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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    His weak point is his decision-making (which I reckon caused you to ask), and the only way to manage that is presumably to play them every week and hope it improves; but by all accounts he isn't the hardest working person in the world, so how can you play them every week?

    That was shit, but if Jones never plays another game for United off the back of it then it will go down as a long-term success.
    You can't really gives players a man utd shirt in the hope they improve. He has been there a while now and hasn't really improved. Might as well sell him.

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    Also, I don't know if anyone else noticed, but when martial came on as a sub, the first thing he did in an FA Cup final while his team was losing. He ran past bakayako and gave the French man a high-five. What kind of behaviour is that?

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    What happened to Martial? Two years ago he was so hyped when he came to United, did well at the euros with France I thought; now he’s not even made the World Cup squad. Did he get worse or was it always like this?

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    Bayern have just had a stonewall penalty turned down, during second half injury time, whilst trailing a goal in the cup final.

    https://streamja.com/vEdk

    This is the claim. Referee went to VAR, went and watched it on one of the shitty little monitors, and didn't give it. Fucking hell.

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    Was it that stonewall?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spoonsky View Post
    What happened to Martial? Two years ago he was so hyped when he came to United, did well at the euros with France I thought; now he’s not even made the World Cup squad. Did he get worse or was it always like this?
    I assume Mourinho's taken one of his notions because at the start of the year he was still a bit inconsistent but also one of our best players.

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    Boateng does kick his foot. He goes over a bit easily but it's a penalty.

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    I think we've all held out the hope that it would 'click' (or another similar cliche) for Martial, since he has everything else, but if he doesn't take the chances he does get then what does he want? People will blame Mourinho, but he is the only person to ever get anything out of Joe fucking Cole, so his reputation for being unable to cope with flakey wankers is a bit undeserved.

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    Thank God that seasons over. Mourinho has been dreadful for months.

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    So Willian posted this on his Snapchat. Obviously Conte out at some point today.


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    I'm sure it's Conte's fault he's a lazy sack of shite.

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    That's quality, as is Chelsea Twitter seething about 'disrespect'.

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    Chelsea Twitter is completely retarded, but that probably applies to Any Club Twitter if we're being honest.

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    Mourinho seething and Olivier Giroud happy, that's the only good outcome that could have happened so it's a 10/10 Cup Final for me.

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    Great tackle in last nights Barcelona game.


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    By the way, in the soap opera of Portuguese football, minnows Aves beat Sporting in the cup final to win and qualify for Europe.

    However, there is some pre registration for the competition which most teams do which Aves didn't which means their auto qualification into the Europa league group stage isn't happening.

    Also, all the sporting players are looking to quit the team. Expect some bargains.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    By the way, in the soap opera of Portuguese football, minnows Aves beat Sporting in the cup final to win and qualify for Europe.

    However, there is some pre registration for the competition which most teams do which Aves didn't which means their auto qualification into the Europa league group stage isn't happening.

    Also, all the sporting players are looking to quit the team. Expect some bargains.
    Aren’t their players basically allowed to just walk away from their contracts after what happened? Thought I read something along those lines.

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    Do they have many good players? Gerson Fernandes or whatever his name is looks alright (on FIFA). Anyone else?

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    They were on about some Dutch striker on Second Captains last week. Apparently he scores a lot but then again it's Portugal.

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    Bas Dost. He is a proper center forward. The manager goes mad at him if he tried to run into the channels out wide.

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    This Pirlo Testimonial looks like a right old clusterfuck.

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    Two goals in 90 seconds

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    Emery to Arsenal then. Didn't think they'd do a short term appointment.

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44203679

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    Quote Originally Posted by CJay View Post
    Aren’t their players basically allowed to just walk away from their contracts after what happened? Thought I read something along those lines.
    Yeah I think they have a collective walk out set up.

    United can finally sign William Cavalho.

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    West Ham United that is.

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    So is Aves problem stadium related? It usually is.

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    Emery is a mega intense nut job. I give him one season and a League Cup.

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    My 'he doesn't speak English' dig at Simeone has fallen to pieces.

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    It smacks of some moneyball pleb deciding that his teams have the crispest passing per dollar spent or whatever. I'm pretty sure the dressing room has been a total disaster everywhere he's been.

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    Unai Emery is overshadowing a much funnier appointment, with West Ham bringing in Mister Pellegrino on two hundred grand a week.

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    He was making Ł12m a year in China which is fucking mental.

    I'd have stayed out there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Emery is a mega intense nut job. I give him one season and a League Cup.
    To be fair, they'd take that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ItalAussie View Post
    To be fair, they'd take that.
    Fuck off.

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    At this point that would qualify as a decent season for Arsenal, assuming it didn't come alongside an eighth place finish.

