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Alexandre Pato Thread

How many goals will Pato score for Milan in 2012-2013?


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AndreiX

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I haven't seen more than 90 mins of Pato in the last year but he seems slower, less confident, less willing to take players on, inconsistent in his finishing.
Even the way he moves around the field looks funny, it's like he doesn't exactly know what position he's playing, sorta' like a midfielder after their team gets red carded

I can see him improving a bit but he'll never be a 20m+ player again.
 

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Pato is garbage these days. Why would anybody want him here other than nostalgia? I don't think he even a good bench option.
 

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There's a club that got more fucked than us when Pato didn't go to PSG. Owww.
 

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Edit: quote mistake.
 
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wtf is up with this board
 

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he scored some nice goals
 

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Lazio's rumored to be interested in him, I would be interested to see what he can do with another chance in Serie A
 

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This guy's story is the ultimate cautionary tale before one decides to embark upon a Commoder lifestyle.

Alexandre Pato in 2007 was Commode Gold. Young, Handsome, Immense 'potential', already performed well for club and country and received praise from famous ex-players, expensive, desired by several big clubs, good FM and FIFA stats.

He was Kondogbia, Mastour and Martin Odegaard rolled into one. And Milan signed him for a lot of money.

Look where he is now.
 

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Nah. Pato is more what happens when a) you have a club that doesn't know how to develop young players, and prefers to indulge in the hype machine, than work on his development, and b) a young player who w/o much guidance, realized he prefered the lifestyle over the actual work.


Pato was a good investment in 2007. There's no such thing that can guarantee that a 17 y/o will continue to be great or will get to his best at that age and won't do anything relevant anymore (there is no guarantee of that for any transfer). You gamble with young players like him. The gamble can be very worth while, and even when things weren't looking good for Pato in 2012 we could have gotten that investment back. However, if you want to invest on youth, you have to be patient, be smart, not expose them too much to an unnecessary hype machine, but w/o shielding them from the spotlight. Make them take responsibility for their actions, make them realize they're still nothing in the world of football and if they want to be next Shevchenko or Ronaldo, they have to actually perform.

Developing youth involves a plan. That is why Milan is not the the team for a youth project. Pato arrived the very same year when Milan decided to start to fuck off any sort of planning.
 

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This guy's story is the ultimate cautionary tale before one decides to embark upon a Commoder lifestyle.

Alexandre Pato in 2007 was Commode Gold. Young, Handsome, Immense 'potential', already performed well for club and country and received praise from famous ex-players, expensive, desired by several big clubs, good FM and FIFA stats.

He was Kondogbia, Mastour and Martin Odegaard rolled into one. And Milan signed him for a lot of money.

Look where he is now.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:


This is 100% spot on.
 

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The thing w/ Commoders is it's always about 'the future'..... player X is what he is, but commode gold could be anything, yhe could even be player X!


Basically this:

 

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to be fair he had a couple of good seasons here. We didn't have the necessary people to take care of him, and of course Barbara had to act like a 2 cent whore.
 

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Pato's potential wasn't handled well, neither was his potential sell to PSG.

But we didn't waste any money on him. If a 28 year old player would have been singed instead for the same amount of money, not many would be upset with the numbers from his first 4 seasons
 

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People lately seem to be acting as if he was Ricardo Oliveira.

Pato did very well considering his age and injuries. We got out at the right time(PSG not counting).
 

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Pato on average did well... Helped by the fact he started off great.

But he ended his milan career with as much grace as oliviera.

Getting rejected by Brazilian clubs now. He should go to China.
 

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Even Pazzini and Matri are now better than Pato. Such a waste of talent. Pato, Balotelli, Adriano... talent helps a lot but is not everything.

This was his first game for us. I still remember it.
 

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He had the most goals ever for a player in Serie A under 22 during his time here. He was very good for his age, and could have been great if not for the injuries
 

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2 goals, 1 assist :thumbsup:

Hope he can get in form and come back to Europe.
 

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yeah, so average... and not very fast at all... :lol: just bring him back already! SuperPato:proud:
 

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Looks like he could be off to Tottenham. He's scored 21 goals in 42 games this season.
 

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Looks like he could be off to Tottenham. He's scored 21 goals in 42 games this season.

I woke and checked my mobi.... have a text from my spurs buddy :fp::fp:

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love pato but ffs of all the teams you could join it had to be this pile of shite.

My mates always badgering me to go with him to the lane... but now i might ask him to to take me :lol:

Na fuck that .... i aint entering no stadium under 40k capacity :o

All the best Pato.... i expect 10-15 goals.
 

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Looks like he could be off to Tottenham. He's scored 21 goals in 42 games this season.



He can still score. maybe hes not as fast as before the injuries, but hes no sluch either, and the touch, skill and finishing is still there. he'd be a good fit for Tottenham, even for Man United instead of Chicharito
 

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Pato's got nice senses but he needs to keep his head in the game. The move to Brazil pulled him back into reality, I just hope he can keep working just as hard after a return to Europe.

It'd be a shame to see a player like him go to waste, he legitimately had top3 in the world talent
 

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