,so its not a one sided liverpool view.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,051 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    dc69 wrote: »
    i dont agree at all,no liverpool fans i know would even contemplate selling gerrard,even my utd friends who dispise liverpool claim they would love him at utd and some even go as far as saying he is the best cm in the world,so its not a one sided liverpool view.

    But he's clearly not! I'm not knocking him however, he's a great player but I'd prefer Fabregas to Gerrard!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭quarryman


    fabregas ftw.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,386 ✭✭✭smuckers


    Torres has adapted brilliantally, but the only thing is when its not going his way he struggles, hence city game.
    Ronaldo is sublime
    Alex and Carvahllo has been a revelation, if Mikel could curb that stupid challenges, he'll be a great player, he is only only 20.

    Disagree about someone picking Essien, even as a fan, good player that he is, hasn't hit the height of the last season, but slowly improving


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭Mr Alan


    I dont think Torres struggles if its not going his way.....see Newcastle away this year for reference.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭semibluff


    richard dunne has been unbeliveable aswell!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭aidan24326


    Ronaldo must be in pole position again. 20 goals in his last 19 games, in all competitions. That's phenomenal for a guy who isn't even a striker.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭semibluff


    can one of the mods please add a pole, as im not sure how to . . . with the options being


    Cristiano Ronaldo
    Cesc Fabregasc
    Fernando Torres
    Richard Dunne
    Nemandja vidic
    William Gallas
    Michael Arteta
    Steven Gerrard
    Robin Van Persie
    Didier Drogba

    (and any other deemed neccessary - i think you need an admin mod to add any more than 10, but feel free for this purpose, would be worth it! ty!)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    I think, at the moment, Ronaldo is on course for another clean sweep at the PFA's.


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