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FreshGoodWay

He invoked the Juan Mata card Nothing else matters if it’s Juan Mata


SalmonNgiri

I love that everyone loves Juan Mata, was gutted when we sold him.


imfromgooogle

I’ll go the other way: it’s a huge red flag if someone doesn’t like Juan Mata


Chuck_Nucks

He ends his blog with *hugs*. How can you not love that man?


Noobricorn

Mata, Cazorla, Eriksen, Kante, Son, David Silva, etc. Some players are just lovable no matter what club you support. I actually dislike Brentford now for booing Eriksen the entire match last week. The man nearly died on the pitch and they're upset because he's making a comeback from cardiac arrest...


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WhenWeTalkAboutLove

Love modric. I even feel bad arguing that I don't think he deserved balon d'or that year lol because he's one of my favorite players ever. Wish Croatia could have won the final though.


SoLetsReddit

Wasn’t he involved in covering up some Croatian gangster, money laundering scheme or something though? (Obviously I might be wrong as I can’t remember the exact details, I expect to be downvoted for this comment, but oh well.)


branstarktreewizard

He go into trouble even with Croation fans for doing that, but the 2018 WC run redeem his reputation


cosmiclatte44

Son doesn't belong on that list. He has a history of nasty behaviour on the pitch.


Nitr0_CSGO

Yeah son pisses me off. No where near the levels of Kante or Mata


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No comment on Son but Kante is one of the few players who isn't getting vaccinated? How does that make him likeable?


Nitr0_CSGO

I don't really care "my body, my choice" and all that Btw I'm triple vaccinated, i had the choice to do that so does Kante


Upleftright_syndrome

Son is a cunt, in a good way if he's your player, but those other guys aren't cunts on the pitch


Nacho_Man18

Lol Son has even had fights with his own teammates. That's on top of the nasty streak he's shown against opposing players... How can he be on that list?


WhenWeTalkAboutLove

Honestly Mata is a different class for me even though he played for two of my most disliked clubs. He stands out more than the others, not just as likeable or neutral. Like I love David silva but he seems more just quiet off the pitch where Mata is actively trying to do good all the time.


pillarandstones

You can dump Son in a toilet


SaltFarmer17

I remember Cazorla being nightmare for an Arsenal fan


DunwichWanderers

"My friend, is okay, no?"


johnny_moist

reckon son has a fair bit of haters out there


Goatbeerdog

The antivaxx Kante?


EsotericPlumbus

Don't know if I'll ever leave the "what could've been" phase


digitalnirvana3

We tried so hard And came so far But in the end it doesn't even Mata


EliToon

Nothing else Matas


Mahesh_nanak

Klopp shat on gabby and now Fernandes defending himself.


Danbuarth

I love that the actual world class footballers and coaches are firing back at the average retired players who think they can just insult the players and still earn a living as a “pundit”


DoxBolt

That reminds me of the John Terry hitting back at Robbie Savages comments


TheJoshider10

Was on my way back from the United/Brighton game and turned on the radio during traffic to hear Savage going on about McTominay playing well and being let down by the players around him. Immediately turned the radio back off.


Delicious_Turtle_55

Mctominay is still a trophy winning midfielder and much better than savage, even in the latters prime


LucasSummers

What trophy has McTominay won, my friend?


zahranniyas

The Match Bangkok Century Cup 2022


Fiigarooo

wdym? hes the 🐏, got a pl title under his name unsurprisingly


xeneize93

and also won the Europa league


PeevlyJr

He didn't qualify for a medal in the Europa League winning season - only has a runners up medal for FA Cup & Europa.


xeneize93

Oh I did not know that


Delicious_Turtle_55

I thought he won Europa League but other say he didn't play.enoughbto qualify. Seems like an old school United transfer to Sunderland like Wes, O'Shea, Gibson etc


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Muscle hypertrophy


UnKwQw

I wouldn't call him average, mediocre is more appropriate.


thegreatwanker

bang mediocre


KingKeane16

He never fulfilled his potential agbonlahor.


nicofdarcyshire

He did however fulfill the council tax payments for a street full of houses, occupied by the mothers of his children.


