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MessiWillSignForVilla

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  1. By the sounds of it he'd be a useless witness as one of the girls statements said he was passed out and one of the alleged rapes happened in Mendys friends car.
  2. Because it came out during the Benjamin Mendy rape trial that it happened at one of his parties and the woman has accused Mendy's friend of raping her later that same night. The Grealish part was consensual supposedly and doesn't really seem relevant to the trial, but the papers lead with it anyway.
  3. Still boggles my mind that Rayner had to apologise for calling this lot scum.
  4. What I love about this is that it so mental that even Victoria Newman next to him, the editor of the Sun, has a brief glance of "wtf?"
  5. We wouldn't make much more, it's only 20x the amount of visitors that Versailles gets compared to Buckingham Palace. Just 4x all the Royal Estates combined... That £500m per year to have them closed all the time is totally worth it.
  6. Yes but enough about the royal family, what about the woman that went to visit the coffin 7 times?
  7. The modem does though Also my service won't be activated until that date too, so don't think I could connect before then anyway.
  8. Oh **** off, that's the day my internet had been rearranged to be delivered in my new house, the **** will probably move the date again now!
  9. I'm pretty sure I read before that whilst there will be days of national mourning, they won't be bank holidays.
  10. Maybe I've misread your intent with this bit, but I don't see how Paddy Considine/Viserys being an unconvincing king is a criticism? He's supposed to be weak, it's what his cuts from the Iron Throne are symbolising. The Throne was built by Aegon the Conqueror from the swords surrended by his enemies and is intended to be uncomfortable as "a king should never sit easy" (This version is far closer to the monstrosity described in the books than the GoT version) and it is said in the novels that being cut by the Throne is akin to the Throne rejecting the King, one early King, Maegor the Cruel, was even killed on/by the Throne with slashes down his arms and a blade protruding out under his chin from the back of his neck. This is intentional. Caraxes, Daemon's dragon, is described as being red, huge and lean, and is also nicknamed "the Blood Wyrm". It's supposed to be this funky looking thing compared to the other dragons, which to me have looked fine in the show so far.
  11. Without giving away too much (I'll put it in a spoiler even though I'm not sure how much it spoils) If they do it justification (and with GRRM involved I'm sure they will) it will be a slow burner but with a big pay off.
  12. Calum Chambers has over 100 appearances at RB in his career. Edit - He's actually played there more often than CB...
  13. You have a RB on the bench Steven, why the **** are you bringing on Young!?
  14. Ramsey at LW, Stevie's been reading my posts! Hopefully he read my one in the team shape thread on how what he's trying to do should look.
  15. Frankly, signing a 3rd/4th choice CB with over 100 Premier League appearances and 40+ international caps on loan as short term cover for our star CB signing's 6-9 month injury is all the proof I need to tell me that everyone from manager level up is trying to burn down the club.
  16. Would've been funnier if it was how they announced they were done for the evening and it was no signing.
  17. Or Dendoncker with Kamara and Luiz ahead of him as Kamara can play 8 and has the skills to play there.
  18. It's a word filter referring to Peter Bone MP who has particularly knobheady views, so you can probably guess what the four letter word it replaces is.
  19. Liverpool losing, reckon they'd go for a manager swap?
  20. Can't remember it's name, but there is a 5hr fan cut that is supposedly very good, I remember going to download it then realising I couldn't be arsed to watch a 5hr movie. I think the main takeaway from the synopsis was more Bilbo, less Thorin and the dwarves, no LOTR stuff where possible.
  21. Nah, I would've had to do work, this was a much better use of time
  22. I'll preface this by saying I want Gerrard out, but to be fair, I can see what is supposed to be happening with those tactical choices, I just think it's down to poor coaching for why it's not coming off. Essentially the full backs are required to provide the width as the tactic is initially based off the idea of the 2 10s Gerrard used at Rangers - wide players that cut inside and operate more centrally than where they line up. So the full backs push high up the pitch to provide options on the wing when a team can't be broken down centrally, something that refocuses the attack and presents opportunities to stretch and open up stubborn defences. This leads to the team being vunerable on the counter with just 2 CBs back, so the CMs will fill these gaps whilst the ball is on their side so that they can be both an option to recycle the ball and to drop back if the ball is lost. The other CM would be more central when the ball is on the other side of the pitch to help with possession. Usually teams with high attacking full backs make up for this with either 3 CBs or a DM that drops between the defence, and I actually think if done properly, the intended style is a good innovation to try to maintain defensive stability on the counter whilst keeping numbers in midfield. However, this clearly also requires two further things, the aforementioned 2 10s operating centrally and occupying the attacking roles CMs would often take up, and a DM sat centrally to offer an option to recycle the ball whilst being able to break up any midfield counters, and this is where the way we currently do it breaks down, especially when you add in the CMs staying wide instead of moving inside when they are needed. By going with 2 STs and an AM, we sacrifice a player that is dropping into the midfield area to provide possession options. We then have a DM that seems to be instructed to drop between the defenders, which gives us the worst of both worlds as when we gain possession it's as if our midfield 3 run away from each as fast as possible, when they should be working in tandem. This results in our midfield being completely abandoned and resembling a donut more than a structured attacking set up. It also results in our AM being required to drop far deeper than he should just to collect the ball, and when he does, he doesn't have options. Below are 3 visualisations of how I think we should look approaching the final third, but the system has been implemented awfully which results in what we actually see. Notice how the ball holder in the three examples always has 6 short passing options, with options forward, left, right and back? Obviously I have just chosen where to put the players to facilitate that and a game scenario would change things, but I think by judging Gerrard's Rangers team and the tactical decisions we do see, those shapes are the intended outcome of the tactics. The problem is we don't see it due to a combination of poor coaching, shoe-horning in players, muddled instructions and not adapting the style to the personnel changes to the line up. I think it is right to criticise Gerrard for those tactical choices, especially when they are poorly implemented, but I can see the intent there and how a competent manager might get it to work. As I finish this I realise this should probably be in the team shape thread, so apologies to the mods if you want to move it.
  23. Yes, but because the £15m was split up between a £3m loan fee and £12m transfer fee it doesn't count for some reason Also, I'm pretty sure the fee reported when we signed him was £11m anyway?
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