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Man U will win the EL. We'll finish 6. You'll get emphysema from all the cigars you'll smoke. Nailed on.

Instinctively I hate Wenger's idea. This could be due to a natural 'I don't like change' to be fair. But my worries are as follows: 1. It probably won't do anything to make offside more/less contentious. It'll still be decided by comparing the exact positions of two people at the precise moment another person kicks the ball in a completely different position. This whole 'clear daylight' bullshit seems a red herring. Officials will still just try and get it right as best they can. They'll never be perfect because that's impossible. 2. Stronger teams willl generally be attacking more than weaker teams. Favouring attackers more will favour stonger teams more and so presumably make football more predictable [tbf. it's possible it'll help weaker teams who just want to whack it over the top, given pojnt 3.] Football is the most popular sport in the world, and also the one the bookies find hardest to predict because it's so low scoring, which makes it more unpredictable on an individual game basis. 3. Thinking about how the game could practically play out. An attacker can stand in an offside position behind a defender and then just briefly move their foot level at the point a pass is made and be onside. That's not fucking football. Defenders will have to be aware of what's going on in front of them to see the pass, know what's going on beside them to know the offside line and know what's going on behind them, all at the same time. That seems unbalanced. Like a good cricket pitch has a fair balance of bat and ball, a good football game should have a good balance of attack and defence. 4. Making it easier for attackers to get in behind defenders could result in even more low blockage, or a full on reliance of athleticism uber alles. 5. Ultimately I don't see what problem this solves. Offside is still decided by an infinitely small distance at a particular moment of time. Just saying it'll result in more scoring does not mean the game will be better. If we just wanted tons of scoring we'd all watch basketball or cricket. It's perfectly possible I'm wrong about all this. Offside's been changed a number of times in the past [Bill McCracken represent!], and I don't mind it being tested. But the whole, 'it'll result in more goals therefore good' I would strongly dispute, and I don't actually think the current rule is a problem personally.

His passing stats are outrageously good tbf: https://fbref.com/en/players/8455ad90/scout/365_m1/Lee-Kang-in-Scouting-Report

We haven't been great but I'd say we've been the better team overall. They've basically had one chance and scored. That said it's the same old problem which is we aren't good at passing through a team and getting up the pitch unless it's on a quick counter, and Isak's always very isolated. Need him coming deeper at times and getting into the game more. If Isak would come to the near post ever he'd probably also have got a goal from one of the times Murphy got to the byline.

That would make sense to me. Jota and Muniz both have around 1,000 minutes for example, with Jota slightly more. Would also say Hojland has 0.21 G&A per 90 this year in the premier leage according to https://fbref.com/en/players/491a433d/scout/12524/Rasmus-Hojlund-Scouting-Report so his blob doesn't appear to be accurate, though we don't know when this data was taken. That said his stats are still monumentally dreadful this year.

Count me in the could-not-give-the-slightest-shit-what-footedness-our-CBs-are-as-long-as-they're-good-players brigade.

Into these John Deere fetishists!

Would love it if he went with 'Juicy' for his shirt name next year.

Don't think it's been announced yet but last year looks like it worked out at about £2.8 million per place. So I'd guess probably around £5.6-£6 million this year. Pays for Wilson and Lascelles for another year.

Though have to say I loved ASM and when we sold him his FB ref stats over the past year on assists, xAssists, chances created & progressive carries per 90 were actually really, really good. Like 90th % plus in all of those. He was entertaining as hell, but he also made things happen, even if he didn't score that many himself.

Absolutely. Shooting hard and accurately is for squares.

To be fair the step over today was boringly practical. I'd like to see him drop a liitle of the old 5-step-overs-in-a-row-just-because-I-can swag.

Damn right, bet he absolutely clatters McGinn early doors.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/man-utds-total-outlay-keep-22122707 Seems about £10,000,000 reported edit: the £6 million loan fee reported as being for extending the loan. Presumably another loan fee for he first loan as well

Thinking about his Football Manager ratings. Is there anything he wouldn't score at least 15 points in? Maybe jumping reach and long throws.