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**Official** English Football Season 2024/25

Niall

International Coach
Memo to Palace fans , stop worrying about relegation before Xmas every year. :p

Very important win for Pool as it changes the narrative massively.

Can't fault Nunez today obviously, but I wonder how Liverpool are going to strengthen their attack next season, because City will be very much back to normal next season. Nunez despite some nice crucial goals and the increasingly brittle Jota won't cut it IMO.

Trent to be fair has been pretty good since the Dalot debacle.
 

Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Feel like we are a better side than we were a couple of years ago but not getting those wins against the big sides like we did then.
 

Skipper Pup

U19 Captain
Memo to Palace fans , stop worrying about relegation before Xmas every year. :p

Very important win for Pool as it changes the narrative massively.

Can't fault Nunez today obviously, but I wonder how Liverpool are going to strengthen their attack next season, because City will be very much back to normal next season. Nunez despite some nice crucial goals and the increasingly brittle Jota won't cut it IMO.

Trent to be fair has been pretty good since the Dalot debacle.
Trent's been very good all season he just suffers from agenda-based analysis. The lazy casuals who only watch big games saw the United performance and took the chance to criticise him and continually point to it, despite the other 20 league games this season where he's been remarkably consistent. Rightly so at the time, but it's only ever been an application issue.. again he was brilliant against Brentford.

I want to credit Konate, he was my MOTM. I thought Szobo was really good too and of course Darwin deserved his big moment.

In terms of how we improve next season... we need an fit top class striker. Jota might be the 2nd best finisher in the league but he's not available enough to be relied on. We will have to buy another option because Darwin won't stay. My sense is Diaz will also leave, so we'll need a back up LW. Finally, LB is another spot we need to upgrade anyway, I think we can get more creativity there because neither Robbo/Tsimi offer much.
 

Skipper Pup

U19 Captain
Anyway I think I'm prepared to declare the league is over. Late goal to win it and then Arsenal drop points at home again after being two goals up.

Should be a 9pt gap with a game in hand by the time Arsenal step on the pitch at Molineux and that will cause serious pressure.

I look at their bench and I just don't see how Arteta can change games or inject any sort of attacking threat. They're in desperate need of signings.
 

Molehill

Cricketer Of The Year
This is one of those games that was guaranteed to be funny no matter what happened. It is not disappointing.
They’ve given up, may as well fire him now. But who would want the job?

And how on earth did they beat Liverpool in that semi first leg?
 

Uppercut

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Ange is a good coach, they’re just missing the entire back half of their team. It reminds me of when Leeds fired Bielsa when they had a generational injury crisis during a hard run of games. At the time people will shrug and feel like it makes perfect sense, but when we look back in a couple of years it’ll seem completely insane.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Yeah apparently the Spurs fan base are largely of the same attitude. No pressure on Ange from them, but apparently Levy is getting angsty.
 

Tangles

International Vice-Captain
Lots of players putting their hand up for worst defensive player at United. Dalot and De Ligt were the front runners but Mazroui and Onana making a mark today. Maguire about the only one looking better in the new system.

Onana looking like an 80s Euro keeper at corners is one thing but now spilling balls into bad areas? What a cluster.
 

Niall

International Coach
Lots of players putting their hand up for worst defensive player at United. Dalot and De Ligt were the front runners but Mazroui and Onana making a mark today. Maguire about the only one looking better in the new system.

Onana looking like an 80s Euro keeper at corners is one thing but now spilling balls into bad areas? What a cluster.
Dalot had a good game v Pool tbf, but overall very poor this season. They desperately need proper wing backs IMO this Summer. Maguire who has rightfully got plaudits this season wasn't great but obviously the least of the United's concerns atm.

I seen this from The Athletic earlier and it summaries how ****ed they are , their is an upside though!



They pay a record sum to bring in Dan Ashworth, only to sack him a few months later because he doesn’t think Amorim suits the squad.
They give Erik ten Hag a new contract after three weeks of searching for a “better” coach. Then they publicly proclaim that Ten Hag is the best manager on the market and spend £200m on players tailored for a 4-2-3-1 system, pushing the club right up to the FFP limit. Now we’re forced to sell players whom Murtough put on such high wages that no other club can or will buy them.

Then they sack Ten Hag and bring in Amorim, the very manager they rejected over the summer. This forces us to rebuild the entire squad, which we can’t do because we spent £200m on players for a different system. Dan Ashworth points this out and suggests bringing in a Premier League-proven manager who would be more compatible with the current squad. For that, he gets fired, leaving us without a sporting director just as the January transfer window approaches.

It then emerges that Ineos never wanted to keep Ten Hag over the summer but still chose to invest £200m into a squad designed for his system—despite consistently trying to bring in Amorim all along. Ironically, this has now sabotaged any chance for Amorim to rebuild the squad to fit his style of play.
 

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