Then do what I do. Just watch the matches. Ain’t that difficult.
Then do what I do. Just watch the matches. Ain’t that difficult.
Thanks for coming, we sell tinfoil hats in the lobby.
Sir Bobby. Unless you think he was too attacking to qualify.
They didn’t really play the same sort of game because it’s changed so much in the last 20 years, but Henry and Mbappé have similar skillsets: lightning fast, deft touch, excellent both passing and shooting. Henry started his career as a winger, too, though he didn’t really flourish till Arsene moved him to the middle. All of which makes me think that Mbappé could be the greatest striker in the world if he weren’t so stubborn.
Of course, Titi was magnificent at the public relations part of the game, which Mbappé apparently has no gift for.
The funny thing is that this guy is right and in twenty years you all will be either: (a) pretending you agreed all along, or (b) bloviating to your grandkids about how things were better when you were young.
I’ve seen this exact conversation play out in baseball and basketball. Guess who was right? Yeah, not the people who think certain teams have a magic formula. Luck plays a role. Grow up and get over it.
The fact that luck plays a role in the sport doesn’t mean that overwhelmingly superior talent won’t win out most of the time. But luck, or random variation, or any of a number of other names it goes by, plays a huge role in a sport as low-scoring as football.
Well, obviously Neves belongs in a real league. But what’s Arsenal’s motivation?
Partey is out for quite a while, possibly until summer. Arsenal’s signature problem at the moment is that they don’t have a #10 / left-sided #8 after the departure of Xhaka. They thought that Havertz was going to be able to fill this hole but he hasn’t, for the obvious reason that he’s a forward, probably a right winger, and not a midfielder.
Now, Neves isn’t a left-sided #8. But what he is, is a solid holding midfielder. This would allow Arsenal to do what is probably the optimal thing at the moment, which is push Declan Rice into that role, without having to have the reanimated corpse of Jorginho trying to manage the game from the back. Whether that’s a long-term solution or not is up for debate, but Rice has played the left-sided 8 a few times this season and is obviously Arsenal’s best option for that role at the moment, probably through the end of the season.
Why would the Saudis allow it to happen? I’m not sure they view Newcastle and Arsenal as potential rivals in the same way that most fans would. They’re trying to (a) make money and (b) get notoriety from their association with the Magpies. The real key to both of those is to be playing European football on a year-in, year-out basis, on TV all over the world, etc. Their competition for that, at the moment, is more like Manchester United, Chelsea, Spurs, Villa. Heck, it may even be to their advantage if Arsenal beats a bunch of their rivals for that 4th/5th slot that will get them into the Champions’ League. Whether Arsenal beats Liverpool is of no moment to them.
Plus, Arsenal’s American sugar daddy may well be willing to pay a bazillion pounds for Neves at the end of any such loan. And who can say no to that?
Last I read Partey’s done for the season.
It’s really, really hard to say no to Fabregas. But then I can’t have both Marty and Rice. So I guess I go Marty, Rice, Xhaka (but only if I get Xhaka from last year, not before then).
I think this city team is not quite at the level of the last few years. And they’ve dropped some points that their super-teams would not have – the draw to Chelsea being the most recent example.
Look, City is almost always the best team in the League. But people have developed a superstition about them that I think is unhealthy.
They got too loose on Toulouse Street.
Dude, it’s football. Nothing about it is important. That’s the whole point.
He would still have been an insufferable douche, I imagine.
JFC, this is the worst sort of blame-your-best-player dimwittery.
Me! Nobody rates me at all, but I put in a pretty solid performance at center half every Wednesday evening down at the park.
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