Madridistas All Over Copa And Euros Collide While Colombians Dominate - The Other Teams Thread

I was more doubtful of Isak. Seen it before when players have a good season or two, make a big move and it doesn't go their way at all. To be fair to him, the club's situation is not too dissimilar from ours where the team is playing so badly, it's hard for any individual to look decent.

 

Raphinha scores 1-0 Barca.

Shame, I was really hoping for a 0--0 draw.

 

Late winner for Arsenal at home against Wolves that had 2 points from 15 games.

 

More like a bollywood dance routine.

 

I find it amazing that when buying or replacing a successful player, there seems to be so little thought put into the how important the system/tactics/team-mates were to that success.

 

I'm watching the Aston Villa vs. West Ham (which hopefully Villa win), and the commentator made an interesting comment about the intensity and authoritarianism that Emery has injected into the club. Apparently, all of the players are forced to watch hours of video footage as part of training and preparation, and listen to him for extending periods about how he wants them to structurally set-up.

As things stand at Real Madrid, all of that would miserably fail within a few weeks.

 

Friendship FC gave them all sorts of concessions and freedoms that for them to actually work, learn, etc. is apparently below their pay grade.

 

Sunderland 1-0 Newcastle. Woltemade crazy bullet header into his own goal.

10 PL derbies in a row undefeated for Sunderland over Newcastle (7 wins, 3 draws) going back over 13 years.

 

Blah blah blah, "they" won....

 

No one doubts their quality; but you're foolish. You see the trophies as an excuse or shield for poor lifestyle, behavior, training, etc.

 

Yeah...we need to be more like Aston Villa.

 

With all due respect to Emery, he’s an outstanding coach for mid-table teams but a poor coach for big clubs. There’s nothing a Real Madrid manager can really take from him. Even his main strength - winning European trophies with mid-level teams hasn’t translated to English clubs. he lost the Europa League final with Arsenal to Chelsea, and as Villa’s manager he took a heavy beating from Olympiacos in the Conference League semifinals.

 

No we should be arrogant and cater to the players until we up like Manure.

 

It seems that Wirtz choosing Liverpool over Bayern actually did Bayern a favor. Instead of spending €100+ million on Wirtz, they gained an academy player, Lenart Karl, who already has 6 goals and 2 assists in all competitions in just 880 minutes.
But what’s most impressive is that he doesn’t have even half the hype that Cubarsí has, simply because he plays for Bayern and not for Barça.

 

No, we should be more like a circus.

 

The point I was making wasn't about Emery specifically, it was more about that modern football is clearly heading into a different direction and has done for several years now. Otherwise follow a Man Utd type of manager & owner model.

 

Valverde doesn't bother with the forward pass, passes it backwards and straight to the opposition.

 

I'm sorry, i didn't really understand what point you were trying to make.

 

City won 3-0 at Crystal Palace. Feel they are favourites for PL. Haaland is scoring for fun. Arsenal doesn't have a reliable scorer.

 

This


reminds me of this:

 

I still have Arsenal as favourites, but people are definately not talking about City enough as a challenger. Here in the UK its like Arsenal have almost won it already if you listen to the pundits talking.

Haaland scoring loads, Foden back playing well.