Lukas Podolski

[Heui]

[Nrby]

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 70,00.html

a few more months of bayern and then back to Koln

[Bret_Hart_67]

A pretty good player, I like him but against the big stars of Bayern ... At Koln I hope he would be better than ever

[PMC]

he could easily be a big star himself... its just hes a bid of a knucklehead

[fillerup]

if klinsmann cant turn him good, he would never succeed at bayern

tbh i think its good for both sides that he goes

but im a bit disappointed at klinsmann. at the beginning everyone was hoping he would magically turn the bad german players into world class players..

[dsc748]

Pretty good first half of the match, but Sporting defense isn't really making things difficult, but anyway a good first half...

[Minell]

he can moved to cologne

[s-cobar]

I think we move complete on the 1st of july

[zebastian]

I would give him only left side or delete SM. He plays not very often on this position. I don't know about WF, but i think we could add this position.

[scr1899]

He played very often as LM for Germany.

[s-cobar]

he play as a Left side midfielder the first two games of the Euro 08 and two Nationalgames before the Euro - he never playes it at Bayern and he will never playes it at Köln. By the way he play more like a WF than a SMF. He got no defensive work in his game

[calleklein]

I lowered his DEF by 3 Points.
He is not the one going back and doing "dirty" work.
I added WF instead of SMF

[KillaKlo]

I lowered his DEF by 3 Points.
He is not the one going back and doing "dirty" work.
I added WF instead of SMF

Why? He plays SMF sometimes for Germany, but he actually never played as WF, did he?



Stats: I think his LP is better than his SP. And speed should be above accuracy.

[s-cobar]

official he`s on the SMF Position when he play it for germany, but he play like a WF.

[KillaKlo]

official he`s on the SMF Position when he play it for germany, but he play like a WF.

Hmm...nope. ^^

[monKevski]

Changed his positions. He actually plays the CF position, can also played as a SS and in the national team he was mostly put on the SMF position. He never played as a WF.
Also raised his long passing, he took the corners at Bayern in the last games and also sometimes in the national team. Also within the game he can hit good flanks.

[Shubitidze]

I think his BB is a bit overrated. 84 + 83kg makes him as strong as Rolfes and even stronger than Kiessling. IMO too much, therefore I would suggest

BB=82

What do you think about his passing? Don't you think his passing skills are better than 73/72? For me his passing is technically really good, it's rather his lacking tactical understanding that does not let him be really good in this. For me both passing stats would be green.

[s-cobar]

agree with Shubitidze.

But also a questions, I know Lukas is a nice player and he can be great but he never and I mean never represents these stats during his Bayern time and just in a few moments he represents it at the NT. So, my questiuon is - is he overrated at the moment?

[Pikka]

I agree too.
And in my oppinion is overall speed is overated too.

With a BB 84, Acc 88 and DS 86 i could easily run with him the whole field.
Shouldn't you consider in dropping some of his Acc or DS? He's fast but not that fast.

[s-cobar]

I think TS/ACC /DS is too high. His curl also, he don`t have so much curl in his crosses,s hots, and corner kicks,

I don´t know, I think the last good free kick of him I saw 4 years ago. 74 for free kicks is absolutely too high.

His SA is abit too high. He live by his SP and ST not by his SA.

Helmes is on 82 in attack and he got a better positioning in the box than Poldi, so we must raise Helmes or decrease Poldi, but i think raise Helmes is more fair.


Also I think a high green value for header is overrated and also his jump. He`s a looser in the air, he just score with the head if he got no pressure.