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Cizzler

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  1. My Euro 23 man squad would be: Goalkeepers: Jordan Pickford, Aaron Ramsdale, Nick Pope (if fit) Defenders: Kyle Walker, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Reece James (if fit), Luke Shaw (if fit), Ben Chilwell, John Stones, Marc Guehi, Ezri Konsa (although would've been Ben White), Levi Colwill Midfielders: Declan Rice, Kobbie Mainoo, Jude Bellingham, James Maddison, Bukayo Saka, Phil Foden, Cole Palmer, Anthony Gordon Forwards: Harry Kane, Ollie Watkins, Ivan Toney
  2. Rogers was such a strange signing, has looked utterly appalling every time I’ve seen him. Is he really any better than Aaron Ramsey or JBP? Trampoline touch, scuffed shots, gives the ball away constantly. Had zero faith he’d fashion anything from that opening just before HT. Why is he playing.
  3. Lenglet, Duran and Rogers would struggle to get in Luton’s team
  4. Appreciate we have injuries, but Rogers and Duran are just miles off it. Nowhere near good enough for a team trying to challenge for CL.
  5. Was there genuine hype? They were a decent championship team - but they didn’t manage to keep Tella (went to Leverkusen) and Maatsen (Dortmund). Harwood-Bellis also started for them all year, but they didn’t manage to get him back on loan either. Their first XI clearly went backwards year on year, so was always going to be a struggle for them. It would be like us not managing to keep Mings, El Ghazi, etc the year we went up. Sheff Utd had a similar problem, losing Ndiaye to Marseille.
  6. Pre-facing this with the fact I've never voted Conservative in my life (and not singling you out - as the overwhelming response on the previous page was one of ridicule/ contempt for the policy - but had to quote one) but just hoping for some fair discourse on immigration, as maybe I'm missing something obvious. But, is it truly beneficial [long-term] for the U.K. to allow masses of cheap care workers and their dependents? Do other major economies allow this? (Genuine question). Is the benefit (cheap care labour) not outweighed by the cost on the public sector of the dependents? Public spending expenditure p/head in the U.K is approx ~£15k - therefore if you pay less than £15k in tax annually, presume (roughly) you cost, rather than benefit the state. Typically what tax are dependents of care workers paying (is it above or below this threshold)? I think it's easy to dub 'anti-immigration' policy as right-wing/racist/Tory scum - but with crumbling public services and an ever-increasing population, surely there is some consensus that unless migration is skilled/net benefit to the state - public services will be increasingly stretched. There is only so much more we can be taxed. Why is the correct solution not to pay care workers more, so current citizens are more willing to do it. Unless I'm missing something, importing cheap labour (and the family that comes with it) just kicks the can down the road. Years down the line, more people end up in care in this country - which means we will have to ship in more cheap labour again?
  7. Back 4 and Kamara have been utterly awful. Kamara has some credit in the bank at least. Carlos utterly toilet. Zero composure in the final third. Snatching at chances. Bailey looks bright at least. Watkins looks up for it. An early goal and it’s game on still.
  8. He's gone from looking electric to a competition winner. Didn't want the ball at all today. Doesn't seem up to this intensity physically.
  9. They’ve done very good business judging from that. Isak and Gordon might not be “bargains” - but have both justified their fee. Botman and Bruno have surely increased their value. Livramento is also looking like a very shrewd signing, even at that price. Trippier and Pope are bargains at that price considering the level (until very recently) they’ve both been playing at. Only shockers on there are Wood (but not sure how much they recouped from Forest? Most of it?) and Tonali (largely out of their hands due to the unforeseeable betting scandal - and could still come good). Willock isn’t a bad player at all, and would probably be in their first XI. Maybe a slight overpay in isolation, but was instrumental in them getting CL football.
  10. Cizzler

