In pursuit of mediocrity; Dynamo Kiev 2012-2013 season.

LOL yes he would, he creates most of his own chances anyways. If you take out the goals he scored from help of either Xavi and Iniesta he would still score over 50.

 

TV misleading what are you talking about, I can see the whole field or at least most of the field when I watch the game and I can easily see the interchange passing and movement, but the fact remains that Messi still creates his own chances. In most of the goals he goes past 2-3 players AFTER receiving the ball. He's not freakin Mario Gomez who scores 90% of his goals as tap ins. And Messi is the one that is ALWAYS under more attention from the other team than the other players, they'd be mad not to double team the best player in the world and possibly all time. Messi scored more goals from Dani Alves passes this season than from Xavi lol. If you take all the goals he scored from either Iniesta's or Xavi passes he would still probably win the Golden Boot this year if not be very close to CR. The man is a beast, he smashed Mullers record this season and he's not even a true striker, meaning he doesn't chill in the penalty box the whole game, and he put up almost 30 assists as well which means that a 100 GOALS that Barca scored this season are through Messi.

I actually just lookes up that Messi in the La Liga has 1 less assist than Xavi and Iniesta combined. And these are Iniesta, Xavi assists to everyone on the team so hypothetically if they would all be to Messi (which they aren't obviously) he would still score 35 goals in the league LOL

 

It would be great.

In general, a hopeful pre-season this may turn out to be: Kranjcar, Selin, possibly Bogdanov. Half of the foreign dead wood might be leaving...

 

That would be great cause the National Team then might actually get a good coach. As for Dynamo, with Blokhin, I would suspect they would be a decent middle of the table team.

 

Lol of course they can, they just don't want to. Surkis has used the FFU for money laundering for a while now, the NT's situation isn't in his main interest. He has also used the position as a way to protect himself, since any case of corruption against him would be linked to, by his friends in UEFA and FIFA, as an act of government being involved in football which FIFA would punish with country disqualification. Now he has reached an agreement with Akhmetov and Co. that he will give up his position but won't be touched or he is gonna get a higher job in either UEFA or FIFA.

 

That would actually make the NT suffer. Blokhin is the best coach for the NT, not counting the clearly out of pay-rate top stars. The NT now shows a pretty decent play, and no one is grumbling. We are playing teams like England on equal footing. Blokhin is getting the best play out of his personnel - something I knew he would.

And there is one more factor - Blokhin IS Ukrainian football. Ukrainin football does not exist without Blokhin. Blokhin is the GOD of Ukrainian football. You want a foreigner? Que in Advocaat. get the picture?

 

Miguel Veloso?

 

Rumors, rumors and laughs...

New Reports

Although rumors about Shevchenko and MLS continue to be popular, other reports have also surfaced. The striker has been linked to a possible golf career. An alleged friend has indicated Andriy Shevchenko is interested in golf and wants to eventually qualify for the 2016 Olympics. Golf will be one of the sports that will return to the Olympic Games in 2016. However, no one has been able to confirm the latest set of rumors.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/andriy...1--mls.html;_ylt=AihpA_dZhsu_vmDa8oBXoyw5nYcB

 

Veloso is talented and has really matured over the last 2 years. Skilled passer and good at set pieces, but has also turned into a good defensive midfielder.

 

Would he fit in Dynamo model, though? One of the few positions beyond reproach at Dynamo is the defensive midfielder, occupied by Ognyen Vukojevic, who is a leader and one of the best players on the team. Honestly, i would rather Veloso play a more attack oriented role.

 

He is actually a more effective deep-lying playmaker IMO, so I'm not sure if DK would need that for next year. But his passing skills are excellent if he has enough time on the ball and he likes to be engaged in the match and have a lot of touches.

 

I meant the former, as in a left footed poor man's version of Xabi Alonso.

Veloso was very highly rated several years ago at Sporting, but became very lazy and stopped developing. But he's been good for Portugal lately and supposedly had a good year on a poor Genoa side. Talent has never been an issue, but my concern would be his ability to adapt to EE climate and culture.

 

Definitely a striker is a higher priority. I would've liked to see Hlebas (sp?) stay up with the first team, he looked quality with the youths last season and had a good couple of cameos in their warmup matches last week.