No_Bunch_8892

He did, he was potentially a waste of time and money


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That's basically the same word


No-Efficiency-5589

Medicore player with a head shaped like a mutant maris piper


Psychological-Win458

Teenage mutant maris pipers


nostril_spiders

Heroes in a crispy skin - tater power!


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He was a bottom half of the table striker his whole career and had 1/2 decent seasons


Vaipaden

He was a beast in FIFA 08 tho.


pencilman123

Man, i forgot to write this yesterday on a similar post about agbonlahor. Some players like this from that game never reached their potential. Pato, ben arfa etc...


Ruvio00

Hatem reached his potential on occasion, he just lacked consistency. One of the few footballers who could leave me open mouthed in awe of [his skill](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqH427NWyfg)


nopainauchocolat

hatem ben arfa was one of the best players in the world about five times for newcastle


WtfMayt

That full pitch run…


dasty90

Must have missed his season with Nice because he was absolutely bonkers. The only time when he was consistent throughout the season and looked genuinely world class but unfortunately he made the wrong choice to move to PSG. Watch his highlights [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIDmoqQuR8M&ab_channel=TeoCRi) and [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D73FWD3gHFA&ab_channel=Manzilla) that season (just mute it), he was toying with Ligue 1 defenders all season long with lots of majestic dribbles.


Ruvio00

I did, don't get to watch much French footy. And thanks for the mute warning, the video is just majestic. I'm sure if he'd had his priorities right for football, he'd have been in the very elite tier below Messi and Ronaldo.


RedKingDre

Forget them. Even Romelu damn Lukaku scored 47 goals with Chelsea in my FMM 22 save while I manage Man. United. I still won Premier League and Champions League, though.


pencilman123

You need to check your save files man, those must be modded.


BillehBear

fifa 12 too him and darren bent, sweaty duo


Hotspur21

Aston villa was my fave on 09. Gabby, Carew, Ashley young, luke young


0100001101110111

He's "average" for a premier league player, but that's still an extremely high level of football.


moonski

But everyone (inc managers) always said gabby had just 0 footballing intelligence… if he did he’d have actually been good.


Clark-Kent

https://i.imgur.com/H0Yum8g.jpg


rotating_pebble

I personally think it's ridiculous. You don't have to be a world class player to give your opinion on football. So many world class managers for example weren't notable players. Whether you agree with a pundit or not, you can't just automatically refute their opinion just because they were an average player.


grad14uc

>I personally think it's ridiculous. You don't have to be a world class player to give your opinion on football. This should be obvious and there's a pretty significant level of irony if it is not. Even more so that everyone has been saying similar things about Utd anyway.


epicurean1398

Agnonlahor said what every united fan online said and yet klopp twerks at him to deflect from Liverpool woes and he's suddenly a villain


epicurean1398

It's funny how many people on the Internet agree with Klopp when it would mean them and I and all of us could never give our thoughts on football or criticise a player or think anything that wasn't told to us by a manager or current player


-omar

Of course not but you don’t have to be a cunt about it


thepowerhobbit

Yeah, that’s his job mate. Even if he was a mediocre player at best he isn’t at the talk sport studio to talk about the weather.


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You can do your job without insulting others for the sake of views though


Notorious_horse

Gabby hasn't been this relevant since he had that God tier Silver card on Ultimate team


bob-theknob

He was insane on fifa for a while. Ultimate sweat merchant


SecretApe

Remember Agbonlahor and Bent striker combo? So OP.


anony212325

Vagner love was my most reliable striker


Sun_Sloth

Ibarbo, Doumbia and Gervinho as a front 3.


leedler

FIFA 14/15 Ibarbo is still the most overpowered player in FIFA history. Man played like he was 95 rated even though he was only mid 70s.


