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[–] Blue_winged_yoshi@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (82 children)

It’s happens sometimes when you spend big on older players. People like to think that top players all stay at peak level deep into their 30s but many do tail off fast.

[–] auddi_blo@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (41 children)

Everytime you mention someone over 30 might decline suddenly you are bombarded with people claiming that there’s “no way a professional like him” could decline and that sports science has gotten so advanced that it essentially trumps biology meaning there’s no reason players would decline one bit before they’re 36 at the earliest.

[–] TimathanDuncan@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Players decline nobody ever denies that

Casemrio was great 4 months ago so was Varane

The difference is team doing bad so you say this, it's not about age it's more about team performance

I just gave an example of Xhaka, do u think prime Xhaka was worse than 30 year old Xhaka? Or was it fans scapegoating due to club performances

[–] GoatsinthemachinE@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

well xhaka also had other issues that caused him to try to do to much thus lose what he was/is good at look not as great.

always liked him even through his bad spell ofc.

didnt help that he was signed when wenger was still there then gone through a few different mangers with different styles.

its prob the same at man u because different managers rate different /want different players or players that they want and not what they have as well.

besides the fact that they are older ofc

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