The 'Dreadlocked Johnny Metgod' (I say with Forest tinted glasses on, and just considering playing a sweeper/centre back role and a CM/DM role as per Gullit at Chelsea! - obviously Gullit could also be great as attacking midfielder, second striker, striker, winger....).
Metgod would be better...
Estimation on a forum for goal/assist contributions over whole career (using video/newspapers for assists of older players to get the best estimates apparently). Cruyff and Di Stefano tended to play a deeper role or more of a roving role at least to be fair (Maradona was more of an attacking...
Ok, maybe not Nordahl (I was assuming he might have in Sweden)!
His International goals per game record was very high though (albeit not playing loads).
You know what I mean anyway I guess.
I wasn't having a go at you Omar anyway - just adding a perspective on comparing outright numbers...
The thing is Josef Bican and Gunnar Nordahl could do that too for example (not to mention Puskas and other Hungarians indeed).
Like I said easier to do it in the 1950s than 1960s, and in their situations compared to the situations of others.
Also easier to do it in the modern game compared to...
Talking of John Robertson, who Alf mentioned, I'm sure I read that he was keen to impress Puskas in the Forest vs AEK Athens match in 1978/79, because Puskas had been one of his heroes, or something like that.
Puskas was the AEK Athens coach. I'm pretty sure he was impressed too!
Yeah, the Magic Magyars (or Mighty Magyars) they were called weren't they?
They had the 6-3 win at Wembley and then won 7-1 vs England in Budapest too, and they lost the World Cup Final amidst rumours of the Germans using performance enhancing substances I think....(and Puskas having a 'goal'...
I can add a similar listing for the following season now, with the averages and games played in 1991/92 league games, but from Shoot magazine, not Match like the one above (and without all the accompanying stats - it's been done manually, adding up the ratings and dividing by the starting...
Yeah, I was thinking similar (having first gone to a game in 83/84 and already been a Forest fan a bit before that, although I called our returned-from-Man United striker Garry Birkles apparently back then). I don't think there was so much speculation, so we got to know the players more after...
It's pretty crazy how many times Forest had a say in the title race in the Clough period (plus the start of the Frank Clark period with the results vs Man Utd in 94/95 where they took one point....while Blackburn took 6 points vs Forest of course!)
Forest vs Liverpool in 1990/91 (plus it would...
I remember it seemed easy (ish) to chip the goalie from the inside left position on that game for some reason! On the early FIFA editions there seemed to be a sweet spot to shoot from near the touchline too, and on International Soccer on the C64 you could do keepy-uppy headers with one player...
I get what you're saying in a way (going under the radar for players that can potentially increase in value and ability), though on the flip side it's also quite possible to refresh a career or have a great stint from a more established player. We signed Archie Gemmill in 1977/78 with great...
Exactly. Of course I think that any false (malicious or just mistaken) accusations/suspicions against somebody would be horrible for that person, but on the other hand just assuming somebody is innocent because they haven't been proven guilty (and carrying on as if they are innocent when that...
Yeah, especially Mac Allister I think (Steele did finish the season in goal anyway didn't he last season?). I think they have a good enough collection of midfield players still and a cohesive style and good momentum from last season so I'm thinking they won't be too far away from last season's...
I feel like this is a bit ambitious if anything but I've gone with 12th as a guess (within an overall guess for the league):
1 - Man City
2 - Man Utd
3 - Liverpool
4 - Newcastle
5 - Chelsea
6 - Arsenal
7 - Brighton
8 - Tottenham
9 - Villa
10 - West Ham
11 - Wolves
12 - Forest
13 - Everton
14 -...
Did none of you watch the World Cup? None of the comments mention how he was playing in it!
I remember being impressed near the start of the tournament, less so towards the end, I think. Maybe he's coming in along with Livakovic (who was decent early on and great later on on the other hand if...
It'd be alright if it meant there would be some Livakovic movement! Or even some Ramsdale movement, if Raya is going to be Arsenal's number 1?
This window definitely seems quieter than last year's! Aina seems a very promising player though, and Elanga can bring some pace, enthusiam, dynamism...