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Today's Football 2018-19 Season

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Don't think they will but I'd live Spurs to win the CL, if the RS have an empty season that will but them, same with Chelsea the Europa.

ive got a funny feeling with spurs, they will collapse in the premier league, but maybe win this.

some big teams out and possibly going out, juve ? tomorrow, madrid out.

if spurs draw Ajax in next round then I think they comfortably beat them.
 

Zidane meh to me. That team ran themselves with Ronaldo.

Ronaldo was there before Zidane for 8 years and they only won it once. He won it three times in three years under Zidane. No coincidence at all. The squad he built in 16/17 was unbelievable. Isco, Asensio, Morata, Vasquez, James Rodriguez, Kovacic, Ceballos, Nacho all not even in the first 11.
 

Don't think they will but I'd live Spurs to win the CL, if the RS have an empty season that will but them, same with Chelsea the Europa.

An English club winning the CL the year after they cocked it up would absolutely boil their blood. Especially if it was Spurs getting all the underdog media attention that they think is reserved solely for them.
 
Phil Neville got the birds playing well.

3-0 up on bbc4 after 30 mins.
It's coming home!
An English club winning the CL the year after they cocked it up would absolutely boil their blood. Especially if it was Spurs getting all the underdog media attention that they think is reserved solely for them.
I'd love Spurs to win it as well. Pochettino must be under a lot of pressure surely.
 
There may well be a reason United haven't appointed Olé Gunnar Solskjaer yet besides the one I keep pointing to, the fact that they can afford to wait.

The other and perhaps, at least imo outstanding candidate is Spurs' Pochettino. The main point against him, besides the amazing run Solskjaers been on, was always thought to be Daniel Levy and just how much of a problem getting him out would be?

I'm fairly sure there will have been unofficial moves to sound him out, how far would he be prepared to go to leave if he so desired. The rest is just speculation, but surely there's a reason United haven't just added to the general happy mood amongst their fans by making Olé's appointment permanent.

If for example, the plan had always been Poch, but Solskjaer's success has given them a wonderful and easily obtainable alternative, then they may now have had some kind of assurance that Poch would be prepared to break his contract to move or some such similar scenario. Legally they may have been into the implications too, as I know from the fiasco with Marco Silva coming here from Watford things can get messy.

United have though perhaps something to go on and are prepared for it, and if so they should go all out for Pochettino imo, even now and even given Solskjaer's outstanding success over a part of a single season.

United are far from the finished job, there are still frailties especially in defence, and a lot of transfer business needed this summer to get them really competitive with Liverpool and City, to at least give them a chance of competing.

I think Solskjaer's done an absolutely outstanding job, but it is still only over a part of a single season and dealing mainly with general motivation, tactics and training, he couldn't have done any better, but its still not every aspect of management, and not over several years. There may be a sporting director in time but the manager has an influence too and works with him, Pochettino has this experience and must still be in their sights.

Pochettino with his recent comments is almost shouting from the rooftops

"We have a relatively low and inflexible wage structure, our stars like Erikssen won't renew, Harry's started making noises about trophies, we haven't won the league since 1961, no transfers, a new stadium to finish paying for, so we may compete for a second class trophy like a domestic cup but not the league.

Despite reaching the Champions league quarter finals after beating the Bundesliga leaders Dortmund 4-0 on aggregate, as well as challenging the top two for so much of this season despite no transfers at all, he's saying it'll take another five or ten years, well past some of these current players' time at Spurs. Financially Spurs can't compete as those ahead of them won't stand still.

'Spurs can't go anywhere, get me out of here'
 

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