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There is a reason Mbappe, Vini Jr, Walker, Frimpong are playing in the top leagues. If they had the pace of Silva they would be playing in isthmian league.
He would leave Nunes for dead in a sprint and that is no bleamish on Nunes.
His dad was also a pretty pacy left back who played for Cameroon. He certainly did not get those genes from his Swedish side.
and theres a reason why rodri the current balon d'or winner is who he is and it isnt because he has lightning pace
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Exclusive: Gibbs-White agrees Man City terms
Morgan Gibbs-White has agreed personal terms with Manchester City, sources have told Football Insider.
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Him agreeing personal terms is the easy part.Exclusive: Gibbs-White agrees Man City terms
Morgan Gibbs-White has agreed personal terms with Manchester City, sources have told Football Insider.www.footballinsider247.com
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How are Liverpool shifting Darwin Nunez, whilst we are sitting on our own deadweight players? Have we got bloated contracts with players unwilling to leave?
What's that based on though?
Who tops the 2024/25 Premier League running charts?
Find out all the stats and where players rank including which player shares a similar trait with Lionel Messi
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Liverpool have supposedly rejected a bid of £55 million for him, the voice inside my head is screaming BOLLOCKS!!!
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They are about to cash in +100m on Darwin Nunez + Luis Diaz. I heavily despise that club but it is impressive that they are getting rid of their wasteful players and replacing then with Wirtz and by the looks of it Isak.
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That's all paper talk, nobody is paying a lot of money for either of those two. Newcastle aren't holding a fire sale either.
Striker and younger + average wages. Grealish and Stones wages are too high + one is injury prone and the other had a drop off as if he‘s 40.
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Rodri, yeah.
The others were insanely high rated though.
Not really comparable to Zubimendi signing for Arsenal.
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There is clearly an appetite for both of them from multiple clubs. Whether Liverpool sells them is the main questions. Without a doubt Edwards has been excellent for them in this window and they have planned their squad very appropriately.
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To be fair mate if we listened to what the rag papers had to say we'd have bought Isco and Messi ages ago.
They might be able to.
Being fast is just about your technique. Which of course it is. It's not magic or ethereal. You can say there's certain genetic advantages but they're not applicable until you're at the very very elite level. A sprinting coach can take seconds off people's 100m time who have never had any training in it. It's generally considered that anybody with the correct coaching can get to sub 11 times which is pretty quick. Maybe you've got the right genes to go further?
There's an interesting article about the genetics of sprinting here and the prevalence of certain gene expressions in elite level athletes:
How Much Do Genetics Matter in Sprinting?
Genetics clearly influence sprint performance—but by how much? There are several ways of answering this question. First, we can look for specific genetic variants that have an impact on performance...
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I've never worked out why every top club doesn't have more focused sessions around sprinting. Research says that the most common action before a goal in top leagues is a straight line sprint. First seen in 2007:
Straight sprinting is the most frequent action in goal situations in professional football - PubMed
The present study aimed to analyse the influence of speed and power abilities in goal situations in professional football. During the second half of the season 2007/08, videos of 360 goals in the first German national league were analysed by visual inspection. For the assisting and the scoring...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
And then confirmed again in 2014:
Straight sprinting is the most frequent action in goal situations in professional football - PubMed
The present study aimed to analyse the influence of speed and power abilities in goal situations in professional football. During the second half of the season 2007/08, videos of 360 goals in the first German national league were analysed by visual inspection. For the assisting and the scoring...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
And pace isn't just a linear thing, as anyone who has played in defence at any level knows, playing against someone significantly faster than you is fucking terrifying. This is why defenders back off Mbappe even in situations where there's no real point for him to use his pace - they are so scared of him that they've sort of trained themselves to accept it. Just having quicker player is in itself a net positive.
This is a somewhat famous article (its a PDF) about the pace problem in football by Thomas Haugen who later went on to work with a young Erling Haaland.
In it he talks about where you should train sprinting and where you should just buy quicker players. You'll be unsurprised to hear that it's an age thing. Women peak in their sprint speed in their teenage years but men don't peak until 25 and although they can keep improving into their 30s, the gains are less pronounced. But gains are gains.
I guess the risk of injury and the extreme load on players is probably why the top clubs don't train it, as poor sprinting form leads to dodgy hamstring injuries. This is why Sterling and his "banana back" technique is murdering him now he's a little older, he's probably had 5 hamstring injuries in the last few years and it's going to get worse over time. But you'd think they'd find ways to incorporate it more somewhere.
Where did you get that info from?
They might be able to.
Being fast is just about your technique. Which of course it is. It's not magic or ethereal. You can say there's certain genetic advantages but they're not applicable until you're at the very very elite level. A sprinting coach can take seconds off people's 100m time who have never had any training in it. It's generally considered that anybody with the correct coaching can get to sub 11 times which is pretty quick. Maybe you've got the right genes to go further?
There's an interesting article about the genetics of sprinting here and the prevalence of certain gene expressions in elite level athletes:
How Much Do Genetics Matter in Sprinting?
Genetics clearly influence sprint performance—but by how much? There are several ways of answering this question. First, we can look for specific genetic variants that have an impact on performance...
I've never worked out why every top club doesn't have more focused sessions around sprinting. Research says that the most common action before a goal in top leagues is a straight line sprint. First seen in 2007:
Straight sprinting is the most frequent action in goal situations in professional football - PubMed
The present study aimed to analyse the influence of speed and power abilities in goal situations in professional football. During the second half of the season 2007/08, videos of 360 goals in the first German national league were analysed by visual inspection. For the assisting and the scoring...
And then confirmed again in 2014:
Straight sprinting is the most frequent action in goal situations in professional football - PubMed
The present study aimed to analyse the influence of speed and power abilities in goal situations in professional football. During the second half of the season 2007/08, videos of 360 goals in the first German national league were analysed by visual inspection. For the assisting and the scoring...
And pace isn't just a linear thing, as anyone who has played in defence at any level knows, playing against someone significantly faster than you is fucking terrifying. This is why defenders back off Mbappe even in situations where there's no real point for him to use his pace - they are so scared of him that they've sort of trained themselves to accept it. Just having quicker player is in itself a net positive.
This is a somewhat famous article (its a PDF) about the pace problem in football by Thomas Haugen who later went on to work with a young Erling Haaland.
In it he talks about where you should train sprinting and where you should just buy quicker players. You'll be unsurprised to hear that it's an age thing. Women peak in their sprint speed in their teenage years but men don't peak until 25 and although they can keep improving into their 30s, the gains are less pronounced. But gains are gains.
I guess the risk of injury and the extreme load on players is probably why the top clubs don't train it, as poor sprinting form leads to dodgy hamstring injuries. This is why Sterling and his "banana back" technique is murdering him now he's a little older, he's probably had 5 hamstring injuries in the last few years and it's going to get worse over time. But you'd think they'd find ways to incorporate it more somewhere.
Didn't Phil spend time with a sprint coach to improve his speed, or am I misremembering?
I'm not sure mate, I hope so. I think it might be something that players should do in the break as they reckon it takes about 8 weeks and you can get a 5-7% gain in "football speed" (as football sprints are generally not 100m and are more likely 5-20m). And 5-7% is an awful lot at elite level sports, possibly even more if they've never had any serious coaching on it.
A few years ago when we went for the "four centre backs" model, it seemed to be a big shift in Pep's importance of physicality. The smaller guys were out and the units were in. I still think that was our strongest defence and I'd like to see us focus a little more on physicality at times. Not just sprints but strength too. Feel like Khusanov is a big step in this direction.