Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - Mikel Arteta: "How am I doing boss?" Tony Pulis: "You're doing a great job son!"

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He was Chelsea player of the year tho :troll:

Should help the sales pitch next summer. :mjgrin:

For Lyon to push PSG, they need to keep Depay, but as he is in the last year of his contract, don't see that happening. If he does go, they won't be able to find a good enough replacement for him. Can you really rely on Dembele to stay fit for a whole season?

All the potential 'How do Chelsea line up for 20/21' teams I've seen, they all have Havertz as an 8. All the games I've seen of him its always been as a forward, 9/false 9, #10, SS in 3421 or RW. If Chelsea do play 433, I see Ziyech being better suited to play as one of the 8's, as he is more of a creator.
He could play as the most attacking midfielder in the 4-3-3 (which will basically be a 4-2-4 against 85% of the teams we play against).

Havertz making runs from deeper and running beyond, Ziyech coming in off the right and occupying the more central areas. They could easily be a good fit together the way I see it.

Ziyech really seems to be flying under the radar. Everybody talking about Werner, Havertz etc but he could easily have the most impact.
 
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Kane is such a marble mouth :mjlol:

That meeting in Mourinho's office where he garbled some shyt about Messi and Ronaldo. Please just stop. Don't even. :mjlol:
 

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Spurs is a big team. It was one of the 4 biggest teams in the old Football League. A close 4th behind Arsenal with big players (league best Hoddle, Waddle, Allen, two Argies), more European Cups (of all types) than Arsenal and Man Utd and more FA Cups than anyone else. It was bigger than City, bigger than Chelsea... There is nothing "recent" about them being a big team.
 

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Koulibaly to City with possibly Messi on the way? GOD DAYUM! how much more does Pep need to compete?! Might as well build a time machine and sign Beckenbauer, Pele, and Di Stefano. Not only should this fool be getting 100 points next season, but he better walk the league, FA Cup, and CL. No ifs, ands, or buts. don't wanna hear about "bbuuut City spend like other teams"...

And we all know where that money coming from:mjpls:
Koulibaly doesn’t look like a pep player
 

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James has lights up the league for 4 months and falls off written all over him.

Spurs is a big team. It was one of the 4 biggest teams in the old Football League. A close 4th behind Arsenal with big players (league best Hoddle, Waddle, Allen, two Argies), more European Cups (of all types) than Arsenal and Man Utd and more FA Cups than anyone else. It was bigger than City, bigger than Chelsea... There is nothing "recent" about them being a big team.

All true, my issue is the doc tried painting Spurs as perennial winners who are just going through a drought like Liverpool or Arsenal. This period of Spurs is the most stable they''ve been in decades.
 

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Told ya'll.

Barto fukked this up from the Remondata on.

You can't expect to have a person your star player, your ICONIC figure have a kid in the club that he CLEARLY wants to deputize and just let him go the way they did. There's NO fukkING WAY the Neymar deal should have even been a thought in their minds.
 

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Only way Thiago ends up at united is if liverpool do not want him, and tell that to his agent. United would need it to happen fast so they can sell Fred or at least get him a loan. [Unfortunately]
 
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