by bigmick » Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:46 am
stmichael wrote:The_Rock wrote:Can't believe the happy clapper hippies wanna :
Compare Kuyt with Rooney
Gosh..... Rooney is one of the best support strikers in the world. You can see how he destroyed croatia when he played there. Kuyt is a sub-par striker....who is also a sub-par right forward...right wing.
But that's my point. Rooney is one of the best support strikers in the world yet he's getting played wide for his club and up until the croatia game, was playing upfront for england on his own (a role which a blind man could tell you he can't play).
in terms of ability they're light years apart, but the fact is, neither are getting used even remotely in the right way.
Well Kuyt is being used in the only sensible way in which we could give him a game surely? Are peoples memories so short that they have forgotten what it was like when he played up front?
I'll say it again, on the right in a 4-5-1 he kind of pulls it off. On the right in a 4-4-2 he doesn't, not for me anyway. Up top? I'm not even going to get started.
As for Wayne Rooney. the fact that he is played "out of position" on occasions by Manchester United, and the fact that he also occupies a wide on the right slot, doesn't mean him and Kuyt are comparable. You said Mike that in many of his games he too is "just a willing runner". He is a willing runner I'll agree, he may even be close to being as willing a runner as Kuyt is, but in terms of quality there is absolutely no comparison whatsoever. Not even a slight similarity between the quality of work the two players do. In fact Rooney on the right is the perfect example of a player who is a "willing runner" like Kuyt, but who also has a stack of raw ability as a footballer, unlike our man.
He is Ok is Kuyt, particularly on the right in a 4-5-1. He doesn't though bear any comparison whatsoever to Berbatov and Wayne Rooney. I mean, don't people read stuff back in their heads before they post it? It's palpably nonsense.
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bigmick on Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:48 am, edited 1 time in total.
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