    Jhon Durán

    Take it you missed the Crystal Palace game.
  11. I’ve actually got even more embarrassing comments re: McGinn in here that could have been unearthed! At least the one you quoted was before I’d seen him play… End of the Smith regime / during Gerrard’s - I was giving him pelters. Didn’t think he was good enough. Well, massive slice of humble pie for me to scoff. Been truly excellent since Emery has come in and long may it continue. (and I’ll lay off the player threads going forwards)
  12. It looks bad zoomed in and in slow-mo, because you can't see Diego is just stepping across his man and you just see Gil's theatrics. In real time, and if he didn't react like he'd been shot, it honestly doesn't look like a foul. He steps across him and brushes his forearm against a stooping player's face. I genuinely don't think I'd feel hard-done-by if we didn't get that decision. The Konsa handball two seconds later is more questionable in my opinion - I've given up trying to understand what's handball and what's not, but clearly hits his arm. The Cash tackle on Bentancur was a bad one. I can understand why the Spurs fans are annoyed. Clearly heightened emotions because he's a key player who just got back from injury, and he's crocked him. It was correctly given as a yellow though in my opinion. It's rash, but he's not off his feet - he catches him with his shin, not his studs. I think the ref got the big decisions right. They were all over us for 30 minutes - but we still had chances (Pau from the Digne free kick, disallowed Watkins goal by milimetres). In hindsight, their only goal came from a wicked deflection and they were offside a lot. The fact the linesmen waits for the move to end (as they're instructed to do) makes it seem like we're under floods of pressure - when we aren't. The Chelsea game was similar. For Son's miss over the bar, Porro was clearly offside. I thought the second half was very even. We both hit the post. Watkins missed two headers. Martinez made a great double-save. Not much in it.
  13. I think it's really close - which shows how far we've come in a short space of time. Their back 5 is excellent, they just have zero depth for it. Vicario is a massive step-up from Lloris. Porro and Udogie look like excellent full-backs (I think both would start for us - depending if Moreno can re-discover the form he finished last year in). Romero is a good CB (bit reckless, but a decent player) and they've been waxing lyrical about Van Der Wen all year as signing of the summer. In midfield, Bissouma is now playing a lot better, Bentancur is a very good player and Maddison is class. That's a good midfield three, and Sarr and Lo Celso is okay depth. They're probably weakest in the front 3. Son is an excellent finisher, but struggles to play wide and his hold-up play is poor. Kulusevski is decent, but quite slow. Brennan Johnson unproven and Richarlison was an over-pay. A combined XI is tough - as a lot of the calls are 50/50, and each team's fans will just back the players they see every week. I think only Martinez, Porro, Maddison and Diaby would be undisputed starters in both teams. All of the others are genuine coin tosses and a Spurs fan will go one way, a Villa fan the other (Konsa v Romero, Van Der Wen vs. Torres, Udogie vs. Moreno, Kamara vs. Bissouma, Douglas Luiz vs. Bentancur, Son vs. Watkins).
  14. I don’t really mind if it happens to be honest - as long as any club who joined, was kicked out of the Premier League. I know the PL would be reluctant to kick out 6 of their best cash cows - but this is what would need to happen. The domestic league has to played on the “most equal” terms possible (appreciate we don’t really have that at the moment, but we have the illusion of it, with FFP and [mostly] shared TV rights). One of the reasons why the NFL works so well is because actually, every team is equal. The salary cap is equal and success is punished by a punitive position in the draft next year. Ultimately a closed-shop Super League (with minimal relevance to PL finishing position) would seriously devalue the Premier league - it becomes a B competition. I think a PL could still put out a good product without the ‘big 6’. It wouldn’t be “the greatest league in the world” anymore - but there would be less of an unassailable gap at the top. The international fans would move to watching the Super League - and who can blame them, the best players would play there.
  15. Wasn't impressed by him at the weekend at all. He got completely sold for the McGinn goal and was largely ineffective, but appreciate must be difficult to look good in that current Fulham team.
  16. I remember we did get an incredibly generous foul on Kamara (possibly Luiz, but think it was Kamara) in the first half, when he collapsed under pressure, receiving the ball from Martinez - leaving them with a one-on-one. Not saying the ref was good at all, but that was a very favourable decision that prevented it from going 2-0 even earlier.
  17. There's a reason he no longer takes them. Has a 40% record from the spot in his career. He's a bad penalty taker.
  18. Why on earth would they care - he's 28, we're hardly stunting his development. Can't imagine they loaned him to us thinking he'd be first choice - we'd just signed Torres for £30m+.
  19. Diaby wasn't at the races - but still could have grabbed a couple of assists. Zaniolo was really poor - that's why he's being hammered. Missed our best chance of the half when played in by Diaby (really sloppy first touch, a good player sets himself up to score there), fell over in the box under no contact - when there were great options square, muscled off the ball when tracking back which should have resulted in Forest going 2-0 up earlier 0 but their player skied it. They were just the highlights. He was slow, lumbering, did nothing positive. Emery hooked him at 45 minutes, so clearly he thought so too.
  20. What is Zaniolo good at? Slow, bad first touch, falls over after no contact. A good player scores the chance Diaby gave him. Almost let them score another too with weak defending. Hard to agree with Emery that he’s better than Bailey.
  21. And 1 player between Man United, Liverpool and Spurs combined. Which is the same amount as Luton, Sunderland and Rangers - and two less than Southampton have (3). It's great when our youngsters get international recognition - but hard to question Mark Harrison off the back of one world-cup squad. He's clearly driven our academy forward.
  22. If there are 60 adults : 40 children, and each adult was in a couple - there would be 30 couples : 40 children, so 1.3 children per couple. Obviously some 18+ will be children of the adults - so above is over-simplified, but nowhere near 8 children per adult couple.
  23. He literally just turned 20 in June and already has 24 caps? I’m all for bashing Southgate about being tactically limited and poor selection decisions at times - but find it pretty hard to criticise how he’s phased Bellingham into the England team.
  24. None of these are currently good enough though. Only Gibbs-White, Gordon and Garner actually start for their club teams (and Garner + MGW are playing for two of the worst teams in the league). I don’t see the problem with not calling these players up. It’s not like any really play the same position as Maguire, Henderson or Phillips - which are driving most of the frustration. Maybe Jones could play in the midfield 3? But pretty sure he’s injured and am not sure how good he is anyway. There’s still a competitive game to win and this is the squad for that. I personally wouldn’t have chosen any of Maguire, Phillips or Henderson - but the other options haven’t done enough to justify the outcry in my opinion.
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