Thomas GRAVESEN | 2004-2005 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)

GRAVESEN PES STATS | 2004-2005

brondbylove Thomas GRAVESEN Thomas GRAVESEN | 2004-2005 Club: Everton FC Number: Position: DMF*, CMF, AMF Nationality: Danish Age: 28 Foot: R Side: B Length: 178 Weight: 80 Attack: 73 Defence: 69 Balance: 84 Stamina: 86 Top Speed: 78 Acceleration: 77 Response: 82 Agility: 77 Dribble Accuracy: 78 Dribble Speed: 76 Short Pass Accuracy: 82 Short Pass Speed: 85 Long Pass Accuracy: 83 Long Pass Speed: 88 Shot Accuracy: 74 Shot Power: 87 Shot Technique: 76 Free Kick Accuracy: 76 Curling: 79 Header: 77 Jump: 76 Technique: 80 Aggression: 76 Mentality: 88 Keeper Skills: 50 Team Work: 84 Injury Tolerance: B Condition/Fitness: 7 Weak Foot Accuracy: 6 Weak Foot Frequency: 6 Consistency: 7 [] Pin-Point Passer [] Enforcer [] Passing The seemingly clumsy brute turned midfield maestro. Thomas Gravesen was at his peak in the 2004-2005 season where his consistent and classy performances for Everton coupled with productive teamwork with his 'twin', Lee Carsley, led 'The Toffees' to a sensational fourth place in the Premier League in front of arch rivals Liverpool. Gravesen had started out as a somewhat frisky but technically gifted sweeper for his childhood club, Vejle BK, before a stint in Hamburger Sports-Verein made him into a central midfielder. In Liverpool and Merseyside, he further developed his elegant displays of ball distribution and calmness in the middle of the park, creating associations back in time to another Dane who commanded the midfield in Liverpool, albeit for The Reds: Jan Mølby. Gravesen soon rocketed him into a position as one of the Premier League's best engine room players, while he also held a key role in Morten Olsen's Danish national team. But Gravesen's otherwise upwardsgoing career was soon to collide with a force inside football which makes stars as well as it breaks them and their image down for good: Los Marengues, Real Madrid CF. Having lost their brilliant holding midfielder, Claude Makelélé, a few years earlier due to disagreements in contract negotations (allegedly Real Madrid wouldn't pay the very important but not-so-fashionable holding midfielder the same salary as 'Los Galacticos', the group of superstar players which the club collected in those days), the Spanish giants had been on the look-out for a replacement ever since. Now they thought they had found him in Thomas Gravesen. Perhaps the Spaniards mistook Gravesen's bald head for another baldy, Lee Carsley, who fit the bill as defensive midfield anchorman much better than the Dane who was always looking spray passes around the park. Nethertheless, a dream move came true for Gravesen who went to Spain, only to be humiliatingly placed as a garbageman in a team lacking any other defensive-minded midfielders. A terrible job of scouting on behalf of Real Madrid. Gravesen tackled for his life with booking after booking awarded and he soon found himself, as so many other Real Madrid players before and after him would do, out of favour and out of the pitch. With Fabio Capello in charge, Gravesen had no hopes of getting some playing time in a club which never understood what skills he actually possessed. Gravesen went to Celtic as the club's most expensive ever player but couldn't find his high standards of yesteryear. He soon announced his retirement from the national team to concentrate on his club career before a failed return to Everton on loan finally sementated that it was over. In the start of 2009, he announced his full retirement from playing while giving no comments or interviews to the press. A man clearly exhausted and fed up with the merciless professional world of football where the winners of yesterday are the losers of tomorrow - or the other way around. Despite the tragical end to his career, Gravesen should be remembered for the player he was at his stay in Everton FC: a man with the face of an ogre but the feet of a ballerina. _________________ I am probably not going to be on this forum very much anymore - but send me a PM if you have any requst or enquiry and I will be notified. CLASSICS: Dan EGGEN, Andreas JAKOBSSON, Denmark 98 + updating all Classic players with new cards system :P Updated Passing ;) Thomas GRAVESEN | 2004-2005 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)