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IsiahRashad wrote:

Coman wrote:

IsiahRashad wrote:Sanches looked good after his injury

Ribery was ineffective for the whole second half...

You watch games with Ribéry's hate in your mind and probably a little bit Sanches hype.

Sanches was awful. Ribéry was ok.

His only good game was against United. He stopped being the player that he is claiming that he is at the moment, after his long injury in 2015. You are the only person here who is OK with him, I respect that.

Yeah, this. I love Ribéry, but he is so far past it at this point.
Numbers trending downward in almost all major categories.
Measurably slower - compare his sprints over the past few years and he's slowed down big time. I can't tell you how many times this preseason already I've seen someone play a good pass, Ribery with a five meter head start on the defender and some random fullback from god only knows where beats him to the ball without breaking a sweat.

What we really should ask ourselves is this.
Hypothetically, if Bayern and Ribery agreed to tear up his contract and he was available on a free transfer tomorrow....
How many clubs in the BL would sign him? How many would he start for?

Or perhaps better. We always hear "well he's not going to be a starter this year*. we need him for depth still" (*I'll believe this when I see it)

How many top clubs (Madrid, Barca, City, PSG, Juve, whoever) - how many of them would sign Ribery even as a backup at this point? I'd be shocked if any of them would.

Coman wrote:

IsiahRashad wrote:Sanches looked good after his injury

Ribery was ineffective for the whole second half...

You watch games with Ribéry's hate in your mind and probably a little bit Sanches hype.

Sanches was awful. Ribéry was ok.

Remember also that bias is a two way street. Have you considered that perhaps it's possible *you're* "watching games with Sanches hate in your mind" and perhaps a bit of Ribery hype?

Just as there are people who will criticize Ribery at every turn - so also are those who apparently wish to see Sanches fail. I don't know why - perhaps so they can say "I told you so" or something? To show that we shouldn't spend on young talent? But no matter what he does - there are always critics.

On the whole, Sanches played quite well in the first 30 minutes or so. Keep in mind also that he was paired with Rudy - who has been in awful form for months - and Goretzka, who, while playing a good game, has also only been training with the team for a short period of time - and of course the piecemeal defense behind him, too. We should consider the circumstances when evaluating a performance. I think it's safe to say if Sanches had been slotted in a "starting XI" quality side - say partnered up with Thiago and James or something like that - he'd have looked much better, too. And heck - early on he was getting triple-teamed at every touch. And was just back from injury. Etc.

It sure wasn't a world-beater performance, and it's true that some (I'm guilty of this at times) are too harsh on Ribery and have a bit of a bias against him...but to claim Sanches was awful - without at least contextualizing the circumstances - probably reveals a bit of bias, too. At this point, he could put in a flawless performance and you'd still hear people complaining that his shirt had too many creases or he laced his boots wrong.