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Man child of a coach. Hope he stays forever.

I care much more about beating the Eagles than draft position. Really pleased with that.

Yes.

Yeah I suppose the extra they paid is probably worth it in a commercial sense. I do think it's mad that people wouldn't have him back. He would not only be the best player in the team, but it would be by a fairly big distance.

Pep could've spent much less on a player with the same productivity from that position in his system. But Pepe never signed Grealish to play for City. He signed him so he wasn't playing for someone else.

That's a bingo! Monkeys, typewriters and Shakespeare comes to mind. Just by having more people look at it means we're likely to see more correct decisions overall.

I wouldn't necessarily say coincidental. The biggest blame lies with MON for underachieving with a relative fortune at the time. Not geting top 4 completely ruined us. The emergence of City also meant that top 4 felt more of a closed shop, and then they signed our best players. But I dislike City more for their success being built on cheating rather than anything else. Always have time to hate on Spurs, Newcastle and to an extent Leeds. 3 clubs who have almost always been irrelevant in the grand scheme of things but think they're Real Madrid.

The full 90 minutes of complete incompetence by the referee in our game last night is the reason VAR exists and will continue to do so. He got so many things wrong, you'd think he was doing it on purpose.

They also have to pay over the odds because of that name too.

Signs of a shit manager, very Remi Garde.

Like I said, since Klopp took over, their net spend is closer to Bournemouth than it is Spurs. Even if people want to go by just spend, which ignores the need to sell to faciliate purchases in the first place, they're 6th in that time - a good half a billion of the Manchester clubs and Chelsea. We have a higher net spend despite spending 3 years out of the PL.

I think you were misunderstanding what I was saying, potentially. We're definitely not a high press team, I was suggesting that we often don't even press at all, which allows the opposition unopposed balls over the top, United had a lot of success as a result. I'm not even saying I'd like us to press as a team, definitely not. A one man 'press' to te ball is enough disruption at times, even if there's no intent to win it back but half heartedly cose someone down and make them think.

No chance. Liverpool's net spend in Klopp's time is closer to Bournemouth than it is Spurs, let alone the likes of City and Chelsea. Pep's continually complainin that he "only" has £150m worth of player on he bench, he wouldn't have lasted 5 seconds at Liverpool.

Neuer is probably the closest. He just let in, comparatively, a lot more soft goals.

Digne, Bailey and others were written off early too. Sometimes it's just about seeing what happens, but everyone has to have an opinion from day 1. Nothing wrong with that, but it ultimately doesn't mean much either.

He would play the Ramsey role. Somewhat similar players and Jack is just better.

It was just taken from here which is about the most recent I could find. I'm sure relegation has likely affected Leeds/Leicester, but I suppose my point is we shouldn't be remotely close to these. Everton is even worse given their struggled and being the defacto number 2 club in their smaller city. As to your wider point, I agree that it feels a bit too soon to judge. I guess we'll see when the 23/24 accounts are out and see how they compare to 22/23.

Think he's the best I've ever seen, personally.

We're the only team not tohave a penalty against us this season. Had 4 against him last season, saved 1, conceded 3. The save was in August, against Zaha, who then score the rebound. Most recent pen was Spurs consolation at the back end of last season.

He's not wrong about revenue. I've seen a few "If revenue is all you care about..", unfortunately that's modern football. We won't be able to sustain any meaningful level of competition until that's rectified. No disrespect to the clubs, but being behind Leicester, Leeds and Everton is a travesty and shows the general issues we're having on that front.

Some have suggested Rodri has missed too many games which is a bit mad, he hasn't missed that many and the games he has missed have only proved to show how crucial he is.

I do agree with this. As successful as the high line and general approach has been, standing off is what gives the opposition the very small window where successful chances can be created. Beating a high line with the ball being short enough that Emi doesn't just lap it up is hard enough. A bit more pressing essentially makes it impossible.

I mean, VvD was probably the best CB in the World for 2 years and they won the league and the title (Whilst also getting 97 points the season they didn't win the league), then his standard dropped quite a lot. Liverpool haven't had the best striker in the league since Suarez and Trent has never really been close.until probably this season. I also think in the other positions (RCB an the whole midfield) Liverpool have been very weak and filled with workman like squad fillers. Meanwhile City have probably had 7 of the best XI in the entire PL every year.

Emi is.. 1st for defensive actions outsidethe penalty area 3rd for claiming crosses +2.3 in PSxG He's undoubtedly one of the best. Goals conceded and clean sheets are a really basic stick to beat GKers on 'lesser' teams. Ederson is a good counter example, crap keeper but plays on a team that always has the ball, thus concedes less/gets more clean sheets so people think he's decent.

I think sometimes it's more due to the situation of the league. OGS win rate (54.17%) is close to Moyes (52.94%), while EtH (58.89%) is up near SAF (59.67%) and above Jose (58.33%). In terms of points per game. SAF - 2.02 Jose - 1.97 EtH - 1.89 OGS - 1.85 Moyes - 1.76 OGS is also the only post-war United manager to be in charge for multiple seasons and not win anything. Obviously stats can show what you want and context is important. But overall I stick to my guns that EtH is 'fine'. I think the squad is pretty crap, and he's part to blame for that, but I also think 3rd was overachieving last season. EtH tends to get more negative press simply because his teams never draw, so naturally they lose more games and that's a crisis at United. I'm also friends with 2 Cardiff fans, both of whom consider him one of the least liked people in the clubs history.