It wasn't a joke! How can you prove Davari is better? Only because he plays in the bundesliga? Shojaei played in the Spanish Primera, against the best players in the world for afew years. Was/is he better than all our other players, playing in the IPL? Playing in Europe is a condition to make you better as a player but you're not "necessarily" a better player only because you play in Europe!
you have a very valid point , the point is Davari is decent goalie with Iranian standard but as bundelsiga goalie and specially in Germany he is very very very average (lets not say under average goalie) , he keep doing same mistakes over and over and as usual freeze on some shots , he sure does some decent saves like any goalie but he is not kind of goalie who win a game for you.
rahmati also is not buffon if he was he wasn't in iran but as you said the fact of playing in Europe doesn't make you better 100%.. is only a condition..
I guess any aghl-e- salim agree the reason why esteghlal is still in top of table and in last 4 in hazfi cup with 4 key players( javad, majidi, montazeri ,jabbari) left are 1) rahmati 2) ando .. just look at ONLY number of PK he stopped , lets forget the rest...
CQ knows rahmati is BY FAR iran best keeper , he punish him because of rahmati cried like little baby and I give 100% to coach for that and standing on his decision, BUT talking about technical side and in field performance , Rahmati is logic choice of No1 with over 80 CAPS . if there were no issue between CQ & Rahmati we would for sure see these order of jersey numbers for keepers in WC :
1) Mehdi Rahmati
12) Daniel Davari
22) Rahman Ahmadi