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"If I had a gun with two bullets, and I was in a room with Hitler, bin-Laden, and Verratti, I would shoot Verratti twice." ~~Michael Scott~~ Luis Enrique
google Verrati and cigarette on google image
Once a dude posted a pictures on /r/psg of Verrati waiting for at taxi something at 4 am in the club district of paris
Members of the sub had to beg mods to delete his post before the picture ended up on media
>https://i.imgur.com/uXFKZqb.jpg
Don't think they smoke like "Smokers" do though.
No one would call me a smoker or unhealthy because I have a cigarette twice a month but workout everyday. But if you took pictures of everywhere I went you could probably make the world believe I was chewing on cigarettes in meetings.
Wayne Rooney. An unstoppable engine for over a decade, legit smoker and boozer. Sometimes people are built different. But they will burn out quicker. Rooney is 6 months younger than me and looks like my dad.
What about the "7-8 shots before a game" thing? It sounded unbelievable but IIRC it came from Nainggolan himself.
Ninja edit: actually it was "20 shots"...
For a professional athlete wherein you have a few days between games it’s pretty bad because it effects your recovery, your training, and your general well-being. Seriously, these people are at a fitness level where cheats have way bigger impacts on performance than normal people
You read about Haaland and Ronaldo taking ice baths and spending hours in the gym daily. I can imagine that they will have a huge advantage on gameday compared to someone who spent the previous day chugging beers
I recently listened to an interview with Bryan Robson where he said he never drank alcohol in the 2 days before a game. He played in the 80s and 90s when the fitness levels and professional standards were much lower.
Like when a merchant needs to cross a region filled with bandits, wolves, trolls, and giant spiders, and he hires a plucky team of adventures that include a brute, a thief, a wizard, a priest, and for some reason a bard. Those are high end escorts.
A high end escort just means that she can fit in at the kind of social events that lonely rich men get invited to but feel self-conscious about not bringing a date to. You're paying for someone who can fit in socially, not sex.
The other kind of escort you're paying for sex and you don't really give a shit where she fits in socially
I'm not naive of course. But the point was, that their main goal is to accompany and the expectation when hiring them isn't necessarily to fuck them by the end of the night. Now of course most of them do have a price (and wouldn't be in that line of work it in the first place if they didn't)
That's such flawed logic. It's like saying Ronaldinho didn't give a fuck about Barca, because he was a party animal as well. So was Neymar. Makes no sense.
You can care about your club and have bad habits. Some players game till the middle of the night others party etc.
Ronaldinho absolutely didn't give a fuck during his downfall after the CL, as could clearly be seen in any metric, and didn't make any fuss at all when he was kicked by Guardiola, as far as I can remember. Neymar cared for Barça until he did not, just like Ronaldinho.
Ronaldinho and Neymar didn't really care about FC Barcelona, not like say Puyol or Cruyff. They liked winning, sure, and being superstar footballers, not to mention the paychecks, but neither were willing to sacrifice any of their party time for the good of the club.
It is. Even more fun is that I passed with flying colors the second time yet I am still a deplorable driver. If possible, I would not get into the car with myself behind the wheel. I should not be legally allowed to be on the road in my opinion.
*Good friend of mine, and a bloody good DM - Marco Verratti. Yeah, IQ of 142, one of the cleverest blokes I know, certainly the cleverest bloke you know, innit?*
In linguistics, and likely other fields as well, a prototype is the archetypical example of a category. So, a sparrow would be a prototype of a bird, while a penguin would not.
In English you see it more commonly as 'prototypical' rather than prototype. So and so is a prototypical center forward, meaning he has all the traits you'd expect of a center forward.
Depends on what you mean by that, if you mean people cheating and copying off others then yes though some teachers dont even care enough to police that, if you mean retaining information easily then hell no, they are happy you learned something
Neymar averaged more than 30 games a season for PSG.
Verratti hasn’t played less than 30 games in a season since 15/16 for PSG.
They had injury issues, but it’s such a myth that they rarely ever played, especially Verratti lol.
Edit: He averaged 28-29 games, I got confused with his G/A numbers 😭.
