#25 - Thomas Müller

Asked about the golden boot

"we are World Champion. I dont care about bullshit Golden Boot. They can shove that boot in their ass"

what a boss

one of the best in the world giving a proper answer

hahahhahha I frickin love this guy

Muller

btw that reporter is really bad. can't even construct that question properly

actually he said "that shitty golden shoe you can smear behind your ears", point of the whole thing was to speak Bavarian dialect.

here's the clip with Schweini's translation

Bastian was great with his diplomatic "translation"

Great interview/article about Thomas Müller:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/sep/13/thomas-muller-bayern-munich-champions-league-world-cup-winner

Dante had to ask Muller to please stop making jokes about the 7-1 at the World Cup.

to be more precise, Dante told Müller he'll punch him if he hears one more joke about it.

I'd punch him too that pos

M99 wrote:I'd punch him too that pos

it wasn't exactly his fault though

Müller with an inimitable Müller goal, the opener against Bremen

http://gfycat.com/DismalFirsthandCopperbutterfly

Bottles the one on one and then bends it into the corner with his left foot.

Then he selflessly served Lewa 2 goals to tap in..

http://gfycat.com/AcceptableLiquidGuppy
http://gfycat.com/AccomplishedImpassionedArkshell

Rubbish player and Bayern are a rubbish team.

They just leech of Dortmund. Pathetic really.

By the way, Thomas Müller's goal today was quite a stunner, too. o_O

Yes. Inimitable Müller.

Coudln't find a gif of it yet

At 25, Müller is now the best German goalscorer in CL with 27 goals, surpassing Mario Gomez' 26 goals.

Muller is only 25? Wow, seems like he has been around for years!

"Thomas Müller is always playing!" This was a famous statement by Louis Van Gaal, und there is indeed a strange coincidence between Thomas Müller being on the pitch and the probability of his team winning.

I also remember that I read an anecdote somewhere (unfortunately I haven't found any online source) that in the youth time, when teams where selected by chosing one play each for a side until the team was complete, Müller was usually chosen as one of the last guys, but strangely the team in which he played usually won.

Moreover, there seems to be a "curse" that whenever Müller is subbed of, it is detrimental for his team and it won't win.

Now you could say this is imagination, but interestingly, there is a statistic called "GoalImpact", which analyses the impact of a player on the goal difference that his team reaches. The formula used does also take into account a lot of other variables, but it seems to be pretty significant.

In the GoalImpact rating, Thomas Müller also ranks extremely high, so it is not only imagination that having Müller in one's team is really beneficial.

(BTW, the GI guys say about their stats: "Goalimpact just measures how good a team plays with the player on the field. It can't tell why a player is adding to the team success, because it does not even look on what he is doing. It just relates the team success to the player being present on the field.")

So one might wonder - what is it that makes Müller so special?

http://www.goalimpact.com/2015/07/top50-football-players-july-2015-edition.html

I know a guy who had the opposite impact. He would play for the best amateur team in my hometown, and they would lose. When in training, and we would divide into two teams, the team that he plays in loses.

Well, he is one of those team players that help their team to win, offering lots of intangibles that sometimes go unnoticed, like smart movement, unrelentless pressing, great teamplay etc, and also he has individual skill, with his great eye for goal and his speed. However I think him being number one in this ranking is down to luck, he is not THAT good.

Pedro is also a little bit like Muller, who I also see is very high in that ranking, and for good reason.

The last important goal Pedro scored was in 2011

free_cat wrote:However I think him being number one in this ranking is down to luck, he is not THAT good.

The ranking doesn't look at any skills of a player - it is just a statistic that looks at how good a team does (measured in the goal difference that is achieved) while a particular player is on the pitch, so it is not any subjective rating.

@Valkyrja
GoalImpact doesn't look at the amount of goals a particular player scores, but it looks at how successful his team is while he is on the pitch.

Müller

I hope this silences all the Ozil doubters...

rwo power wrote:

free_cat wrote:However I think him being number one in this ranking is down to luck, he is not THAT good.

The ranking doesn't look at any skills of a player - it is just a statistic that looks at how good a team does (measured in the goal difference that is achieved) while a particular player is on the pitch, so it is not any subjective rating.

@Valkyrja
GoalImpact doesn't look at the amount of goals a particular player scores, but it looks at how successful his team is while he is on the pitch.

I know, but you can also be higher or lower in that ranking down to luck. Ie: Messi is almost always played, so his impact ranking will basically be that of Barça's. On the other hand, Muller is rotated more, if when he is subbed or rotated Bayern concedes some unlucky goals, his Impact ranking rockets.