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

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But wasn’t Liverpools midfield mainly for pressing and winning the ball back, till you wanted to act fancy and play Thiago there?
Lol wat we when Thiago plays he adds a new element that was not there..and it's not like last year his addition hurt us, another cl final another 1 point 2nd place couple of cups. The evolution of the midfield has nothing to do with the regress of the team. Yes we need more pressing no doubt but the addition of Thiago helps when we cant break teams down and can't control the middle.

Too many injury prone players in that one key area sadly
 

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Nah it was a good time for Mane to move on. He came alive towards the end of the season but was :flabbynsick: for large parts. We got him out the door before the inevitable decline... Dude's 30

Let him get one last payday and stat pad at Bayern :myman:


Plus Diaz hit the ground running and continues to improve
 

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Nah it was a good time for Mane to move on. He came alive towards the end of the season but was :flabbynsick: for large parts. We got him out the door before the inevitable decline... Dude's 30

Let him get one last payday and stat pad at Bayern :myman:


Plus Diaz hit the ground running and continues to improve


Diaz can't seem to score or set up consistently though:francis:
 

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A. Marca chose to run a libelous story about one of the biggest athletes in the world out of spite

or

B. A Frenchman is a depraved sexual deviant.

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So are Tottenham playing like this because Fulham are more counter attacking than them, or are they finally acting like they have better players?
A little of both. We actually have a CB at the back who can pass dangerous long balls in llegent and having someone like richarlison who moves around alot helps
 

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But wasn’t Liverpools midfield mainly for pressing and winning the ball back, till you wanted to act fancy and play Thiago there?
I been consistent that Thiago is a luxury player :hubie:

Fully fit and firing 3 of Naby, Hendo, Fab and Thiago does the job :ld: but it’s not a surprise that being able to field them consistently is unlikely, the skillset isn’t there to have the workman like midfield anymore, terrible forward planning :francis: shambolic that Milner has got the minutes he has in this year of our lord 022 :picard: Curtis is being moulded and I have all the faith in him but FSG in a world of trouble if we fumble Jude and he’s still not gonna be enough in the summer, we gambling that we come Top 4 at worst, it just about worked out with waiting on Konate, this seems like an even bigger gamble to me :francis:
 
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