Villa has had a pretty bad season even all things concidered, new in the team ect, but other than this season I have allways loved the player and im sure he has a few more better years left in him. And, it should be noted, every striker "fails" at Barcelona. Yes, Eto failed pretty epicly. Hindsight praise is worth nothing in this regard; he was totaly slaughtered for his many and sometimes long drawn failiures. Last season he played there, people really wanted him out for beeing so extremely bad in the spring (before the CL final) - and thats the best season he had. Worst job in fotball. Eto, Villa, Ibra - great players all of them.
However. Everyone hated Ibra when he had a slump of 8-9 games i Barcelona, and its still brought up. Villa this spring has managed to surpass that by a mile - topping of some 11-12 straight totaly miserable games with beeing lucky to not cost Barcelona the CL by missing sitters and 1 on 1´s. Yet, people want to take it easy on him.
It again goes to show that Ibra doesnt only have higher expectations than Eto, he has higher expectations on him than Villa as well. Is that sane, really? And this is from an Ibra fanboy: how do people expect Ibra to perform like the worlds best striker all year, all season, every year?
I think he has had an AWESOME season in Milan. So many in here seems to want to split it; well, he was good "there", and "there", but not "there".
In my world, he is actually really consistent this season. Consecutive reds are pretty wierd, but still, thats the only real spot in his record in my opinion. I think that if you dont feel the same, you will probably be dissapointed next year as well.
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