#47 | Phil Foden - 2021/22 Performances

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jimmygrimblesboots said:
Glenn Hoddle stating Phil Foden will be the best player in the world in two/three seasons , and i think he is right , and the beauty of it all is no matter how well he progresses we know he will never have his head turned by a cockroach agent to sign for another club.
Phil Foden bleeds blue blood and avoiding injuries etc.,and one day will be considered nearly as good as Colin Bell :)
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A bit of English bias by hoddle. Best in the world. What about fati,viniscus Jr etc.

Foden has a lot of talent though maybe best in the premier league.
 
Radiohead1981 said:
A bit of English bias by hoddle. Best in the world. What about fati,viniscus Jr etc.

Foden has a lot of talent though maybe best in the premier league.
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A bit if City bias , what a about Cole Palmer in 5 years ?. Foden has as good a chance as anybody to win the Balon'd'Or in the near future , what really makes me laugh is Foden's dad is a Rag and yet he signed for City , the Rags missed out on potentially the best player in the world and he lived five miles from the Swamp.
At least the Rags have St.Marcus Rashford , the most overrated footballer drawing oxygen.
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
A bit if City bias , what a about Cole Palmer in 5 years ?. Foden has as good a chance as anybody to win the Balon'd'Or in the near future , what really makes me laugh is Foden's dad is a Rag and yet he signed for City , the Rags missed out on potentially the best player in the world and he lived five miles from the Swamp.
At least the Rags have St.Marcus Rashford , the most overrated footballer drawing oxygen.
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He wouldn't be "potentially the best player in the world" if he'd been trained there
 
MarsLlama said:
Because certain people [coughradioheadcough] are fucking obsessed with him despite the fact that his career was staggeringly mediocre.

Look, people can drone on about "more natural talent" all they want. I don't personally see this supposed gulf in class between Rangers cult hero Paul Gascoigne and Manchester City regular Phil Foden but whatever.

The thing is that even if Foden was nowhere near as "naturally talented" as Gascoigne, which is an arbitrary statement anyway, Foden has evidently got far more strings to his bow and there's really no good reason to act like he couldn't surpass Gascoigne and win the Ballon d'Or.
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In what way has foden evidently got more strings to his bow.
Strings to his bow.
 
Not gonna say much. We know who is going to dominate after the Messi/ Ronaldo era. Been clear since 2018.
 
King Jay said:
Not gonna say much. We know who is going to dominate after the Messi/ Ronaldo era. Been clear since 2018.
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Well he is not going to win a ballon dor playing as a false 9. He isnt prolific enough in front of goal.

But as a no 8. I think he can win it. Where he can use his passing range and dribbling to dominate midfield.
 
Radiohead1981 said:
In what way has foden evidently got more strings to his bow.
Strings to his bow.
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Foden hasn't just got 'natural talent'. He also has workrate, positional intelligence, a goal threat, dynamism. The fact that he's been keeping up with a squad full of the best players in the world since he was a teenager, while Gascoigne was permanently the big fish in a small pond, says it all.
 
Radiohead1981 said:
Well he is not going to win a ballon dor playing as a false 9. He isnt prolific enough in front of goal.

But as a no 8. I think he can win it. Where he can use his passing range and dribbling to dominate midfield.
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Playing for City will only hamper his chances to win an individual prize. Ask Aguero, Silva, Yaya, Kompany for starters.
 
Radiohead1981 said:
Well he is not going to win a ballon dor playing as a false 9. He isnt prolific enough in front of goal.

But as a no 8. I think he can win it. Where he can use his passing range and dribbling to dominate midfield.
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Your right , but Foden is a temporary fix , if Kane had been signed or another top class striker Foden would play a deeper more effective role , we will be signing a striker in the near future which will free Foden to dictate games.
 
I’ve just spent a glorious half hour listening to pundits wax lyrical about Phil and it’s been the perfect route into the weekend’s football… until I found out he’s questionable with a knock picked up for England. FFS.
 
MarsLlama said:
Foden hasn't just got 'natural talent'. He also has workrate, positional intelligence, a goal threat, dynamism. The fact that he's been keeping up with a squad full of the best players in the world since he was a teenager, while Gascoigne was permanently the big fish in a small pond, says it all.
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The best footballers not only have the best talent but the best attitude.

This kid has both in bucket, the only thing that can stop Foden achieving greatness is the man himself, if he keeps his head, and his desire, he can become one of the very best.
 
Keeper! said:
The best footballers not only have the best talent but the best attitude.

This kid has both in bucket, the only thing that can stop Foden achieving greatness is the man himself, if he keeps his head, and his desire, he can become one of the very best.
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If he doesn’t have a long successful career, it’ll be because of injury. He’s already a marked man at his age, which means years of getting hacked, stood on, ankle tapped and worse.

Hopefully, he has the nous and guile to avoid most, if not all, of it.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
If he doesn’t have a long successful career, it’ll be because of injury. He’s already a marked man at his age, which means years of getting hacked, stood on, ankle tapped and worse.

Hopefully, he has the nous and guile to avoid most, if not all, of it.
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True but that is the same for all the top players, they are marked men but compared to the past it's nothing to the likes of Maradona had to endure.
 
Keeper! said:
True but that is the same for all the top players, they are marked men but compared to the past it's nothing to the likes of Maradona had to endure.
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I guess I was implying that his head is screwed on, so I don’t think that’ll curtail a long, successful career.

His mechanics sometimes look a little ungainly, and I think an injury that disrupts his mechanics could be difficult for him.

He seems like he’s made of rubber, the way he moves sometimes, but we know he’s (I hate to even say the word) prone to getting whacked below the knee, and was injured early season.

I think the lad has everything he needs to be a top,TOP player. It doesn’t really bear thinking what might rob us of that.
 
MarsLlama said:
Foden hasn't just got 'natural talent'. He also has workrate, positional intelligence, a goal threat, dynamism. The fact that he's been keeping up with a squad full of the best players in the world since he was a teenager, while Gascoigne was permanently the big fish in a small pond, says it all.
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Gazza had those four things you mention . Although he wasn't as much of a goal threat as Foden as he played in
midfield all the time where as Foden mainly plays in the front three.
 
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