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Premier League Game week 6
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Hindsight is 20/20.
Leicester, Man Utd, Chelsea, Wolves next four games in the league for Newcastle
Even a blind man could see boateng was as cooked as an overdone steak and mourinho was still calling him and pushing Woodward to offer the retirement plan he was seeking.
I'd put Smalling and Lindelof higher on that said list than Mina and Keane. It d have just been additional trash the club would have had to subsidize to play elsewhere.
To be very honest, I do not even remember being linked to Keane.
I wish we had got Smalling over Luiz.
So frustrating from Brighton. Should have got a result there. Still, promising signs. I really like the look of maupay. Burn has really stepped up too.
Who is going down?
Newcastle kept their shape and nearly had a chance at the end when sub Allan Saint-Maximin skinned Montoya. BHA needed a fit winger on the pitch. Four or more were all injured or loaned out. Miracle clearance by Fabian Schär.
Got that right! If Kun had buried all of his chances they'd have beat them by double digits. Whew. Kun should have had like 5 goals today.
When you expect the German Sean Dyche but you get Christoph Waltz.
How many times Man utd finish ahead of Arsenal in the last six years?
Spent all that money too; banter club
Marco Silva looks like a fraud, Everton are utter dross.
Richarlson started good but £50 million? - Watford must be laughing, very poor signing imo.
Richarlson started good but £50 million? - Watford must be laughing, very poor signing imo.
This is exactly why I struggle with the Kane debate. Kane somehow still has the same GPG as Aguero (both all-time highest in the PL) despite playing for a comparatively "normal" team, whereas City are a complete and utter anomaly in the league for the third season running.
One could easily imagine that Kane would be breaking records every season in this City team. Instead, he's been feeding off scraps for quite a while now. Today was a perfect example of why I don't consider Aguero better than Kane.
Kane's team was outplayed by a club outside the top six, rendering him only one clear chance and not much opportunity to impose himself in any sense. The goal he ended up scoring wasn't from a clear chance at all and required a dash of individual magic in one of his famous anti-dive moments[1].
Aguero's team, meanwhile, was absolutely rampant. He personally had several clear goalscoring opportunities (one of which was a sitter for any elite striker) and yet he ended up only scoring a penalty that he didn't win.
Not that there's anything wrong with scoring penalties, mind you. I hate the common attitude of "penalties aren't even real goals". You see goals scored that are significantly easier than penalties every weekend.
Completely unfairly, Kane is often associated with penalties while Aguero isn't, even though the latter currently gets as many and has already taken 50 for City, which has undoubtedly made a massive contribution to his career tally. Pens are of at least equal importance to both players (for reference, penalties taken, not necessarily scored, for Kane is somewhere in the low-mid 20s). That fact alone is not recognised anywhere near often enough in comparisons between them. I suspect the association has something to do with how good Kane is at pens, which is absolutely a notable skill in its own right and one that Kane has mastered beyond almost all other contemporary players.
Observing City matches closely - at times a painful affair, I concede - illustrates that the idea of too many cooks spoiling the broth is nonsense (i.e. the idea that having a lot of great players on the pitch who can contribute goals actually reduces any one individual player's chances of scoring). The reality is that everyone gets more chances in those teams unless there's a plague of selfishness, which certainly isn't the case at City and seems to be something that Pep doesn't tolerate in the squad.
Aguero is City's most selfish player (as he should be at CF). Kane, on the other hand, has become almost detrimentally unselfish (contrary to very outdated narratives about him) as he continues to drop deeper and deeper into unnatural roles rather than the out-and-out 9 that shot him to fame and the world's top 5 strikers. Forced, primarily, by the relative shortcomings of the players around him, Kane is having to work overtime to compensate for an inferior overall team, which mostly goes unnoticed and unheralded because that's just what happens when you have to cover someone else's work as well as your own (this stretches to real life equally).
Anyway, I really hope either Spurs sort their shit out or Kane moves because he deserves better than this absolute shambles. He doesn't even have a reliable Eriksen to make chances for him now and while he can create for himself, as we've all seen over the years, he's clearly at his imperious, unplayable best with a creative partner on the same wavelength.