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    Pretty much. Europe and the League Cup? That's about a par season.

    CL would be better, but that's a tough ask in the league currently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    At this point that would qualify as a decent season for Arsenal, assuming it didn't come alongside an eighth place finish.
    Outside of the 3 FA cups in 5 years but okay? The club has finished in it's lowest two places in twenty two years and that's suddenly the norm? Right.

    I have to assume Chelsea are a League Cup team these days too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Outside of the 3 FA cups in 5 years but okay? The club has finished in it's lowest two places in 22 years and that's suddently the norm? Right.
    Right which is why it would be 'decent', and not 'good' or 'excellent.'

    A cup and a top six finish, coming off the back of a season with no cup and a top six finish, would be a decent season and represent a forward step.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Right which is why it would be 'decent', and not 'good' or 'excellent.'

    A cup and a top six finish, coming off the back of a season with no cup and a top six finish, would be a decent season and represent a forward step.
    A team deemed to have had their worst season in two and a bit decades after losing the League Cup final to a record points total Man City and finishing sixth would deem a League Cup and a top 6 finish a success? Good one. Can't see a flaw in that thinking.

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    You're fast approaching the point where it's not worth engaging with you on Arsenal, and maybe football in general, because all that comes back is over the top misquotings of what I/others have said and some nineties sass to really drive home how pathetic you're being.

    You finished sixth, seven points off fifth with the second highest goals allowed in the top half and without a trophy to show for it. If you think another sixth place finish next season, perhaps a bit closer to the other five, but with a league cup in the cabinet wouldn't be some measure of progress then you need to put your head in some freezing cold water and keep it there until you reboot.

    EDIT - You've edited that post about six times, but addressing the most recent version, you've cited losing the League Cup final to Man City as almost a positive in that season, so explain to me how winning that same cup wouldn't be considered a positive?

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    You're fast approaching the point where it's not worth engaging with you on Arsenal, and maybe football in general, because all that comes back is over the top misquotings of what I/others have said and some nineties sass to really drive home how pathetic you're being.

    You finished sixth, seven points off fifth with the second highest goals allowed in the top half and without a trophy to show for it. If you think another sixth place finish next season, perhaps a bit closer to the other five, but with a league cup in the cabinet wouldn't be some measure of progress then you need to put your head in some freezing cold water and keep it there until you reboot.

    EDIT - You've edited that post about six times, but addressing the most recent version, you've cited losing the League Cup final to Man City as almost a positive in that season, so explain to me how winning that same cup wouldn't be considered a positive?
    Because none of that shit is progress. It's just the club achieving exceedingly lower expectations. The only objective the new manager has is getting back regularly into the top 4.

    If wining cups mattered then Wenger would have got respect for winning 3 in 4 but he didn't.

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    It's progress from last season you mong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Outside of the 3 FA cups in 5 years but okay?
    If cups just do not matter at all what the fuck is that? You're really quite bad at this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry View Post
    It's progress from last season you mong.
    Thanks, I hadn't realised that winning the League Cup Final is better than losing it. I can't believe the current management system hasn't considered that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    If cups just do not matter at all what the fuck is that? You're really quite bad at this.
    Cups clearly don't matter or Wenger would still be in a job. If Cups mattered than Arsene Wenger and Arsenal are a more successful project than Mauricio Pochetinno and Spurs? I'm not sure how this shit works for other people at this point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Thanks, I hadn't realised that winning the League Cup Final is better than losing it. I can't believe the current management system hasn't considered that.
    You evidently hadn't, because when I suggested that winning it would be an improvement on this season you cited the manner in which you lost it as a reason why it wouldn't be.

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    Easy boys, you are both right.

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    You can see why Twitter is trying to get rid of him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    You evidently hadn't, because when I suggested that winning it would be an improvement on this season you cited the manner in which you lost it as a reason why it wouldn't be.
    Do you think this year would have qualified as a sucessful season if they'd won that final? Arsenal would have has a successful final if they hadn't lost it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Cups clearly don't matter or Wenger would still be in a job. If Cups mattered than Arsene Wenger and Arsenal are a more successful project than Mauricio Pochetinno and Spurs? I'm not sure how this shit works for other people at this point.
    Spurs finished third this season with no trophies. If they finished next season in third but also won a league cup, that would be a better season than this one was.

    Arsenal finished sixth this season with no trophies. If they finished next season in sixth but also won a league cup, that would be a better season than this one was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Do you think this year would have qualified as a sucessful season if they'd won that final? Arsenal would have has a successful final if they hadn't lost it?
    Probably not, but having had the season they've just had, winning a cup final next year would have to be considered relative success.

    I'm really not sure what's going on here.

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