Deuce

TBF there’s only like 7 rules in this game and a shocking amount of us don’t know them.

Does he know you can get it without the bits?

Thought we’d hired him months ago

It’s scary that Liverpool can consider letting Mane go in his prime and probably won’t skip a beat. Goes to what Sewelly said in the other thread re: buying young and still being able to command a decent return on the out transfer.

I missed Schlotterbeck signing with Dortmund. Reported fee of only €25m. They'll probably flip him to Bayern for double that in two years.

For all this “lack of ambition” talk you’d think Mbappe is turning down RM to stay at fucking Le Havre or something Of course he could win the CL with PSG…any club with that much money is at least going to be a perennial competitor.

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David Villa feels underrated, somehow.

Nee one really plays like Haaland tbf

He’s one of the best managers in football right now, and they’re still 16 points off 2nd. Maybe City and Liverpool are simply operating on a different wavelength entirely and there’s nothing anyone else could do.

I dunno about Tuchel for Chelsea. They’ve spent like drunken sailors and have a bunch of decent individual players, but they’re miles away from City and Liverpool. Not sure who they could replace him with who’d be an improvement.

Surely the move here is to not buy the kit? Even if you like it (which I do!), it’s not that nice.

Maybe the project manager at Castore was just fond of NY Cosmos.

smart. shite.

My own wildly successful strategy on FIFA, so gotta agree with Eddie here.

I’m not sure I agree. It seems impossible to quantify, but it’d be interesting to see stats for “goals prevented” just like we do “goals scored.” Maybe there are already advanced metrics like that, I’m not sure. Not talking about saves, mind. The whole point of the game is to score more than your opponent, obviously. So every team’s energy is naturally directed towards that goal…often even teams that don’t actively have the ball! Not that any fucker can score goals, but being really good at preventing goals is a really underrated skill set IMO.

I think it’s interesting to wonder which players could’ve played any position on the pitch and still been outstanding. Messi would likely still be one of the best ever regardless of where he’d ended up (though maybe limited as a traditional CB due to his height). Would Maldini have made for a world class striker, for example?

More generally, do we overrate attacking players relative to defenders?

Got to see him play for Montreal in his twilight years. Well past his best by that point, but still a delight to watch.

Timely

Watford are a bunch of assholes, but don’t negotiations like this often take place under wraps?

that kind of pettiness could only come from a lower tier club with no fucks to give. Love it.