GOAT, apparently. Usually used by people who think football exists on a PlayStation.
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Going off on a thought experiment here, but it’s not hard to see that?
We’re fans of a top club, so it’s hard to see, but there are many layers of the football pyramid that aren’t the Premier League, so I’d say in many cases anyone who can make a solid career in the Football League have a decent shout to be a “top talent”. But in any case, surely “world-class” would suggest that they would be players who would be argued to fit into a “best 11 players of the world” conversation, and “generational talent” would mean someone who comes around only every so often in each generation. The latter is rather hard to define. Is Salah a generational talent?
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A liverpool player
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Interstellar signing.
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Is that why they’re called football stars?
An Egyptian king
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Pharoah 'nuff.
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No he is recovering from the parade.
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I blame Starbucks for all this nonsense! Back in the day we had small, medium and large. Try ordering a coffee now with any of that language and see what happens.
It’s why players are now top, top top, world class, generational, and GOAT.
Growing up I would say, “He’s not bad.” Now that means top player.
Growing up I would say, “He’s a good player.” Now that means top top player.
Growing up I would say, “He looks like a Liverpool player.” Now that probably means world class.
Growing up I would say, “He’s our best player.” Now that means generational talent.
Growing up during the pomp of Maradonna, there would be pub debates on who was better - Pele or Maradonna. Occasionally other players would be dropped into the conversation. We were talking about the GOAT but nobody used that term.
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It’s all to do with the stupid social media Messi vs Ronaldo fanboy shit.
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It’s all to do with the inflation in language in general, due to advertising.
Everything has to be “best-ever” or “unmissable”, or whatever else.
It’s all marketing bollocks which has filtered into everyday language, meaning that adjectives have lost pretty much all meaning. This means that, as adjectives no longer mean anything, everything becomes subjective, rather than objective, and, combined with lots of misinformation and disinformation, this enables the rightwing nutjobs to flourish.
Yep - it’s all down to neoliberalism.
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Going a bit further into this tangent, the way in which language is used has been a cross-cultural learning experience for me in moving to America.
For example, if I tell a direct report that something is good, they look a little dejected because they think I mean bad. It’s weird. I’ve learned that in America the language needs to be taken to more extremes than I grew up with in England to convey the same meaning.
But I’ll be damned if I’m going to start calling everything ‘awesome’ 
1970
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Ignoring my own “awesome” tangent. I really am a top top poster 
I think CF is interesting. Last year we showed we will not sign just anyone to fill a gap. They need to fit. So I can easily see a world where we keep Nunez and Jota as nothing better is available.
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Trying to explain to Americans how well received something is for it to get the feedback of “not bad” from a brit is a mind breaking experience.
I think this is one of the cases though where the disconnect is on us and not them 
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Its against the rules to complain about xG and what foot you use. What is allowed is if they have two left feet. Two right feet are ok.
When it comes to talented German players For Bayern it is a bit of “chasse gardée “