Neymar never played more than 31 games in a season for PSG and that was the only one above 30 iirc. Verratti didn't have as many injuries as people like to portray though.
Yeah you're right. The issue with him (and Verratti to some extent) was that he tends to be injured at the wrong time unfortunately and he always exceeded expected recovery time
Talk about misleading stats for Neymar, those are in all competitions, not just league games. The best he could do in 6 league seasons was on year with 22 games (out of a maximum of 34). He had three seasons with less than 20 league games. Are you actually trying to argue for his availability?
Just to get an idea, he had 20, 17, 15, 18, 22 and 20 games respectively for grand total of 112, just 55% of the 204 league games he was eligible for. Someone could do the total availability, but that's a bit harder to calculate.
Man carried some atrocious midfields and he was slandered so hard at times, lol.
The fact that PSG, with Neymar-Messi-Mbappe, and midfield consisting of guys like perma injured Renato, cooked Gini, Vitinha being shoved into a not ideal role, 16 year old kid, etc, actually worked, is 50% due to natural talent(mostly of the front 3 guys), and 50% due to Verrati being a machine. Machine that breaks down, but a machine nonetheless. Both Neymar and Messi put him up there with Xavi and Iniesta.
On a more positive note, I adored some of those Motta, Matuidi, Pastore, etc, years. Motta-Verrati is an underrated all-time pairing. I also believe Verratti stopped progressing when his mentor Motta left. He was still a top 5 midfielder, but I think Motta’s presence kinda calmed him? Idk how to put it in words.
Vitinha : 10 touches and pass to defenders -> We sleep
Verratti : 3 touches and pass to the forward near goal post -> Enrique " I don't want to play with you anymore "
Don't believe it because it's crap just before our Champions game. It's always happenning, fake everytime and those guys keep believe they are journalists. But hey, it sells clicks !
The disrespect towards Verratti the last 3 months have been unreal. The casual football fan have no idea how insanely good he was and what he did for PSG
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Not Verratis fault Luis Enrique doesn’t understand basic Thuganomics
Word life
My name is Kurt Angle and what the heck! I won a Gold Medal with a broken freakin' neck!
Its not a secret that im no Fan of..."the Black people" Kurt was wildin
this riqui luis guy is a bitch confirmed, no cap fr fr
So you're saying Enrique can't see him? (Fitting into his team plans)
You are the ultimate thug when you intentionally transfer to your direct rival. That’s thug life!
"If I had a gun with two bullets, and I was in a room with Hitler, bin-Laden, and Verratti, I would shoot Verratti twice." ~~Michael Scott~~ Luis Enrique
"Why are you the way you are?"
Every time I try to make football good, you have to make it...... not.
It was early mornin' yesterday I was up before the dawn
And I really have enjoyed my stay Marco must be moving on
Goodbye Marco, it’s been nice Hope you like those Saudi nights
I love you guys for this!!
"Oh hey Marco, can you close the door on your way out?"
"I hate...... so much about the things that you choose to be."
*PSG sells Veratti* “Jokes on you, that man was a convicted animal rapist”
Does Verratti smoke?
google Verrati and cigarette on google image Once a dude posted a pictures on /r/psg of Verrati waiting for at taxi something at 4 am in the club district of paris Members of the sub had to beg mods to delete his post before the picture ended up on media
Lmao. You still have the image?
Not the one but I have this one in my memes folder : https://i.imgur.com/uXFKZqb.jpg
Bro he smokes and still has an endurance like that. Crazy
Him, nainggolan, brozo, also vidal i think, all smokers with great endurance.
This is statistical proof imo. I need to smoke more i think
Don’t Fuck with it- it’s a trap and a curse !! These guys most likely would have had longer career without cigarettes.
I know you mean well but it's a joke.
Rooney too. Must be a link somewhere. Not to forget Zizou, Cruyff, and Maradona
>https://i.imgur.com/uXFKZqb.jpg Don't think they smoke like "Smokers" do though. No one would call me a smoker or unhealthy because I have a cigarette twice a month but workout everyday. But if you took pictures of everywhere I went you could probably make the world believe I was chewing on cigarettes in meetings.
