Klaus wrote:
Point is that there's nothing to laugh about. Not when Cazorla chips in with a performance like that and Arteta masterminds the whole shape of the midfield for a full game. You might rate Diaby's performance above those two. I don't. It's very hard to take you seriously when you spout bullshit about it being the second best midfield performance you've seen since Vieira was on his game though. Do you really believe that yourself?
BW and oftgoon prolly echoed my thoughts. People rate performances differently. Alright, the majority of the world thought Diaby was MOTM but you thought otherwise, fair enough. But why should one be allowed to exaggerate on how poor a player is but not how good he is? Everyone have short term memories. To be excited about a performance and commenting on it right after a player specific v match video is quite normal. Don't really need to be calling someone a tool and picking on it tbf.
Klaus wrote:
I have. I've credited Diaby for a good performance yesterday. I have not and will not call him a "masterful footballer" or "brilliant player" or any such nonsense until he proves that he can be useful consistently though. The rest is just in your head. You don't seem capable of seperating the criticism against his general appearances from the game he had yesterday. That's not my fault.
No and no. Thing about it is you don't credit him enough. Whenever players you don't rate suddenly prove you absolutely wrong, you seem to try and play down their performance. There is always someone else "better" for you in those cases while you try and just say they had good performances and I already credited them. If you realised, I have never said you were entirely wrong when you went hyperbole and called for their heads whenever they had bad performances because all of us criticised them as well, but you need to be objective and give them their due credit and not play it down it the opposite scenario. Look at the kind of criticisms you made about Diaby while comparing to the kind of praise you give him in exact opposite performances. You think that severity and exaggeration is equal as well? "Masterful performance" is quite different from "Masterful player" too.
Klaus wrote:
I didn't rate Rosicky much last season and gave my reasons for it. He's not the same person as Abou Diaby so this is all completely irrelevant.
It is relevant because we saw the same from you last year in same scenarios.
