Conjo

Haven’t they got a pretty good generation of players coming through? This has been somewhat of a break through season for Erling Haaland (19, RB Salzburg, striker), Martin Ødegård (20, Sociedad, attacking midfielder) and Sander Berge (21, Genk, defensive midfielder). We also have Ajer (21, Celtic, center back) and Joshua King that has been performing well for their teams the last few seasons. All of them are playing regularly and performing well for their club teams in good leagues (Celtic and Genk in Europe), and they could potentially be a really solid, quality spine of the National team for the next 10+ years. I assume the national team will dissapoint as always, but now days there's at least hope, excpectations and a few exciting players to watch. I hope this generation get through to at least one major tournament. Last time Norway qualified for a world cup was in 1998, and Euros in 2000.

Good luck. Hope Finland gets through.

First time in years where Norway is somewhat interesting to watch due to the potential of the team starting to show now. Will be interesting to see how they cope with Spain today.

Who's the "we" that is referred to so often in that club statement?

Guess Shearer wasn't greit either as 21% of his goals in the premier league came from penalties

Eh, it's the most important thing for an attacking player. Don't worry about it. GE has Howe, that other fucker hated Perez for no reason, Almiron is just Conjo's 'thing' now. He's gonna be the Almiron guy until Andy gets fed up and bans him. God damn Swede

I thought it was established in the Almiron thread that goals and assists doesn't really matter when judging a players ability.

I feel it's almost a bad thing that these players have managed to come through in a way as I expect Ashleys view on it will be why waste money on improving something that works well and produces good talents already.

The laugh when they say they aim for Chamions League this season

So much bullshit in here. From 2004 - 2014 Rooney was world class. One of the best English players of all time.

First time I've ever responded to a tweet. That guy is a fucking moron. Fuming

I don't think it was over demanding of them to expect promotion last season, and they have had a terrible start this season so can understand the decision. Number of losses is irrelevant, it's total points that matter. Weird statistic to bring up.

Cheating < Not cheating

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Do you think Atsu would have had the awareness to do what Almiron did for yesterday's goal out of interest? It would have been launched first time and the goal doesn't happen. I'm more confident that Atsu wouldn't have thrown himself to the ground as Almiron did than that he couldn't have done what Almiron did before the goal yesterday. If you need a straight yes or no answer though, it would be no. I don't really care what a player manages to bring to the team by cheating. So sick of it and I've got no respect for that attitude. I'd rather see us fielding a worse team if it meant we didn't cheat. Not difficult in these times where a loss is celebrated more than a win, but still. I hope and think that mindset will continue even if we by some miracle should start to compete to be the best we can be.

Atsu has zero goals and two assists in the 6 games he's been involved without diving while Almiron has zero goals and assists in 8 games, plus 2 yellow cards for shameless diving. Atsu for me like.

Yes, I'd rather have Atsu on under the circumstances although I would prefer if Almiron was punished and learnt not to dive anymore but that won't happen because diving is accepted and football isn't a contact sport anymore. Atsu has had more end product than Almiron since he was signed anyway so it's not that outlandish is it even though you lose a bit of graft and pace on the field.

It is that he dives, and that he's shit at it. Embarrasing. Wish players would get retrospective bans for that kind of stuff. Say 5 games suspension or so. That would make them think twice before throwing their own dignity out of the window.

Dubravka? Don't think Slovakia is part of the Balkans?

Starting to get a dislike for this tiny churro. Dives all the time like a cunt and is absolutely useless in front of goal. He'll warrant a place in the team on the same premise as Sissoko did.

Very impressed. Happy for him and his family.

Got a text from my mate before our match started with pictures of another friend of mine entering the field at Emirates in full Arsenal kit. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

This fucking club Happy for Shortstaff. What a moment for him. Looking back at it years from now, nobody will care/remember much about the situation both clubs were in.

They are just the same. Old has beens that relies on individual quality of players and team spirit to achieve mediocracy. The moment anything is needed from themselves it all comes crashing down. They don't understand the modern game, don't try to evolve and do the stuff that they learnt/saw their managers do as players. Personally I hope it continues. We can't risk a new manager that might rescue us to maintain the status quo. We need to go down with Bruce, and hopefully he gets the opportunity to try and take us back up as he hasn't got what it takes to do so imo.

You saying Mane was fouled just because there was minor friction between their socks?