So Lewandowski got his way and the Poland manager has quit.
All started with the manager deciding to replace Lewa with Zielinski as national captain, which resulted in Lewa retiring as long as the gaffer remained in charge.
Comes across as a bit self centred if you ask me, albeit I accept he’s probably also seen the form since Probierz took over and isnt happy.
Just undermines the manager. Find this stuff isn’t great for the future of any team.
He’s the Polish Ronaldo, you can’t drop him.
Will be interesting to see if the new manager reinstates him as captain.
It’s even worse. The manager only named Zielinski as captain because Lewa pulled out of these games.
I suspect he will be, but if I was the new manager I’d want to stamp the player power out and would name someone else.
Haven’t heard from this guy in a long time. Just realized he’s Porto’s president now.
I knew a LOT of people who thought Torres was an bad signing at that fee - a top prospect who never kicked on to what was expected of him. There were lots of concerns the signing would be the end of the Rafa the way Collymore was for Evans. I dont know I have ever been more excited for a signing though than I was for Suarez.
Torres was indeed a bit of a statement signing. Will never forget Rafa’s face and reactions right after Athens, I think that night he really pushed H&G to go for a serious striker. I was also incredibly excited for Suarez, perhaps even more, especially at the price we got him for (suspension he had at the time, etc.). I couldn’t believe that he was choosing between Liverpool and Tottenham at the time. We don’t do these things very often.
I remember exactly where I was when Torres scored his first goal for us.
The prospect of him and Gerrard was truly thrilling.
When Suarez came I was still mourning for El Niño and gobsmacked about Carroll.
It was a shocking few days, both in a positive and negative way!
We had Torres’ transfer request, him leaving (I thought the fee was very good and didn’t understand it from Chelsea’s perspective), Suarez arriving in one of the best buys we ever made, to one of the worst buys we ever made in Carroll.
I don’t think we even needed Carroll that much, the best decision would’ve been to just stick with what we have until the end of the season and then see what else needs to be done.
But perhaps we felt we needed a statement #9 after Torres’ departure and took the flavour of the last few months, without much thinking.
Quickly, we saw that Suarez (even if it took a little while for numbers to grow, but his overall quality was immediately there to be seen) is actually the calibre to be a key player here and the guy around which you want to build your attack around.
It would be sooo funny 