I said he was nothing more than a solid CB.
I argued about you saying he was no Barca quality.
Outside Piqué, Barca hasn't had a very good CB since Puyol. Umtiti isn't a DM either. And he's lefty which is a nice addition.
At times when Piqué was sucking. Overall, Piqué has been their anchor at CB, with plenty of other players playing aside him. Of all of them, Mascherano has been the best, but that's because all their other experiments have failed. Until Umtiti.
Weird that you use team wins and yet discard Umtiti after Savi's stat about the winning record with Umtiti.
I cited treble winning team with barca at their best. From what I've seen of Umiti he's nothing special and should be a bench player right now. Sadly the options for barca aren't there. As for the record, couldn't care less. If you go based off only results Zizo is the greatest manager ever.
Koscielny has been a tire-fire this season. Shouldn't be on the French NT. Neither should Giroud.
Hell, only Ox/Alexis should be on the respective NT this season.
Never seen a worse England team than that.
I mean, I wouldn't trade our midfield for anyone elses in the world (Croatia's - Modric, Rakitic, Kovacic, Brozovic, Badelj; Perisic and Pjaca as wingers, etc)...
But holy s**t, Belgium is LOADED.
I know it's not news, but sometimes you forget until you see it like that in one place.
Absolutely. Freaking. Loaded.
No offense to other traditional "big" countries, but France and Germany are looking the best out of those at the moment, strong right now and even a brighter future.
Spain is slowly sinking into the pack after their god-tier generation.
But yeah, up with Germany/France, it's no longer (just) the usual suspects (England, Italy, Holland, Spain), it's Belgium and Croatia.
(I don't think I'm being terribly biased here either... though, even someone can spare a left back, or a NT manager that isn't utter dumpster-tier, Croatia would be very grateful)
Didn't take long for the England fans to look like morons, singing the Bombers song.
Belgium have the most overrated talent pool in the world and Croatia isn't as good as you think there are either.
Belgium has very good individual players, but as a team I think they have not shown enough in the last Euro and World Cup that they are a favourite to win it all. Something is just missing when I saw them play. Maybe it is an experience thing playing under the spotlight on the biggest possible stage in a World Cup but at least in the last Euro I found them pretty underwhelming
How is Belgium overrated?
GK: Courtois (Mignolet)
D: Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Vermaelen, Meunier (Kompany, if he ever gets healthy)
M: Dembele, De Bruyne, Nainggolan (Witsel, Fellaini)
AM/F: Hazard, Lukaku, Carrasco (Mertens, Origi, Batshuayi)