Fernando Llorente - ST - Athletic Bilbao (30 Viewers)

[Red]

Ugly style. Mark does it better.

Go easy on Nick.

English isn't his first language after all.

he's spanish well that and compounding the fact hes played his whole career in a mediocre club(that i hate so maybe that has something to do with it). I just think this deal has too many question marks.

Bilbao are actually, to my mind at least not a bad club to go to a big club from.

Play at a decent level, experienced a fair number of big games, it's a club I imagine is subject to a lot of scrutiny and pressure from the local press and that he has an attachment to the club is likely to mean he will have felt that pressure more than he would have if he'd just been at any old team.

And the Spanish thing doesn't apply here, I don't think, because Llorente is a distinctly un-Spanish type of player.

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Still have my doubts on this move, i rate Llorente highly and thinks he's a great stiker, my only concers if he'll fit in a juve style of play.

Why wouldn't he?

The pace and intensity Bilbao played with last season probably mean he'll have less of a tactical adjustment to make than most strikers Juve have looked at.

 

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[Linebreak]

Is he any good at holding up the ball and playing a pass?

 

[Red]

Yes.

 

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Yes.

Heaps better than Matri I assume?

 

[Lion]

is he good at diving?

 

[Linebreak]

is he good at diving?

Good q.

 

[Enron]

is he good at diving?

He's a big guy so it doesn't do him any good.

 

[Lion]

is he good at provoking opponents?

 

[Van Helsing]

is he good at provoking opponents?

he is not going to inter,napoli or milan.

 

[Hust]

I doubt they'd mention the same if it was Xavi, Ramos, Villa or some other Spanish player

That's because players like Xavi, Iniesta & Villa are much much better than Llorente. One might say world class...a term Llorenta won't be getting anytime soon.

That's why no one would mention them.

 

[Enron]

is he good at provoking opponents?

He's Spanish.

 

[Red]

Heaps better than Matri I assume?

Yeah.

Llorente is a really good target man who could still make a great contribution to a team even if he only scored 10 goals in a season.

That he can score 20+ in addition to being a target man is what makes him such a good player.

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is he good at diving?

Is it possible for a tall player to be good at diving?

Normally with them they go down in such a way that it looks like a dive even when they've been fouled.

 

[Linebreak]

Red has sold me - offer 8m now!

 

[RAVANELLI]

Is it possible for a tall player to be good at diving?

Normally with them they go down in such a way that it looks like a dive even when they've been fouled.

true that!

 

[Xiven]

is he good at diving?

is he good at provoking opponents?

Not very good at doing either of those things. That means he will struggle to fit in while in Serie A.

Truth be told, I hope Llorente stays in La Liga because the league needs to keep its stars. I'd be more pleased to see stars brought in to Serie A from the EPL instead of helping that shite league build more of a fan base n earn more money by poaching players from other leagues.

 

[Paolo Sosa]

I don't rate him that high, he is by no mean the top striker that I assumed we would be signing this summer. He may give us a new dimension which is scoring with headers that we obviously lacked last season, we have like a million corner last year and we barely threat with them.
But still he is too static to be at juve with this tactic IMO.

Btw can someone give us his injury record ?

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Go easy on Nick.

English isn't his first language after all.



Bilbao are actually, to my mind at least not a bad club to go to a big club from.

Play at a decent level, experienced a fair number of big games, it's a club I imagine is subject to a lot of scrutiny and pressure from the local press and that he has an attachment to the club is likely to mean he will have felt that pressure more than he would have if he'd just been at any old team.

And the Spanish thing doesn't apply here, I don't think, because Llorente is a distinctly un-Spanish type of player.

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Why wouldn't he?

The pace and intensity Bilbao played with last season probably mean he'll have less of a tactical adjustment to make than most strikers Juve have looked at.

how do you figure? and about pressure, one can also argue, that since he was 'home' and his club insisted on only basque players would make him more at ease. At any rate i ll take your word on this one, though i still have my doubts.

 

[Trequartista]

Yeah.

Llorente is a really good target man who could still make a great contribution to a team even if he only scored 10 goals in a season.

That he can score 20+ in addition to being a target man is what makes him such a good player.

---------- Post added 14.08.2012 at 02:07 ----------



Is it possible for a tall player to be good at diving?

Normally with them they go down in such a way that it looks like a dive even when they've been fouled.

Luca Toni's dives were hilarious

 

[Salvo]

Toni

 

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Llorente on Juventus "They are a very big club but I am not sure I wan't to join a club known for match fixing"