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Football Thread 2016/17 |OT| Mou Money Mo Pogba
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With Landycakes on board, anything is possible!
immortal-joe
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Exactly, now imagine that happening twice in a row in a week where you've already played a highly stressful game.
It just makes sense for them to fail. I can already see the passive aggressive headlines.
I liked Anderson but he seriously did not come anywhere close to reaching the potential he was showing in his early days.
I've been thinking of the backroom staff thing recently. I mean, what kind of an idiot succeeds the greatest manager of all time and then proceed to tear down the entire organization of people that person had built up over the years through the many successes. Fucking hell.
Man... when was the last time that Ronaldo did something even similar to this? 4-5 years or something?
There is a logic behind a clean break from someone as integral to the running of a club like Ferguson was. In hindsight it was obviously a mistake, but I can see why Moyes wanted to do that
Audioboxer
Member
Gill going with Fergie put the club on recruitment suicide watch. Everyone knows how good Woodward has been since... WE'RE SIGNING RONALDO, RAMOS, BALE, ETC CAUSE £££. Sure, Ed.
I mean a lot of managers bring in their own staff, but David fucking Moyes coming in and thinking he would bring in "better" replacements? lol. Fergie and the board have to take a massive share of the blame for thinking he was the right man. No one was, in one sense, you can't replace Fergie, but Moyes? Just because he has Scottish blood didn't mean he would Super Saiyan and become Fergie 2.0.
In saying all of that Moyes should have turned the offer down. Look what he's done to his own career since leaving Everton.
To be fair Ronaldo was amazing at United, one of our best players ever, but out of his 47 career hat-tricks, only ONE came at United. That is mind-blowing. He went on to become a God at Real.
immortal-joe
Member
Smarter movement, positioning, and overall decision making (when he has a clear head), all coupled with an unprecedented ability to evolve his style of play around the tactics presented by his coach, and he's had a lot of coaches at Real, which I truly believe further forced him to improvise and improve himself.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
He just became a goal scoring machine at real. Is it less sexy and showy? Sure, but my god is he amazing now.
Audioboxer
Member
The simplest of realities in football, goals are what count. Ronaldo at Real > Ronaldo at Man Utd. No one can argue otherwise.
Man Utd and mainly Fergie just deserve some credit for helping him through early adulthood and starting his development. That's arguably one of the greatest gifts Fergie and his staff gave football, an excellent focus on youth and development. Ronaldo had the talent regardless but I think it helped to be under Fergie in his early stages.
The Premier League did help curb some of his diving and antics as well and importantly pushed him to bulk up and focus on strength. Lots of strong players in the EPL. At times when foreign talent comes here the players end up getting bullied and pushed around like school children. The Spanish league is probably the best in the world for technical talent, but the EPL is up there for strength. Although, we're losing a bit of our reputation for strong and commanding players with more diving, drama-queens and erosion of the era of "mad" centre-backs and central midfielders.
Bring back the Keowns, Keanes, Adams, Vieiras, Vidics, Gerrards and so forth. Even Lampard and Terry in their days could boss about. Arsenal and United these days are on life support for leaders/commanding players. It's like a mash-up of Boy Bands meet footballers. Where's my 100k+ a week so I can show off my cars and sneakers on instagram and my pretty white Simon Cowell teeth lolz. At least the super rich at the likes of Barcelona and Real still turn up nearly every single week and put in passion and effort for their clubs. Such a lack of that in the EPL from so many players.
So... 4-5 years ago? Nothing in that video compares with the fantasy in dribbling he had when he was at Man Utd...
Oh don't get me wrong i think Ronaldo is absolutely amazing and a hard work fanatic, changing your way of playing implies an outstanding dedication and the result he got are out of this world making him really a goal scoring machine but you know every once in a while at least in non important matches would be nice seeing him do the stuff he did when he was younger.