[1] Kane has a bit of a reputation for diving these days but I don't think it's particularly deserved (not compared to the likes of, say, Salah -- or the super-tier with players like Neymar). Kane milks fouls and intentionally draws real ones on a pretty regular basis like basically every modern footballer but I've only seen him really try to create a foul out of nothing a handful of times. And he counterbalances it with what is essentially "anti-diving" (like today's goal where he was pushed, could've probably gone down and won a pen but didn't try). Another great example is when he got booted in the head by Bruno Alves (I think it was) against Portugal. It was a straight red card tackle: an utterly insane head-height studs-up lunge. Rather than milk it, Kane sprung up off the floor and attempted to continue his run. The tackle was so bad that the ref wouldn't allow an advantage but still.
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I don’t think Watford are laughing about anything at the moment.
What's going on with Richarlison? One season (sort of) wonder maybe?
Looks like he's gone back to how he was a Watford, patch of games where everyone was raving about him and then a patch where he was forgotten about. Showing it at Everton now.
They've signed poorly in general it looks.
Digne, Gomes, Richarlison, Kean, Iwobi... these are not bad players.
Apart from Digne, you have to ask , are these players good enough for Everton's ambitions? They have spent shedloads on transfers since Moshiri's takeover, and look worse. And Iwobi
, that guy is worse than Rashford.He would have been in danger of giving away penalties with his shirt grabbing in the penalty area with VAR, but is certainly miles better than David Luiz in defending. Although I don't know if he would have fit in Arsenal's defence, since you lot look determined to play out from the back. He is pretty poor on the ball.
Apart from Digne, you have to ask , are these players good enough for Everton's ambitions? They have spent shedloads on transfers since Moshiri's takeover, and look worse. And Iwobi
Those players are more than good enough to play for Everton. Everton's ambitions of being in the CL will take time.
Apart Digne, the jury's out on the rest you got Gomes who's been poor since he officially signed, Richarlison inconsistent, Kean hasn't made a impact yet, Iwobi? was he brought because they couldn't get Zaha. Gbamin (Gueye's replacement and injured, jurys out)
I'm not talking just about this season signings either before them they've got Walcott, Tosun, Keane, Mina, Sigurdsson (a lot of money, inconsistent) Pickford has his bad moments.. all the other trash they signed and forgotten about in the last 3 years > Bolasie, Scheinderlin, Klassen, Williams, Klasic, Ramirez, Rooney, Martina.
Their ambitions for EL is taking time, Moshiri came in 2016 and they can't break in to the top 6 for the EL. They've just not signed smartly.
Sure, they have signed bad players, but not all of them are bad. Players like Gomes and Richarlison have the potential to offer more, it doesn't make them bad signings.
Thank you Manchester City for that result 
And Leicester will be so dangerous for us for the 6th place
And Leicester will be so dangerous for us for the 6th place
Incorrect, yes. But it is not a logical impossibility to both score and concede 8 goals in one game.
Didn't the same thing happen at Watford? He started like a world beater and then form dropped off a cliff.
What if they went 8-7 up first before conceding again to 8-8 they would be the first team to ever score 8 in a match and also concede 8.
Well the wording states they are the first team to hold that title but goes on to mischaracterise it as happening in a single game. In which case another team would also hold the same record so they would be joint first rather than first which infers that no other team has achieved the feat to date.
They should sign Lingard. His movement alone worth 20m.
Poch still suffering from last year CL hangover, he almost hit the jackpot with a fairytale but extremely lucky run. He seems to have lost his head and the grit needed to move on and start again from scratch, just a new season with the ordinary sh*t, huff and puff.
Imagine if Pogba was available and give a bad performance today. Those three are not his best friends
.West Ham have been dreadful so far. They can hardly play a pass.
We're also the only team to score and concede over 100 goals in one season. If you need a daft pointless silly record than City is usually the place to look
Never thought Id say this but Id take West Hams midfield and forward line over Uniteds.
Just as I typed it...
Just as I typed it...