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

[ciubaca]

I be seeing a lot of our fans mention him. I sometimes wonder though if he was more extremely lucky than talented as a coach in his CL wins

Call having refs in your pocket, luck....i rly need to see him and luis enrique prove someting at other teams

 

[Trajan]

Paredes is fukkin slow lmao

Breh fresh off the bench and got burned by that yout

 

[African_brehda]

Giroud @African_brehda

Juve are going to suffer this season if things don't pick up.

just hope this doesn’t fool our management into thinking we don’t need a quality 10 and or RW

 

[Liu Kang]

Arf, Messi made that run he usually do at Barca to get in shooting position just in front of the box but Mbappé did not pass and chose to shoot instead. Not clicking yet.

 

[TobiOT]

This Salernitana team look like they're going stay in their shells throughout the whole season.

 

[pete clemenza]

First time ever watching Reims and they don't look bad

I looked the city up for the hell of it and its the home of most of the biggest French champagne companies. Pretty much the "home of champagne" period

 

[null]

Sometimes they count his time as caretaker manager, sometimes they don't



He's lucky though. Broke the record for most unbeaten away matches, but he's a P.E teacher going off 'good vibes' still apparently

donner und blitzen freestyle helter-skelter football with a defensive, counter attack team structure.


+ good vibes

 

[null]

Speed is not the correct word…He’s quick. Reaches top speed very quickly(is that acceleration?). For that to be effective, the team needs to think quickly and move the ball with purpose. They aren’t doing that. And that’s a problem Ole has to fix…

he is quick but he ain't rapid. especially over the first few yards.

rashford is rapid.

 

[SCORCH]

Tammy

 

[Black Magisterialness]

It’s actually mad how the Utd players don’t move off the ball with any structure considering the technical ability of the likes of Sancho, Pogba, VdB, Martial, etc. It’s like they just give the ball to each other and expect some individual brilliance. Players like Sancho and VdB aren’t gonna be able to do anything if there aren’t give-and-go’s or purposeful off the ball runs. Ole is so bad with his lack of a system that if you gave this squad to someone like Graham Potter, people would realise how scary this team could be.

As an Arsenal (and PSG ) fan, I’m not complaining but I just hate seeing great players go to waste with shyt football.

I mean...that's what Real Madrid was during the Galacticos era. Not saying its the same level of talent...but with the right manager it CAN work. In fact, Real/Barca was THE ideological schism of football at the turn of the century. The superstars vs the refined collective (plus Messi mind you), buying talent vs developing talent, high-flying goals vs. tiki-taka.

The problem with ManU is that the Premier League has gotten more sophisticated than that. And individual talent has its limits. This United is destined to become the new Arsenal. Perpetual UCL, no title wins and an increasingly maniacal fanbase.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

I looked the city up for the hell of it and its the home of most of the biggest French champagne companies. Pretty much the "home of champagne" period

Ligue 1 actually gonna be interesting. PSG of course going to win...but I don't think there's a league with more emerging talent than France right now.

 

[TheOptimisticCynikal]

I mean...that's what Real Madrid was during the Galacticos era. Not saying its the same level of talent...but with the right manager it CAN work. In fact, Real/Barca was THE ideological schism of football at the turn of the century. The superstars vs the refined collective (plus Messi mind you), buying talent vs developing talent, high-flying goals vs. tiki-taka.

The problem with ManU is that the Premier League has gotten more sophisticated than that. And individual talent has its limits. This United is destined to become the new Arsenal. Perpetual UCL, no title wins and an increasingly maniacal fanbase.

 

[nyknick]

Not gonna lie, I'm fully backing Ole, but I'm low key thinking of who would be an improvement on him considering the young attacking talent we have if he doesn't work out.

Spoiler

Or just insert any top-half Serie A or Bundesliga manager

 

[Ukbrotha]

Spoiler

Or just insert any top-half Serie A or Bundesliga manager

There's like 50 managers better than Ole. But not all 50 are right for the job. Its about finding the right fir as well.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

$213M is a lot for any team but if PSG don't find a replacement maybe they should just run out Mbappe the rest of the season and lose on a free.

They could win league and UCL with this squad...