Lol, he’s not even playing. Silly Wilder, only time he ever scores.
These kits aren’t great for being colour blind. Fucking hell
I don't get why you'd get two centre backs in the transfer window because the ones you have are all injured and then not play at least one of them. Fair enough if everyone was fit and you didn't want to put them into the team straight away but when your central defence is a makeshift one cobbled together from midfielders, what have you got to lose?
Is Kane and Son the Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke of the modern era. I can't think of two players more inextricably linked.
BTW that Cole/Yorke partnership must be up there for the most underrated strikeforce of the PL era?
There's no way Cole and Yorke are underrated as a partnership. It's one of the great front twos and they were borderline telepathic.
Who talks about partnerships in general?
They've dropped off the radar a bit in that sense maybe. Probably because Sheringham and Solskjaer scored against Bayern and neither do media/management.
Shearer and Sutton.
They dropped off the radar because playing 2 up top seems a rarity these days.
That’s about the 5th time Mendy has done that with a defender. Was always going to lead to a goal.
Yeah it's weird that the 3rd highest scorer of all time (since football began in 92) is barely mentioned.
That midfield three with five at the back
He cost them the league against West Ham(?). Never shook it and tbf he really should've scored that day.
Shearer/Sutton was a bit more top heavy than Yorke/Cole because undisputably:
Shearer
Yorke
Cole
Sutton
But it was still a partnership which won the league for Blackburn.
Their understanding was great, but neither of them was really top, top class, which was why they didn't score as many as they should have done considering they had four properly world class midfielders behind them.
Dwight Yorke's ruined his legacy with the whole shitdad to Harvey debacle.
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I'm sure the partnerships discussion was had on here very recently, also sure it was prompted by phonics' comment about Yorke/Cole being underrated. Think Jimmy had a pretty good rebuttal.
Either that or I'm a) having the most mundane deja vu or b) having dreams about this place.
Why on earth isn't Timo on penalties? If ever a lad needed confidence.
He got taken off them when he missed one against Luton.
The thing with Cole was that there were always a handful of other English number nines who were better. So he was never really rated very highly.
He also had loads of chances in a game and usually took one but it was the missed chances that always stuck in the mind.
Easy to look back at everything he won and all the goals he scored and think he was the dogs bollocks but he wasn't as good as the others. That's why he never got much of a chance for England.
Cole was brilliant at Newcastle. I think he waned (in terms of wider opinion at least) at United as there was a feeling you could stick any old mug up front for that team and they'd do pretty well, as has been pointed out. The abundance of more gifted, or more prolific forwards at the time obviously didn't help him either.
Shearer was the only English number 9 better than him. He was better than Ferdinand, Fowler and Wright. The only one you could argue in Owen when he was a teenager, but even that was only 99 onwards, really.
The fact that Hoddle didn't fancy Cole for whatever reason tainted people's perception of how good he was, hence your "Needs five chances to score" point.
Werner winning 7 penalties so far must have him onto some sort of record
Everything I've ever seen of peak Robbie Fowler suggests that he was a lot better until he wasted it all for whatever reason[s].
Fowler was brilliant for about 2 years, and better than Cole at his peak. But he barely played for England either, for some reason. Didn't even get a cap until 96.
Can't believe the Cole slagging in here. He was a very good centre forward.
Owen broke through in '97 and was pretty much instantly better than Cole. Owen was sensational as a teenager. Cole gets a hard time, but he definitely missed a lot of chances.
https://www.google.com/search?q=west...W4QeHwNnY,st:0
That's the West Ham game I was on about. The one off the post is unlucky, but he should've scored one of the two at the end. Cantona would've. Van Nistelrooy would've. Shearer would've. It's not as bad as I remember though. Plenty of chances shared between McClair, Hughes and a couple of others. He was a good player, but not good enough to be the United number 9 in that team.
Their goal tallies all benefited from the massive amount of space afforded behind English defences of the time (much as certain people benefit in the weak German league today). The only ones who translated it to international level were Shearer and Owen.
Generational talent is one of the worst phrases of recent years.
I had absolutely no time for Hoddle or England at that time so I don't think my view is tainted by that.
He was obviously very good (we had a great run of strikers) he was a similar level to Ferdinand and Wright and level below Owen, Fowler, Sheringham and Shearer.
He definitely was wasteful all the way through his career. Didn't matter so much in the 90s as everyone was creating a shed load of chances, especially the United and Newcastle sides he played in.
That sort of era was peak Premier League enjoyment.
So many good players everywhere and real quality attacking football.
Wasn’t Fowler too fond of the powder? That said, he’s among the best I’ve ever seen at his peak.
Andy Cole was a semi-laughing stock for much of my childhood. As a child, if you hit a shot way wide, you’d “Andy Coled it” and a throw-in was given, even though throw-ins weren’t otherwise ever in our games.
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Fowler had bigger plans than football.
Robbie Fowler remains the best striker I've gotten to see live. Suarez ran him very close though.
Managing in India now with Kerala Blasters or somesuch.
The £17 million we paid for Raphinha was an absolute fucking steal. He's class.
It's definitely more concerning having Leeds a place below you than Arsenal. I can see you finishing well this season.
Bamford playing his way into a Euros place would be a sight to see.
Some very odd basic failings here from Leeds. Palace are sitting so deep that they can easily keep possession between their back-four and draw them out but instead they keep going direct and playing into the hands of Palace. I'm not asking for a complete 180 shift from Bielsa-ball to Big-Sam-ball, just fucking string together a few more passes across the back four to allow more space and efficacy for your midfield to operate in.