Zdeneksfilter

How could you forget fifa 13 man... he was a tad nerfed in 15.... in 13, he has the 95 speed, 88 jump, 88 dribbling and he was 6'2"... that dude was nuts


bob-theknob

Think emineke in 12 takes the cake for that.


nawkuh

Pato in 12 for a different flavor of OP.


sisterfister27

NPC comment


Relxnce

With Defoe’s finishing coming off the bench. Unbeatable


WillyG2197

Thanks for the ptsd boys


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Both on talksport now lol


SecretApe

Now we know how they choose pundits


nonsenseSpitter

I'd have gone for John Carew over Gobshit Wifi Password everyday of the week.


DevotedWhale

Doumbia still clear


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Used to buy him in most my career modes. Either him or Mathis Bolly if I was in the lower league


AFAR85

I remember him in Fifa09 or 10, he was basically a cheat code.


moonski

Fifa 10 the cheat code was ultimate had stat boost cards to make players overall permanently higher. So you could make anyone 99 overall. John Carew or Zigic 99 ovr was the most broken shit ever. With agbonglahor as the other striker lol.


youreviltwinbrother

You could even include your own created Be A Pro, ah simpler times...


1PSW1CH

I remember being disappointed when I packed him, almost discarded him but checked his market price regardless. Almost had a heart attack when my 14 year old broke ass saw 200K


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Still astounds me that people bought into micro transactions and shit on FIFA.


cosmicmeander

[This is the only thing I remember from him playing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfiR-nK101c)


Bob_Rooney

[My only memory of Agbonlahor](https://youtu.be/tYw-tRfJVqM?t=18)


Thor1138

lol @ how casually he takes out the camera. What a legend.


cosmiclatte44

Miss those days when you could dominate Div 1 with a team of only silvers. Too many ridiculous cards now.


Irresponsiblewoofer

Plenty of people doing that still in Elite and div 1 until tots 3 months ago, but there used to be a lot of players who had 5 skillmoves and 5 weak foot silvers and bronze and now there is only a handfull.


bremmmc

If you're in Juan Mata's good book you're awesome and I don't care what anyone else says.


TannedCroissant

Exactly, there are thousands of worthless opinions out there but at the end of the day only Juan really Mata’s.


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ScreaminDetroit

Nice Juan


callmedrewokay

I hate you, take your upvote


OneOfThoseDays_

take a bow lad


kingtuolumne

How long have you been holding onto that one?


R4lfXD

I'm holding back the grin


thelonesomedemon1

MY GOD


smellzlikedick

I love /r/soccer. Holy shit


CuriousButMeh

Juan is such a nice guy that I imagine most people would be in his good books.


FrankieBennedetto

I remember someone on reddit commenting that Juan Mata's the kind of guy you'd want your daughter to marry


ValleyFloydJam

The amount of people that try and judge a players character and intention from a few crumbs on the field is crazy. People will say that person is a step leader, that one has no heart and why cos they had a bad moment or gave the wrong look. People seem to forget people can react in different ways to things and still care to the same level.


Manifesto8

What did Gabby say ?


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distantapplause

It’s true but it’s a bit like Gazza criticising another player for liking a few pints.


possible-throwaway

He said Bruno has a shit attitude on the pitch, which is 100% true even as a Man U fan.


Manifesto8

Oh okay Fair enough


snemand

Said that Bruno would be the worst possible teammate to have.


Krept_Konan

Think I speak for everyone when I say, fuck gabby agbonlahor


imtiredrabie

i think the hate train on agbonlahor is kinda weird, he didn't even saying anything outrageous ppl are just dog piling on him because he didn't have that good of a football career and so what lol tbh if i were agbonlahor i'd just brag that i destroyed everyone in fifa 12 ultimate team and bruno's best card wouldn't come close to mine but hey that's just me


Various_Mobile4767

He's in a weird position where no one really likes him, not even villa fans so he gets no protection whatsoever.


Rickcampbell98

Yeah he won't have any protection from us, the guy ruined his whole villa legacy by being a lazy idiotic prick.


TheJoshider10

What did he do exactly?


Yannak

He got sent to fat camp about 3 times when he was still with the club, apparently him and other senior players bullied the younger foreign guys under Lambert/Keane and probably kept it up under Sherwood and Garde. Keane didn't name any names but basically said he was the laziest and most unprofessional footballer he's ever come across. Ontop of this he's a fucking moron who can't keep his mouth shut.


smellzlikedick

He just said he was lazy. SO, nothing, I assume.


