Not to make light of it but, the way the club injury list is, even those who are on the bench will get a chance to play. In a sense, Arteta and co figured it out this season: by having so much talent chomping at the bit, even when you get that hellacious injury bug spreading through the team, even those who don't get a look-in (if the team were 100% healthy) will get a chance.
Yes we seem to have a good bunch of dudes. However winning is a major salve. The proof of togetherness will happen if we hit a prolonged patch of poor results. Of course that will never happen!
Honestly I think man united will be replaced by Villa as “top six” in a couple of years. Absolute disaster.
I mean sometimes, sadly, I suppose. But think of it this way. If you're in on goal, a defender is flying in, you can avoid the tackle by jumping, but also by doing so, you break stride and ball gets away from you such that the keeper or another defender can make a play? Should you be obligated to jump?
They spend like 95% of their revenue on wages and are completely hamstrung in the transfer market. If they have a couple of bad seasons, they'll be in huge trouble.
I'm with you, Villa are the new Leicester. Spending too much on wages, not able to sustain big sales, don't have the revenues - particularly matchday and commercial deals - that the big clubs have. I think there is a descent chance Villa are relegated in the next 5 years.
And Infantino’s? It’s expensive to bribe confederation officials! ps. I read your post as “Trump’s viagra” on first glance
It will be for the time being. Man Utd is the biggest club in the country, top 3 or 4 in the world. They have had time periods where they didn't win the title ('68 to '92). And even within that time they were no worse than 2nd biggest club still with Liverpool in its golden era. They will be back at some point. And when they do they will rule for a time like they have done. Liverpool, Arsenal and Man Utd will never be down and out permanently, only dry periods.
And reports are they are so paranoid they are reserving the right to look through the last few years of your social media if they stop you at the airport. You buy expensive tickets, accommodations, etc and may still get turned around at the airport.
This is the perfect endpoint for FIFA and the World Cup IMO The last heavyweight tournament was 1998, but at least there was still some afterglow
I only looked at KC. $140 for a ticket in the upper level endzone (they still won't sell you an exact seat) for Algeria/Austria. Same ticket is $265 for Argentina/Algeria and $535 for the quarterfinal. Lower bowl for the same matches is $450, $700 and $1265. I'd consider buying now at half this price if I could pick a seat.
They will rope in some people with FOMO but they still have 6 mo to lower prices and fill stadiums. They are too greedy to leave anything on the table.
ATL prices start at just under $500 for a decent seat in the group games. You can take $100 off if you want to sit in the nosebleeds, but I’m not doing that, especially since the games are pretty bad.
Are they telling you the part of the stadium now? I got cat 1 during the presale for Spain vs Saudi Arabia in ATL and cat 1 for the round of 16 game in Houston, but all the info I got was not nosebleeds
The way the league is so competitive, perhaps even one bad season without European football could doom them.