17 | Kevin De Bruyne - 2024/25

[applejuice]

Just a weird choice from Pep to give him 2 minutes in the shield and then make him play the 90 today. This isn't specific to today, obviously players are gaining their fitness but do feel like Pep has to manage his minutes better this season if we are to prolong his brilliance. He needed to come off today for the last 15, at the very least once we got the second goal.

It is Chelsea. Kev old team. It is likely the last time he visits this ground.

 

[Silva 83]

A "top knot", FFS.

Sell him.

Reminds me of when I was 21 and tried bleached blond slicked back hair with an alice band through it.

I thought I was the business at the time too.

On a serious note, he's still a great player albeit older.

 

[domalino]

Just a weird choice from Pep to give him 2 minutes in the shield and then make him play the 90 today. This isn't specific to today, obviously players are gaining their fitness but do feel like Pep has to manage his minutes better this season if we are to prolong his brilliance. He needed to come off today for the last 15, at the very least once we got the second goal.

I’m pretty sure I remember Lorenzo Bonaventura (our fitness coach) did a speech at a conference for coaches and he said that during the Covid season they decided that bringing players back as subs doesn’t actually help, and they’re more likely to get injured because no one ever warms up right and the game is at full pace when they go in. Instead they started bringing people back from injury as starters and because they can live monitor all the players’ HR and GPS data they know at all times which players are tired and who can last 90 by how fast they’re running, how high their HR is and how much they recover during breaks in play.

So that’ll be why Kev played 90, it’s their preferred method of bringing people back and they could see he wasn’t tiring badly.

I’ll try to dig out the video, IIRC it was in Spanish with subtitles.

 

[Irishblue93]

I’m pretty sure I remember Lorenzo Bonaventura (our fitness coach) did a speech at a conference for coaches and he said that during the Covid season they decided that bringing players back as subs doesn’t actually help, and they’re more likely to get injured because no one ever warms up right and the game is at full pace when they go in. Instead they started bringing people back from injury as starters and because they can live monitor all the players’ HR and GPS data they know at all times which players are tired and who can last 90 by how fast they’re running, how high their HR is and how much they recover during breaks in play.

So that’ll be why Kev played 90, it’s their preferred method of bringing people back and they could see he wasn’t tiring badly.

I’ll try to dig out the video, IIRC it was in Spanish with subtitles.

Would like to see this video if you can find it

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Reminds me of when I was 21 and tried bleached blond slicked back hair with an alice band through it.

I thought I was the business at the time too.

On a serious note, he's still a great player albeit older.

Y2k slim shady / nsync era?

 

[Silva 83]

Y2k slim shady / nsync era?

It was about 2002/2003 so round about Eminem time. Though he's the only rapper I ever liked really. I was never really into him much but he has some excellent songs.

I watched a Brad Pitt film and decided I liked his blond hair, then gave it a hairband and slicked back twist, that was pretty much why.

I was blond as a kid anyway but never bleached blond.

 

[David Kloppesh]

It's post like this I find very attractive :)

 

[Don Karleone]

Thought he was brilliant today

 

[Jonas.shaffer]

Looks very fit.

 

[EdersonsSmiley]

Looks very fit.

Agreed. He needs limited to 1/2 games a week, when the midweek fixtures start, so he can play at his best.