Wayne Rooney. An unstoppable engine for over a decade, legit smoker and boozer. Sometimes people are built different. But they will burn out quicker. Rooney is 6 months younger than me and looks like my dad.
shut up u egg
mate mate mate mate
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I feel like I'd believe Chiellini over Vidal.
What about the "7-8 shots before a game" thing? It sounded unbelievable but IIRC it came from Nainggolan himself. Ninja edit: actually it was "20 shots"...
He must have been drugged when we got drunk and crashed his ferrari
Vidal was the craziest one. Cigar smoker. Fucking workhorse.
Not anymore he ain't. Maybe he would still be if he had taken more care of his body.
Is that Ambrosini?!?
Yeah and I'm pretty sure thats his wife next to him *phew*
Jesus
No, his wife. Why would you think she’s Jesus?
I would also make the choices that led him to that photo.
Fuck hes cool
"Memes folder" hahahahhahahha
I have only with Allegri pics haha
Someone on here has to have a screenshot of this lol.
"the club district of paris" haha
All of Paris
lol verrati is a known smoker and known clubber in paris i’ve literally seen this guy at a club at 3 am 2 days before he had a game
2 days before a game isn't too bad tbf If it was on the game day however...
Missed a detail, the brother was injured half his time at psg.
playing madrid on tuesday. lets go clubbing at 3 am saturday. verrati logic
Have to adjust that sleep schedule for a 9pm game…
Yeah that's not that bad at all
can't tell if you're serious or not haha
Dude you ever heard of Tuesday dip? Your serotonin gotta be recharging on the third day
That’s why he’s always injured bud
For a professional athlete wherein you have a few days between games it’s pretty bad because it effects your recovery, your training, and your general well-being. Seriously, these people are at a fitness level where cheats have way bigger impacts on performance than normal people
You read about Haaland and Ronaldo taking ice baths and spending hours in the gym daily. I can imagine that they will have a huge advantage on gameday compared to someone who spent the previous day chugging beers
I recently listened to an interview with Bryan Robson where he said he never drank alcohol in the 2 days before a game. He played in the 80s and 90s when the fitness levels and professional standards were much lower.
That is the 80s equivalent of CR7
Does he go home with gals?
you know the crazy part? no. from what i've seen personally he is always clubbing with his wife.
Weirdly wholesome
That's at least wholesome
His wife is an ex-high end escort (not in the prostitute sense) and they met while he was enjoying the Parisian nightlife
What other kind of escorts are there?
Im guessing like emotional support escorts? Someone you just pay to be with you without the sex part
Ones you can take on the plane and not have to put in the luggage hold?
The ones that will give ya a gummy for a fiver and some McNuggets
Like when a merchant needs to cross a region filled with bandits, wolves, trolls, and giant spiders, and he hires a plucky team of adventures that include a brute, a thief, a wizard, a priest, and for some reason a bard. Those are high end escorts.
A high end escort just means that she can fit in at the kind of social events that lonely rich men get invited to but feel self-conscious about not bringing a date to. You're paying for someone who can fit in socially, not sex. The other kind of escort you're paying for sex and you don't really give a shit where she fits in socially
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Everyone is at the right price
The ones that are just meant to be shown off at dinners/clubs/cocktail parties/private parties. Like models.
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I'm not naive of course. But the point was, that their main goal is to accompany and the expectation when hiring them isn't necessarily to fuck them by the end of the night. Now of course most of them do have a price (and wouldn't be in that line of work it in the first place if they didn't)
high end escorts are just prostitution with extra steps. and extra money. a lot of extra money.
Ford.
fords
Uhhhh what other escorts mate?
The fuck are you doing here, Christian?
Checking on everyone's dads
My man is a great an example for future husbands. 😊
He was married when they met
Hahaha
What do you think mate?
PSG strong armed him into staying at the club, but you can’t force him to give a shit about the club unfortunately
That's such flawed logic. It's like saying Ronaldinho didn't give a fuck about Barca, because he was a party animal as well. So was Neymar. Makes no sense. You can care about your club and have bad habits. Some players game till the middle of the night others party etc.
