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Federer and Del Potro

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Poisoned Slice

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Some news on the Antony loan to Betis. Man Urtd getting praised for ''pulling off a masterstroke.''

''Man Utd have secured extremely favorable terns as Betis will cover at least 84% of his wages and bonuses until the end of the season.'' That's almost 4 million in total.

Yeah, it sucks when the only positive story I have is about United saving wages on an Antony loan. Another bid for Dorgu was rejected.
 

WJ155

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I’m flicking between all the games, and I seem to have missed most things :-D

Missed the red card. Only things I saw live were the Salah and Kluivert goals.

Must do better in the second half.
they’re saying lewis-skelly caught the guy above the ankle with studs when he really didn’t
 

Kralingen

Bionic Poster
That depends.
Nothing about this season wasn’t immediately obvious to all last year. The utter failure of the Tottenham footballing project, mainly. Ange Postecoglou’s fraudulence and circus finally being found out. The sheer gap between the scope of Gunners and Chelsea’s projects and their pathetic London neighbors. Mikel Arteta’s robust footballing project withstanding an injury to the best player in world football and still topping the CL and close 2nd in the PL, while Pep (and Haaland) languish without Rodri. The implications are obvious. It’s all come true.
 

WJ155

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can at least someone agree that if they call the straight red on lewis-skelly, that gomes second yellow is the same, should be a straight red?
 

Feña14

G.O.A.T.
Nothing about this season wasn’t immediately obvious to all last year. The utter failure of the Tottenham footballing project, mainly. Ange Postecoglou’s fraudulence and circus finally being found out. The sheer gap between the scope of Gunners and Chelsea’s projects and their pathetic London neighbors. Mikel Arteta’s robust footballing project withstanding an injury to the best player in world football and still topping the CL and close 2nd in the PL, while Pep (and Haaland) languish without Rodri. The implications are obvious. It’s all come true.

In an era of analysts, ex players, media personalities, “tactico’s” etc.. nobody knows their team better than a realistic fan.

Glad to have you back for some proper Spurs takes :)

The Chelsea project isn’t really a sporting one, it’s nothing to be feared. When you dig deep and realise what’s actually happening, it’s all buy low and sell high, swap deals, keeping agents happy and internal politics.

Sanchez, for instance, is the love child of Ben Roberts. He costs us every game, but politics mean he can’t be dropped. Anyone from the academy (or signed on the advice of Fraser/Bath who ran Conham for 25 years) is exiled or sold for pure profit. They have both been fired and their players moved on (Casadei, Carney, the Chalobah case). These players can’t succeed, it makes the sporting directors look bad.

When you realise who the directors are signing, then look at who their agents are, you realise they’re all linked. It’s lining their friends pockets with commission. Every signing there’s never more than 2 degrees of separation.

Then the players that they sign, they never keep anyone around who might challenge them or take minutes away. The ex Brighton directors now at Chelsea refuse to bring Santos or Lesley back from loan to compete with Caicedo? Funny that. Lavia is injured but they can’t come back to cover him? Joe Shields signed him, politics dictate that can’t happen. They will both be flipped for profit in the summer and replaced with kids they can do the same with in a couple of years. Why don’t we sign a keeper to replace Sanchez? I wonder why.. Nkunku was a Vivell signing.. he has to go. Felix was a favour for Mendes, Disasi signed by Paul Mitchell at 2 different clubs.. never good enough, but who cares when his agent is a friend and his wife needs a new conservatory.. the list is endless.

They didn’t want to sign Duran or Samu to replace their project Jackson, they wanted them because their value would double in 12 months and be sold. Hence why they no longer want them and are looking at “the next Duran”.

Madrid and PSG have both had a youth revolution over the same period. They’ve done it in different ways, but when you compare it to what Chelsea have done and people wonder why it all feels a bit strange.. there are clear reasons for it, if you dig a little deeper.
 
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Obviously I hate Arsenal so I am mildly biased on the subject but I can't find the card too disagreeable because the practice of "tactical" fouls on counters where there is clearly a strong advantage with the offense is a situation most obviously covered by the denial of goal scoring opportunity principle.
 

WJ155

Rookie
I’m starting to feel a bit bad for Khusanov. he’s gotten a yellow and was in the wrong hitting a header where Akanji should’ve cleared it.
 
In an era of analysts, ex players, media personalities, “tactico’s” etc.. nobody knows their team better than a realistic fan.

Glad to have you back for some proper Spurs takes :)

The Chelsea project isn’t really a sporting one, it’s nothing to be feared. When you dig deep and realise what’s actually happening, it’s all buy low and sell high, swap deals, keeping agents happy and internal politics.

Sanchez, for instance, is the love child of Ben Roberts. He costs us every game, but politics mean he can’t be dropped. Anyone from the academy (or signed on the advice of Fraser/Bath who ran Conham for 25 years) is exiled or sold for pure profit. They have both been fired and their players moved on (Casadei, Carney, the Chalobah case). These players can’t succeed, it makes the sporting directors look bad.

When you realise who the directors are signing, then look at who their agents are, you realise they’re all linked. It’s lining their friends pockets with commission. Every signing there’s never more than 2 degrees of separation.

Then the players that they sign, they never keep anyone around who might challenge them or take minutes away. The ex Brighton directors now at Chelsea refuse to bring Santos or Lesley back from loan to compete with Caicedo? Funny that. Lavia is injured but they can’t come back to cover him? Joe Shields signed him, politics dictate that can’t happen. They will both be flipped for profit in the summer and replaced with kids they can do the same with in a couple of years. Why don’t we sign a keeper to replace Sanchez? I wonder why.. Nkunku was a Vivell signing.. he has to go. Felix was a favour for Mendes, Disasi signed by Paul Mitchell at 2 different clubs.. never good enough, but who cares when his agent is a friend and his wife needs a new conservatory.. the list is endless.

They didn’t want to sign Duran or Samu to replace their project Jackson, they wanted them because their value would double in 12 months and be sold. Hence why they no longer want them and are looking at “the next Duran”.

Madrid and PSG have both had a youth revolution over the same period. They’ve done it in different ways, but when you compare it to what Chelsea have done and people wonder why it all feels a bit strange.. there are clear reasons for it, if you dig a little deeper.
Wait but who is he defining as the best player in world football?
 

WJ155

Rookie
I can see the arguments, but I don’t see the logic. this one player has put City from a top 3 finish to 7th and 25th in CL. yes, their system needs Rodri. but he’s also the only person who could do any sort like that.
 
It's Kralingen, innit. Last year he believed there was a flying saucer over East Rutherford.
Please address my take on the red card, genuinely curious your thoughts on it. One of things I hate most about watching football is when the defender makes the cynical takeout foul on a counter knowing they're getting a yellow because what they're doing is denying a clear scoring opportunity.
 
Yamal isn’t there. yet. Salah is 32, probably has 1-2 more good seasons past this one. he still beats our golden boy for now.
I mean I would also pick Palmer over Saka. I guess I can accept saying Yamal isn't there yet though every time I watch Yalam play I get the sense people are more saying that because he "can't" be that good at his age rather than because he actually isn't that good yet.
 
apples to oranges on that one. if you’re going to go that route, I’ll reference expected assists. Saka’s got Palmer beat on assists all on less xA. but I stick to my apples to oranges statement.
Beating someone on assists with less xA usually means Player A is getting lucky or has better teammates. Agree you can't 1:1 the players given the positions however.
 
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