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Yeah I think you're right about his style. I'm not talking about strictly style replacement but just rather being the one player who isn't afraid to push the team forward in attack and break the rhythm. Reijnders shows flashes of it, but has a tendency to dig himself into a hole.

Definitely. I know you can't replace players like for like, but last night's team really needed a Kompany/Ferna/Rodri type who would just take control. This happened a lot last season. Lot of followers, no leaders. Its not a talent issue. Same with the attack, however i see Cherki over time...

Reading Pep Confidential about his first year at Bayern and I've just gotten past the game where they got killed 4-0 by Madrid in Munich. I dont feel too bad about this game as a result. In every season I feel like you can find at least one game where Pep well and truly fucks it with tactics or...

Honestly think the same as I've gotten older. The whole "ultras" vibe kind of loses its appeal when you're in your 30s and you can see the little conductor at the front telling the chorus what to sing next. It's about as organic as McDonalds.

Wasn't there but was it anything like the Dortmund game where we did that cool thing we do where hundreds of people wander around aimlessly for the first 25 mins because they don't know how to find their seat?

This was shit tactically, selection and performance wise, but some of you really need a brew and an early night.

On any other night that's an own goal.

Well at least we aren't being dramatic about it...

It's not so much outdated just poorly executed. There isn't anyone comfortable enough to break the pattern and challenge a low block. Possession football like ours runs the risk of just passing in a U shape around the area which happened a lot last season.. We would do the same thing at our...

He signed a 9 year extension while we were far worse.

No. What I'm saying is that Rodri was underwhelming in his first season. Marmoush and Reijnders likely aren't going to win the Ballon D'Or, but they're going to need time to acclimatise. I'm just being pragmatic about it given how many players have improved in their 2nd full season here under...

Marmoush and Reijnders haven't been here a full year yet. You'd have sold Rodri in 2020 by that logic.

I get what you're saying, and "League 1 at best" is very much an exaggeration, but we're a PL and UCL contender and he's a project. He has no business starting for us at this point in his career and the games hes played for us have done nothing to sway me.

I will never understand for the life of me where this myth of Trafford being a great sweeper keeper came from.

Tbf the placement on it is perfect, and in Traffords defence, he's caught out by Ake being absolutely awful, but i feel like he could have been better.

Trafford flapped at that, but holy shit Ake looked like a child there.

It's a bad decision that you can shrug and say it could have gone either way, IF they didn't check it using video review and this semi automated bullshit. After that it's fucking embarrassing. Their own graphic for this showed it was offside. And the Foden penalty is an absolute howler of a...

They completely fucked this up. It's 100% offside. And the annoying part is that because Liverpool threw such a bitchfit about their disallowed goal to the point where they created a narrative successfully, us having the same reaction is just going to be seen as sour grapes because we "got one"...

I actually like this. It's kind of Gremio adjacent, and I've always liked their kits. Wouldn't be mad at it showing up in a release for the new year.

Finally. This hasn't been close.