Other Football 2023/24

[3 Stacks]

21 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

City are a worse team with Haaland, even with the results last season. He's a complete non entity without the ball and the whole team is set up for him. They were far more dangerous with Auguero/Jesus and Sane,Sterling,Mahrez on the wings

It's obviously at least debatable but many people don't seem to think so. 

 

They also used to be more entertaining before Haaland somehow. They have become even more conservative with the certainty of having the top goalscorer in their team.

[lebron]

19 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

City are a worse team with Haaland, even with the results last season. He's a complete non entity without the ball and the whole team is set up for him. They were far more dangerous with Auguero/Jesus and Sane,Sterling,Mahrez on the wings

 

I’ve been saying this for a while. It was one of the reasons why I never wanted him here when rumours were circling we would be interested (as if we would be able to afford him by following the rules).

 

He’s the ultimate flat track bully, and needs the entire team set up to cater for his runs in and around the box. He’s basically the anti-Firmino in terms of helping the team. His father and his agent(s) have created the perfect career for him. Each level he’s gone from he’s gone to the club at the top of the table that is willing to cater to his specific needs. I actually thought Guardiola wouldn’t put up with it, but the results last year meant he persevered even if Haaland wasn’t contributing anything apart from goals. That’s a bit harsh to be fair, the weaker teams (and cb’s) shit themselves in his presence, so they normally mark him with both CB’s and he opens up space for others that way.

 

Had he been dark-skinned a lot of English supporters would have branded him lazy…

[Chocoholic]

Keane bigging up City because of the injuries they've had this season!

 

Poor Pep and his injuries. Get to fuck.

[TheHowieLama]

The takeaway from today should be:

 

1 hour ago, TheHowieLama said:

Heh, he fuckin whiffed there Haaland

 

[Colt Seavers]

Arsenal missed a trick there city were there for the taking but they were a happy with a draw when a win would've been massive for them not so much for the 3 points but for the lift it'd given them.

 

[Funkasy]

So these last 5 hours ive learned that DeZerbi is shit because he didnt outplay us at anfield and Haaland is shit after scoring 52 goals last season. Impresssive takes.

[Code]

1 minute ago, Funkasy said:

So these last 5 hours ive learned that DeZerbi is shit because he didnt outplay us at anfield and Haaland is shit after scoring 52 goals last season. Impresssive takes.

He’s scored 29 goals in 33 games in the PL, CL and FA Cup this season. 

[Funkasy]

1 minute ago, Code said:

He’s scored 29 goals in 33 games in the PL, CL and FA Cup this season. 

Clearly shit.

[3 Stacks]

Haaland's boring and one-dimensional. If people want to interpret that as saying he's shit, go ahead.

[Arniepie]

24 minutes ago, Funkasy said:

So these last 5 hours ive learned that DeZerbi is shit because he didnt outplay us at anfield and Haaland is shit after scoring 52 goals last season. Impresssive takes.

Except no one actually said he was shite 

[Elite]

De Zerbi and Haaland both look like otherworldly fantasy characters but no one said they are shit.

[Lee909]

24 minutes ago, Code said:

He’s scored 29 goals in 33 games in the PL, CL and FA Cup this season. 

 

22 minutes ago, Funkasy said:

Clearly shit.

 

Clearly just about everyone has said he's a great goalscorer but it's also fair to say that is the only part of his hame you'd call world class

[halewood pete]

[Lee909]

PSG down to 10 away at Marseille 

 

Mimd you they are 10pts clear so it won't matter. What the fuck are Brest doing in 2nd,7pts more than last season with 11 games left

[Jairzinho]

12 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

PSG down to 10 away at Marseille 

 

Mimd you they are 10pts clear so it won't matter. What the fuck are Brest doing in 2nd,7pts more than last season with 11 games left

 

Brest enhancements?

[Funkasy]

23 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

Except no one actually said he was shite 

4 pages back.

"Good goal scorer but a shit footballer"

[joe_fishfish]

Maybe those rumours of City / Pep wanting Cristiano Ronaldo before he went back to Man Utd were actually true. Haaland reminds me of late-career Ronaldo a bit. Also quite similar to how Pep used Lewandowski at Bayern.

[Lee909]

7 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

 

Brest enhancements?

 

[Lee909]

PSG corruption money getting them a favourable offside call to stop Marseille equaliser

[sir roger]

The City v Arsenal game has solidified my thought that I have been correct in only watching our games for the past year or so.

 

Was actually relieved when the stream kept stopping.

[Chocoholic]

Brest in second place in the French league. Arse in second place in the English league.

 

PSG first in France. FSG first in England.

[lebron]

58 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

 

Clearly just about everyone has said he's a great goalscorer but it's also fair to say that is the only part of his hame you'd call world class

 

He’s actually not even especially clinical, it’s just that he’s so physically superior to almost all the CB’s he’s facing, that they need to double-team him, which makes the job a bit easier on Silva, de Bruyne and co (who typically don’t need that help anyway). He’s only experienced playing in massively dominating teams where he’s had lots of chances to feast on. Hopefully the rest of the league plays him as physically as Gabriel and Saliba do, he’ll struggle a bit more as/once de Bruyne declines further. 

 

For the record I don’t doubt he’s going to score a lot more goals for City (and collect a few more medals), at least until their cheating is punished. The English obsession with “proper no 9’s” is giving him even more credit than he’s getting in other parts of the world. Hopefully today’s performance (along with other performances in important games) wakes people up a bit in terms of how limited he is. 

 

Edit: The main talking point should be (as football is a team game), are City a bettter side with him in the team than without him. People might point to the treble and his goals last year as conclusive proof. I think they’re much more predictable and less dominating with him in the team than without. For their most important games last year he was ineffectual. De Bruyne, Gundogan, Alvarez and Rodri were all more influential in the run-in.

 

Code is the man for the stats on this, but I’ll be surprised if most of his goals for both City and Norway are against “lower-ranked” opposition. He’s the ultimate flat-track bully, even more than early-doors Ronaldo.

[Anubis]

Emma Hayes not taking losing the Women’s FA League Cup final to Arsenal too well…

 

 

[mike23]

Sky Sports always put together 3-minute highlight packages for all the games and stick them on YouTube after the games. I did wonder how they would even find 3 minutes of highlights from the City-Arsenal game today, and indeed they couldn't as they ended up cutting the game's 'highlights' down to 2 minutes. God knows how MOTD2 will stretch their selected highlights much beyond that tonight. At least they'll have plenty to show from our game. 

[Lee909]

15 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Emma Hayes not taking losing the Women’s FA League Cup final to Arsenal too well…

 

 

 

 

She seems a right cunt. 

Supposedly over him having a pop at one of their players during the game. Apparently Chelsea demanded only 1 ball on each side of the pitch for the multi ball thing. Then late on started trying to demand and out more balls out. She claiming he was using male aggression and should have been sent off