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I absolutely hate it.

What if you didn't watch the match and want to have some context on the result? The 0-0 draw against Crystal Palace was a perfect example, looks poor but we were really fucking good at everything bar finishing. Shots on or off is such a simple stat, Rashford could have 25 of those shots where he scored from to be as likely to score as that one miss from Haaland in the first half. Then you see those 25 shots to 1 in the stats and think Man United have been fucking amazing.

I'm too weak mentally to start mentioning expected threat here, maybe in the future.

It usually is a negative trait though. If you keep winning games with wonder goals and by your opponent missing sitters, it usually means you are not going to win those games for long, like that Pardew season. Like the first half in this match, someone says what is Pep doing, Man City are losing to Man United at home. Or praising Ten Hag for getting it right. I'm more than happy to say that xG was 2.70 vs 0.19 and Pep more than likely got it right but was on the wrong side of variance.

Yeah, massive lad.

Aye, think that data was done but it's not available anywhere. Remember seeing it used as an extreme example of good luck in some article I read years ago.

Honestly struggle with the fume some people have with xG, it's just another stat that's usually way better than the old ones although not perfect. Fucking cavemen.

XG is just one way to say Man City have dominated. Would you prefer if I said goal attempts are 21-2 without any context of how good the chances have been? And what the fuck does the nickname of my local ice hockey team have to do with my patter skills?

Pep is fucking great again, right?

Boom! Get in!

The one where he headed it to ground?

Alright, Pep out.

Bad angle on the scuffed shot and he messed up the through on goal unless there was another one I missed.

XG was 2.70 vs 0.19 in the first half, I don't know how Pep should get any heat for this game.

Longstaff is so soft.

Lovely run by Bruno, probably fastest I’ve seen him run.

Longstaff-special.

Burn had a man outside, Neto casually walked past Botman.

The club will also have a pretty good idea what Ashworth thinks is the best setup. Considering Ashworth's reputation it makes sense to promote someone from the inside to mimic/follow Ashworth's model instead of bringing someone new in and potentially blow everything up so quickly.

I mean they are the ones watching him. Although there are definitely some biases as I remember @Unbelievable saying their fans were not very happy when we outsourced his development to them and reap all the rewards if he becomes good.

I don’t really remember the background on Ashley buying us but if Souness hadn’t been so relentlessly shite and passionate about fighting with our best players, maybe Ashley would’ve never had a chance to buy us. Instead we get someone decent and spent the rest of 2000’s and 2010’s on at least similar level to Spurs.

I say Souness. Didn't take him long to erase all the progress we made during SBR's reign, fucking brain dead appointment. Last season was the first one where I felt we had finally recovered from that but what's 20 years anyway.

He got a bad injury in his first season in the spring iirc which correlated with our form going bad. I still remember when we won 1-3 at Highbury right before Christmas that season to end the London curse and top of the league. I stared at the updated league table on our Ceefax for at least half an hour.

There will absolutely be buyers for him, I would say he's worth the risk even for £10-15m for a club that's potentially fighting against relegation. And his wage level isn't too high for Spanish and Italian clubs either and they generally value experience and older players more than clubs in England IMO. I wouldn't be surprised if clubs like Inter, Milan, Lazio or Roma were interested in him next summer.

Wilson would have to be extremely thick if he got mad that we didn't let him go in January. And the line about not wanting to heal as quickly as possible. Why are people linking made up bullshit like this, surely you don't want to give clicks and views to bullshit merchants and encourage them to come up with even more ludicrous rumours in the future?