Pablo Daniel Osvaldo (19 Viewers)

Mar 9, 2006
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Playing for the champions he got 10 goals in a whole season

Being our best scorer in 2011 is not impressive


Osvaldo, playing for a massively inferior team managed to get as many goals for Roma as Matri had for Juve, in much, much less games.

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Matri, playing for Juventus with Pirlo at the top of his game. 69 apps 27 goals

Osvaldo, playing for a mid-table Roma team 55 apps 27 goals

Yeah, he's better than Matri when both are playing regularly.
Borriello has scored 19 goals for Genoa in 1 season at some point of his career, so what? Plus, Matri was highly rotated while Osvaldo was primary forward in his days in Roma
 

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1. After scoring a 93rd-minute winner against Juventus whilst playing for Fiorentina, Osvaldo decides to celebrate the goal by removing his shirt and machine-gunning the fans (not literally, of course). This results in his second booking of the game and he is subsequently sent off.

2. During his time at Roma, our man Osvaldo takes offence to team-mate Erik Lamela (now at Tottenham) for not passing him the ball often enough. In the dressing-room after the 2-0 defeat to Udinese, he decides to slap Lamela around the face. Unsurprisingly, he is fined and suspended for the incident.

3. After returning from his native Argentina following last season's winter break, the striker decides to call in sick and give himself a few extra weeks off. He consequently misses the club's winter training camp in America, with Roma's American owners not amused by his unprofessional behaviour.
4. Osvaldo wins a penalty against Sampdoria but, as Roma legend Francesco Totti steps up to take it, the controversial forward decides that, as he won the penalty, he should take it. After an argument, he duly gets his wish but ends up missing the penalty - much to the disgust of Totti and the Giallorossi fans.

5. This time Osvaldo decides to try to emulate Totti. After scoring in his first ever Rome derby he lifts up his jersey to reveal a T-shirt with the slogan 'I have purged you too' - replicating the Roma captain's 1999 slogan, 'I have purged you again'. This does not go down well with the club and their fans as they lose the match 2-1.

6. After one of Roma's key players, Daniele De Rossi, is left out of a match against Atalanta due to disciplinary issues, the capital club look to Osvaldo to provide a mature head in his absence, only for the Italy international to be given a straight red card for elbowing an Atalanta player. The Giallorossi loe the game 4-1.

7. As his team-mates contest a Rome derby, Osvaldo spends the night in a swanky London hotel with his girlfriend. Although the striker is suspended for the match, the club feel that he should have been supporting his team-mates from the stands and he clocks up another black mark against his name.
8. The final straw for Osvaldo's Roma career comes after a 1-0 loss to arch-rivals Lazio in the Coppa Italia final. Unhappy at only being used as a late substitute, Dani takes to Twitter to vent his feelings at caretaker boss Aurelio Andreazzoli. "You would do more good if you admit to being incompetent ... go and celebrate with those of Lazio," writes the striker. "He is just a cry-baby," responds the 59-year old. Osvaldo is later sold by Roma.

9. In a game which looks likely to be Osvaldo's last for Southampton, the Italian is the main perpetrator in a touchline brawl with Newcastle that involves several players from each side and even coaching staff. He is fined £40,000 and suspended for three games by the FA.

10. Obviously forgetting about the trouble in which the fight with Lamela landed him, Osvaldo again decides that he knows best and, after a robust training ground challenge by team-mate Jose Fonte, becomes involved in a fight with the centre-back. Osvaldo is subsequently allowed to join Juventus on a loan deal until the end of the season on transfer deadline day, with the option of a permanent move in the summer.
 

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Junkie Joe Joyce
Oct 2, 2013
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I know it's good to support Juve players and ex players. And there's going to be a degree of bias. But it's so obvious to me that Osvaldo is better than Matri. I'm half expecting somebody to try and convince me that Matri offered plenty besides his goals now. As is the way with glorifying past players.
 

Klin

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May 27, 2009
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I know it's good to support Juve players and ex players. And there's going to be a degree of bias. But it's so obvious to me that Osvaldo is better than Matri. I'm half expecting somebody to try and convince me that Matri offered plenty besides his goals now. As is the way with glorifying past players.
Matri's off the ball movement > Osvaldo's
 

Pirlo's Beard

Junkie Joe Joyce
Oct 2, 2013
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I'll leave this thread now because i'm suffocating with the level of bias here

Yeah, playing for a vastly inferior club and having a much better goal/game ratio means nothing

Matri was a good lad, therefore he's amazing. Am I doing it right?

:lol: pathetic
 
Mar 9, 2006
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I'll leave this thread now because i'm suffocating with the level of bias here

Yeah, playing for a vastly inferior club and having a much better goal/game ratio means nothing

Matri was a good lad, therefore he's amazing. Am I doing it right?

:lol: pathetic
Afonso Alves has scored trillion of goals for Herenveen and where is he now? Vialli has scored 19 goals in Sampdoria and wasn't able to repeat that number of goals in Juve, so Vialli has failed in Juve too according to your logic?! The same story with Iaquinta, Amauri and so on, it's simplier to score in small clubs, why you can't understand it? Nominal Bologna or Livorno or Palermo never playing against Roma, Udinese, and even current Milan/Inter games of their lives with 10 man defence, especially at home, while against Juve they building fortress inside the box and we have to destroy it with number of chances, Matri is not Batitusta, no doubt, many times he's been poor in Juve, but with non-stop rotation what can you do?! If you don't score - you don't play the next game, and even if you score, coach could use another pair of forwards, it's hard to be always in shape in that circumstances and yet he was our best scorer. Now look at the table with the capocannoniere award and the winners of Serie A for the past seasons:
2000–01 Roma (3) Hernán Crespo (Lazio) (26)
2001–02 Juventus (26) David Trezeguet (Juventus) (Piacenza) (24)
2002–03 Juventus (27) Christian Vieri (Internazionale) (24)
2003–04 Milan (17) Andriy Shevchenko (Milan) (24)
2004–05 Juventus (28) Cristiano Lucarelli (Livorno) (24)
2005–06 Juventus (29) Luca Toni (Fiorentina) (31)
2006–07 Internazionale (15) Francesco Totti (Roma) (26)
2007–08 Internazionale (16) Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus) (21)
2008–09 Internazionale (17) Zlatan Ibrahimović (Internazionale) (25)
2009–10 Internazionale (18) Di Natale (Udinese) (29)
2010–11 Milan (18) Antonio Di Natale (Udinese) (28)
2011–12 Juventus (30) Zlatan Ibrahimović (Milan) (28)
2012–13 Juventus (31) Edinson Cavani (Napoli) (29)

Only 3 times in almost 15 years the winners of Serie A had capocannoniere in their line-ups and if ur brain is working fine you should understand what that means
 

Linebreak

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Sep 18, 2009
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How about the perfect through ball Pogba gave him at the end of the match, which he managed to clear for the Udinese defence, rather than take it in his stride. Good work.
 

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