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    Player Watch Player Watch: Lucas Bergvall

    The pattern seems to be over estimating the potential impact a young player will make and then writing them off when they don’t immediately meet those expectations. I think a lot of fans still have this romantic notion of an 18 year old coming into the team and blowing everyone away, like...
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    FA Cup 2023/24

    It feels like the FA Cup just gets more and more watered down every season. Everything changes but it’s a bit sad to compare what the tournament has become to what it was twenty or thirty years ago.
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    UEFA Europa League and Conference League 2023/24

    Arteta has won a trophy, but I’m not sure say I’d say it was recently. It was four years ago. That’s a long time in football. He won it in the same season we sacked Poch. We’re on our fourth manager since then! Unless you mean the Community Shield, but that doesn’t really count! Agree with...
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    2023/24 - The Race For..................

    I think Harry was so good and so determined that he would have forced way into the first team sooner or later regardless of whether we were playing in the Europa or not. But in general I am struggling to think of many players we have brought through via the Europa. It’s often mentioned that it...
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    Arsenal

    I still think 25-26 is fairly young. A lot of players will peak around 27-28. But I think it’s a case of it’s a young team until suddenly it’s not. There’s a small window and it happened to us under Poch.
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    2023/24 - The Race For..................

    If we blow a ten point lead with just six matches left, we don’t deserve anything better than the conference imo. There’s no way we should be giving up that amount of points, even if we do have some difficult fixtures.
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    Arsenal

    I wonder whether Arsenal fans will start feeling like we did under Poch if they don’t win anything again this season. So if they don’t win the league. There are certainly some parallels: an exciting young team playing great football under a progressive young coach. But for whatever reason not...
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    2023/24 - The Race For..................

    Yeah but despite how bad we were, they still need to make up those 10 points. Man U have taken 6 points from their last 6 matches. Newcastle, who have been in great form, have taken 13 points from their last 6. Newcastle and Man U also have to play each other. Newcastle’s fixtures do look...
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    2023/24 - The Race For..................

    Absolutely. Especially as there is a good chance we would go out early in the Champions League after a forgettable group stage whereas they would remember winning the tournament for years to come.
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Timo Werner

    I see where you are coming from but it works both ways, so when we sign someone we are stuck with them for the foreseeable. Especially older players and/or players on relatively high salaries. Among others we still have Ndombele, Gil and Hojbjerg on the books. We have only just managed to move...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Timo Werner

    I think the upcoming young talent would have to be something special though. Because if he’s not ready we’re going to have most of the same issues we have now in that area of the pitch, unless maybe Johnson goes up a level. I think fans have been willing to overlook some of the team’s...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Timo Werner

    I don’t think Werner is the scapegoat. I think a lot of the questions about him revolve around the fact he’s on loan. If he was already here permanently I don’t think many people would be saying we should sell him as a matter of priority. Although I do think plenty of people in favour of his...
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    Harry Kane

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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Was he a club legend? He did pretty well there but I’m not sure he reached legendary status? But anyway, I get your point, and I think you’re right: there was probably a bit more goodwill towards him given his playing history for the club. Although lots of Arsenal fans seemed to be wavering...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I think you’re right about some of this but winning a cup only buys so much time. We sacked two coaches shortly after winning a trophy and we sacked one coach a few months after making the final of the biggest club competition in the world. Roma sacked Jose a few months after he was in a final...
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    Dele Alli at Everton

    Yeah, I think Dele’s decline in form was pretty much in line with the decline of the team in general. I think the difference was people expected him to come back from that because he was still young. But he didn’t, for various reasons. In fact things got worse. Maybe things would have worked...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I think you’re right, but there’s other fundamental differences too. 1. Ange’s preferred style of football is much more aligned with the club and the fans than Conte’s preferred style. 2. Ange’s style of football is more aligned with how most successful teams play right now than Conte’s, e.g...
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    Player Watch Player Watch: Timo Werner

    I think for them all to leave we would probably need to sack/pay some of them to go, like we did with Aurier and Doherty. Or maybe arrange deals where we are subsidising their salary elsewhere. I don’t think it will be straightforward trying to sell all these guys though, even at nominal fees.
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    There’s different levels of backing. Have Brighton backed De Zerbi? They have sold some of their best players, after all. Has Klopp been backed by Liverpool? Arguably they would have won more titles if he had been backed the way Pep has been at City. There’s backing and there’s backing and...
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    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Yep every single coach we have ever had has wanted their own type of player, from Jol to Redknapp to AVB to Poch to Conte to Ange. I think the ones who have tended to do the best are the ones who were here for several windows and focused on attainable targets, and working with what they had...
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