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Football Thread 2016/17 |OT| Mou Money Mo Pogba
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Sgtpepper89
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Vardy! He is almost alive again
His Majesty
Banned
dream restored?
Well that was pretty much the best outcome Leicester could realistically hope for.
SictorVullivan
Member
Happy with 2-1 considering how bad we were in the first half. Second half performance was just like the good old days last season.
GoldenCrow
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Technical ability in the Prem is almost a dirt word, there are really only two teams at the moment that are trying to apply technical ability throughout their game and both still have a long way to go, one is prioritising defensive structure and the other is abandoning defensive rigidity to get there.
You see more technical skill in a single Celta de Vigo vs Sporting Gijón game than you see in the majority of premier league games in a weekend.
You think you guys will stay up?
Considering all the rumours about Rooney's departure and the potential high fee of his supposed replacement Griezman, wouldn't it make sense to actually go sign Dele Alli instead. I don't know of any English player in that squad aside Smalling and Rashford that's a guaranteed starter. While griezman is great, I think Alli can provide the same or close level of output, maybe it's just me
To my knowledge Griezman has a buyout clause while Dele doesn't, and getting him or Kane out from under Levy's nose, especially now that Spurs are finally putting things together, would be very difficult I think.
StWilson85
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Alli would inevitably cost more than Griezman, with how fucked the prices of English players are.
Isn't the rumoured price tag high already though? If I remember correctly, the price range is around the 100 million region which is where I would assume Levy would be demanding
I think I read that it's about 100m euros, so £85m.
Levy is a stubborn git and they have no need to sell, so he could evne reject that.
While Alli is at least tested in the PL, if you look at goals scored which is what we need, hes got 23 in 75 games for Spurs (all comps) and 2 in 15 for England. Griezman has scored 74 in 141 for Athletico where all european games were UCL,and 14 in 39 for France.
He's also reportedly a United fan and has said he wants to play with Pogba.
I'd like to see Alli at the team, but I can't see him being a 9.
The problem is who do you get. City spent how much on 3 defenders and still basically stil need Kompany.
We've not been conceding goals and not entirely because of DeGea this season, unlike the last 3 years. We do however have to deal with Carrick, Schweini, and Rooney possibly all going at the end of the year and Zlatan being 36 next season.
The fortunate thing is that the club has money to burn.
Oooh I know Spurs are a difficult team to buy from which is why I said instead of spending all that money on a foreign player, why not buy the top domestic talent. If Dele Alli can be convinced via his agent, the deal can definitely happen regardless of what Levy wants to do Greizman is great but he doesn't strike me as a Jose Mourinho type player, Dele Alli does. With regards to where he would play, I think he can play behind the main striker Zlatan
At this point, what is the point in paying otherwise. There is a reason why it is considered one of the super clubs isn't it. Why wait because of some few extra when you can easily just pay. It reminds me of Bale when the club didn't want to pay top money, then Bale gets sold to Madrid only for the club to make a last ditch attempt to pay way more than Spurs agreed with Madrid. It is Spurs, of course they would ask for ridiculous sums, we know the player isn't worth that amount but there is the English tax and the guy is actually very good. I just don't want another trend of selling the best players to Spain again, it has been detrimental to the EPL in my opinion. The league is getting top money so why should the top players be sold to Spain, keep them within the league I say and especially an England international. We have seen Jose Mourinho sign Ashley Cole from Arsenal by being dirty, in my opinion, if I were him, I would do the same with Alli and pay 150 million if they ask for it
Also with regards to other areas within that squad, I believe there were news of several targets being from Monaco I think, which I would think can solve the problem with the middle (Carrick)
GoldenCrow
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He wouldn't work under the new system, he didn't work under Pelligrini either plus he has the muscle problem. Kompany far too easily gets pulled out of position leaving holes for forwards to run into, Demichelis use to get a lot of blame for the mistakes Kompany use to make.
I think Txiki thought replacing Demichelis with somebody young & strong and Kompany with somebody similar, if we were still playing defensive focused football like under Mancini then that would have been great but City play a totally different type of football and those kind of defenders are a bit of a liability and has been very costly. We need those that have a higher positional awareness and know how to play out. Miranda, Bonucci, Chiellini, Godín, Hernandez would all be excellent as they play in systems that start at the back and play against strikers looking to get behind on long balls. It is easy to identify but the hard part is getting players like that.
DM rumor that Ranieri has been sacked. I am thinking it is total BS especially after the result yesterday but you never know with these owners.
https://twitter.com/MailSport/status/834849797400064000
https://twitter.com/MailSport/status/834849797400064000
Confirmed already by multiple sources. Expected.
Very sad. I'd let someone take us down if they'd won us the title but the fact that they couldn't at least build a solid mid-table team with the money and exposure from being Champions is a pretty big disappointment.
They were a team that was in the relegation zone two years ago. They won the league last year and are now battling to stay up while still alive in CL. Crazy to let go of Ranieri and expect a new manager to come in and hit the ground running to save their PL campaign and CL.
Absolute madness.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. They had a chance to build something long-term. Will never get that opportunity again.
Struggling domestically always happens when a team unexpectedly gets into Europe and doesn't properly reinforce their squad. Newcastle, Liverpool, etc. If Ranieri's lost the dressing room, then that means you need to overhaul the squad, not the manager.
Struggling domestically always happens when a team unexpectedly gets into Europe and doesn't properly reinforce their squad. Newcastle, Liverpool, etc. If Ranieri's lost the dressing room, then that means you need to overhaul the squad, not the manager.
WadiumArcadium
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What a shitty move. Almost hope they get relegated now.
Same. I feel for their fans but I want to see the corporate greed and lack of loyalty punished.
Heebie Jeebies
Banned
Watch them bring in Harry Redknapp for the ultimate self destruction.
on one hand I think Ranieri should get a free pass this season. hopefully survive the drop and start the summer by selling Vardy, Mahrez and work to become a mid table side after the hangover year from winning the title. On the other hand Leicester City have been dreadful the moment the season started outside of performing in a weak UCL group where certain players can showcase themselves before a move.