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Good shout with Brazilian Ronaldo! He was on another planet too in his peak.

Interesting take on defending the last couple of pages. I don't think it's so much the defending/defenders are poor nowadays, it's just the law & rules on steroids (cheap yellows, reds for 2 feet/off the ground challenges, even a penalty for a shirt tug in the area from set pieces, that's forgetting the inconsistencies) have predominantly forced it the way it is now. In fact, I'd go as far as saying you've got to be more skilled at it than ever, as if you can't skillfully defend by the law, then you're ******; as you're not getting away with any naughty stuff that you would've 10, 20 or 30+ years ago. The brute, crunching defending that the British culture loves, is simply dying by law. Which imo, is why you're seeing crazy these goal numbers in recent years. It's going down a total football path, from keeper to striker, and the centre halves are definitely the biggest sufferers from it.

Poor Stoke & West Brom have had sleepless nights because of the rapid changes in recent years.
 
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Slippery slope now for them.
They will bounce in and out of the premier league now.

Just another yo-yo team.
 
ninjaskill said:
If you rule out best as he sometimes didn't show up for things then you can't consider laudrup one of the best as he missed the Danes 1992 Euros win as he stayed on holiday as he thought they had no chance of doing anything in the tournament
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Missed this. He and his Denmark teammates tell it completely different mate. I'll find the video when I'm home and link it. (If for nottin' else it's a half hour on his wonderful career if it's the same progy I'm thinking of.).

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[video=youtube;-pf05e6oTnU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pf05e6oTnU[/video]
 
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Hammers LOL


Edit: So they start a fight instead. christ.
 
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******* love watching Marco Silva's Watford!! Man's destined for a big job. Positive, refreshing football. Afraid of nobody. Richarlison looks a gem of a buy, even if he has just missed two sitters.

Game should be dead and buried..
 
Is Poch one of the best managers in the world? How do you rank him in the league?

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RhQQ said:
Is Poch one of the best managers in the world? How do you rank him in the league?

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Certainly up there as it stands, although hard to say he is amongst the top of the tree until he has achieved something.

But I think he's great at improving players, great with youth and really good tactically. He doesn't seem to have a glaring weakness.
 
RhQQ said:
Is Poch one of the best managers in the world? How do you rank him in the league?

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I hate his arrogance toward domestic cups to the point he's now come out and flat out said they're beneath him and Tottenham and they want bigger things.

That aside, yeah, he's right up there with the new breed of progressive, innovative managers coming into the PL and making the game far more attractive to watch.
 
Seeing as he shares many principals with Klopp, Scouse, which makes them somewhat comparable, as a Liverpool fan, would you rate him above Jurgen?
 
RhQQ said:
Seeing as he shares many principals with Klopp, Scouse, which makes them somewhat comparable, as a Liverpool fan, would you rate him above Jurgen?
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Above the lord almighty himself, don't be silly?!?!
 
RhQQ said:
Seeing as he shares many principals with Klopp, Scouse, which makes them somewhat comparable, as a Liverpool fan, would you rate him above Jurgen?
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I don't get the need to compare personally. As Klopp fits L'pool perfectly and I wouldn't want to change him for anyone it doesn't bother me who is perceived to be better or not.

If it helps, Guardiola. Klopp. Pochetino. All the type of manager I want if I'm paying to watch football. The newer, innovative, progressive breed.

The likes of Conte, Mourinho and Rafa, who we ironically had good success with, not so much.
 
Watching the RBL-Munich Pokal tie.

Utterly mad how there's AVR the Bundesliga but not in the cup until the QF.

Leipzig had a stonewall penalty (and stonewall red for Vidal) reversed on the pitch which surely wouldn't have been had the AVR option been in. If you have the technology and it's working so well, why not use it every game and every competition?

Sidenote- As all-around dominant as Keita is, he needs to reel his enthusiastic commitment back in a bit his tatles'. It's not so much he's overly aggressive per se. More that he makes so many he invariably mistimes one. You could well see his bookings being high the **** poor standard of PL officiating.
 
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And there goes Keita sent off again. Stupid, stupid decision. Grabbed the fella's shorts already on a booking.

Really needs to sort this out.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
And there goes Keita sent off again. Stupid, stupid decision. Grabbed the fella's shorts already on a booking.

Really needs to sort this out.
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3 sendings off in the last 7 games for club and country im reading on twitter, was he like this last season scouse?
 
epic terrorist said:
3 sendings off in the last 7 games for club and country im reading on twitter, was he like this last season scouse?
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I might be wrong but I don't think he'd ever been sent off his career until this season.

His passion and and non-stop commitment is fantastic but he needs to temper it. The second booking there was ridiculously stupid.
 
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