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

[Ill-Yaz]

I bet if you searched for sinking ship on Google images, you will find this:

Absolutely no buzz in the transfer market, depleting squad, players don't want to be there, local fan base.

Chelsea about to return to their standing pre- Abromovich days this season :laff

 

[Sukairain]

Emery not built for the higher level clubs. He doesn't have the personality and is too boring to galvanise top level players that arent Spanish or mid table level talent.

I don't care how many EL he won. Barca and Real have hired or been linked with every Spanish coach but him. If he was really good Real would of moved heaven and earth to bring him in as coach and they havent. That tells you everything you need to know.

Arsenal are not Real Madrid or Barcelona. Arsenal are not a higher level club. We aren't in 2003. Europa League, Conference League, that's Arsenal's level and it has been for a good 12 or 13 years now. That's the level of competition they can hope to win: domestic cups and lower tier continental cups. Not since 2008 or 2009 have Arsenal ever been in a title race or gone deep in the CL knockouts. Every single top 4 finish since then, they were just in the CL to make up the numbers, to be eliminated in the first knockout round by Barcelona or Bayern Munich. They're no better than Sevilla or Villarreal or the other Europa League teams. Emery is more than good enough to suit Arsenal's level and to bring them realistic success. Arsenal does not have the football heritage, to borrow Mourinho's expression, to be challenging for titles beyond Emery's level for at least another five years, more likely ten.

 

[Winston]

Arsenal are not Real Madrid or Barcelona. Arsenal are not a higher level club. We aren't in 2003. Europa League, Conference League, that's Arsenal's level and it has been for a good 12 or 13 years now. That's the level of competition they can hope to win: domestic cups and lower tier continental cups. Not since 2008 or 2009 have Arsenal ever been in a title race or gone deep in the CL knockouts. Every single top 4 finish since then, they were just in the CL to make up the numbers, to be eliminated in the first knockout round by Barcelona or Bayern Munich. They're no better than Sevilla or Villarreal or the other Europa League teams. Emery is more than good enough to suit Arsenal's level and to bring them realistic success. Arsenal does not have the football heritage, to borrow Mourinho's expression, to be challenging for titles beyond Emery's level for at least another five years, more likely ten.

You love waffling.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Arsenal are not Real Madrid or Barcelona. Arsenal are not a higher level club. We aren't in 2003. Europa League, Conference League, that's Arsenal's level and it has been for a good 12 or 13 years now. That's the level of competition they can hope to win: domestic cups and lower tier continental cups. Not since 2008 or 2009 have Arsenal ever been in a title race or gone deep in the CL knockouts. Every single top 4 finish since then, they were just in the CL to make up the numbers, to be eliminated in the first knockout round by Barcelona or Bayern Munich. They're no better than Sevilla or Villarreal or the other Europa League teams. Emery is more than good enough to suit Arsenal's level and to bring them realistic success. Arsenal does not have the football heritage, to borrow Mourinho's expression, to be challenging for titles beyond Emery's level for at least another five years, more likely ten.

Emery is a cup manager that's it. He choked a CL place with Arsenal quite spectacularly twice in the space of 6 weeks. And we all know why he got sacked at PSG. Sevilla and Villarreal have to sell players to buy players Arsenal don't. That already makes them a higher level.

You still don't get it. It has nothing to do with coaching ability.

Ancelotti could take a shyt on the dressing room floor raise his eyebrow and the players would follow him.

Mourinho tactics are boring but the sheer will of his personality draws players wanting to work with him but it also works against him. But the repetitive nature of his coaching after a while gets boring to the players. That's why he's usually done within 3 seasons.

Rafa Benitez hasn't had a top level job since he got sacked from Real. Newcastle and Everton is the best he can get. Because he has a difficult personality doesn't work well with elite players. This has been proven at Inter Real and while he succeeded at Chelsea in his interim role the players couldn't wait for him to leave. Also Rafa has a habit of talking about what he did at other clubs. Players don't want to hear that shyt.

 

[Wudo75]

Watched the whole game between Bayern and Leipzig. Bayern was impressive the first 60 minutes, pure old dominance and defensive strong. After the first changes they fall apart (besides two offside goals from Mané which would finish the game). De Ligt is not fit the training in Italy seems to be ass. Musiala, Gnabry, Mané with Müller or Coman, Sané, this new french Kid Tel oder Old Choupo will be bonkers offensivley.

To Haaland: He needs to be fit first, he played only a few games the last months. And Dortmund always get the best of strikers by playing some quick high risk football. Haaland is 21 or what, since he ist well trained he will be good.

 

[TobiOT]

 

[Big Blue]

Torino manager and sporting director fighting in the parking lot. Video recorded like it's an active shooter situation

Might have been a player who didn't want to get sold

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Might have been a player who didn't want to get sold

It's about recruitment. Torino have lost their best defender and striker. And haven't replaced the squad. And that's not even including the loan players whove gone back to their parent clubs.

 

[J Money]

Chelsea should sign Ronaldo on a 1 year deal..

 

[Duke Wy Lin]

@FireMikelArteta time for a name change breh?

 

[nyknick]

Eriksen is starting today? They're really putting that defibrillator to the test

 

[SCORCH]

Chelsea should sign Ronaldo on a 1 year deal..

We don't want that washed weirdo.

 

[TobiOT]

Eriksen is starting today? They're really putting that defibrillator to the test

Tahith Chong is horrible.

 

[TobiOT]

 

[nyknick]

Tahith Chong is horrible.

Chong starting is really not a good look for Amad and Hannibal, shows you what ETH thinks of them

I feel bad for Laird though, can't show much going forward with Chong constantly fukking up in front of him