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Ricardinho
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Got sent off in Europa League game out in Rennes but that's bout it I think.
Got sent off in Europa League game out in Rennes but that's bout it I think.
Some Greeks are just a bit mental.Bit of an idiot, this guy, no?
Bit of an idiot, this guy, no?
Transfermarkt says none. Two yellow bans for all in all 3 games. WhoScored and the Premier League webpage say the same. No straight red cards at all, no red yellow, 12 yellows in 18/19.
Sokratis may be our best defender.
But of the other 19 clubs in the league how many of them would he be their best defender?
Haven't even bothered counting but probably less than 7-8 teams.
That's only counting centre backs not full backs.
VAR will destroy this clogger.
Far too harsh. At City they got Laporte and Stones but he would be their no 3 ahead of Otamendi and Mangala. Also think Kloppo would take him in a heartbeat next to Van Dijk to replace ****ing Joel Matip with Joe Gomez' last season's injury. He's better than anything United have currently. At Chelsea it would be tight between him, Rudiger and Christensen. He'd also surely be able to compete with Vertonghen and D. Sanchez at Sp**s for the spot next to Alderweireld.
VAR doesn't exist. It's still the referees. But they will probably love to hand out cards to him, still.
Considering he is our best CB, this guy really gets some stick. Ok, our CB's are our weakest link but he was head and shoulders above the others last season and probably will be this season too. His pace saved us many goals last season, he was half the price of Mustafi & Xhaka but more than twice as effective!
So what your basically saying is he would be 3rd choice centre half a city. Maybe 4th behind Otamendi.
At Liverool he would be behind Van Dijk and Gomez.
At Chelsea Rudiger and possibly Christiansen are better.
At Sp**s for sure Vertonghan and Alderwierld are better.
Leicester Maguire is better. Arguably Lewis Dunk fairs better. At West Ham Diop could possibly be considered as well. Still has abit to prove.
Fabian Schar of Newcastle is probably a better defender than Sokratis.
So as you can see my statement stands. He's no better than a mid table centre half.
Sokratis could even be a second choice at City if Guardiola wouldn't love to **** over ball playing CBs. Thinking Otamendi is better or might be better than Sokratis has to be a ****ing joke. Guy's a disaster.
I said he would replace Matip at Liverpool who was Van Dijk's partner. Gomez is a question mark. So probable starter there.
At Chelsea it would be tight, but not neccesarilly because of quality, but because Rudiger is very similar to Sokratis and Christansen is a different profile. And while I rate Rudiger, I doubt he's really better than Sokratis. So tight race if he'd theoretically actually be there.
Alderweireld is better, but Vertonghen imo not. The latter I think is a tad overrated.
Schär is definitely not better than Sokratis. Think you've never really seen him much. He didn't struggle at Hoffenheim, went through La Coruna and now plays for Newcastle for no reason.
Maguire is something you could argue, but I don't think Dunk is better. Diop has promise on his side but is surely not on Sokratis level.
In my book he's one of the Top 10 defenders in the league. Closer to 10 than 1, but still. He doesn't lift the team to another level, but honestly the only CB in the league that kind of did that was Van Dijk. And that impact was influenced by a slight tactical adaption by Klopp, too.
You act like he's another Mustafi which is laughable.
Have a look at what I posted above. He makes every game which because it looks physical or no nonsense he gets credit for.