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

[Kunty McPhuck]

Hopefully Bale bring this energy to the training

Considering Bale's injury history and they did something similar with Ledley King because of his knee. In King's case, he would do maintenance on his knee all week and the only contact football he would do was in a match. As they both generally performed it made sense to do so. But as a player, it would annoy me and would see it as favouritism, especially with someone as young as Bale was at the time. But end of the day, if it helps the player to perform at their maximum and it gets the 3 pts, that is all that matters.

 

[YakSpiller]

 

[Trajan]

 

[null]

#GGMU

 

[phcitywarrior]

As a Man U supporter, I dislike that Pool got Thiago, but as a lover of good football I’m glad Thiago is in the Prem. Been wanting to seem him in the EPL for a while now.

Dude is pure class on the ball. Fantastic signing that.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Me and my nephew been running shyt in the Argentina super league with River Plate

Beat Boca 1-0 in the Libertadores final on a wonder goal in the 84th minute, shyt was glorious

Got a left back Brazilian wonderkid, 18 and 19 year old striker wonderkids, sitting on 15 and 21 goals

Don't ask for my handle either, you mess with the bull you get the horns

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Liverpool need to turn around now and pay Gini, keep him and build that midfield depth

 

[Sensitive Christian Grey]

I’m glad he’s here but man these types of videos are all cringe

Also Jota or Sarr?

 

[phillycavsfan]

I’m glad he’s here but man these types of videos are all cringe

Also Jota or Sarr?

Jota. Better player, better fit, and only 1 year older than Sarr.



We might be selling Hoever back to Wolves, so it's basically 25 million plus Hoever.

 

[nyknick]

Considering Bale's injury history and they did something similar with Ledley King because of his knee. In King's case, he would do maintenance on his knee all week and the only contact football he would do was in a match. As they both generally performed it made sense to do so. But as a player, it would annoy me and would see it as favouritism, especially with someone as young as Bale was at the time. But end of the day, if it helps the player to perform at their maximum and it gets the 3 pts, that is all that matters.

It's both poor man management and poor player attitude and it affects the whole team. If I recall correctly Bale had mostly muscle injuries at Tottenham which I would argue is more because of lack of proper training.


I watched a couple of clips last season of Manchester United players extra shooting sessions after Europa League games they would've been better off going straight home and sleeping than lackadaisical work they were putting in. And that directly correlated to the way they played in matches. Greenwood was only one putting in work with both feet


Pretty much all the greats were maniacal when training. RVP's story about Bergkamp going 100% during training session and not making one mistake. Michael Jordan tormenting his teammates, Henry snapping on people, Ibrahimovic slapping people around. Only Brazilians seem like they were always at maximum fukkery

 

[mr.africa]

PES 5 on Playstation 2 is still the greatest football game ever created
it hasn't been topped since and i stopped buying fifa after fifa 17
i'm standing by my statement.
out.

 

[TheFryingDutchman]

Bundesliga starts today and I'm legit shook that Schalke has a good chance of going down.

We about to get that work in a couple hours from Bayern

 

[TobiOT]

 

[Premeditated]

Bayern are gonna be sorry not getting a Thiago replacement.

they are going to walk the league but they are not going back to back on the CL

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

It's both poor man management and poor player attitude and it affects the whole team. If I recall correctly Bale had mostly muscle injuries at Tottenham which I would argue is more because of lack of proper training.


I watched a couple of clips last season of Manchester United players extra shooting sessions after Europa League games they would've been better off going straight home and sleeping than lackadaisical work they were putting in. And that directly correlated to the way they played in matches. Greenwood was only one putting in work with both feet


Pretty much all the greats were maniacal when training. RVP's story about Bergkamp going 100% during training session and not making one mistake. Michael Jordan tormenting his teammates, Henry snapping on people, Ibrahimovic slapping people around. Only Brazilians seem like they were always at maximum fukkery

From Defoe's clip, he is talking about a fun kick around game, young vs old the day before a match. So while it is training, it's not like it is tactical positional/pattern training. Regarding Muscular injuries living a poor lifestyle can cause those just as much as a lack of or over training.

As for what type of trainer Bale actually is, who knows. You cannot be that good at freekicks and striking the ball without putting the work in and still maintain a high level of athleticism that he has. He's probably a more selfish trainer than a lazy one. It only becomes a problem for the rest of the team if the player doesn't perform consistently. Which probably is what has happened in Madrid