***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20

[Uppercut]

Ozil wasn't even really a big money signing tbh. Not by RM standards at least.

Arsenal spent more on Arshavin than RM did on Ozil, around the same period of time. Mad really.

RM spent more on Fabio Coentrao.

The thing is, his success almost guaranteed a good ROI if the club wanted to take it, because most of the players he bought were worth far more after he was done with them. Even at Inter where he left behind a badly aged squad, Inter could have got a fortune for them if they'd been sold right after becoming treble winners.

Same with Pep at City. So he spent £100m on Sterling and De Bruyne but how much are they worth now? Owners will be more than happy if you put lots of their money into an asset that massively appreciates.

 

[sledger]

RM spent more on Fabio Coentrao.

The thing is, his success almost guaranteed a good ROI if the club wanted to take it, because most of the players he bought were worth far more after he was done with them. Even at Inter where he left behind a badly aged squad, Inter could have got a fortune for them if they'd been sold right after becoming treble winners.

Same with Pep at City. So he spent £100m on Sterling and De Bruyne but how much are they worth now? Owners will be more than happy if you put lots of their money into an asset that massively appreciates.

Haha ****, Coentrao is still only 31 years old. I thought he was at least 5-6 older than that, and would be long gone by now. But no. Was still even on the RM books until last year.

 

[duffer]

Ozil wasn't even really a big money signing tbh. Not by RM standards at least.

From what I recall he had one year left on his deal and told the Werder higher ups that he was off to Madrid on a free if they didn't sell him that summer, hence the shiddy price.

 

[Furball]

RM spent more on Fabio Coentrao.

The thing is, his success almost guaranteed a good ROI if the club wanted to take it, because most of the players he bought were worth far more after he was done with them. Even at Inter where he left behind a badly aged squad, Inter could have got a fortune for them if they'd been sold right after becoming treble winners.

Same with Pep at City. So he spent £100m on Sterling and De Bruyne but how much are they worth now? Owners will be more than happy if you put lots of their money into an asset that massively appreciates.

Pretty sure Sterling and de Bruyne were signed while Pellegrini was manager?

 

[Uppercut]

Pretty sure Sterling and de Bruyne were signed while Pellegrini was manager?

Yeah probably right, though they are usually counted when people talk shite about Pep spending money. Could use Bernardo or whoever as an example instead.

 

[harsh.ag]

Mourinho needs almost limitless supplies of money to achieve success. I can't see there being enough of that at Spurs.

Well... Porto.

 

[anil1405]

Well... Porto.

Tactically the game has changed a lot since his time at Porto and Mou continues to be adamant to change.

 

[Uppercut]

Tactically the game has changed a lot since his time at Porto and Mou continues to be adamant to change.

People talk a lot about the game leaving him behind, which is probably mostly true but I think he's also just got worse. A lot of his teams played some pretty great football at times, but at United he seemed to play shite football as a matter of principle.

 

[Furball]

Yeah probably right, though they are usually counted when people talk shite about Pep spending money. Could use Bernardo or whoever as an example instead.

I think the transfer market is probably Guardiola's biggest weakness. He's great at improving players, there's a ridiculous number of players at all his clubs who have played their best football under him, but his actual signings are a different matter.

 

[Tangles]

I guess with Jose at Spurs we should be able to sell Matic to them.

 

[Cabinet96]

People talk a lot about the game leaving him behind, which is probably mostly true but I think he's also just got worse. A lot of his teams played some pretty great football at times, but at United he seemed to play shite football as a matter of principle.

United was probably the first squad he ever had that didn't have good defenders. I wonder if that's the thing that really killed him.

 

[vcs]

His personality finally caught up with him. You can't succeed forever as a manager of people while being an odious bloke.

 

[Furball]

This is really low quality stuff so far.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I wonder if Poch fancies West Ham.

 

[sledger]

5 at the back and 2 DMs in the team for Arsenal at home to Southampton today... Great...

 

[duffer]

Oh boy, this'll make things interesting

 

[andmark]

5 at the back and 2 DMs in the team for Arsenal at home to Southampton today... Great...

And still can't prevent Southampton scoring an early goal. Oh dear.

 

[vcs]

What does Emery have to do to get sacked?

 

[andmark]

Yay Livarpool

 

[OverratedSanity]

god i love var so much