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Igor Thiago

Igor Thiago

Merchant said:
Nice report, glad you at least enjoyed your time in the city and I totally get what you are saying. But to be fair, that game was by no means an accurate representation of Belgian football. It was absolutely horrible.
This season is just going bad for us and you might have heard from our critical fans booing, but we are having the worst crisis in ten years. We lost too many key players with speed and creativity (Noa Lang, De Ketelaere, etc.) and especially talented defenders, without bringing in quality replacements. This has many reasons, but is mainly because the owner wants to sell the club. Just last year we beat FC Porto, Atlético Madrid and Leverkusen and won our CL group before Scott Parker took over and ruined everything.

Now, with regards to Belgian football, I think it is underrated in general and a good league for young players to develop. We have 3-4 weak teams but what makes it interesting is the fact that the rest can win at any moment against the others. Not like Scotland where you have two giants and the rest is bad. It is quite physical and tactical compared to the Dutch or even French. In general, defence is quite good (some real butchers here, just not in the game you saw lol). There are a lot of players who bagged 20-30 goals in Holland, came back and completely failed here bc they don't get the same space. There is a good amount of talent and players who show promise here have no problem adjusting to the top leagues. Given time to adjust to the higher tempo of course, which is obviously not comparable to the PL. Thiago will need that as well. Even here he was struggling in the first few months, coming from the Bulgarian league. Time will tell if he can make it at PL level but I hope he can.

I think you visited a few weeks too early. In the playoff system that starts soon the top 6 plays each other twice. Those are often good and entertaining games. You can look up the title race from last year on youtube, it was crazy.
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What is the injury situation with Igor Thiago please as he seems to have disappeared recently?
 

Igor Thiago

North London Bee said:
What is the injury situation with Igor Thiago please as he seems to have disappeared recently?
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Nothing to worry about mate, just a piece of loose cartilage in both knees ;)
Kidding, nobody nows what is wrong with him. The club is not communicating and it is pissing off the fans. Same with Nusa.

Might be an agreement between our teams. Which is why you don't sell a player and keep him, it just never works.
 

Igor Thiago

Merchant said:
Nothing to worry about mate, just a piece of loose cartilage in both knees ;)
Kidding, nobody nows what is wrong with him. The club is not communicating and it is pissing off the fans. Same with Nusa.

Might be an agreement between our teams. Which is why you don't sell a player and keep him, it just never works.
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Maybe they’re guzzling beer and gorging on chocolate, whilst on strike?
 

Igor Thiago

Merchant said:
Nice report, glad you at least enjoyed your time in the city and I totally get what you are saying. But to be fair, that game was by no means an accurate representation of Belgian football. It was absolutely horrible.
This season is just going bad for us and you might have heard from our critical fans booing, but we are having the worst crisis in ten years. We lost too many key players with speed and creativity (Noa Lang, De Ketelaere, etc.) and especially talented defenders, without bringing in quality replacements. This has many reasons, but is mainly because the owner wants to sell the club. Just last year we beat FC Porto, Atlético Madrid and Leverkusen and won our CL group before Scott Parker took over and ruined everything.

Now, with regards to Belgian football, I think it is underrated in general and a good league for young players to develop. We have 3-4 weak teams but what makes it interesting is the fact that the rest can win at any moment against the others. Not like Scotland where you have two giants and the rest is bad. It is quite physical and tactical compared to the Dutch or even French. In general, defence is quite good (some real butchers here, just not in the game you saw lol). There are a lot of players who bagged 20-30 goals in Holland, came back and completely failed here bc they don't get the same space. There is a good amount of talent and players who show promise here have no problem adjusting to the top leagues. Given time to adjust to the higher tempo of course, which is obviously not comparable to the PL. Thiago will need that as well. Even here he was struggling in the first few months, coming from the Bulgarian league. Time will tell if he can make it at PL level but I hope he can.

