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

[Nitro Tuggle]

Bruno lucky

 

[Ukbrotha]

Bruno lucky

I've seen red given for that.

 

[Lakerman0834]

Vini unloaded the clip on la Liga in his latest post

 

[Givethanks]

Not even Conference league

 

[nyknick]

I think this happens only if Sheikh Jassim buys United

 

[TobiOT]

Empoli giving Juve that work.

 

[MikelArteta]

Look, if City cheated they cheated. But I can't even lie, their front/back office has been incredible when it comes to transfers.

Ake (€45M), Akanji (€21M) and Alvarez (€20M) are three examples of shrewd business, Alvarez especially.

In Europe, they, Brighton and Napoli have some great scouting departments.

United need to step up and start thinking outside the box. There’s so much data and analytics now to help aid transfer strategy.

I also think the club isn’t ambitious enough with S. American transfers. No reason why United can’t scout directly from top S. American clubs (Penarol, River Plate, Boca, Palmeiras, Flamengo, Santos etc). Valverde, G Jesus, Vini, Rodrygo all came direct from S. America and are bonafide ballers.

hell even haaland

 

[Givethanks]

Vini unloaded the clip on la Liga in his latest post

You think anything is gonna come from this?

 

[null]

I think this happens only if Sheikh Jassim buys United

it's a possible loan where we only cover part of the salary so it is doable.

phil jones (75k p/w), tuanzebe (50k) and DDG reduction (region of 100k) means we will have circa 225k p/w salary to spend so far.

maguire will save 100k to almost 200k per week if he goes.

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where does neymar play tho? left instead of rashford? in bruno's position and bruno played deeper? instead of antony? false 9?

rumours say we are getting kim and rabiot so is there room for bruno to move deeper? is that the best place for bruno?

 

[TobiOT]

Leicester gonna stick the joint out for that point.

 

[nyknick]

where does neymar play tho? left instead of rashford? in bruno's position and bruno played deeper? instead of antony? false 9?

Upfront or ideally a more fluid frontline with Neymar/Rashford switching positions.

rumours say we are getting kim

I don't believe any transfer rumors that require a transfer fee because it doesn't look like Glazers will sell the club in time.

and rabiot so is there room for bruno to move deeper? is that the best place for bruno?

It was a small sample size but Bruno was incredible playing deeper, but also it looks like ETH has no interest in playing him there

 

[TobiOT]

 

[Yehuda]

In Europe, they, Brighton and Napoli have some great scouting departments.

United need to step up and start thinking outside the box. There’s so much data and analytics now to help aid transfer strategy.

I also think the club isn’t ambitious enough with S. American transfers. No reason why United can’t scout directly from top S. American clubs (Penarol, River Plate, Boca, Palmeiras, Flamengo, Santos etc). Valverde, G Jesus, Vini, Rodrygo all came direct from S. America and are bonafide ballers.

I was watching Independiente del Valle vs. Corinthians a few weeks ago and Independiente had a 15 year old who was already signed by Chelsea. It's to the point where I saw the head of Palmeiras' youth system on TV saying he had just returned from Africa and Brazilian clubs' scouting departments are now recruiting young talent from West Africa and Angola. The other day I saw the U-20 league match between São Paulo and Palmeiras and São Paulo had a kid from Ghana and two others from Senegal.

 

[Gilver]

Newcastle, watched on by their state backed owners, back in the big time, it's such a fairytale.

 

[Ukbrotha]

Newcastle did it. Fair play to them. Eddie Howe has been great this season. Going to be a force for the foreseeable future. Hopefully ETH and the boys don't make a mess of getting a point from the next 2 games.