4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
Notice Willian didn't even look at the crowd, great goal that
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Today's Football 2018-19 Season
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Billysgingham.
Player Valuation: £40m
Good finish from Willian there but the 2 defenders had to close him quicker.
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
I am not sure a manager with no track to do such thing will be a success.
Without a solid defence with lots of clean sheets you won’t win a title that’ a fact.
Barkley coming on. 3-2 Newcastle
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
Burnley last year had a solid defense and finished 7th nowhere near the title because they didn't score goals. That Suarez led RS side couldn't defend at all but scored so many goals they nearly won the league. This may be obvious but I feel the need to say it anyway: you can't get more than a point if you don't score. Teams that don't aggressively try to score will not finish near the top. Look at how much better United have been now that they're attacking again post Mourinho. The examples are everywhere really. You get it or you don't I guess.
ijjysmith
Calm
Dirty bugger
gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £70m
Hazard'as
Now there's a novelty.
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
Be honest mate there are only like 4/5 teams that will win the title. Money speaks.
I am not saying don’t attack and draw 0-0 keeping clean sheets everytime. We need a well balance tactics to get success both attack and defence.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
You said you liked Moyes tactics. That line does not describe a David Moyes team.
gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £70m
Silly corner at the end by the barcodes. Just sling it in to the big boys, ya numpty!
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
How? When he took us to 4th-7th finish in like 7 seasons out of 10. Of course it’s not title winning but it’s a good balance of attack and defence.
No one at this club had won a title since 30 odd years ago.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
I'm done with this. Apparently you aren't big on scoring goals. That's weird.
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
I’m big on scoring goals. Just not in Martínez and Silva (based on the current form) way. You got to get results too. And have a solid defence.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Gareth Southgate added to Man Utd's shortlist as fears grow Mauricio Pochettino will stay at Spurs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/20 ... ricio/amp/
Sam Wallace writes ...
Manchester United are considering an approach to Gareth Southgate, the England manager, as they become increasingly concerned that Mauricio Pochettino will stay at Tottenham Hotspur this summer.
United go to Wembley Stadium on Sunday to face Pochettino’s Spurs team with no certainty yet that the Argentinian is prepared to give up on five years at his current club to become the fourth permanent manager at Old Trafford since Sir Alex Ferguson retired. While Pochettino remains the first choice of United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, the club are aware that it is by no means certain he will agree to come.
Southgate signed a new contract with the Football Association in October that takes him to the 2022 World Cup finals and he would be no means certain to accept a job elsewhere in the interim. The England manager is committed to the national team and although United represents the biggest job in English club football he may well believe that, at 48, it could come around for him again.....
.....An approach to Southgate would be problematic given the length of his contract with the FA and the awkwardness of taking a manager from the national team. In early 2002, United were close to appointing Sven Goran Eriksson, then the England manager, as Ferguson’s successor before the Scot reversed his decision to retire at the end of the 2001-2002 season.
Naturally there would also be concerns about Southgate. He has been out of the club game where he had just one management spell, at Middlesbrough, for three years between the summer of 2006 and October 2009. Nevertheless, his resounding success in taking England to a World Cup semi-final this summer, and his faith in young players, make him an attractive proposition.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who is in charge of the team currently since Mourinho’s dismissal, looks like the most likely candidate to benefit should Pochettino turn down the United job. The visit to Wembley on Sunday will be the first significant test of his side after four victories over Cardiff, Huddersfield Town, Bournemouth, Newcastle and Reading in the FA Cup third round.
Pochettino’s recent public pronouncements on his future have offered no great clarity on whether or not he sees Spurs as being able to match his own ambition. He has admitted himself in the account of his career published last year “Brave New World” that he is prone to changing his mind on major career decisions and in the past while in his first job at Espanyol he turned down higher profile jobs at Valencia and Sampdoria.
That is why United have been forced to explore other possibilities as they approach yet another change of manager. Southgate will be watching Everton against Bournemouth on Sunday while his assistant Steve Holland is at Wembley.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/20 ... ricio/amp/
Sam Wallace writes ...
Manchester United are considering an approach to Gareth Southgate, the England manager, as they become increasingly concerned that Mauricio Pochettino will stay at Tottenham Hotspur this summer.
United go to Wembley Stadium on Sunday to face Pochettino’s Spurs team with no certainty yet that the Argentinian is prepared to give up on five years at his current club to become the fourth permanent manager at Old Trafford since Sir Alex Ferguson retired. While Pochettino remains the first choice of United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, the club are aware that it is by no means certain he will agree to come.
Southgate signed a new contract with the Football Association in October that takes him to the 2022 World Cup finals and he would be no means certain to accept a job elsewhere in the interim. The England manager is committed to the national team and although United represents the biggest job in English club football he may well believe that, at 48, it could come around for him again.....
.....An approach to Southgate would be problematic given the length of his contract with the FA and the awkwardness of taking a manager from the national team. In early 2002, United were close to appointing Sven Goran Eriksson, then the England manager, as Ferguson’s successor before the Scot reversed his decision to retire at the end of the 2001-2002 season.
Naturally there would also be concerns about Southgate. He has been out of the club game where he had just one management spell, at Middlesbrough, for three years between the summer of 2006 and October 2009. Nevertheless, his resounding success in taking England to a World Cup semi-final this summer, and his faith in young players, make him an attractive proposition.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who is in charge of the team currently since Mourinho’s dismissal, looks like the most likely candidate to benefit should Pochettino turn down the United job. The visit to Wembley on Sunday will be the first significant test of his side after four victories over Cardiff, Huddersfield Town, Bournemouth, Newcastle and Reading in the FA Cup third round.
Pochettino’s recent public pronouncements on his future have offered no great clarity on whether or not he sees Spurs as being able to match his own ambition. He has admitted himself in the account of his career published last year “Brave New World” that he is prone to changing his mind on major career decisions and in the past while in his first job at Espanyol he turned down higher profile jobs at Valencia and Sampdoria.
That is why United have been forced to explore other possibilities as they approach yet another change of manager. Southgate will be watching Everton against Bournemouth on Sunday while his assistant Steve Holland is at Wembley.
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