I think you visited a few weeks too early. In the playoff system that starts soon the top 6 plays each other twice. Those are often good and entertaining games. You can look up the title race from last year on youtube, it was crazy.
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Thanks mate, I really didn't want to come across as someone being overly critical of Belgian football, hence my caveat that the sample size was just one game. I was quite surprised that 10 minutes in and before Leuven scored, FC Brugge fans were getting on the players backs though. That seemed quite demanding after just a couple of loose passes. I'm pleased that overall the game wasn't a true reflection of the football in your league. Going to the game was kind of pre-planned by me, but the weekend we went was somewhat out of my control. I would have loved to have been there for a play off game or a European night game as once the fans got behind the team you could see how good the atmosphere could be in that ground. We'll definitely be back though. We've been to both Bruges and Ghent this year and loved both cities.

It's good to have some balanced views from a Belgian football fan so thanks for coming on here.
 

Igor Thiago

maybe we should show an interest in our oppos players then they will get injured. Bees curse.
 

Igor Thiago

Sorry if this has already been shared.
sportwitness.co.uk

Player has 'achieved little' since securing Brentford transfer - And teammate hasn't been helped by Bees either

Striker Igor Thiago has ‘achieved little’ since his move to Brentford was announced earlier this year, with a lack of form and injuries following the big deal so far. That’s according to Voetbal Nieuws, who cover him and teammate Antonio Nusa today, another man not particularly aided by the...
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Was just forwarded this... sharing mainly to ask "is this what passes for journalism these days?"
We are cursing Brugge's players apparently including the one we didn't sign. And Thiago has been mediocre... but mainly injured.

No quotes either...
 

Igor Thiago

Jay Bee said:
No quotes either...
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This “Sportwitness” seems to trawl foreign language sites, translate them, then make a story out of it. The Dutch language one they reference is possibly a sub-set of a newspaper as voetbal nieuws (football news) isn’t unique.

They clearly must make a living out of their time spent.
 

Igor Thiago

I'm really looking forward to seeing this fellow scare the sh*te out of our opponents next season.
 

Igor Thiago

At the end of the day there’s no guarantee that a player either will or won’t adapt to the Prem.

Hwang at Wolves couldn’t buy a goal at Leipzig, taken a couple of years, now it’s 1 in 2. Meanwhile Beto at Everton clearly hasn’t worked as of yet.

There’s been just as many obscure strikers who have arrived and thrived as there are celebrated players who haven’t been able to cut it. We’ll just have to see
 

Igor Thiago

Rumored that he will be back in the Club Brugge squad... They are down 2-1 on aggregate in the Conference league and it would be a great return opportunity for their top goal scorer
 

Igor Thiago

We wouldn‘t need him then anyway. Wissa, Maupay and KLP would be more than adequate in the Championship.
 

Igor Thiago

Les Beeavinu said:
I imagine it's conditional on us being a Premier league team next season.
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You mean Benham and Giles have inserted a ‘Doom and Gloom Clause’ into the contract?

That’s it, time to get the rubber sheets down.
 

Igor Thiago

ChertseyBee said:
It can’t just be conditional for only one of the parties, surely?
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It is odd. Surely though, even if we went down, that would've been factored in to the price and wage? I have no idea of course, but, I would've thought it's a done deal.
 

Igor Thiago

I watched the whole match.

He got very little service throughout but pressed well for the 90mins,held it up and moved it on well when they actually found him.One of his legs looked heavily strapped but it didn't seem to affect his movement.

It was a poor quality game though especially the 1st half.
 

Igor Thiago

Thanks for that. Did he look quicker than Ivan?
 

Igor Thiago

Les Beeavinu said:
Thanks for that. Did he look quicker than Ivan?
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Club Brugge had a lot of posession and Molde had everyone behind the ball for most of the game so he didn't get many chances to sprint on to things but i'd say on the few occasions he did he chase it down he looked quicker.It was a small sample size though.

He looked a bit frustrated because people weren't finding him and taking a different option when he made moves.
 

Igor Thiago

Freebee said:
I watched the whole match.

He got very little service throughout but pressed well for the 90mins,held it up and moved it on well when they actually found him.One of his legs looked heavily strapped but it didn't seem to affect his movement.

It was a poor quality game though especially the 1st half.
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What channel did you watch it on mate? I searched through my entire IPTV channel guide and couldn't find it anywhere.
 

