Usain Bolt Doesn't Want To Play For Us - The Other Teams Thread [R]

About damn time USA wins in Mexico.

 

Watching Arsenal is going to be very interesting the next couple seasons. Particularly if Song goes to Barca. Ox and Walcott will have a lot of load to carry. Ox being the wonderkid and Walcott being elevated to senior attacker on the team (discounting Bendtner). If Giroud doesn't hit the ground running or Gervinho doesn't thrive in a central role or start contributing goals and assists at a respectable rate (possible given greater freedom in a different deployment) then Le Arse will really really struggle for goals. Unless they play very adventurous stuff that will probably see them concede a lot without a rock solid backline.




If ever there was a time to start courting an experienced manager to replace Arsene it would be now. He's undoubtedly going to fail to bring in silverware and given the length of the drought and the fact that making a demand for measurable success is reasonable now, you could get someone in who can build the squad in his own image with all the big personalities gone.

 

City.

 

I don't expect first year players to thrive in Arsene's system. Not stupid ones. Poldi is stupid.

 

That's an understatement.

I think he will settle quickly because he is physically suited to the Prem. It's not as technically demanding a league so he will have plenty of those long shot drive goals but he will have four times as many of them go over the bar.

 

Liverpool. Childhood fan.

 

Always thought Walcott would thrive in a more direct system where he can use his pace to exploit space behind the defenders. He can't cross or pass, therefore doesn't fit well into Arsenal's system. Same would go for Chicarito. Berbatov on the other hand would probably be a good pick up for them.

 

Podolski is an awful wing forward as well, his best role is CF so either you sacrifice Giroud or play 2 non creative wing forwards in Podolski and Walcott.

 

New Under-21 Premier League starting up:

Good move, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/premier-league-confirms-u21-fixtures-and-teams.html

 

I would have preferred Modric staying at Spurs.

I kind of like Spurs and would have liked for them to do well. Also, we usually spank them, and they knick points off of our rivals.

 

I'll try to remember to shed a tear for them later.

 

Just had look at the fixtures, most of them are on a Monday.

They said the idea was to have the games for this take place after the first team had played on the weekend so that the younger unused subs for the senior sides could get some additional footaball. With the amount of midweek games our first team are usually involved in I don't see it making too much difference for United. Maybe a small difference though. Ironically, some of the obvious first team oppurtunities for our kids will come on Tuesday or Wednesday nights anyway with League Cup so they won't be playing in this league that week anyway. It's definitely better for the development of the younger players at clubs with less congested senior fixture lists.

I think it was sdotsom on here who suggested putting these games on immediately after senior matches on the same pitch, shadowing the Premier League fixtures. That would work out better for all concerned in terms of the window the game was played in, and you might get a number of fans staying behind to watch which could get the kids used to playing in front of bigger crowds too. Not sure how practical that would be. If it was possible then I think it would have been better.

The rules they're implementing regarding only 3 over 21 players aren't really necessary. I can only think of a couple of teams we've played in recent seasons where a reserve side has had more than that in it (Blackpool and I think Villa once). I'd stilll like managers to have option anyway, as the timing of injuries and when the game could be useful for nursing senior squad members back to health is unpredictable. It's also arguably a good thing if the kids were playing against older, experienced players here and there. It's obviously crap if you're the kid who misses out because a senior player drops down to the reserves but if you're the one making way then you're probably not that good anyway unless you're a goalie. Reserve teams should have no problem playing guys out of position.

It's all a bit of a glossy new thing without much substance to it for me. A bit better than the old setup but not massively so.

 

No way.

He is not good at CF at all because he isn't disciplined enough. He always drifts left. He isn't a very good WF either but he would struggle centrally upfront by himself. Novakovic carried most of the burden for him.

 

Liverpool sign Aissaidi from Heerenveen, if that is the level of wingers they will get it wont matter if they get who they put in the middle.

 

Who?

 

Just another lower level player imo.

 

Wenger will be coaching PSG at this time next year.....

 

Mbia to QPR Barton on loan to Marseille (isnt Mbia a big Man Utd fan ?).

 

An idiot abroad.