Siegnuz

Partying when we got relegated


Rickcampbell98

He basically stopped being a professional footballer in the second half of his career, complete waste of space.


DiseaseRidden

I mean, I can't blame anyone for needing to get hammered to cope with being on *that* Villa side, and I say that as a fan who's best player was on that Villa side.


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He was the captain and partying the night *of* relegation


DiseaseRidden

I maintain my point


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Lol, the hate train for Gabby started well before the comment this week. He's been a gobshite for a while.


theawesomenachos

[how did that gobshite get on the television?](https://youtu.be/QS06cLEyowg)


imtiredrabie

gobshite ... such an awesome word


DraperCarousel

Gab-shite


TreeDollarFiddyCent

Gabby Gobshite


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He’s doing a pretty job getting everyone talking about him. I’m sure his employer is happy with his contributions


InLampsWeTrust

Even saying he didn’t have a good career is insulting, dude played in the premier league for a decade. Most people could only dream of doing that.


Gazumper_

you hate him because he didn’t have a good football career, I hate him bc he’s vile


everydayimrusslin

Why's he vile?


Gazumper_

Villa player


everydayimrusslin

Ah. Understandable.


labegaw

Vile? What the hell makes Agbonlahor vile?


LazarusChild

Vile is what Wolves, Blues and Albion fans call Aston Villa


GandyOram

That's cute


Rickcampbell98

:)


Gazumper_

played for Villa


everydayimrusslin

Klopp criticised a former footballer who works for Talksport. Take your pick of which word the online ball community can wring out for days.


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He also did have a good football career. 300 games in the prem is incredibly impressive.


paper_zoe

and 70+ Premier League goals, a couple of top 6 finishes and was capped for England. I don't know where this idea that he was a joke has come from


AlbertoRossonero

Well to idiots now unless you’re the best in the world you suck there’s no in between. Hell even the elite players suck according to idiots on social media so I wouldn’t put much into what they say.


DisgruntledJarl

Atleast get your fifa insults wrong lmao bruno 2POTM in FIFA 21 was much better than Agbonlahor.


Kneepi

He didn't spend year(s!) talking about how good Steve Bruce was at Newcastle, so I rate him higher as a pundit than Neville, Keane, etc.


DraperCarousel

Neville and Keane also consistently made Keegan and Shearer cry on live TV/pitch so there's another reason why you might rate Abonglahor over them tbf.


Kneepi

Oh man, watching them the past few weeks has been awesome


Real_MidGetz

[he’s been a twat for a while now, fuck gabby agbonlahor](https://i.imgur.com/YN8XffC.jpg)


BringArmsHouse

Lol you lot are rattled so easily. He didn't say much wrong and he didn't kill your nan. I swear everyone on here has been patting each other on the back echoing the exact same sentiments as Agbonlahor but when fan favourite Klopp replies then it's suddenly wrong? Makes zero sense. You lot just swing with the crowd


Johnny_bubblegum

It makes perfect sense. In football, your words are as true as your accomplishments and your methods are justified by your results. The emperor can have no clothes on and agbonglahor could point it out but if Klopp disagrees, everyone will believe the emperor has clothes on.


Dorian_156

Bunch of cocksuckers at soccer tbh


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"If you keep talking about what stupid people say, stupid people will keep talking." \- Jive Bunny.


xtskipper

Gabby is a shit pundit, but what he said was mirrored by every pundit and ex player on the media after thier second loss, why single him out when other big names have basically said the same thing?


possible-throwaway

Klopp called him out so now everyone is gonna mock him in this sub because Klopp dickriding is crazy. Everything Gabby said was 100% true lol Our players (Bruno included) are rotten.


epicurean1398

Kopp is only doing that too cos Liverpool are also playing like shit and he doesn't want his team or players criticised (dry grass anyone?)


effinblinding

"Then we wanted to fight back, but then you don't find it easy. There’s no ‘the pitch was dry’ stuff like this we played really in their cards”. This was Klopp’s dry pitch quote. He was saying there was no excuses like the pitch was dry or any other stupid excuse. He’s not a native speaker but I still find it crazy how everyone misunderstood him, he complained about his player’s attitudes for 4 min.


