Miralem Pjanić

[LoveCity]

best, after me

why do bosnians over-rate their national teams footballers? im from ireland and can honestly say all our players are championship standard or below

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/statistics/index.html

Well, it's easy to post that without mentioning that the only half-decent team in your group is Greece. It's a ridiculously poor group even by World Cup qualifying standards. My local pub team could beat Liechtenstein.

 

[dannyirishblue]

why do bosnians over-rate their national teams footballers? im from ireland and can honestly say all our players are championship standard or below

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/statistics/index.html

Well, it's easy to post that without mentioning that the only half-decent team in your group is Greece. It's a ridiculously poor group even by World Cup qualifying standards. My local pub team could beat Liechtenstein.

well said lovecity

 

[MSP]

Pjanic is too soft for Premier League.

 

[BlueMoonoverUS]

why do bosnians over-rate their national teams footballers? im from ireland and can honestly say all our players are championship standard or below

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/statistics/index.html

Well, it's easy to post that without mentioning that the only half-decent team in your group is Greece. It's a ridiculously poor group even by World Cup qualifying standards. My local pub team could beat Liechtenstein.

And yet Greece was European Champions in 2004, they were first in group for same tournament last year beating Croatia who beat England regularly. And when was England champion of anything?
And I even love England team.

 

[LoveCity]

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/statistics/index.html

Well, it's easy to post that without mentioning that the only half-decent team in your group is Greece. It's a ridiculously poor group even by World Cup qualifying standards. My local pub team could beat Liechtenstein.

And yet Greece was European Champions in 2004, they were first in group for same tournament last year beating Croatia who beat England regularly. And when was England champion of anything?
And I even love England team.

2004 was almost a decade ago, you know? And they were the most unworthy Euro winners ever. Greece are nothing special (even with the 'unpolished diamond' Samaras up front), not completely awful, and Bosnia have arguably the easiest group considering it's them, Greece, Latvia, Slovakia and Liechtenstein. Only Group G gives them any competition for the weakest group. No wonder they're acing the group.

Point is, the link is misleading and is an attempt to make it seem like Bosnia are an amazing national side with amazing players because they've banged in 23 goals, including 8 against Liechtenstein. We have Argentinians, Germans, Americans, Australians, and so on here but I've never seen people of one nationality as defensive and so desperate to overrate their players like the Bosnians. We get it, you have some decent players, but you'd have us believe you (I'm guessing you're Bosnian or have some heritage based on your Dzeko posts - if not, my bad) have an army of world class superstars when you really don't. I don't consider Dzeko or Pjanic world class at the moment no matter how much propaganda I'm force fed on here. Dzeko is good but hasn't shown enough here to be deemed world class - there wouldn't even be debate about him if he was. Pjanic would spend much of his time warming our bench I'm pretty sure, at least for his first season, because of his fragility.

 

[BlueMoonoverUS]

Well, it's easy to post that without mentioning that the only half-decent team in your group is Greece. It's a ridiculously poor group even by World Cup qualifying standards. My local pub team could beat Liechtenstein.

And yet Greece was European Champions in 2004, they were first in group for same tournament last year beating Croatia who beat England regularly. And when was England champion of anything?
And I even love England team.

2004 was almost a decade ago, you know? And they were the most unworthy Euro winners ever. Greece are nothing special (even with the 'unpolished diamond' Samaras up front), not completely awful, and Bosnia have arguably the easiest group considering it's them, Greece, Latvia, Slovakia and Liechtenstein. Only Group G gives them any competition for the weakest group. No wonder they're acing the group.

Point is, the link is misleading and is an attempt to make it seem like Bosnia are an amazing national side with amazing players because they've banged in 23 goals, including 8 against Liechtenstein. We have Argentinians, Germans, Americans, Australians, and so on here but I've never seen people of one nationality as defensive and so desperate to overrate their players like the Bosnians. We get it, you have some decent players, but you'd have us believe you (I'm guessing you're Bosnian or have some heritage based on your Dzeko posts - if not, my bad) have an army of world class superstars when you really don't. I don't consider Dzeko or Pjanic world class at the moment no matter how much propaganda I'm force fed on here. Dzeko is good but hasn't shown enough here to be deemed world class - there wouldn't even be debate about him if he was. Pjanic would spend much of his time warming our bench I'm pretty sure, at least for his first season, because of his fragility.

I agree with you totally. We don't have world class players (I like Dzeko as a player but he's not world class because there are only 2 of them right now) and we might never will but we love what we have right not and that's the only thing we can be proud about.
And it would mean a lot if we would qualify for WC. Don't be harsh on us :)

 

[Daz_Blue]

Pjanic is too soft for Premier League.

You mean he would be too easily knocked off the ball like Isco ?

 

[MSP]

Pjanic is too soft for Premier League.

You mean he would be too easily knocked off the ball like Isco ?

Not exactly, he knows his ball and how to protect it.

More that he would be injured all the time. It's very physical league and he is pretty injury prone.

Cold night at Stoke and he's out for weeks.

 

[Superr]

Well, it's easy to post that without mentioning that the only half-decent team in your group is Greece. It's a ridiculously poor group even by World Cup qualifying standards. My local pub team could beat Liechtenstein.

 

[Superr]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08Dr06zB5s[/youtube]


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Dzeko goal
Pjanic assists