Mason Greenwood looks faster than he did last season.
Mason Greenwood looks faster than he did last season.
I'd quite like Cavani to get a goal here. His movement is well ahead of anyone else we play at centre-forward and yet I'm not sure we've managed to get him the ball in the box yet. It'd be nice for him to score before he wonders what the point of making all these runs is.
Should he have saved that or am I just being a dickhead?
We seem quite keen to chuck this lead.
Even the sprinter gets a goal.
Ponck is a fun name to say.
That first half was way more fun than United have been in months, unless I’m forgetting. Surely a bold XI to start with against most teams, but worked pretty well to get top of the group.
Reading this:
On the BBC gossip page this morning sent my head into a bit of a spin.Former Inter Milan, Manchester City and Brazil right-back Maicon, 29, is in talks over joining Italian Serie D side Sona.
Turns out he's actually 39.
That's still a young pup by Italian defender standards.
In my mind his career is very much Inter / Brazil and then disappearing forever, I always instantly forget he played for City every time I'm reminded of it.
I have him playing on the wing for Roma after his Inter career, which I think is probably a different Maicon (or just a different player). Brazilian footballers should really have an Equity-style arrangement whereby once a name is taken it can't be re-used by someone else.
Apparently he went to Roma after City so you may be onto something.
Aside from Bale making him look like Titus Bramble his career has pretty much passed me by.
Yep, combined the two in my mind.
There are three other Maicons around in European football, or rather two, as one of them was killed in a collision while driving home from a Ukrainian nightclub during his time at Shakhtar.
He's not quite Eder levels of shit but Origi has really gone backwards and must now be the shittest CL final goalscorer, no?
Neco Williams is fucking poison too. Fascinated to see how Rhys Williams' career develops after this season, he'd get fucked in an ordinary side yet looks quite good for us. Running his own high-street shop by 30 talking about the 6 months he was atthe pinnacle of the game
Lol at people watching the group stage.
Noticed that Middlesbrough have somehow overnight gone from useless clod of shite last year to winning every time I see their result this year, so being pretty sure they sacked Woodgate I had to google 'Middlesbrough manager' in order to find out who might have overseen this transformation. I was guessing it would be some Spaniard or German I'd never heard of.
Ha ha ha ha. He might be one of the best managers of the last 30 years in this country, not even joking.
It's a constant theme in modern football discourse isn't it? Struggling middle-sized to smaller club hires an old school 'dinosaur' British manager like Warnock, Pulis, McCarthy, Bruce, whoever it may be. Home fanbase loses its shit, wanting a more 'progressive' appointment and/or 'attacking football' instead, while rival fans mock them for having ideas above their station.
Alaba’s agent to talk to Chelsea in January. Fat Frank has some pulling power for a binman
His contract is up in the Summer and he's refusing to sign a new deal.
It's Marina that has the allure.
She certainly knows how to make a sale. Luiz, Costa, Morata & Oscar all north of £50m.
Does he play centre half now? I don't think I've watched Bayern for about five years.
Mainly centre half but can cover left back and midfield.
Why would he want to leave them? Agent wanting the proceeds of a move, or is he fed up with wheat beer and those massive pretzels?
They made him a contract offer with a deadline, he and his agent felt it was too low and Bayern withdrew said contract offer as the deadline passed.
Alaba and "his team" didn't realise that the contract offer would be withdrawn if they didn't accept and they're now angry.
I think the thing I read said he wanted a deal to match the top earners (which I assume means Lewandowski) and they've said no.
I've always wondered whether they're forced (or at least 'advised' by the waxworks) to do the Oktoberfest dressing up every year. It might be the main reason they've never considered hiring Jose Mourinho, who would almost certainly turn up in his normal clothes and ruin it.
Would that be the equivalent of him turning up the Munich memorial at Old Trafford in a hoodie and trainers? Presumably with a seething Beckenbauer mirroring Bobby Charlton's outrage.
They're in the fourth tier and have recently signed one of Pogba's brothers and have been trying to bring in Samuel Eto'o.
Edit: Beeb says fourth tier but it seems they're actually in the third tier.
I'm sure Levante will be quaking in their boots.
He hasn't played in 3 years.
Unsure whether I even want to watch THE MIGHTY BLADES vs West Brom tomorrow. Dunno if I can stomach it and it'd probably just ruin my weekend if I did watch it and we lost. If I just saw the score I doubt I'd be as arsed.
I'll probably end up watching it but I've rarely thought about not watching a game when I've been able to.
Cool story bro.
You are way too wank of a poster to be cool story bro'ing anyone.
I'm going to let my imagination do the work and assume Joelinton was unplayable tonight.
He was alright everywhere except in front of goal. He can be a great link-up player, as shown in the first goal, but got nowhere near with too many chances. Saying that, he did score, so overall it must have been one of his greatest games. I also won £220 on the game so I love him now.
Yeah, his goal was a very Joelinton finish. I watched a video a few weeks back showcasing his five best Bundesliga strikes. Four of them were absolute gifts. I can't imagine what we saw in him to play him alone up top.
That Liverpool team is pretty horrific. Brighton to miss at least four glorious chances.