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There is a limit though, he Mount probably in his history has had 1.5 good season of cinsistently playing well. But the amount of time he has had bad appearances puts him in that category of fallen player. Also I just think he is a slower but bugger Elliot on his best day. No one could convinve me he would do well for us, we need players even when shit is going down all over the place to step up, sadly thats what cost Thiago last season

Yea he’s not a step up player he’s a join in when the goings good type imo, 100% not worth the money.
 
The only figure I could see coming in and turning their fortunes round quickly is Ancelotti. He's used to working with complete dickhead squads full of egos and bitches, and pull them into an effective team. Yes, they've overpaid and are going to be overpaying for quite a while, but there are plenty of talented footballers there if someone could motivate them correctly and find an effective brand of football to allow them to gain confidence. So lets hope it doesn't happen.
 
The only figure I could see coming in and turning their fortunes round quickly is Ancelotti. He's used to working with complete dickhead squads full of egos and bitches, and pull them into an effective team. Yes, they've overpaid and are going to be overpaying for quite a while, but there are plenty of talented footballers there if someone could motivate them correctly and find an effective brand of football to allow them to gain confidence. So lets hope it doesn't happen.

exactly who Simon Jordan said, have we rumbled your true identity?
 
Mount would have done well for us. He has the raw materials, and the mentality. Klopp would have relit his spark the way he did Gravenberch.
 
Yes, and its a lovely sight.

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Mount would have done well for us. He has the raw materials, and the mentality. Klopp would have relit his spark the way he did Gravenberch.

I dont think so in all honesty. He's best form and performances have been in a 3-4-2-1 playing as the 10 behind the striker. He wouldnt have been a good fit in the role that Szobo have now. Not going for Mount was a great decision.
 
The only figure I could see coming in and turning their fortunes round quickly is Ancelotti. He's used to working with complete dickhead squads full of egos and bitches, and pull them into an effective team. Yes, they've overpaid and are going to be overpaying for quite a while, but there are plenty of talented footballers there if someone could motivate them correctly and find an effective brand of football to allow them to gain confidence. So lets hope it doesn't happen.
..... redcafe has a new thread started on Hansi Flick :-D
 
Vomit, imagine them getting Zidane and becoming good. Lopetegui is a dark horse in that list, i thought he was very good at wolves.
 
xG invites you to imagine a world where all players have the same ability, where form doesn't exist, where luck doesn't either. I get that it's a useful metric to measure an individual's performance against the mean, but these tables are bullshit.
 
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xG invites you to imagine a world where all players have the same ability, where form doesn't exist, where luck doesn't either. I get that it's a useful metric to measure an individual's performance against the mean, but these tables are bullshit.
The problem with stats like this (xG) is that, as I learnt in the casino business, you need to have sufficient data for them to mean anything. For example to see which croupiers were on the take/poor, we'd need to evaluate their table's figures over months to have enough data for the statistics to prove their honesty, we would then be able to exclude luck or a few big winners.

For the casino as a whole we'd use a year's data. This was highlighted in a casino I worked in once in Amsterdam, our blackjack tables were losing night after night and this went on for nearly 3 months (with the croupiers, of which at that time I was one, under intense scrutiny)! However the tide turned and in the 4th month we couldn't lose and gained everything back plus the win % we were due. To an extent all football data needs to be looked at with the same sort of provisos (even though luck doesn't play a part in casino stats and football doesn't have a set win percentage).
 
Arsenal doing Arsenal stuff:

Mail Sport understands that Arsenal will include: •
VAR Lee Mason not drawing the offside lines prior to Ivan Toney’s equaliser for Brentford (February 2023).
Gabriel Martinelli goal vs. Manchester United (a) wrongly disallowed (September 2022).
Manchester City’s Mateo Kovacic escaping a red card for his challenge on Martin Ødegaard & then subsequent tackle on Declan Rice, which again escaped further punishment (October 2023).
 
I infer from Pep's post match interview that they've lost John Stones for a significant period.

Interesting
 
Erik ten Hag believes Manchester United can go on a winning run when more stable, but the manager does not expect Lisandro Martínez and Casemiro to return before Christmas to help achieve this aim.
Martínez has been out since late September with a foot injury while Casemiro suffered a hamstring problem at Newcastle.
 
Ten Hag preferring Garnacho to Anthony according to the MEN. That should feed the inner-Charlie Sheen nicely
 
Holy fuck - what a gash line-up from the Hag. Evans & Maguire at the back again with McTominnay and Fernandez in front of Eriksen in the middle

 
Funniest thing is that he's benched two of his summer signings and is playing the guys he spent all summer trying to offload
 
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