GoldenCrow
Member
The stuff he did at United was often just showboating. What he does at Real on a per game basis is utter brilliance, its quick, deft, precise, fools players, beats opponents, opens up space and is actually useful. In that gif he is essentially just dancing about like a twat in the corner.
Not a fan of Atsu tbh. He was mostly average in the Championship. :/
I don't see it like this. Our depth is our strongest strength this season and we have so many players in form and ready to step up for when it counts. I'm really not worried about Celta; we will win it. And then we can go on trying to win against Malaga, and if not, a draw will suffice. All the players, even our reserves knows what's at stake here. And they take it one game at a time. I have no doubt the players have their head in the game.
Roland_Gunner
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Doesn't Di Marzio work for Sky?
Seb Haller to Eintracht Frankfurt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFK6LpA4Lvg
Good luck in the Bundesliga m8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFK6LpA4Lvg
Good luck in the Bundesliga m8.
Not Sky UK. He took the piss out them for doing it today.
You get the multiroom boxes as well?
One Mini box that I probably won't use much.
You get to watch the Chelsea game in 4k!
Not on the Mini box, only the main one. Can't wait to see how pretty Costa looks in UHD.
Tell me Costa is playing.
Audioboxer
Member
Glad to hear Terry scored, but then he apparently gave away a goal? lol. Good ole John.
Still, you can't knock him, and every Man Utd fan should love him too ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Still, you can't knock him, and every Man Utd fan should love him too ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
His Majesty
Banned
That's 18 PL goals from our defenders this year, p good.
Audioboxer
Member
Fancy selling us some defenders to play upfront?
Haha. It's just some old age creeping in.
His Majesty
Banned
nearly 19 but Luiz is too nice for this world
Shocking defending, leaking goals left and right. Sack Conte please what a fraud.
Shocking defending, leaking goals left and right. Sack Conte please what a fraud.
His Majesty
Banned
ffs, the most useless player in the PL scores
What do you think it's like for Liverpool?
@Chelsea: I figured this game would be pretty boring but it's actually decent.
Any links? I did a lot of googling last week and found nothing.
it's a cultural thing m8
Chinese population in Argentina is kind of big. and they have very bad reputation
favre taking over dortmund according to bild
¯\_(ツ
lol
good luck with that
what a meltdown it will be
What does this have to do with Lavezzi making a racist gesture?
Don Draper's Hat
Member
That's a really odd photo, because it's clearly a professional shot. So someone has asked him to do that.
Is it an official photo for the club?
I mean, if the people asking him to do it are Chinese, who are we-probably most of us white westerners-to say it's racist or offensive?
Is it an official photo for the club?
I mean, if the people asking him to do it are Chinese, who are we-probably most of us white westerners-to say it's racist or offensive?
Don Draper's Hat
Member
Oh right. There's already been a furore about it has there? Fair enough.
What the hell?
absolutely nothing. just a comment
but argentines don't really undestand racism. They are racist, but don't realize they are
not only to chinese people, or any particularly group. They are openly racist, because they don't realize they are being racists. They think is just normal banter.
Kind of like Britain up until the late 1980s.
texhnolyze
Banned
I've heard that Lavezzi could buy a Pogba in 2,3 years with his Chinese money.
Audioboxer
Member
The new Man Utd away strip is meh. Some designs are best left in the past.
Liverpool's new home kit is my favourite so far. Arsenal's is quite nice as well. Then again, I like minimal designs. Man Utd's kits for the past few seasons have been shite. The supposed leaked home kit is fine as it's nice and clean. Tbh it's often the sponsor's logos that "ruin" kits these days. That Chevrolet logo is awful.
Liverpool's new home kit is my favourite so far. Arsenal's is quite nice as well. Then again, I like minimal designs. Man Utd's kits for the past few seasons have been shite. The supposed leaked home kit is fine as it's nice and clean. Tbh it's often the sponsor's logos that "ruin" kits these days. That Chevrolet logo is awful.