Miralem Pjanić #5

He took #5

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnKo5mBWYAAPu8a.jpg

super excited to see Pjanic play in our team

Pjanic is one of the most talented football players in the history of football in my opinion. Amazing player! I am in love with his style of play, his dribbling, vision and especially long shots! Congratulations for signing him! Hope Juve will max out everything from him!

Why in the world did he take 5? That's a defenders number ffs

RealGunner wrote:Why in the world did he take 5? That's a defenders number ffs

He's a Zizou fanboy. Said it in the press conference.

He picked 5 because Zidane used to wear it

He's already a top 5 midfielder in Serie A.If there is any more potential in him then Juve is the right place to reach his peak.

Pjanic-Pogba-Marchisio is without a doubt one of the best midfields if everything goes well for Marchisio and Pjanic fits in well,which is very likely.

Can't wait to see that midfield trio.

juvealbanian wrote:He's already a top 5 midfielder in Serie A.If there is any more potential in him then Juve is the right place to reach his peak.

Pjanic-Pogba-Marchisio is without a doubt one of the best midfields if everything goes well for Marchisio and Pjanic fits in well,which is very likely.

Can't wait to see that midfield trio.

Top 3 for me, behind Marchisio and Pogba

there are a lot of quality midfielders in Serie A. For me top 3 would be Marchisio, Pogba, Nainggolan. Then Hamsik, Jorginho, Pjanic. Then maybe Khedira, Vazquez, Allan, Kucka, etc.

Those tops were considered...by what?

I dont think either of us were too serious, but something like that
But for me something like the impact they have on the games, skill in their role, midfielders I would have.

rincon wrote:there are a lot of quality midfielders in Serie A. For me top 3 would be Marchisio, Pogba, Nainggolan. Then Hamsik, Jorginho, Pjanic. Then maybe Khedira, Vazquez, Allan, Kucka, etc.

Kucka

We have 3 backup midfielders who are superior to him......

Anyway these lists dont mean anything as long as Pjanic can be a decisive player for us which i'm sure he will

Nah dude, credit where its due, Kucka was great for Milan this season. Our back ups have potential but they didnt really play enough good games to show it. After Nainggolan, Allan and Khedira he is the mezzala I'd pick.

rincon wrote:I dont think either of us were too serious, but something like that
But for me something like the impact they have on the games, skill in their role, midfielders I would have.

Why wouldn't you be serious? I mean, it is one thing to make a joke, but tops like this... they aren't funny at all. Why would you waste time to write it if it isn't funny at all but also it is not serious?

Anyway, I don't really have a problem with this thing.

Not being too serious doesn't equal making a joke. It can mean that one simply doesn't put too much thought on something, just passing the time.

You kidding ? Why the hell do we need to explain that.

A top 5 midfielder in Serie A means how influential and decisive is a mid for his team,how good overall he is.

Now everyone can have different opinions about ranking Serie A best midfielders but they clearly should know that a Top 5 is a list of players based on your opinion of who was the best performer overall last season/s.

And Pjanic clearly is one of the best and most influential mid in Serie A.His double figure numbers in assists and goals and his style of play is enough to make such a statement.

juvealbanian wrote:You kidding ? Why the hell do we need to explain that.

A top 5 midfielder in Serie A means how influential and decisive is a mid for his team,how good overall he is.

Now everyone can have different opinions about ranking Serie A best midfielders but they clearly should know that a Top 5 is a list of players based on your opinion of who was the best performer overall last season/s.

Well, it depends on the point of view. I would never compare Khedira with Pjanic for example. They play different roles, they have different tasks to fulfill for the team. Even if the players play the same role, their style of play may differ a lot and it is hard to compare their performances.

I usually tend to believe that strikers are in a way, the easiest to compare because their role is at the same time very important and much simpler to dissect. I believe it is not needed to act like an omniscient entity because in football like ,generally in life, there is much more behind what we can see with the naked eye.

juvealbanian wrote:And Pjanic clearly is one of the best and most influential mid in Serie A.His double figure numbers in assists and goals and his style of play is enough to make such a statement.

From what you said in your post and from how you've formulated, it seems like you didn't even read what I said and you are completely out of topic. You tried to explain me why it is possible to make such statement about Pjanic, thinking that I disputed his qualities and thinking that this was the reason why I asked the base of those tops. It is actually completely false. I was only going for a more complex debate regarding particular traits of more specific roles and more specific styles of play, concerning midfielders.

There is no problem in the end.  

Vlad the Impaler wrote:Pjanic is one of the most talented football players in the history of football in my opinion. Amazing player! I am in love with his style of play, his dribbling, vision and especially long shots! Congratulations for signing him! Hope Juve will max out everything from him!

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rincon wrote:Not being too serious doesn't equal making a joke. It can mean that one simply doesn't put too much thought on something, just passing the time.

