sledger
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Well I guess if you read it it must be true.
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***Official*** English Football Season 2017/18
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flibbertyjibber
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Eh? How you managed that
Spikey
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marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
Mother in law wants to go and has offered to pay for my ticket so will go and support the local club. Can't make the Monday as the wife is working and nobody available to look after the little one.
flibbertyjibber
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Not boycotting then?
They may do, looks like the game will struggle to get over 40000.
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Martial will get better though, Sanchez will get worse. You want a big step up in current quality if you're replacing a 22 year old with a 29 year old.
I think Martial's potential is probably slightly overrated. but even so, if we sell him it'll almost definitely be for less than he's worth.
sledger
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Yeah sure, but I very much doubt the reason why that ideal has not manifested in practice is down to Sanchez himself. Not to any great extent at least.
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Yeah I definitely agree. Our attacking play was incoherent before he arrived and it's still incoherent. Every time he gets the ball he's surrounded by players with no good passing options. He quite often takes a great touch or wriggles between defenders to get into a dangerous position, then has to turn back because there's nothing on in front of him. It was sort of hoped that his individual ability would help sort that out, and it did against Citeh, but football doesn't really work like that.
I actually think the majority of criticisms of Mourinho aren't especially true. Like, even when you don't buy into his project or ideas and don't like the guy, when you support his club you start to notice the faultlines where the siege mentality develops. But the total inability to coach combination play is one that he doesn't get enough **** for.
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sledger
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Yeah, Henry Winter wrote quite a decent piece about this the other day. That approach seems to have reached the end of the road, the in vogue way of doing things is the fatherly way, ala Pep and Klopp. The being a dick to get people to perform thing seems to be dying out. Not before time really.
sledger
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44203704
Bye lad.
Another Arsenal player who, whilst not quite in the Diaby bracket of having suffered talent/career wrecking injuries, is probably comparable to Rosicky. Fortunate enough to get a few years of him at close to his peak, but another one who will leave plenty wondering about what might have been.
A real shame. Really loved him.
Bye lad.
Another Arsenal player who, whilst not quite in the Diaby bracket of having suffered talent/career wrecking injuries, is probably comparable to Rosicky. Fortunate enough to get a few years of him at close to his peak, but another one who will leave plenty wondering about what might have been.
A real shame. Really loved him.
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Furball
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Which is funny because his original Chelsea side and his Inter side would have run over broken glass in order to run through a brick wall for him.
sledger
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I suspect it's one of those things that works when everything is going well, but not so well otherwise. Players are presumably more willing to accept tough love if they can go "well, he might be a ****, but we are winning stuff", as opposed to "we are **** and he's a total asshole, wtf are we putting up with this for?"