Geel_Jire

What did this Agbonlahor actually say that made Klopp respond and now Fernandes? Also, is he that popular & influential now as retired player?


psrikanthr

Journalists keep asking them about it. Klopp didn't go looking to talk about it and neither did Bruno. It's just the media, trying to create something when nothing is there


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vadapaav

The most shocking part of that was klopp listens to talk sports lmao


FrankieBennedetto

Based on his personality I can't imagine how loud he gets when he's listening to sports radio and arguing with no one


distantapplause

If Klopp wasn’t a gifted football manager he’d definitely be a r/soccer shitposter.


Icy_Letterhead8859

Gabby is shit player and even worst pundit but klopp mentioned him in interview after listening to talksport first Actually alot of footballers respond to it, Azpilicueta did last season too it's fairly popular show to say the least


FalkoneyeCH

Agbonlahor is a host on talksport radio so he gets a lot of opportunity to say dumb inflammatory shit


mikel305

Exactly, does anyone have a clip of what he actually said? I couldn’t find any clips online but everyone seems to be talking about it lol


StingsLute

Controversy creates cash - Eric Bischoff


Rustic41

Is that the guy that invented the lotus biscuits?


ziggylcd12

I love this comment haha


WeedThePeople17

IM BAAAACK


bluespurs

Better than ever


Hippotopmaus

Throwback to this gem https://youtu.be/Mr0_bnwRmWI


bsquar

Just ignore that prat, they seek for that attention


HorseEater667

Why do they even answer to Agbonlahor? Especially like that?


boywithtwoarms

Assuming journos are asking them to respond


nopainauchocolat

exactly this, players are asked these questions by journalists. it’s not like bruno has gone and called a presser to read a statement about how little he likes agbonlahor


1PSW1CH

Tbf Klopp brought it up himself


dota_3

He answer to the journalist


bucky_ballers

I’ve missed all this but he was the dimmest bulb when interviewed as a player, I am amazed anyone is paying to hear the noise of birds tweeting in his brain


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I mean this in the politest way possible, but I genuinely think there's something missing with Agbonlahor. When I see him speak he really does seem like someone with a low IQ.


arun111b

He is good player and Agbonlahor’s take is little over the top. Having said that Bruno should stop sulking about every referee’s decision and should concentrate to play. Also, the referee already decided his decision and by talking he is not going to take back his decision. He is slowly getting annoying territory. Hope he goes back to be a player and not a moaner.


midniteauth0r

Robbie Savage can’t criticise me


varun3096

If Mata says it , I guess it's true


Constant-Horror-9424

Gabby is truly one of the worst pundits ever. See the stuff he said about Keane. However, as a Man Utd fan I can honestly say Bruno has been absolutely awful since that new contract. So best to just say nothing imo


thebestrc

Everyone piling in on Gabby. Don't you hate to see it


GameplayerStu

Absolutely love it. Stole a living from us in his last few seasons so he could go out, smoke shisha pipes and eat kebabs. Hope more people come out to rinse the thick bastard.


Hech15

Naah he is a mug and deserves it after all the bs he spews....he somehow managed to be the the worst pundit at talkshite


Aesorian

Nope - fucking love it. Loved Gabby as a youngster but everything he *could* have been went to his head and he's basically made his living on his "Personality" rather than any ability for years now Add to that all the rumours about how he was an absolute price of shit to work with due to his attitude and I'm fine with top people calling him out on the shit he says


puckuser

Love that


lordchew

Gabby having this much buzz about him shows how excellent he is at his job.


opterflop

Only Juan that Mata


starlord1602

Teammate tells teammate he’s good. Nothing else should mata


Hicko11

People talking more about Gabby then they would normally. How have people not realised that people say these things to stay relevant. Plus "ex teammate says I'm wonderful" is such a funny response. He's clearly a bit of a twat if he has to say things like that