So yeah, it's for passing the time. I've taken into consideration from the first second the fact that you were between being serious and being funny. That's why I formulated the question that way. Not my problem after all.

Thanks!

Surag:

Allegri: "I think Pjanic will become one of the best in the world in the Regista role."

— Khaledalnouss (@khaledalnouss1) August 13, 2016

Where are those quotes from lol?

Football-italia as follows:

“We don’t need a new striker, as there would be no point signing someone inferior to the level we already have.”

He said exactly the opposit

(second one is similar)

I don't watch nearly enough Italian football but he always looks really good when I've seen him play, with quite a bit of skill.

PS he is always good on FIFA Ultimate Team too, which we all know is the most important way to judge a player.

Reminds me of 2013, when Welliton and Esswein were the world's best players

Pjanic, Free Kick King

Probably the best set play specialist in the world, Adam Digby analyses Miralem Pjanic’s unique skill.

Last summer saw Andrea Pirlo leave Serie A, taking his exquisite passing and deadly free kicks to New York City FC. Many wondered who would inherit his title as the King of Set Pieces on the Peninsula, but they would not have to wait long for an answer. Indeed, in just the second game of the 2015-16 campaign, Miralem Pjanic would snatch the crown for himself by delivering a knockout blow to the now Pirlo-less Juventus.

With just over an hour on the clock and as Francesco Totti looked on from the bench, the Bosnian midfielder lined up the ball and prepared to despatch it towards goal. He completely ignored both the goalkeeper and the wall of defenders standing between him and the back of the net, instead focusing on what he needed to do to render them both irrelevant.

“I often practice my free kicks in training in order to improve my accuracy,” he would reveal to La Gazzetta dello Sport later. “I never work on their trajectories though, as those are in my head since I can always work out the distance from goal.” That is exactly what Pjanic did on that late-August evening against the Bianconeri, curling home a magnificent effort, one hit with such precision that even the great Gigi Buffon found himself rooted to the spot.

The Juve Captain will likely be thankful that – thanks to a €32m move to Turin this summer – the pair will now be on the same side rather than staring each other down during further dead ball situations. Indeed, since he arrived on the peninsula back in 2011, only Pirlo (12) has netted more Serie A free kicks than Pjanic (11) with four of his tally coming last season alone, as he becomes an increasingly greater threat.

Yet before he was a master of his craft, he served as an apprentice to perhaps the greatest set piece specialist the game has ever seen. Joining Olympique Lyonnais as a teenager, the new Juve man was fortunate enough to work closely with Juninho Pernambucano, who believes his former pupil is now the best in the business.

“It's difficult to compare him to me, because I don't like talking about myself too much,” the Brazilian told L’Equipe last year. “But Mire has incredible quality. He's maybe the best free-kick taker in the world today. He's very efficient and above all consistent. That's the most difficult part.” He would go on to add that he had told Pjanic that “repetition of the action was the most important thing in order to become a great free-kick taker.” It was a lesson that the younger man has clearly taken to heart.

Watching any compilation of his goals leads to two simple conclusions. Firstly, he has heeded Juninho’s words and his execution rarely differs. Every time, the arc of his run up, the way he plants his left foot and the swing of his magical right boot are almost identical. However, the second thing of note – and something he certainly has worked on by himself since leaving Lyon – is the sheer variety of strikes that follow that textbook delivery.

While Juninho – and indeed Cristiano Ronaldo – always opt for dipping, powerful efforts, Pjanic is also capable of delicately curved trajectories or low, driven shots underneath the wall. His ability to deceive, mislead and misdirect goalkeepers is arguably his greatest asset. They simply have no idea what to expect.

Lost for a way to describe an effort against Empoli last term, La Gazzetta dello Sport’s Andrea Pugliese said his delivery was “magical. His right foot is truly a wand, like something from a Harry Potter film.”

But putting aside the platitudes and the silky metaphors, it is accuracy and hard work that truly set Pjanic aside from his rivals. Back in October 2015, it was calculated that since the start of 2013-14, he had scored with 18.4% of the efforts he had taken, almost 3% better than any other player in Europe’s top five leagues.

It is a technique he has honed over hours and hours on the training ground, and even his summer move to Juventus has not stopped him from putting in that effort. “These days, we've got a few of us stopping behind to practice,” Paulo Dybala said recently, revealing that he and Pjanic were part of Juve’s “Thursday club” who continue to work on this particular skill.

The prospect of seeing the left-footed Argentinian and his new team-mate preparing to take an effort in a game will likely mean some sleepless nights for goalkeepers across Italy and beyond, but it is undoubtedly Pjanic who continues to reign over his rivals. Long live the King.

http://www.football-italia.net/90168/pjanic-free-kick-king

Yeah I think he is technically good
and has good vision of the game,
there for he can play really good on the deep role

Pjanic is recovered and is set to start at regista on saturday with Khedira and Asamoah.