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***Official*** English Football Season 2018-19

flibbertyjibber

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Isn't that the case at most clubs though, new manager will stick with players he signs over ones he inherits for far too long even when it is obvious it is the wrong decision.
 
Lillian Thomson

Lillian Thomson

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Has anyone else's team ever sacked their manager one game from the end of the season when you need to win to have a chance of avoiding relegation? 45 games of absolutely joyless misery and then sack him now. How these business men are so rich I'll never now.
Sorry for the interruption - back to the Premier League.
 
GIMH

GIMH

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Lillian Thomson said:
Has anyone else's team ever sacked their manager one game from the end of the season when you need to win to have a chance of avoiding relegation? 45 games of absolutely joyless misery and then sack him now. How these business men are so rich I'll never now.
Sorry for the interruption - back to the Premier League.
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Micky Adams went with two to go when we went down from L2 - but we were as good as down by then anyway

Also not just one game, but a few years back Forest Green sacked their manager ahead of the play-offs.
 
andmark

andmark

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Football Writers gave player of the year to Sterling. PFA gave it to van Dijk. Not sure how to feel about the split.
 
Uppercut

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The football writers were always going to give it to Sterling after he called them out for being a pack of racist ****s.
 
andmark

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Having obsessed over Match of the Day last night, Sokratis was full on dire in Leicester's second goal. He didn't actually look at Vardy until the ball had gone in and was subsequently in a terrible position to deal with it. Just awful defending.
 
sledger

sledger

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Sokratis an odd player. Generally solid-ish, but prone to massive brain fades. The newspaper headlines that went around before he joined Arsenal which described him as "big and strong but not very good at football" are about right for mine.

As a reputation as being pretty dense apparently. Evidenced by a recent video on Arsenal's twitter feed where he was taking part in a quiz with Mavropanos and asked to name a country beginning with the letter A. His answer: "America".

He then got salty when Mavro and all the production crew started laughing at him.
 
Uppercut

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They bought him as he was on the way down, so this season's serviceable display will surely be as good as it gets. He'll be Arsenal's Matic.

The correlation between how good a signing turns out to be and what age they were when signed is so, so strong lately. Liverpool and City get a lot of deserved credit for their superior scouting but >50% of it is just buying players that are five years younger than those signed by Arsenal or United.
 
sledger

sledger

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Yeah he quite cleqrly is not a long terk solutiin to anything. Definite stopgap. Would have gone for someone else if the money was there.
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

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Steve Chalmers following his captain's footsteps and passed away this week.
The word 'legend' tends to be over-used, but tit's entirely accurate for Chalmers and McNeill.
Vale.
 
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Pothas

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They bought him as he was on the way down, so this season's serviceable display will surely be as good as it gets. He'll be Arsenal's Matic.

The correlation between how good a signing turns out to be and what age they were when signed is so, so strong lately. Liverpool and City get a lot of deserved credit for their superior scouting but >50% of it is just buying players that are five years younger than those signed by Arsenal or United.
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It does seem even more the case these days and for pretty much every type of club, I don't know how true it actually was but feels like you used to get those old guys turn up at smaller Premier league clubs and be really important, that does not really happen anymore. Cambiasso the only once I can think of recently.

Still a few Brentford fans who want us to buy some 'experienced Championship' players. Brentford probably one of the most extreme examples as we hardly ever buy anyone over the age of 24 but it amazes me that some of ours fans still don't understand why that is.
 
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I think selling Pogba is a no-brainer tbh. It’s self-evidently not worked out for him at United and someone will pay us far more than he’s worth.

I’m not sure what we’d be hoping to happen if we kept him. He’d just be inconsistent and hard to build a team around for one more year in a side that isn’t challenging for anything anyway. Then he’d leave for less money next summer. You don’t have to think he’s a bad player to see that it’s time to move on.
 
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