Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - RIP Diogo Jota
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some players play with their heads up. some with their heads down - watching their own feet, or the ground always in a rush, rather than looking around them.
head down players are not going to orchestrate games. head up players
so comfortable on the ball that they spend less energy on basic control and location of the ball and more on controlling their impact and controlling the game.i.e. socrates wandering about pondering the sky ...
e.g. for MU carrick and scholes were both great at that.
first xavi pass at 13s for example never once does xavi look down after receiving the ball before passing it on
you needs head up type players to control midfield.
Definitely.. I know "The Farmer's League" jokes should be gone and done away with that's for sure
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no idea what you are talking about.
any manager who managed the big clubs internationally esp. in spain can take the epl "pressure".
that imagined island "exceptionalism" is clouding your objectivity again.
a person's character is internal.
you know all that "proper MU player" stuff that man utd alumni prattel on about.
jose for example could have left porto and directly take 10 times the pressure that man utd could throw at him. you judge people not your patterns.
Luckily they'll go straight back down. Also they're somehow owned by the same owner as Lazio
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TheOptimisticCynikal
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Not exeptionalism. It's the same with any big club. Mans just listed the Iran national team manager, Ryan Giggs and Rooney as possible candidates for one of the biggest clubs on the world as if the pressure isn't immense at anything other than wining at a club of United's size and history
It's not about the pressure of the Premier League. You just saw people in this very thread making jokes about us off of a 1 - 0 win in Game Week 3 as if players aren't still geling with one another. Imagine how that is with a world wide fanbase?
Arsenal, who are no where near as big as United, hounded out the most successful manager in their history because he didn't buy players and kept scraping 4th. They got Emery and you see how they've been since.
Anyone coming other than Zizou, Conte or Poch will be a travesty if Ole doesn't work out.
I'd actually keep Ole until the players lose faith in him personally
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he could be an excellent cog in a good dynamic pass+move progressive system.
like pep/city have.
or like at dortmund.
a type of "system" which man utd does not have.
it would be a shame to waste one of ronaldo's final few seasons so Ole has to deliver or go.
get him his MF so we can be done with the excuses.
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Not exeptionalism. It's the same with any big club. Mans just listed the Iran national team manager, Ryan Giggs and Rooney as possible candidates for one of the biggest clubs on the world as if the pressure isn't immense at anything other than wining at a club of United's size and history
life lesson: judge people. character is within.
SAF was a good judge of character steel.
you on the other hand seem to be still puzzled about whether it exists.
learn to recognise the really tough people around you.
Angel Correa has been playing out of his mind this season. All you have to do is pair Suarez up with someone from Rosario to have a world class attack.
thatrapsfan
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How did Messi look?
TheOptimisticCynikal
All Star
Ironic that you say this. That same steel that David Moyes had you mean? The pressure of the job crushed Moyes. He couldn't handle fans criticism of his decisions and used fear of the fans judging him as a reason why he chose certain players to play
Piss poor defending by Savic and Giménez. You never expect to see that caliber of defending from a Simeone coached side 