Not one nearly as good a him. He's the best in the league at his current role by a significant margin.Originally Posted by Yohan
Not one nearly as good a him. He's the best in the league at his current role by a significant margin.
disagreed. Alonso, McCarty, Beckerman all do the job as well as him at DM
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
None of them are also their teams primary playmakers. If you want someone who can pass sideways and backwards really well, then sure, those are your guys. Bradley's skill set far exceeds those of the guys you mentioned.
Bradley has not been used as a playmaker, even deep lying playmaker for TFC so far.
Playmaker implies that the offence is run through the player. TFC does not run its offence through Bradley.
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
Primary playmaker meaning primary distrubtor. He's still the guy starts every counter-attack and is the most like guy to play a ball in behind the opposing defences. I.E. primary playmaker.
No.
None of them have his range of passing, coverage of the ground and ability to see the open spaces.
Most importantly, none of them come close to Bradley in his speed of thought on the pitch.
That and people are forgetting who laid out the passes that sprung Seba in the first couple of games.Seen this before last season - we don't score and people seem to think Bradley can't pass.
Last edited by OgtheDim; 03-24-2016 at 06:32 AM.
McCarty does. He's as good a DM as Bradley; he doesn't have the all-around game though. Bradley once scored 18 in a season in the Eredivisie, which while not the best defensive league is still well more than anyone on that list would accomplish.
Beckerman is shot, it looks. His legs looked half-gone last year and they can't have gotten better. Mids burn out young from all that two-way traffic.
I won't question those players worth but I would challenge you to find someone like them and woo them here for less or even money then they are making being a keystone on teams they're all a big part of.
We didn't have Bradley for years and watch him grow into the leader he is. We had to pay up front and hope he can get the results we want.
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