so listen to this Thomas Müller is not a good tribler he isn't fast neither his heading or finishing are particularly impressive and he's definitely not strong but he could not care less about any of that because Müller has won more trophies than Cristiano Ronaldo pale Oran K he is closing in on the gold Tes of DBA Alexandro delpiero and Wayne Rooney and he has more assist than Kevin De Brina anel diaria Chavi inesta and them near any other player in history yet if you read any article about him for a moment you'd swear you were
reading about the worst footballer in the world awkward unrefined accidental clumsy amateurish skinny lack nobly need gangly a Bambi on eyes who should not be a footballer yes Thomas Müller is all of that but saying that he looks awkward he's like underestimating a T-Rex on account of his small arms as one journalist famously said Moher does not beat you with skill it does not beat you with speed it doesn't beat you with strength Moher just beats you watching him you will always get that feeling of I could do that too but do not fall for
his stap Muller is the best awkward player in the world and I don't even need to mention just yet how he is arguably the highest football IQ in history because from birth that awkwardness has made this guy a master of the unashamedly inelegant art of stabbing the ball home from unlikely angles with unlikely parts of his head or legs look when Byron found him it was just some crawny alter boy living with his grandparents in a town of just 2,000 people right by the Alps his favorite childhood story was how once he had poked on
his grandma's lawn and been forced to scoop it up with his favorite plastic shovel from his sandbox the most interesting thing his parents could tell you about him was that weirdly he had learned to speak before he learned how to walk which to be fair makes a lot of sense regardless the day the scouts first arrived in town not even his name stood out on the team Sheet he was no neyar no Z in zidan Thomas Müller was statistically the most common name in Germany however what he didn't know was that his grandpa on his
death bed asked the family to let him watch Bayern just one more time and made him completely obsessed with the club so much so that already preparing for that day over the previous year Müller had scored 120 of his team's 170 goals Factor fiction you decide for yourself but a lot of German newspapers have claimed that and indeed that day is SCS seven more instantly dropping every Scout in a 100 m radius to his knees after 8 years at byon with every one of his Academy coaches losing their minds trying to understand what in the
world made these kids so special urgen cinman brought him in to play with the first te man nothing Clansman fell for his trap if F he had seen enough but what he didn't know is that as one journalist one said Muller is a love at forth sight if you watch him once it seems average twice and you start realizing something is off but by the fourth time you'll finally see it and thankfully after almost allowing Ralph rangnick to snatch him out of their grasp for €1.5 million EUR gansman was sacked and Van gal came in
Van gal was one of the greatest Talent IDs in the world one look atam and he famously told everyone that no matter what with me Moher always plays in one swoop mher went from being handed 28 minutes total over a full season and getting transfer listed to playing every single League match over the next four years and in return he let Bayern to the top of the world 35 goal contributions the winning goal against title Rivals Shala and a hattick in the second to last match day finally clutch the Bundesliga title for Bayern top scorer
of the German cup to take the double the young Player of the Year award and in the Champions League he repeatedly showed up getting an assist at Old Trafford to force byon threw on away goals and another in the semis to get them all the way to the final where had they won they would have taken a travel but sadly for him modu had other plans regardless then even if he had only one appearance with the national team on his resume the Germans were going through a crisis with a legendary G Muller himself saying that
back in my day the strikers we have in a national team now would not be allowed to even sniff the ball but Thomas he's an incredible young boy and he's the one they should take to the World Cup after that yakim La had no choice but to follow his advice it jammed him into the starting 11 on opening day and Müller assisted their first 8 minutes in before grabbing one for himself by the third match he was already assisting their only goal to save them from a group stage elimination and in the last 16 he
made sure the whole world knew a new prototype had just hit the market with one touch he left balski with all the space in the world to put Germany 2-nil in front and once England scored and watched in shock as they were the night of one of the most famous ghost goals in history Müller demolished any hopes they might have had of a comeback once again finding Acres of space where there should have been none to score his first and just three minutes later doing it all again four touches three goal contributions against one of
the most prestigious national teams in the world and in the end as the journalists came trying to ask him questions all he wanted to do was say hi to his grandma but again if that could convince anyone that Muller wasn't so dangerous after all then with madon having refused to sit next to him in a press conference claiming he had no idea who he was that he thought he was just a ball boy Mohler proceeded to score against Argentina just three minutes into the match to put him back in his place and man had he
