Ghandis Flip-Flop

Last night was a WC Qualifier rather than a friendly though, which is shocking from Germany's perspective

Not only that, does the player have no agency in waiting a few days to see who else maybe comes in for him? It’s an utterly bollocks statement, but then why am I surprised from a Daily Mail journalist

I wanna know what Nagelsmann was thinking as every clip of this lad I’ve seen for Stuttgart, had him coming deep for the ball and people running beyond him. Yet last night he was up on his own isolated. If Nagelsmann wanted a traditional target man surely using Fulkrug for that would’ve been the better bet

The lad has the physicality to possibly add this to his game in time, I’m sure training against Burn, Schar and Botman will quickly have him up to speed on how strong and sharp he'll have to be going forwards. I mean much of this is moot anyway as I suspect it'll be Wissa starting the majority of games until,the AFCON regardless.

Could Isak? Do we play in a manner where that's our intent? I’m pretty sure in that instance we generally play a diagonal to one of our wingers who either win it, or look to pressure the fullback into a throw or high turnover. i don’t suddenly expect us to start lumping it up to this lad, if anything I’d expect him to drop deeper, receive the ball into feet and then lay it off to a team mate quickly

Play at a tempo that won’t telegraph every pass into him?

Am I misremembering but is Nagelsmann not supposed to be about positive, fluid and intense football? This is about af far from a high intensity gen gen press I’ve ever seen

Not helped by every time one of Germany's wide players get the ball in an advanced area, they pass it back to their centre halves either 🤦🏻‍♂️

Do you think any of that may be offset slightly by Germany's play being slower and more predictable, than the bedwetting comments over this lads performance?

It was maybe more up for it due to recent events, but I’d say the atmosphere is always pretty good against Liverpool or other big sides. Anfield was practically dead and it was apparently the game against their main title rivals 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m not necessarily against this as long as it's kept at a reasonable ratio, hell it’s likely the only way I’ll get to the odd game these days too. But I feel that Liverpool have got that particular experiment wrong and have gone too far in favour of the day-trippers. And the experience and atmosphere that they’re apparently selling has diminished as a result. It’s fine when they’re winning, but it alienates the fans that are there through the thick and thin IMHO.

Forgive me but is Toronto not significantly more affluent than Newcastle though? Also compare and contrast SJP in the game vs Liverpool to Anfield in their game vs Arsenal, do we really want to sacrifice that USP, especially given the relatively low percentage that ticket revenue represents to the clubs financial position?

Seems common practice these days, I’m presuming someone at the club has suggested he's unlikely to become a PL midfielder, but might succeed on the continent. We put an agreed buy back price in there in case we were wrong.

Id imagine the player themselves wanting to go, I’d imagine he looks at our midfield currently and can’t see a path in to the Team

Think we'll see this kind of thing happen more and more, better than them being released to the Northern League. Would make sense to peruse the multi-club model and send them there (despite me hating that in reality), but there are plenty that aren’t really going to develop plying U18/U21 academy football

Leazes park

If Isak isn’t reciprocating and looking to set up Salah, because he's entirely fixated on being the main man, then potentially yes.

Which I why I wonder how things are going to work with He Who Shall Not Be Named, Salah and Ekitike. There’s plenty of talent there, but potentially even more ego

Their shanter is abysmal, but at least it’s not the doom laden, the sky is falling in, incessant negativity that is True Faith's podcasts these days. Fuck me some good MDMA should be prescribed to that lot

The lads are being out pressed, because they’re lads playing against men. Fucks sake the way you’ve just characterised us is as prime Stoke, since Dan Burn and Schar was brought back in were more than happy to recycle the ball at the back if need be

He literally started yesterday, I doubt for one minute he's had much of a handle on the prep for today's game in reality. And if you mean pass the ball around at the back for Pep Ball, as opposed to what our first team does, which since January 2022 has been to pass it around at the back 🤷🏻‍♂️

It’s (some of) our U21's vs Huddersfield's League 1 squad. Not Huddersfield's U21’s

It looks like they’ve never played this formation before, there’s gaps everywhere

To be fair Harrison's kicking reminds me of Pope's

We've just loaned out a few and I’m presuming the likes of Shahar are away on youth international duty too, which doesn’t help