Oh for sure. He’s a fascinating guy. His comments about trading competition for money rings a bit hollow given the last 6-7 years of his career.
don’t remember him complaining about playing time, or angling himself with his agent to force a move.
Look at his salaries over the years…nothing rediculous for wages. He was making 28K a week at LA Galaxy his first year there. peanuts to what he was making before/after.
There’s a lot more insidious footballers out there…
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A guy who left a competitive side in a competitive league with a good UEFA coefficient to take Qatari money to play in a second rate league whose teams had about as much presence in the CL KO stages as teams from Scotland has no place complaining about trading sporting values for money
But he pulled his hamstring fighting the gauls
I look at it from a different angle. Who has he been able to play with over the years, for teammates? I’ll just lift off whom I consider very notable
Messi
Ronaldinho
Pogba (take it for what it is)
Busquets
De Gea
Iniesta
Thiago
Xavi
Di Maria
Rooney
Cavani
Pique
Henry
Sneijder
Mata
Silva
Beckham
Matic
Schweinsteiger
Toure
Alves
Pirlo
Patrick Vieira
Buffon
Nesta
Pato
Cambiasso
Matuidi
Emerson
Luiz
Puyol
Pedro
Chiellini
Nedved
Zambrotta
Ashley Cole
Giroud
Carick
Van Der Vaart
Julio Cesar
KP Boateng
Cabaye
Luis Figo
Nigel De Jong
Victor Valdes
DIVOCK ORIGI
Clarence Seedorf
Andrea Conti
Aquilani!!!
Hernan Crespo
Seydou Keita
Favio Cannavaro
van Bommel
Maxwell
Flamini
Javier Zanetti
Ambrosini
Felippo Inzaghi
You missed out Luke Shaw and Jesse Lingard, neither of which would look out of place in 60% of that list
there’s 58 names on that list, so what 35 names would you consider NOT notable to have played with as teammates.
go ahead, I’ll wait.
How old were they alll when he played with them? I’d bet all near the end of the careers.
25 or so were top notch players in their prime.
CBA naming them, as opinions will vary and we’ll end up back and forth
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Messi
Ronaldinho
Pogba (take it for what it is) - Not notable
Busquets
De Gea - not notable
Iniesta
Thiago
Xavi
Di Maria - passed it
Rooney - passed it?
Cavani - passed it?
Pique
Henry - passed it?
Sneijder - not notable
Mata - not notable
Silva - when?
Beckham - not notable except for being a circus act.
Matic - not notable
Schweinsteiger - not notable
Toure
Alves
Pirlo
Patrick Vieira - passed it?
Buffon
Nesta
Pato - not notable
Cambiasso
Matuidi - not notable
Emerson - not notable
Luiz - not notable
Puyol
Pedro - not notable
Chiellini
Nedved
Zambrotta
Ashley Cole - not notable
Giroud - not notable
Carick - not notable
Van Der Vaart - not notable
Julio Cesar - not notable
KP Boateng - not notable
Cabaye - not notable
Luis Figo
Nigel De Jong - not notable
Victor Valdes - not notable
DIVOCK ORIGI - not notable
Clarence Seedorf
Andrea Conti
Aquilani!!! - not notable
Hernan Crespo
Seydou Keita
Favio Cannavaro
van Bommel - not notable
Maxwell - not notable
Flamini - defo not notable
Javier Zanetti
Ambrosini - not notable
Inzaghi
I don’t think so… Zlatan’s 42yrs old.
Messi is 36
Chiellini is 39
Iniesta is 39
Xavi is 43
Ronaldinho is 43
Pirlo is 44
Henry is 46
Buffon is 45
Puyol is 45
Seedorf is 47
Nesta is 47
Crespo is 48
Figo is 50
Cannavaro is 50.
Missing the point, lads. None of these players are notable to Herr Zlatan of Gobshite/Rosengård.
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What I find odd about this is I am sure they have offered me the job on football manager at least once.
A guy absolutey wrecked - Hazard retires at only 32
32? I thought he was older than that. Crikey!
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Hazardous existence
My first memory of Hazard was him being an unplayable wonderkid on FM09, who would almost always go on to sign for Man City, destroy my Liverpool team in every match and be one of the best players in the game every season. Which he frankly did in real life, only while playing for Chelsea. I also remember feeling relief that Man United couldn’t sign him at the time, as well as feeling relief when Real Madrid signed him. 
One of those players who always seemed to raise his game against us, like Henry and Drogba.
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A very good dribbler who was outrageously overrated.
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Almost more impressive that this means Schmidt was 33 when he took the job!