Igor Thiago

I think TF described him as a pressing machine. From the little I have seen of him in a couple of full 90 minutes and some highlight reels he is physical and quick for a centre forward. Ideal for how we play. We will not play many Premier League teams who will play a low block defence against us which he may struggle with unless we can cross from out wide for him to attack.
However he has only had one season in a decent European league and is still young, at his age Toney was playing League One football. So expect he would be very much an unpolished diamond initially.
 

Igor Thiago

birdy67 said:
What channel did you watch it on mate? I searched through my entire IPTV channel guide and couldn't find it anywhere.
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It was a french speaking channel,can't remember exactly but i think it started with a D and ended with a K maybe :ROFLMAO: it was a stream.
 

Igor Thiago

Just checked and Thiago’s xG/90 is 0.96 – almost a goal per game. xG per shot is 0.35, top rank in the Jupiter League!
 

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Igor Thiago

Seems like a big gamble signing this bloke for all that dosh. One can only hope he's not a dud like some of Brentfords other expensive recent signings.
 

Igor Thiago

Guildford Bee said:
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“That’s not normal” - Brentford’s decision to sign player questioned, CEO hailed, ‘deserves a statue’

Last month, Brentford announced that a deal has been agreed with Club Brugge for Igor Thiago to arrive at the club in the summer. The Premier League side invested €37m on the Brazilian, who joined Club Brugge from Bulgarian side PFC Ludogorets Razgrad last summer. The 22-year-old became the...
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Its called going through a bad spell isn't it? Okay it seems to have coincided with a transfer but hey ho ;)
 

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FC Brugge and their fans are a demanding lot!! These articles appear to be written by someone with some kind of agenda against the club or the player, or both, and now that the manager has been sacked, perhaps they got what they wanted. I have to say it's a weird time to get rid of the manager when they're about to start their play off campaign. Time will tell whether it impacts on Igor's game in any way positively or negatively I suppose.
 

Igor Thiago

Guildford Bee said:
sportwitness.co.uk

“That’s not normal” - Brentford’s decision to sign player questioned, CEO hailed, ‘deserves a statue’

Last month, Brentford announced that a deal has been agreed with Club Brugge for Igor Thiago to arrive at the club in the summer. The Premier League side invested €37m on the Brazilian, who joined Club Brugge from Bulgarian side PFC Ludogorets Razgrad last summer. The 22-year-old became the...
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This bloke hasn't had a management job since 2009. Seems his job these days is as a pundit "not afraid to air his opinions".

Interesting precis of his time at Stoke. Sounds impeccably qualified to comment on a club's transfer business.

He became manager of English side Stoke City for the 2005–06 season.[3][4] Stoke's Icelandic board wanted the club to start mounting a serious attempt at gaining promotion to the Premier League, and so decided a change in style was required, with Boskamp replacing Tony Pulis. He brought in a number of foreign players, which included Carl Hoefkens, Hannes Sigurðsson, Junior N'Galula and Martin Kolář, as well as domestically-based players such as Marlon Broomes, Paul Gallagher, Mamady Sidibe, Peter Sweeney and Luke Chadwick. He also broke the club record transfer fee with a £950,000 signing of Standard Liège striker Sambégou Bangoura. However, results were often poor, and after a number of heavy home defeats to Watford, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Cardiff City, supporters began asking questions. Bangoura then went on a good run of form scoring seven goals in six matches, as Stoke won six matches in November and December to give them a platform to build on going into the new year.[4] But, in one of those wins away at Coventry City, Boskamp and his assistant Jan de Koning and director of football John Rudge were involved in an argument, which led to Boskamp almost resigning.[4][5]

Stoke began 2006 in terrible form, winning just one match in ten, and scoring a mere six goals in that time.[4] Bangoura had been away on international duty with Guinea, and failed to return to the club at the agreed date, which caused the shortage of goals; with Stoke's season fizzling out, with no chance of promotion, Boskamp was not offered a new contract by Gunnar Gíslason.[6] With the Icelandic board failing to gain promotion to the Premier League, and with debts now at around £5 million, chairman Gunnar Gíslason put the club up for sale, and he sold the club back to former chairman Peter Coates.[7][8] Coates then re-appointed Tony Pulis as manager, who had spent the season with Plymouth Argyle.[9]
 
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