Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!

[The axe murderer]

ronaldo goal ruled out VAR fukkery

 

[jaydolf spitler]

That Man U Crystal Palace game was a good one hope we get another competitive one here

 

[TobiOT]

Arsenal are going to get murdered out-wide

 

[ciubaca]

There are hundreds of managers out there. There is at least 7 who are better than Ole in the Prem.

They had mou and lvg....two of the goats...they werent good enough

 

[JDH]

That pass from henderson to robertson was beautiful

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

Adrian needs to stay home and let Van Dijk clean that up.

 

[TobiOT]

VVD like to Adrian

 

[nyknick]

There are 4-5 players in United's starting XI that actually deserve to be in a United starting XI: Pogba, Wan-Bissaka, Maguire, De Gea and maaaaaaaybe Martial depending on the players around him and his general disposition. And we just saw Maguire and De Gea make crucial, game-killing mistakes during this match against Palace.

Everyone else varies between squad player and waste. Like...what does Lingard even fukking do? McTominay? Come on, we all know Pogba can be pretty inconsistent at times, but people have to wonder why he can be so great for France and then have his performances vary so much with United. Maybe if he didn't have to do so much for the squad and had the opportunity to exercise his creativity more, then he might not get so much shyt. Watch the pundits say Pogba should've done more when he damn near created United's goal by himself.

I had an argument with a Mancunian ex-pat about whether Arsenal or Man U were in a worse position during the Champions League final, each of us arguing that our teams were worse off. I thought that because Arsenal had (and to an extent, still does have) so much to turn over in its squad that it would take nearly a half-decade to really get back to where we should be. But after this summer and these three matches (I don't think it really matters how badly we do vs. Liverpool), United doesn't even seem to have a real plan in place for the future. At least Arsenal seems to be grasping toward something.

You need 3 things to be able to turn the corner from mediocrity.

1. Owners willing to spend
2. Director of football who knows how to spend
3. Manager who's able to assess the talent and use it properly

United currently has none of the above. Arsenal has a DoF, owners spent money this window and Emery is Emery.

 

[null]

They had mou and lvg....two of the goats...they werent good enough

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Ole is not good enough.

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

Pepe's going to be a problem.

 

[FaygoMI]

This arsenal formation gonna get them killed.

 

[Montez]

Liverpool really selling a managers kit

Joe Willock looking like a young Yaya tears in my eyes. That’s my Ozil replacement

Xhaka is putting us under too much pressure.

 

[BlackAchilles]

Nice save

 

[Winston]

Pepe has to carry us, nobody in the Liverpool defence wants it with him. Sooner or later he's gonna have to bruck someone up

 

[ThrobbingHood]

Xhaka starting in 20 fukking 19.....