poldi never performed outside his precious cologne
failed at bayern
failed at arsenal
failed at inter

he is finished

This post was edited by ampoo on Jul 4 2015 04:55am

Wouldn't really class him as a failure at Arsenal, he scored alot of important goals but he was just never first XI material.

He was a great sub on

He was never that amazing at Köln either, he was just better than his team mates and was young so everyone thought he had world class potential in him. His form during the 2006 WC boosted everyone's expectations.

It's sad, a decade ago I thought he'd have a much better carreer.

yep
eternal talent as we call it in germany

To be honoust, he did play alot of games for Germany and scored many goals, won the world cup and a few prizes with other clubs (I think?)

So a terrible career is not the case, he done well with the quality that he has IMO.

he did
but half the games were undeserved
only played because jogi loves him so much

Well, I meant it more like on an individual performance level. Most players of his level have a worse carreer indeed, it's just that when he was 20 it looked like he had the potential to become a world class player so that's a little dissapointing.

Yeah I agree to that, then again only a few can actually make their potential come true.


Overall I'm happy with Podolski's time at Arsenal, and he remains one of my favourite individuals simply because he always laughs. But his time at Arsenal was coming to an end and for his career sake going somewhere else was good.

Signing for Gala though...