not been suspended for the semi-final after getting his second yellow card in the tournament maybe the Spain match could have been a lot different and maybe they could have made the final but regardless in the third place playoff Müller scored again secure the Bron matal the young player of the tournament award and the World Cup Golden Boot at 20 years of age still even if before the end of the year Müller would already be putting his name among the bondor nominees things at Bayern had changed for the next two years though he would still take
home 70 gold contributions his form had become far more Irregular at one point being benched by vanal and once he got sacked playing in yup inam müller's goals dried up even further scoring just from octob over to April being benched for the Champions League semi-finals after Dortmund ran away with the league title for the second year in a row then somehow being brought back for the Champions League final scoring what should have been the winning goal seven minutes from the end and watching draga force it all into extra time where Robin would miss a penalty
before Schweinsteiger and no did the same in the shootout choking the Champions League title for the second time in three years which Muller took very very personally to start off the next season he scored the winner in the super cup then he put down 14 goal contributions in the League's first eight matches to take eight consecutive wins the greatest start in the history of the Bundesliga and sure the next match they did lose but that was their only leag defeat of the Season by the end they were first 25 points ahead of Dortmund and I'll
spoil it for you already this was the first of 11 League titles in a row and still that wasn't the most impressive part of his season in the Champions League yet again they reached the final for the last 16 they drew three to3 on Aggregate and only went through because Müller scored and assisted away at the Emirates Stadium against Juventus as one newspaper wrote Supernatural Müller attempted an hilariously small number of passes he was the only player not to commit a foul or be fouled he wasn't offside once the only reason he needed the referee
out there was to blow the whistle after his goal and yet he was somehow the central player on the pitch pass aggressively dominant suffocatingly ever present and if that seemed like dark magic then he scored three and assisted the fourth against Bri Barcelona to demolish them 7 nil on Aggregate and in the final he just sold his teammates if we lose three finals in four years they'll be right we're chokers and a week later instead they were travel winners according to Manny the best team in the world but Müller though he was their top scorer
and just shy of being their top his provider too well when the bandar rankings came he was only 17th below four of his own teammates and looking back at it now I can't stop myself from feeling like it only happened because it was way easier to spot a great dribbler or a great finisher than it was to the cipher an enigma like Muller to understand the genius of one of the smartest players in history for years football analysts couldn't even agree what his position or what his role in the pitch was they just knew it
worked and and they had to wait until he himself explained it to them he said I am a ram deer you can translate it however you want a space interpreter Invader investigator but I like to put it more simply Müller is a master of space to paraphrase Yim love his first thought is always where should I be where could I put the ball in order to maximize my team's chances of scoring a goal Müller found a sport where all athletes were becoming near perfect specimens where no single physical trait could truly make you stand out
so we decided to play it like a game of chess to develop a near-perfect understanding of the game and become unpredictable being at the right place at the right time always and with full intent of doing as much damage as possible quick passes fewer touches perfectly timed runs clinical execution it's like he's seeing the game from above on another plane of existence its mind over matter so when the time comes there's no pressure on him he could not care less and the next season was his chance to prove that none of this had ever been
luck despite having just won the travel yuphas stepped down so Pep Guardiola could take over the club at the eyes of most Bandits only the most technical players would survive his possession based Philosophy for someone like Müller they believed this was a dead sentence instead over the next 3 years despite losing possession more often than any of his teammates Müller became guardiola's absolute favorite featuring in 148 of his 161 matches in charge 22 more than any other player scoring 79 goals 12 more than the second best and providing 47 assists 16 more than anyone else
it was now undeniable and for those refusing to see reason after leaving Bayern won German super cup away from taking every single trophy available in Pep's first season he joined Germany for his second world cup and did it all again to open things up a hattick against Portugal in the second match an assist to clinch a draw against Ghana by the third their only goal against United States and after assisting the extra time goal that allowed them to squeeze past Algeria he came back into semi-finals opened to scoring against Brazil assisted kosa for the second
then assisted k for the third and eventually assisted shurla for the 7th becoming the poster boy for the greatest World Cup humiliation of all time and 5 days later thanks to Mario gotza they had snatched the World Cup title right out of the hands of Lionel Messi at just 24 years of age Thomas Müller had 10 World Cup goals to his name just two off of P four off of Garett Müller and six away from the all-time record not to mention he had already won them near every trophy a player possibly could by the time
