Players develop differently. Van de Ven came in and ripped it up immediately. Gareth Bale took years to look like a player.
Ledley King looked a natural from the start. Harry Kane looked like he’d barely make a Championship player. They’re people, not robots.
He’s a very young man, in a very...
I’m amazed by some of the shit I’ve seen posted here. My goodness. For me, the signs are encouraging on Dragusin. He didn’t play great on Saturday but every single one of the starting eleven were miles off it so I wouldn’t draw any conclusions yet. Judging a player after effectively one and a...
Yeah I’ve dialled back my expectations and am just trying to enjoy the football under Ange. To be honest, I’m never expecting us to really challenge under him. I’m not sure he has the ability to do it at our club and I think the playing field is so heavily sloped against us.
I don’t really...
Sensible post but the difficulty is that our existing squad isn’t static. Players like Romero, VdV, Sarr, Udogie and others will be on the radar of “bigger” clubs while Son will eventually start to deteriorate if he hasn’t already. Sometimes it feels like an endless game of “we just need...
Good post and I agree. Sorry, should have said qualification for CL rather than 4th/5th given the ambiguity around it.
And your point regarding Woolwich is a fair and good one.
I love Ange and am behind him but this statement is absolute bollocks in my view. And the problem with it is that it allows the club and the manager a subjective out if we don’t get CL football.
What he’s saying is “if I think I’ve got a team to challenge next season and we finish 5th instead...
His predecessors have done exactly what you suggest (give youth a chance and experiment) and that’s part of the reason why we’ve never performed well in those competitions.
To be fair to Ange, I think he's too cavalier, but not one of his players performed today. You can blame the system and tactics to an extent but when not one player puts in a shift, no tactics or system can win you the game.
He wasn't particularly brilliant but was tidy and didn't make any fuck ups like a lot of lads so I voted him too.
I couldn't believe it when he had the ball and looked for a pass for about 5 seconds. Go absolutely nothing in terms of movement and had to play safe. You could see he was pissed...
It's clearly an honest misunderstanding where, to be fair, you questioned it in a very reasonable way given how emotive it could have been. Think it's best you leave the posts as they are because I'd imagine a lot of people could interpret it the same as you initially did.
I watch a bit of...
To be honest, I didn't even think the assist for Johnson was that good. He delayed too long for me and potentially chose the wrong option because Johnson had a Villa player up his backside when he finished and he did very well to score it. Deki might have been a better option. Either way, he...
My read of it was that Villa had a goal that was ruled out just before the challenge for a very marginal offside. IMO, Cash was riled up over that and it contributed to the challenge. I don't think it was deliberate or pre-meditated, more reckless or careless than anything.
Either way, I'd give...
Allardyce built something incredible at Bolton and also did some great work at Blackburn if memory serves. At Bolton, like his style or not, he was revolutionary in many ways to English football by embracing sports science and data driven decisions in that era.
Jose built Porto up from their...
Can we stop calling it “a project” please? There’s no such thing IMO. You lose a bunch of games, you’re at risk of the sack whether you’re a “project manager”, “trophy manager” or “chequebook manager”.
If anyone is driving at “Ange Out”, they’re an idiot. He finishes top 6 this season, he’s done well in my book, top 8 is even acceptable, anything more is mind boggling.
But criticism is valid. We’ve been very lucky since Newcastle and that caught up with us today. The pro-Ange lobby also...
Wish I could like this twice. People have been talking on social media as if the low block (also since when was it called that, it’s just a fancy way of saying playing defensively) is some sort of unbreakable system.
The problem for us is that we throw full backs into very aggressive positions...
I'm not a Conte hater but the second leg tactics were mind bogglingly negative given we were a goal down. You could see Deki and Sonny had been told under no circumstances to cross halfway if Milan had the ball.
There was one passage of play just before half time and Son and Deki got to halfway...
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