A thread on why roberto Firmino is criminally under appreciated from rival fans and why he’s one of the best in his position

Let’s get this straight firmino isn’t a striker he’s a false nine Who drops into pockets and creates space for the inside forwards mane and salah hence why they get so much goals

Firmino has great energy, Dribbling,Pressing,defensive work off the ball,and a great passer

He’s finishing isn’t great but he’s not needed for that and that’s why people slate him which is very stupid

Let’s look at some achievements For his team and country

• Premier league
• Champions league
• Club World Cup
• Super cup
• Copa America
•Superclasico de las americas

He’s a clear winner and contributed to all of them

Let’s look at some individual achievements

• Pfa player of the month
• Pfa fans player of the month
• Samba gold best Brazilian player 2018
• bundesliga break out of the season
• Champions league squad of season

He was also nominated for Fifpro world 11 and ballon dor

Let’s look at some of firmino stats

With Liverpool he’s scored 78 goals and got 60 assists in 244 games

Which is pretty impressive considering he’s not an out and out striker

He’s also got 13 goals and 6 assists with brazil and got a goal at the World Cup

Let’s look at his best individual statistical season 2017/2018

He scored 27 and got 17 assists in 54 games

Incredible stats he had he’s best premier league and champions league season

He also scored 10 goals and got 7 assists in the Uefa champions league
Incredible record

He’s compared to teams that have out and out strikers when it’s just a stupid debate to have comparing him to martial makes no sense at all

Compare him to players like benzema another false 9

Let’s look at some quotes from top professionals on firmino

“Firmino is the most complete striker in the league.

“I'm not talking about the best finisher or the best work-rate, I'm talking about all round. The most complete in the league."

- Thierry Henry

Firmino and Suarez are the best strikers in the world right now.

“You see Firmino playing the way he’s playing, he understands his place on the field and changes his position. He doesn’t stay in the box all the time, he comes and gets the ball and he creates the plays”

- Kaka

Any manager in the world would love to have Firmino as their centre forward. I think he’s absolutely incredible.”

“He’s selfless, brilliant, scores goals, sets things up, they can link off him, makes all the right runs, an outstanding player.”

- Gary Neville

Klopp also said he is world class everyday which shows he has mad consistency

End of thread hope people are educated on his position and how good a player he is

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