Pre Match - Arsenal
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Interesting why that is, only Thiago Silva I can think of who hasn’t.
Not sure how much one can read into Bobby's stint in Saudi so far. Things looked similar when he first arrived here, but that was because Rodgers hadn't a scooby how to use him (when he used him at all).
That said, returning to the scene of previous triumphs rarely works out well in football.
That said, returning to the scene of previous triumphs rarely works out well in football.
I was only joking, he's on a sqintillion a day over there
This is nonsense, Modo... If we'd gotten that penalty (which wasn't the slightest bit dubious, by the way), and won 2-1, and thus were sitting top of the league, not one single person would say "Yeah, but they needed a penalty to win it".
And yes, our (possibly) greatest ever team would have won comfortably yesterday. That's because they were a better team than this one. So were 1970 Brazil. And..?
This team is well ahead of schedule and I'd be stunned if anybody honestly thought we'd be even remotely close to the top at the halfway point, when we lost everybody this summer... When the initial frustration of that no-call and that miss have subsided, we should all remember that. Oh, and Arsenal are a bloody good team, too - It's not like we just pissed the bed against Sunderland, for goodness sake.
Happy Christmas (or whatever holiday everybody out there celebrates).
Yes he is doing ok, but we all know that he is a bit of a sick note
Did not Mo miss and even easier one the other week?
Even if we got the pen it wouldn't have guaranteed victory.
My point is that even at our worst, we still expected a win at Anfield. Be it, Man U or Arsenal, didn't matter at Anfield.
I just used the Mane, Firmino example to show how good we needed to be in order to win the league last time.
So yeah you're right, if it's top 4 we're going for, a draw at home to Arsenal and Man U are great results.
He met Maldini that’s why. It’s cultural to play hard on and off the field in Brazil.
Robbo will be back very soon. Can be sick then.
If you think they are hard to replace, wait till when we try and replace Salah. That’s going to be much harder and feels like a lot less candidates about on paper who potentially can di the job.
Party life style.
Spot on. Also money is new to some of these players. They have a different mentality towards it. I say it's the same for a lot of African players too.
Look at Mido for instance or Diouf. After they've hit the big time there's no reason to excel further.
I'd say that's the same for 99% of players! If you've got money you don't play football.
Unless you are an American youth player.
We DID expect to win. We just didn't get it done. We should have, between that non-penalty and Trent's incredible miss. We expect to win 100% of our games at Anfield. Who said that we don't? Doesn't mean it's always possible, though.
Yep, you need to be really good to win the league... Not sure that you're breaking news there, mate. Thing is, we may not need to be THAT good to win it this year... Time will tell.
Again, who said they were great results? I didn't. I argued your initial post about 'if we need a dubious penalty, then we don't deserve...' for the silliness that it is. The scum result was awful, the arsenal result unfortunate, but less galling. We dropped 4 points at home. Not ideal. But it happens, we're still 2nd without playing well for a while now, and the future's bright.
Why pretend otherwise?
Mido was already a millionaire
Also, Fabs went shit at 29 and had no party lifestyle. It's a strange one.
Fabs just was pumped bolsonaro won and gave up
It makes it even worse - no partying and he was that fucked up !!!
But the weight gain he underwent was extraordinarily for a footballer still playing. Same as that chap at QPR, Taarabt, who was called out by Redknapp … although the list is not just exclusively of Africans and Brazilians. David Bentley famously fell off the cliff edge and some of our top English talent just drops through the football pyramid without being hung onto like we seemingly do with the foreigners.
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Yeah I'm just saying that the wealth wasn't as much a factor as you'd think, given that he was independently wealthy beforehand. Like Vialli. Like loads of mad bastard explorers etc, the wealth gives them the cushion to do whatever the hell they want. If anything it's a bit of a surprise that there aren't more David Bentleys. Be arsed working every day, travelling with a gang of nobheads all the time, when you're already minted.
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