he stepped back in Germany he had vanal now man United's manager coming in with a contract offer Muller described as astronomical and an 8 8 million transfer bid that would have made him the most expensive player of all time but instead he stayed welcomed in new signing Robert levandowski kept on banging in goals until the holiday season and was rewarded with a fifth place finish at the balandor I could still argue that he should have placed higher but I'll spare you the rent with every season under Guardiola he kept being afforded more and more freedom
after all it was getting to a point where really only Ronaldo and Messi could challenge Muller's numbers by his final season under guardal he was dropping 40 gold contributions in the space of just 6 months even Messi would go on to win the ballondor that year only managed nine more over that period matter of fact I'll go a step further over the previous Four Seasons Müller had 38 goal contributions in the Champions League it was also only two away from Messi guardal had arrived fearful of what it would be like to manage a team without
such a genius amongst its ranks and left having nothing more to say about Muller than that he was one of the alltime greatest football players though to be fair ancelotti would see things a bit differently it's not that ancelotti failed to realize how special Müller was he himself said that a player with that kind of intelligence and tactical awareness is usually rare but the truth is that as Müller said I don't know what qualities the coach wants to see but mine seem not to be in demand so that added to 75 days out on injury
more than he had had over his entire career meant that for the first time in seven years Müller struggled for minutes at times being dropped for big matches as his goal tally dropped into the single digits and even if he still reached second place in the League's assist shards everyone could see ancelotti was not about to change his mind and maybe that was why 10 matches Into The Following season a group of five key players turned against him reportedly riberi Robin Muller and batang ultimately leading to his sacking after humiliating tral defeat to PSG prompting
yup Ana to come out of retire and run it back so hard that despite having just three goal contributions in the first 11 matches of the Season Mohler would go off for the remaining 34 hitting 33 contributions by the end of the season though really this would not be the end of his travels following a tragic World Cup campaign that saw Germany fall to the Champions curse and get kicked out in the group stage Niko kovak took over the club and Müller dropped back into the single digits going as far as being permanently dropped from
the national team by Yim love alongside batang and Matt zumos feeding the rumors that as he approached his 30s he was now past his best with one newspaper going as far as claiming that everyone had stopped caring about him to which all he did was post an Instagram story assuring everyone that the game is not over yet what happened next was the ultimate proof that we were dealing with an alltime great after starting his 12th season at the club repeatedly getting benched by kovak who insisted that he wanted to build his team mirand coutinho once
again Muller watched the same manager who tried to bench him get sacked just 16 matches into the season with Bayern down to Fourth Place only for ansy flake to come in deposit all hope on him and send him on one of the most incredible Redemption arcs of all time evolving into a new version of himself more selfless than ever shocking everyone during the pandemic by how vocal he was on the pitch commanding his team like a general match after match putting his playmaking duties above his goal scoring like never before and turning levandowski into a
monster DN near launching him straight into the ballondor by the end of the season not only had he handed Bayern the title again and pulled eight goals and 17 assists in the 23 league matches for which fake was in command coming out of nowhere to snatch away the bundesliga's alltime assist record but he had 25 of them across all competitions three more than Neymar ever managed far more than Ronaldo and only five off of Messi's greatest ever season and yet as per usual that wasn't quite the highlight of the Year having once again scored twice
and assisted another against Barcelona to demolish them 82 this time around Muller had launched Bayern straight into another Champions League final for the third time in his career one match off of a travel and on this one as the guardian roads Muller showed psg's 400 million pound attacking Trio out to be a winner no doubt Neymar will hear the Thundering Hooves of Thomas Müller when he goes to sleep tonight now already 31 with two travels to his name and a squad full of new Talent desperate for a spot it would have been more than understandable
if once for all Müller had finally let go but instead not only did he take both super cups at the start of the next season to become the most decorated German footballer in history but he dropped 39 more goal contributions forcing the national team to come back with their tail between their legs asking him to join them once more and even after levandowski left for Barcelona and nag man replaced flick he finished his 14th season at the club by racking up 25 more assists sending his total to 75 over the previous three seasons more than
any other player in the world 20 more than second place Kevin De Bruna such a gap that at one point the difference between him and second place was larger than that between the Bruna and 22nd Place Killian maape with Müller at 33 years of age finally getting some proper award recognition for the first time in his career being named bayern's player of the season ever since then Müller has finally started giving the new kids a chance finally Fading Into the background only to watch as after taking them to 11 League titles in a row they
immediately considered the next one to lever and