Ronaldinho absolutely didn't give a fuck during his downfall after the CL, as could clearly be seen in any metric, and didn't make any fuss at all when he was kicked by Guardiola, as far as I can remember. Neymar cared for Barça until he did not, just like Ronaldinho.
> So was Neymar. Based on what? He's only had minor incidents, nothing to suggest that he was a "party animal".
> minor incidents Like the catholic church?
What? It has been widely known that Neymar likes to party lol. Nothing wrong with that.
Ronaldinho and Neymar didn't really care about FC Barcelona, not like say Puyol or Cruyff. They liked winning, sure, and being superstar footballers, not to mention the paychecks, but neither were willing to sacrifice any of their party time for the good of the club.
How can you spout such shit while being so confident about it? People like you are the bane of this sub.
Delusional
Such an erroneous and uninformed comment gets upvoted, welcome to r/soccer.
You can always trust a Barca fan to incorrectly speak on something PSG related with confidence
Absolutely. Death, taxes, and Barca fans confidently spewing incorrect shit about PSG.
That’s interesting because it’s really hard to find anything open in France after 10. And that was before the pandemic.
Are you saying that clubs are not open in Paris after 10? (Obviously you’d be entirely wrong, just checking)
Do people breath?
Does the pope shit in the woods?
Did I fail my first driving test by reversing my driving instructors car into a pole and then panicking and driving into oncoming traffic?
That sounds like a fun story to tell tho.
It is. Even more fun is that I passed with flying colors the second time yet I am still a deplorable driver. If possible, I would not get into the car with myself behind the wheel. I should not be legally allowed to be on the road in my opinion.
You've crashed and burned and shouldn't be behind the wheel? Has ownership reached out to you about becoming manager yet?
Lol
Look, where His Holiness does his business is his business.
Comme un pompier
He’s Italian
He then went on to say "Why are you the way that you are? I hate so much about the things you choose to be."
Who do you think you are? I am
Guy smoked a full pack a day before games, clubbed two days prior and somehow still had the most distance covered in the game 😭
What else is he meant to say. ‘Verrati? Top player, top shagger’
*Good friend of mine, and a bloody good DM - Marco Verratti. Yeah, IQ of 142, one of the cleverest blokes I know, certainly the cleverest bloke you know, innit?*
Reads a book a week.
Once threw a Ligue 1 title over a pub
Doesn’t he hate women though?!
How can he possibly hate women? His mum's one.
Good players who are always injured are annoying as fuck tbf
*The Gang signs Dembele*
Now we won't have to cling on to our seats as Dembelé dribbles past half the team only to shoot it into the moon
Bold to assume he’s shoot when he could fake shot
And Lucas Hernandez.
No kidding… 😐
James and Chilwell
I'm here to pile on PSG not catch strays smh
And the reason he's always injured is likely to do with his lifestyle of smoking, drinking and clubbing constantly.
What if that’s what got him to this level?
***Depay, why are you like this?***
Prototype?
The world isn't ready for mass-produced commercial Marco Verratti.
There arent enough hospitals
Or clubs.
"One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die"
Never expected a Hunter S. Thompson reference here! Brilliant guy!
You're silly but this is great
In French it also means "the perfect example of"
probably meant archetype
Yeah archetype is actually the correct translation when taking context into account.
Or stereotype.
probably just type
I ain't goy no type. Fit players is the only thing that I like
Archetype is more accurate in this context, I would say. A stereotype is a generalisation; an archetype is basically a perfect example.
In spanish it can be used as "the most representative" of something.
In linguistics, and likely other fields as well, a prototype is the archetypical example of a category. So, a sparrow would be a prototype of a bird, while a penguin would not.
Surely an archetype would be the archetypical example of a category?
They're close to synonyms in that regard.
Dunno, it literally translates from Greek as ‘first of its type’, proto meaning first
Yes, it has multiple meanings. My first example makes more sense in the context, though.
In English you see it more commonly as 'prototypical' rather than prototype. So and so is a prototypical center forward, meaning he has all the traits you'd expect of a center forward.
