Immobile to Lazio for 8.5M€
Vietto to Sevilla on loan (they can make the deal permanent for 20M€)
Pato to Villarreal for 3M€ (I know he's made out of glass and past his prime, but that does seem like a pretty sweet transfer fee for Villlarreal).

Stones close to joining City for £50m.

Proper player.

Pato lol, past his prime at 26, too bad

He could do actually really good, especially in the spanish league.

I meant he's nowhere near as good as he was 5-6 years ago

Although tbh I though he was 28-ish.

I don't want to see Villarreal succeed, but I do hope he can recover his old form.... I always feel sorry for these glass players.

Villarreal seems like the right club for him; let's see how this turns out.

what i mean is, 26 is the prime for nearly every player, pato had his prime at like 20-21, before the injuries.

27-29 is prime my friend.

who?
english random



how would you know that

It's what everyone says? I thought it was common knowledge

Umm, no. Almost all of the all time greats peaked before that age. Imo the peak age (if there has to be one specific number) is 26.



Messi's best year by a landslide: 2012 (age 25)
Ronaldo's best year: either '96/'97 (age 20-21 lol) but also 2002 (age 26)
Maradona's best year: '86 (age 26)
Possibly Zidane's best year: '98 (age 26) but you could argue 2000/2003 were better...
Roanldinho's best year: 2005 (age 25) or 2004 (age 24!)
Gerd Mueller scored the most goals the year he was 27 (1972)
Pele's best year 1965, age 25
Kaka, the last person to win the ballon d'or pre-CR7/Messi was 25 when he won it..



Could probably go on but those are the ones I could think of

but of course, you also have those players who peak at a late age, like Drogba, Zlatan, Payet etc... but way more cases of people peaking early (25 or younger)

This post was edited by Crestron on Jul 27 2016 01:21pm