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    #406
    Originally posted by SB View Post
    For goodness sake, don't build the guy up too much as, like most foreigners, he will probably need time to adjust. Just forget all about him for a while and let him be. Probably enjoy him more that way instead of slating him the first time he has a below par game.

    Sounds like the new Gonzo to me, until proven wrong
    Who's building him up?

    He's the best Brazilian footballer since Pele.
    "The definition of insanity is not running into the same wall again and again; it's expecting a different result every time you do it."

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      #407
      Originally posted by friedk View Post
      Who's building him up?

      He's the best Brazilian footballer since Pele.
      I'll see your Pele and raise you Garrincha.
      .
      Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.



      May the Lord bless this post.

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        #408
        Originally posted by Neil Young View Post
        I'll see your Pele and raise you Garrincha.
        Garrincha, ha, he'll never amount to anything with those dodgy knees
        "The definition of insanity is not running into the same wall again and again; it's expecting a different result every time you do it."

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          #409
          Originally posted by friedk View Post
          Garrincha, ha, he'll never amount to anything with those dodgy knees

          The only player who could drink a bottle of Tequila during halftime and still score 2 superb goals in the 2nd half. Dodgy knees indeed


          We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

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            #410
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYqKzNlxclw


            woo hoo, he looks great on youtube
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            Weak willed, Wank or do they have a masterplan?

            Think we have the answer..Slot!!

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              #411
              So we're all pretty much in agreement then. He's going to be better than Pele and Garrincha put together. 1000000% FACT.
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              Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.



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                #412
                Originally posted by Neil Young View Post
                So we're all pretty much in agreement then. He's going to be better than Pele and Garrincha put together. 1000000% FACT.
                I'm so sure you can even quote me on tribal football
                "The definition of insanity is not running into the same wall again and again; it's expecting a different result every time you do it."

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                  #413
                  Originally posted by SB View Post
                  For goodness sake, don't build the guy up too much as, like most foreigners, he will probably need time to adjust. Just forget all about him for a while and let him be. Probably enjoy him more that way instead of slating him the first time he has a below par game.

                  Sounds like the new Gonzo to me, until proven wrong
                  Babel fanclub member # 4!!!

                  **** OFF MOURINHO!!!!!!:whatever:

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                    #414
                    Originally posted by Neil Young View Post
                    He's going to be better than Pele and Garrincha put together. 1000000% FACT.
                    Going to be? Going to be??

                    He IS better than the whole of the 1970 WC winning Brazilian (talentless) team, put together! FACT
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                      #415
                      Originally posted by Cacodemon View Post
                      Going to be? Going to be??

                      He IS better than the whole of the 1970 WC winning Brazilian (talentless) team, put together! FACT
                      I think that's premature. He lacks Rivelino's moustache and, from '74 admittedly, Jairzinho's hair.

                      Other than that, he's got it all.
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                      Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.



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                        #416
                        Originally posted by desertscouser View Post
                        Really SAR?

                        Everything I've read suggests that he isn't anything like Kaka.
                        Originally posted by FowlerLeftFoot View Post
                        please share with me the things that u read which suggest that?
                        Who is Lucas Leiva? What is his true position? And based on a previous article about South American youngsters leaving too early, eg. Gabriel Paletta, is Lucas ready to come to the Premiership just yet?
                        Mark Williams, Leamington Spa (and many others)

                        These moves are always a gamble, but I think this is a good one.

                        He's an exciting player of a type that Brazilian football hasn't produced too many of recently. Of late their central midfielders have tended to be 'holders' who sit and allow the full-backs to push forward.

                        Lucas is different. He's a big, blonde figure whose power and physical strength comes with attacking ability.

                        He can pass well and loves to rumble forward. He gets on the scoresheet both with blistering shots from range and from bursting beyond the strikers.

                        You can certainly imagine him playing alongside Javier Mascherano, for example.

                        I don't have the same fears for him as I did with Paletta. He's had two full seasons behind him - one helping Gremio win promotion from the second division, and then last year's success when he was chosen as the player of the championship.

                        In a perfect world you might want him to stay another year before moving on, but (a) Gremio need to sell to balance the books and (b) with Liverpool's strength in depth in central midfield it looks as if his first campaign will be a bedding in season.
                        http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/6653123.stm

                        While Fowler will leave Anfield, the club will welcome Brazilian Under-20 international Lucas Leiva in the summer after securing the midfielder's services from Grêmio FBPA in a deal thought to be worth €7.5m. "He is a player with a lot of quality who we watched playing for the Brazil Under-20s," said Benítez. "He will be ready to join the squad from the start of next season. He likes to be an attacking midfielder but he has many qualities." Lucas has registered four goals in 32 games for Grêmio in his homeland.
                        http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl...feed&att=index
                        "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son"

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                          #417
                          Not a fantastic goal return for the new Kaka.
                          "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
                          -- William Blake

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                            #418
                            Originally posted by dww View Post
                            Not a fantastic goal return for the new Kaka.
                            Nobody is suggesting, he's the new Kaka. Most on here see him as a Holding/Defensive midfielder only. He seems more than that.

                            BTW His Goal ratio for Brazil u20 where he plays a more attacking Role is 4 from 9 games
                            "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son"

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                              #419
                              He sounds more of Steven Gerrard than a Kaka. Kaka is an out and out attacking midfielder ....

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                                #420
                                Originally posted by desertscouser View Post
                                He sounds more of Steven Gerrard than a Kaka. Kaka is an out and out attacking midfielder ....

                                That's why I said, he'd be competing with Gerrard and not Masherano, Alonso or Momo

                                If you look at the current Brazilian CM, most are purely Holding Midfielders. Kaka is the exception. He's playing a lot more attacking this season for Milan as they didnt have any potent strikers with Shevchenko leaving. With Ronaldo playing for them, he plays a deeper role. If you remember in 2005, he was more a provider of goals than actually scoring them. That has changed since then
                                "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son"

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