Juan Roman Riquelme, even the name reeks of class like Zinedine Zidane and Alessandro Del Piero. Lazy? Off course he is lazy, he is absolute class. Which skilful player is a water carrier with bundles of energy? The only problem is that you have to build your team around him otherwise its a bad investment. Let him just fit with the crowd is not his style, he has to be the go to guy. Choker? Apart from Zinedine Zidane, i am yet to see any great player thrive on the biggest occasions, they all seem like your everyday player when the stage is at its biggest. How many times have you seen Ronaldinho, Henry, Dp Totti et al fail to live up to your expectations in the biggest stages of all? Does it make them bad players? Nope
If we were to get him then I will be totally delight. By the way, Deco is notthat much in favour at Barcelona either, but it would be too much to ask this board to be looking at good players not when might Senderos is available.
Sometimes you guys expect too much, we have all been cryong out for a creativity but you want a creative player who would work his socks off? That aint ever gonna happen? How many big matches are there in seriea if you are indeed calling him a choker? 6 maybe against Milan, Inter and Roma. So what if he chokes in 6 matches and is absolutely brilliant in the other 28 games? Aint that enough?
Wow a midfield consisting of Roman, Deco, Tiago, Almiron, Camo, Nedved, zanetti would have me dreaming
and now I have woken up, aint gonna happen, pity, was a nice dream