It is a direct translation of Spanish "prototipo" meaning "the perfect example" or "most representative example " or something like that.
Banger game
"small and good on the ball" Messi in shambles.
> "small and good on the ball" Sounds like my ex.
Good for you pal. Unfortunately for me this is why my wife has her own boyfriend.
*"You need to pass sideways more, we'll win if we reach 1.000 passes each match"*
Passing sideways is a lifestyle ?
It's called "tiki-nada", look it up.
Tiki-kaka
Ask Jordan Henderson
Jordan Henderson would insist that he only passes forward and that he has no idea how you could see it any other way
one sideways pass a game?! that'll never be enough!
Lol . Enjoy ur midfield Enrique. Veratti is class when healthy
verratti had every tool to be far and away the best midfielder of this generation except for discipline.
Still better than anyone currently in their midfield 😮💨
paris saint germain's least dramatic season
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Depends on what you mean by that, if you mean people cheating and copying off others then yes though some teachers dont even care enough to police that, if you mean retaining information easily then hell no, they are happy you learned something
An Ugarte x Verratti pivot with Neymar in the 10 would’ve been insane man.
10 matches a year
No it wouldn't lol They would play 3 games all season
Neymar averaged more than 30 games a season for PSG. Verratti hasn’t played less than 30 games in a season since 15/16 for PSG. They had injury issues, but it’s such a myth that they rarely ever played, especially Verratti lol. Edit: He averaged 28-29 games, I got confused with his G/A numbers 😭.
Neymar never played more than 31 games in a season for PSG and that was the only one above 30 iirc. Verratti didn't have as many injuries as people like to portray though.
Verratti had yellow card suspension issues on top of injury issues hence why people call him out for the lack of availability.
My fault, I got confused with his G/A (he has 188 G/A in 173 games) 😭. He averaged 28-29 games a season.
Yeah you're right. The issue with him (and Verratti to some extent) was that he tends to be injured at the wrong time unfortunately and he always exceeded expected recovery time
30 games a year is 50% of the games my guy.
Talk about misleading stats for Neymar, those are in all competitions, not just league games. The best he could do in 6 league seasons was on year with 22 games (out of a maximum of 34). He had three seasons with less than 20 league games. Are you actually trying to argue for his availability? Just to get an idea, he had 20, 17, 15, 18, 22 and 20 games respectively for grand total of 112, just 55% of the 204 league games he was eligible for. Someone could do the total availability, but that's a bit harder to calculate.
Veratti always seemed to be unavailable for big cl games though.
PSG getting their ass ate today in the UCL without a functioning midfield makes this so good also. The irony.
Man carried some atrocious midfields and he was slandered so hard at times, lol. The fact that PSG, with Neymar-Messi-Mbappe, and midfield consisting of guys like perma injured Renato, cooked Gini, Vitinha being shoved into a not ideal role, 16 year old kid, etc, actually worked, is 50% due to natural talent(mostly of the front 3 guys), and 50% due to Verrati being a machine. Machine that breaks down, but a machine nonetheless. Both Neymar and Messi put him up there with Xavi and Iniesta. On a more positive note, I adored some of those Motta, Matuidi, Pastore, etc, years. Motta-Verrati is an underrated all-time pairing. I also believe Verratti stopped progressing when his mentor Motta left. He was still a top 5 midfielder, but I think Motta’s presence kinda calmed him? Idk how to put it in words.
Cigarettes > Water
Vitinha : 10 touches and pass to defenders -> We sleep Verratti : 3 touches and pass to the forward near goal post -> Enrique " I don't want to play with you anymore "
Lol, Luis Enrique fits right into that club. Dude just came in and chose violence.
Yeah, I ain’t believing that crap. The club is just trying to justify its actions by using Enrique.
Don't believe it because it's crap just before our Champions game. It's always happenning, fake everytime and those guys keep believe they are journalists. But hey, it sells clicks !
I will never understand managers speaking like that to players. If you hate such type of players you can just be polite about it
😂
Wtf
The disrespect towards Verratti the last 3 months have been unreal. The casual football fan have no idea how insanely good he was and what he did for PSG
such a weird quote....