Antonio Cassano

[wicked wizard]

yes cassno wolud never be able to score a scuff shot and a simple tap would he

 

[.h.]

cassano'd never score twice in an important match...

 

[wicked wizard]

man c deffence is shocking he would score in that match

 

[.h.]

worse than pescara? or torino? or siena? or chievo? or bologna?

As far as I can see, actually, Cassano's not even scored a brace in like 5-6 seasons...

 

[wicked wizard]

at the moment ye ant much better. since when is cassno a pure goal scorer hes an all round player

 

[.h.]

sure, but rooney is quite an all round player too... he's certainly not a pure goalscorer...

i would wager he has at least 50% more assists per game than cassano does over his career. sadly the stats arent forthcoming on wikipedia, but at least for this season it is true that he's at least a few goals+assists ahead of cassano.

 

[Dylan]

Why are we comparing Cassano to Rooney?

 

[.h.]

Why are we comparing Cassano to Rooney?

Because Wicked Wizard insists that Cassano is 100x better a player than Rooney, and has done so for months

 

[wicked wizard]

i watch rooney for england his passing is sht. cassnos passing is world class

 

[.h.]

judging a player by their performance for england is like judging cassano by his performance in the latest italy match... where he didnt play.

fucking retarded.


judge him by his club career, where he's order ~100x better than Cassano could dream of.

 

[wicked wizard]

what cassno was 1 off italys best players who reahed the final. and he made rooney look like a pub player in the quarters

 

[.h.]

lets not have this argument again, eh? because I'll get the rooney personal and team awards list which makes cassano's list look like a title in comparison to rooney's book...

 

[wicked wizard]

ofcores he been at one team his whole life thats built around him. if cassno had say like roma and built round him. his stas would be way better than rooneys, his far more talented(he showed that in the eruos).

 

[.h.]

well of course rooney has teams built around him, he's a world class player.

i mean i dont expect barcelona to build a team around me, why would cassano expect any of the teams he's played at to be built around him?

At Real they had Ronaldo and Raul, who were leaps and bounds ahead of him. Even at Sampdoria it wasnt built around him, it was built around him+ Pazzini as a unit. Roma, again, not built around him because they had better, same with AC, and same with Inter.

Why would you build a team around a decent-to-can-be-pretty-damn-good player? You build them around world class ones. Even at Inter where we're lacking talent, we're certainly not 'built around' cassano, which speaks more about cassano than anything else.

 

[wicked wizard]

haha its bulit around him cos hes english and fergerson loves him, like when tevez came (whos better) got benched for him. why do u think he could do jack shit for 6 months then get 250 grand week reward.

 

[Bergpavian]

Why are we comparing Cassano to Rooney?

No need too. Wikipedia says:

Cassano:

Titles:
Supercoppa Italiana: 2001, 2011
La Liga: 2006–07
Serie A: 2010–11

Individual:
Serie A Young Footballer of the Year: 2001, 2003

410 games for his clubs, 116 Goals

35 games for Italy, 10 goals

Rooney:

Titles:
Premier League: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11
Football League Cup: 2005–06, 2009–10
FA Community Shield: 2007, 2010, 2011
UEFA Champions League: 2007–08
FIFA Club World Cup: 2008

Individual:
PFA Players' Player of the Year: 2009–10
PFA Young Player of the Year: 2004–05, 2005–06
PFA Fans' Player of the Year: 2005–06, 2009–10
PFA Premier League Team of the Year: 2005–06, 2009–10, 2011–12
FWA Footballer of the Year: 2009–10
BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year: 2002
Bravo Award: 2003
UEFA Euro 2004 Team of the Tournament
FIFPro World Young Player of the Year: 2004–05
Barclays Player of the Year: 2009–10
FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball: 2008
England Player of the Year: 2008, 2009
Golden Boot Landmark Award 20: 2009–10
FIFA/FIFPro World XI: 2011
And many more ...

456 games for his clubs, 203 goals

78 games for England, 32 goals

And this season Rooney has already more goals and assists than Cassano.

 

[.h.]

yeah, rooney's so shit with those 186 goals in 380 matches...

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and that free kick is why i think van persie is world class

 

[wicked wizard]

well dont give 2 fuck for man u or them stats i wacth him for england he shit. wonder how his stats would look at 6 diffrent clubs

 

[.h.]

well dont give 2 fuck for man u or them stats i wacth him for england he shit. wonder how his stats would look at 6 diffrent clubs

so you dont give a fuck about how a player performs in over 80% of the games he'll play in his career?


How very interesting...


Rooney hasnt played at 6 different clubs because he's been top class at united, they have no reason to get rid of him. Cassano's played for 6 different clubs, because, lets be honest - as Much as I do love him - he's had some serious personality difficulties in the last ten years or so, hence leaving Roma, hence leaving Real, hence leaving Sampdoria, and hence leaving Milan.

 

[La Brujita]

Saying Rooney is better than Cassano because of titles won is like saying that Inzaghi is a better player than Ronaldo cause he won more on a club level.

It makes no sense at all. You can't judge a player by the number of titles won.