Matteo10 said:
Whatever you might say, Ibrahimovic was ordinary in 2004/2005. He didn't score 25 goals and he didn't give 25 assists. He was still a hell of a lot worse than Del Piero at the age of 23 and I won't settle for less than world class.
recess over kiids!! back to the thread.
I think Zlatan's first season in serie A at that age was damn good and not at all 'ordinary' .
You compare to Del Piero but he has grown up with Italian style soccer, now I'm not saying that DP wasn't better then, I do think he was. But give Zlatan a break as he had to adapt with different styles of football already by this age.
And just because DP was ahead doesn't mean Zlatan won't be able to match him, it doesn't rule out that he wont be better when you compare them at 25-29.
We're just all very dissapointed with his current season as surely it has turned out to be such a disaster. But many players go through this kind of form, it was just frustrating and obvious because Cap always started him anyways.