Tottenham continues to distance themselves from an Eriksen return. Brentford vs United in a test of who is the bigger club, quite neck and neck.
I respect the hate but would Real even get out of their CL group without their 34 year old striker? Lewandowski is absolutely worth the risk
I understand your point, however: Real’s striker is, you know, already on the roster and has been for over a decade. Additionally, his move didn’t require mortgaging large chunks of future revenue streams in order to make it happen. Playing a 34 year old =/= buying a 34 year old for $50M when you already have to shed salary in order to even be in compliance with league regulations.
Transfer season journalism in a nutshell Newcastle set to pay a price that doesn’t meet the selling clubs valuation for a player that won’t join. Lmao
gotta buy and bench good players from every possible team to keep EPL interesting while Pep fails out of UCL over and over
I heard on a pod it’s sort of retaliation from no one really caring they win the league. Buy more Brits so more Brits care. As long as they keep buying them from the small clubs, I don’t care.
Buying from the smaller clubs is even more detrimental to the league than buying from us or y’all imo. And I wouldn’t call Leeds a small club, either. Maybe Gallant Knight can give a formal ruling.
Is it though? It’s just that a lot of these smaller clubs love paying a premium for British players rather than exclusively shop abroad where it’s cheaper.
You want the lower 4/9ths that include his calves and you want to be as far away from the brain as possible
Silva to Phillips is a pretty enormous downgrade, assume they’ll try and buy another mid if Silva leaves
I think it is more about City changing the way they attack with Haaland in the team. Pep is clearly moving away from their 4-5 attacking mids system. If Barcelona pay £80+ for Silva and he wants to leave, Pep isn’t going to make him stay.
If it was a move to like a 4231 then you’ve got Phillips and Rodri as the 2 with Gündogan I guess as cover. KDB as the CAM with Foden as rotation Mahrez, Sterling (if he isn’t sold), Foden, Grealish as the 4 wing/wide mids with Álvarez possibly as well
I mean we all know player swaps basically never happen but might as well try? Maybe in 5 years we’ll be calling them “Boehlys.” Spoiler Probably not
When FSG took over Liverpool, they looked over the numbers and decided that “get the ball wide and swing it into the big fella” was the way. So we got Stewart Downing and Andy Carroll. It made more sense at the time than it does now.
Love Phillips but he has not looked good in a double pivot with Marsch. Not happy with the deal if it is the rumored 42+3 and the whatever City youth for 5 million. Apparently that is sources from Man City and Leeds are expecting the deal to be closer to 50-55 when done.
I mean, Timo and a healthy Chiesa at Juventus is interesting. But Timo might just want to not learn Italian and get yelled at by people in a different language. Timo’s elite skill was always creating chances by getting in behind.
It's going to be really interesting to see how Pep lines up next year. He could stay 4-3-3 and Phillips is there to replace Fernandinho but I could definitely see Pep doing some 4-2-3-1 games to get both him and Rodri in. I also wouldn't be shocked to see a 4-4-2 diamond experimented with because reports are everyone at the club is really high on Alvarez and maybe they try to work both him and Haaland in together. Also would move KDB up to CAM I also don't think the Bernardo deal actually happens this summer unless Barcelona pay some crazy price, and if they do, I wouldn't rule out another CM signing, but they also have some youth midfielders I think they also want to work into the squad more