I doubt anyone actually wants us to see the team be anything other than successful.
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And we paid £130 mill for a max £90 mill player
That’s what my initial thought was when we signed him. The problem is we don’t have the wide forwards who get beyond a back line. Neither Gakpo nor Salah will leave next summer either.
We do have the full backs to add the width needed to support it though. We need to use those more with their overlaps.
He has to. If we could ditch Diaz, we sure as hell need to ditch Salah.
This would be interesting. I think we’d need to transition one of Isak or Tekkers to a wide forward. But i do think he could do that role. What it would mean though is we get the ball to the byline and pulled back along the ground. Feels like we are too often crossing for headers and that is much easier to defend (unless you’re Ibu)
I would be. He should be off in January.
Maybe. But why buy Isak then?
No wonder they can pay top wages. It’s the kick backs from paddy power.
There is a serious gambling issue in the game. Loads of players with gambling addiction, even if most of them are smart enough not to bet on football.
But on top of that it's the sponsorship thing, with most clubs having multiple gaming sponsors, many of them dubious.
Eventually the Premie League will grow a pair, clamp down on it all, and the Premier League clubs will have to launch programmes helping fans with gambling addition issues. Although I said that nearly 10 years ago and it still hasn't happened.
This Turkish story should bump it all up the agenda.
But on top of that it's the sponsorship thing, with most clubs having multiple gaming sponsors, many of them dubious.
Eventually the Premie League will grow a pair, clamp down on it all, and the Premier League clubs will have to launch programmes helping fans with gambling addition issues. Although I said that nearly 10 years ago and it still hasn't happened.
This Turkish story should bump it all up the agenda.
I get serious anxiety gambling. I did binary trading lost £100 and left it as it is. I then lost 10s of thousands but it was all virtual money.
That’s not as bad as dreamy cashing out and costing us a Champions League.
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The best Irish performance in a decade and Ronaldo off to boot!
The Govt. banned smoking ads ... now it's time to ban all gambling ads from sport, public advertising and main-stream online sites. No betting shops should be permitted on main roads in urban centres (back streets only). It's has a crippling, ruinous effect on many families.
Take it from someone who managed casinos for 7 years - it's like a drug addiction, you are never 'cured'.
However the Govt. taxes (and lotteries) would suffer so we know that isn't happening.
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Still not fully sold on Kompany (at Bayern) and Lampard (at Coventry) despite their results this season.
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"In the 2022/23 UCL-QF against Arsenal former manger Thomas Tuchel dissected every detail of their game, building his preparation around specific patterns, strengths and weaknesses, shaping training sessions precisely to their automatisms, their press triggers and their midfield structure.
In comparison the work under current manager Vincent Kompany is described internally as almost surreal, because there were no targeted video sessions aimed at Arsenal’s dominant zones, no detailed work on their transitions or their set piece routines, no tactical blocks designed to neutralise the threats everyone already knew were coming.
The feeling inside Säbener Straße is that Bayern walked into a storm without a map, and the result reflected exactly that."
View: https://x.com/BayernSpace/status/1994422663414960322
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"In the 2022/23 UCL-QF against Arsenal former manger Thomas Tuchel dissected every detail of their game, building his preparation around specific patterns, strengths and weaknesses, shaping training sessions precisely to their automatisms, their press triggers and their midfield structure.
In comparison the work under current manager Vincent Kompany is described internally as almost surreal, because there were no targeted video sessions aimed at Arsenal’s dominant zones, no detailed work on their transitions or their set piece routines, no tactical blocks designed to neutralise the threats everyone already knew were coming.
The feeling inside Säbener Straße is that Bayern walked into a storm without a map, and the result reflected exactly that."
View: https://x.com/BayernSpace/status/1994422663414960322
Depends on which level one's expecting them to operate at. Lampard is a good Championship-standard manager and IMO a bright guy like Kompany could yet develop into a decent manager with more experience. Neither is ready for the very top level yet though - Lampard proved it in the Prem previously and Kompany seems to be following suit. Only time will tell whether either can successfully make the jump in due course.
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