Would probably improve your views on football to be fair.
Would probably improve your views on football to be fair.
The All Star game should be played on racial lines. Paul Ince coaching his team filled with pace and power, Mellin coaching our more intelligent and technical lads. Sell it all round the world.
England v a Best of the Rest.
It's a shame they have Potter as, going off his comments and the way Chelsea seem to be going about things, Boehly sounds like he'd be quite apt to lead them to ruin.
It’s the complete opposite, if anything. The majority of what he’s done so far has been really good and going off of reports by Matt Law etc, bringing in that Salzburg director (what a talent recruitment he’s got against his name, offft) - for helping with that Sister club shenanigans - he’s clearly not finished yet. French media reporting he’s bringing in Luis Campos with a budget of €300m for the next two windows as well.
Abramovich was tame compared to this loon.
He's clearly trying to put together an MLB style front office. The hesitation I always have with this sort of thing (despite being very pro-statistics in general) is that football isn't really as measurable as other sports, or if it is then we're a long way from being able to master it, so your head coach and your man management at a lower level will end up having a much larger impact on results than your front office will have. Not the case in baseball, which is like a factory production line of a sport.
My other hesitation is that those MLB teams (many of which fail miserably despite their state of the art analytics departments) are propped up by the fact that MLB is a closed league, which... yeah.
All well and good but:Originally Posted by Waffdon
1 - the idea that recruitment is driven by single individuals is mental, but seems to be a popular theme
2 - furthermore, footballers, as a commodity, are, by and large, as much a product of their environment as they are some nascent talent to be spotted and hoarded, without the ability to develop the players [ie play them] you can farm as many as you want but it probably won't work any better or worse than whatever they have done previously [always seemed pretty good by just buying everyone, I guess until City muscled in] leading to,
3 - the 'City model' is actually the death of football and should be categorically outlawed in any serious footballing nation. Fine you can have you shitty US or Australian league clubs, but please, why destroy whatever it was that FC Girona [or whoever] once were? Also applies to the RB clubs, and whatever it is Bloom and the Brentford guy are variously up to with their European shenanigans. At most you should only be able to send Ronnie Wallwork to wherever it was in Belgium to ruin their prospects.
4 - by what metric is the geezer in charge of recruitment at PSG any good at his job?
He was in charge of the recruitment when Monaco got to the semi finals of the CL and won the league (Mbappe, Bernardo Silva, Fabinho etc) and then moved to Lille and they won the league under his recruitment too. Doesn’t look too bad ‘on paper’ but who knows.
Mudryk looks shit hot every time he’s on the tele. Get him signed, Arsenal.
The transfers-are-an-end-in-themselves mentality is so toxic. It's all about coaching and player development. If Pulisic doesn't perform, does that mean whoever 'recruited' him did a bad job? Not necessarily. It's far more down to him and his coaches.
That’s true. But then you want someone capable of bringing good players in. Can’t be having another 2017/18 transfer window (the worst in football history).
You had the best coach in the game working under one of the finest recruitment models in the game only redtricted by its financial resources. You've essentially got the same just without the restriction. Chelsea are onto a seriously good thing.
We’ll see how good #PotterBall is because he’s got Silva/Azpilicueta in a back four with Jorginho in front of them
Be ready for a lot of sideways passing and painfully slow build-up play.
Shakhtar coach is wish.com Jürgen Klopp
Maccabi Haifa
Sterling and Aubameyang in Chelsea shirts looks so wrong.
I'm pretty sure Chelsea coaches live and die based on whether Kante is fit or crippledWe’ll see how good #PotterBall is because he’s got Silva/Azpilicueta in a back four with Jorginho in front of them
Hey Jude
Kante is a myth.
Surely that penalty re-take can't be due toMcGregor being off the line because the rebound was scored.
Politano intruding in the box before it was kicked so ot went back to earlier offence of shagger being off his line.
That makes a lot more sense.
Not in that CL winning run. Best performance in a semi final and final back to back.
Chelsea just look the same. Utterly guff with no creative spark whatsoever.
Why is the Spanish fraud in goal for Chelsea?
Dortmund keeper is on the take.
Haaland
That is ludicrous from Haaland.
Napoli must be setting records for the number of penalties a team has taken in consecutive champions league games.
Only saw bits of the first half but it looked like Rangers were all over them.
Also, I see Raheem is now going to be the designated Solly March. Not sure whether to sympathise or not.
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Lovely celebration
Some suggested lineups in this Twitter thread:
Get to fuck Yank.
Bloody hell.Fulham have confirmed that 700 seats in the upper tier of their new Riverside Stand will be brought into use when Newcastle visit Craven Cottage next month.
They are now on general sale to home fans only at the eye-watering price of £90 for adults and £60 for juniors.
Travers
Hickey - Thiago Silva - Salisu - Zinchenko
Mac Allister - Soucek
Kulusevski - Odegaard - Zaha
Mitrovic
Haaland
Guedes - Maddison - Salah
Joelinton - Eriksen
Digne - Dias - Llorente - Patterson
Henderson
North mogs.
Any suggested team so far has only cemented the fact that it's a shite idea.
I could get interested in Proper North vs Cushty South, but they would draw some non-existent boundary that gives us Wolves and Nottingham and them Leicester and [The] Villa, and then it doesn't mean anything.
Full strength team, as it should be after losing the first game.
Be nice if we could give them a smashing...
Would be quite fun if the first choice XI with Ronaldo subbed in were total dogshit, the big sulky twat.
Are these the geezers who won in the Bernabeu?
Probably more to do with them not having another game this month, no?
Jadons Ancho
Ronaldo dreadful again so far.
He's fucking back now you cunt.
Ronaldo 2-0.
This Antony lad is tragic. No pace, no passing, no nothing.
So something then.
Taz guaranteeing he'll be world class.
Thanks Mr Taz
Maybe he'll be as bad as the Haaland lad he was slating a while back. Whatever happened him?Taz guaranteeing he'll be world class.
Thanks Mr Taz
Guys don't question Taz's football knowledge, he clearly knows a lot.
One at a time please, there's enough shaft to go round.
The BBC's North v South North team is predictably lol [all City and Liverpool players]. Would probably be just as good if it was just City.
5 Arsenal players in the South team [and all London]. RIP in pieces.
Few more goals would've been nice but can't complain too much about a solid 2-0 away win in Europe.
I have no idea who Silkeborgs are but they had West Ham clinging on for dear life there. Maybe the latter had the kids out.
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