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After 25 years, 617 appearances and 250 goals for Roma, Francesco Totti is finally retiring. Last week, we made a video looking at the various tactical uses of the player on the UMaxit

Football YouTube channel, and today I'm joined by Alex Stewart to continue the made a video looking at the various tactical uses of the player on the UMaxit football YouTube

channel and today I'm joined by Alex Stewart to continue the discussion. At the beginning of the video

you note that with 250 goals, Totti is second only to Silvio Piola in Syria's all-time

goals list. Now a couple of comments on the video suggested perhaps unfairly

that Totty isn't this wonderful player that people make him out to be, but his USP, if you like,

is enhanced by the fact that he never left Roma or that he's very loyal. Could his position

in the goal scoring list be as a result of the fact that he stayed at the same

club and the same league for such a long time, or can his statistics show us that he really was

a top player? I think he really was a top player. I find this a slightly fatuous argument that in some

way staying with one team negates or diminishes

the achievement. Nobody is saying that Ryan Giggs wasn't one of the greatest players that the

Premier League era has ever seen simply because he stayed at Manchester United. He scored.

Well, just to interject for a minute, I think, I mean, certainly what I meant by it was that based on the fact that Totti played in Syria for what, I mean, over 20 years, and just, I suppose, again, based on the fact that he was, you know, maybe to a lesser extent he played with the same, same club. Obviously, as we've seen in the video the systems and the personnel changed but you know

he would have remained settled for a lot of that time what i mean is do you do you ever see those

sort of anomalies in in those lists like top goal scorers where a player who is a good player but is

you know in a in the same league for 20 years can be higher up the list based on the fact, you know, based on that fact that they've been there for a lot longer than other players?

I think longevity certainly plays a part. And Seria, I think maybe has more of a track record of keeping players fit and healthy for longer. There's an argument to say

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