Wishlist and General Juve mercato talk (2012-13) (9 Viewers)

[baggio]

Imagine if Pirlo had Messi and Iniesta on his team. Xavi makes fantastic passes, but I think after seeing Pirlo this season, not only is his vision unmatched, his awareness is miles ahead of any player I've seen in recent memory, save the other #21.

 

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[ZoSo]

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[baggio]

Vintage. Absolutely vintage. Sorry, I meant garbage.

Vintage garbage!?

 

[Cheesio]

Imagine if Pirlo had Messi and Iniesta on his team. Xavi makes fantastic passes, but I think after seeing Pirlo this season, not only is his vision unmatched, his awareness is miles ahead of any player I've seen in recent memory, save the other #21.

Xavi vision is better, Pirlo tries riskier and more difficult passes but he doesn't always successed.

 

[baggio]

No way bro. To take those risks, and to be able to even see those passes you need vision. Xavi is surrounded by movement all around him. In a set up like that your passes are more likely going to end up accurate. No other team plays Barca's style of football, so Pirlo doing what he does has a harder task and is just as successful.

 

[Gerd]

No way bro. To take those risks, and to be able to even see those passes you need vision. Xavi is surrounded by movement all around him. In a set up like that your passes are more likely going to end up accurate. No other team plays Barca's style of football, so Pirlo doing what he does has a harder task and is just as successful.

 

[Cheesio]

No way bro. To take those risks, and to be able to even see those passes you need vision. Xavi is surrounded by movement all around him. In a set up like that your passes are more likely going to end up accurate. No other team plays Barca's style of football, so Pirlo doing what he does has a harder task and is just as successful.

You'd never know, unless Juve buys Messi

 

[Dadi-SK]

Xavi is a cunt anyway.

 

[Fred]

Xavi has more vision and more precise in his passes. Pirlo is better in long range passes and tries to makes some difficult passes.

This year Pirlo has been better as this was one of Xavi worst years, but for the last 4/5 years Xavi was better easily.

Agreed on all counts.

But hey, just one week ago, you saw how a few posters here were arguing that C.Zanetti was a better passer of the ball than Xavi, so i guess this debate is a positive improvement, at least these two players are comparable

I'm not talking about his form at all. His last season at Milan, I thought he was past it. My point was, if I were to chose between Xavi and Pirlo, assuming both are in form, I'd pick Pirlo over Xavi any day of the week and twice on weekends

Of course you would, refer to my previous posts for why

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Longevity: Pirlo
Between them at their primes: Pirlo
More instrumental in carrying his respective teams to success: Pirlo
Consolation prize of statistically more accurate passer: Xavi

 

[GarfielD]

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[Nenz]

So it that consensus here, that Pirlo is better than Xavi?

On last season, yes. Pirlo was arguably the best midfielder in the world last season. His long passing is the best in the world and that's a lot more difficult than short through balls.

 

[Fred]

Longevity: Pirlo
Between them at their primes: Pirlo
More instrumental in carrying his respective teams to success: Pirlo
Consolation prize of statistically more accurate passer: Xavi

Selective memory at its very best

 

[Cheesio]

Agreed on all counts.

But hey, just one week ago, you saw how a few posters here were arguing that C.Zanetti was a better passer of the ball than Xavi, so i guess this debate is a positive improvement, at least these two players are comparable

What's with the Zidane Avatar, did you ditch Arsenal and became a Juve fan ?

 

[Fred]

On last season, yes. Pirlo was arguably the best midfielder in the world last season.

This you could make a compelling argument for,

Him not playing in the CL has got to be a factor however.

 

[Trequartista]

You'd never know, unless Juve buys Messi

 

[Fred]

What's with the Zidane Avatar, did you ditch Arsenal and became a Juve fan ?

Mistake.

But i love Zizou, one of my favorite ever players

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Selective memory at its very best

Ummm, huh? Pirlo's been doing this shit since before 2003, Xavi's been world class since what, 2006? And now Xavi - who is younger - is slowing down, while Pirlo is going through his second wind.

 

[Trequartista]

Ummm, huh? Pirlo's been doing this shit since before 2003, Xavi's been world class since what, 2006? And now Xavi - who is younger - is slowing down, while Pirlo is going through his second wind.

2008/2009. He was benched by Deco in 2006.

 

[Cheesio]