That is delusional. I can't name a team other then Greece that didn't have great players that won a major tournament. By the way....that was against Portugal.
reading these comments shows me exactly whats wrong with the selecao and Portuguese people in general.... you guys have zero confidence and zero belief.... i don't know if you guys just watched the world cup and saw that a shit Argentina squad with literally nobody on it just won the world cup. aside from messi and maybe enzo who else would start on our team? my mother must have cheated on my father cause compared to you guys there's no way I'm a full Porkchop. i must be half something else. you guys talk how bernardo silva plays. pussys
You can't reason with fanatics. Messi for Bruno Fernandes Enzo for Bernade Silva Rondrigo for Neves That is a huge difference in quality.
Greece won by team defence. lol! My point is tournaments is about luck. Sometimes it just doesn't go your way. spain Germany Brazil all went OUT... They have better talent than us. We need to stop with Portugal having potential to be "great" and focus on developing and getting better.
To be fair, I solely blame the coach and CR for distracting the team... But why didn't JP play all of the games! I'd like to know, Fernando.
Is Mourinho really going to take the Brazilian coaching job? This is politically nice way of saying he has a better chance with another nation.
I never said Santos was incompetent. I think he did the best with the players he had. I am saying and have been saying. We don't have the talent. You remove Ronaldo and Pepe out of this lineup and we miss every tournament since 2006. We can hire whatever coach you think is best. Wont matter if you don't have the players. Now that we have a coach you all have a scapegoat. 4 years from now we will be having this same conversation. I am just a fan like you. We wouldn't have been rejected by as many coaches as we have if they believed we had the talent to win.
Which was the dumbest shit supported by the most idiotic logic I've ever read. So, @jec1 , save your time with that nonsense.
Ok yes Ronaldo carried this team for a period of time. Ronaldo was out of this world and there were years that we would not even qualify if not for him. No doubt . That has not been the case for some time now . Just for the record , we won the Euro with Ronaldo injured on the bench against France . Lately we have played better without Ronaldo than with . Pepe is a monster . Love the guy and will be a huge hole to fill when he is gone not doubt but we have some promising CB coming up. Life goes on . We are solid even if you can’t see it . With a better coach and better player selections , we should have at the very least made it to the game against France
Ancelotti named best coach of all time https://www.marca.com/en/football/real-madrid/2023/01/10/63bd7a90e2704e0b5a8b45e0.html mourinho came in fifth. lol!
Blah, blah... He's a hot head. He's exactly what we need down the middle, big, tough and tackles well look in the mirror and figure out FS was the problem, tactically he was awful and became a joke with all the Ronaldo drama.
2 yellows in 3 games against average teams. We should have lost 2 out of those 3 games with him on the field. We won one after he came off the field. He is average and not worth the risk of a red card in a tournament like the world cup.
I have shown the statistics that show the results when Ronaldo hasn't played even in the last few years. I agree he should retire. He isn't the player he was 4 years ago and we don't have the team to carry him. We now lose with him and lose without him.
Ok. So is Diogo Costa better than Martinez? In the future perhaps. Right now he isn’t. Is Dias better than Romero? For me he isn’t, hope I am wrong. Is Neves better than De Paul? Hell no. And I could give you other examples.
And Scaloni did a hell of a job with them since he took over. Nobody payed much attention but in this tournament they never played always with the same system, and particularly on their last 3 games they were clearly better than Netherlands, Croatia and France.
That guy is so stupid. I stopped listening the second he said he would have preferred Bruno Lage or Rui Jorge over Martinez. Low IQ.
The only thing I want from Martinez is to show up what he means by tactical flexibility. That and the balls to start replacing Pepe and Ronaldo, it’s time to move on from that era.