Recent content by CatsOfUlthar

  1. Who replaces Ten Hag?

    Massimiliano Allegri, Thiago Motta or Don Carlo? If we're gonna do it we should at least be ambitious. Carlo took Everton for five minutes so we can't count that out, I think Motta has been in the conversation fairly consistently, and I've always quite liked Allegri. Any thoughts on going...
  2. What will the last decade be known as?

    I'm going for a classic: The Wilderness. Perhaps I'm being romantic, I foolishly believe we'll reverse our ill fortune. In this era we've been absolutely and exclusively separated from successes by our own hand. I don't really believe it's going to get better from here. I hope at the very...
  3. Jose > Pep - is it such a ridiculous notion?

    It's not a ridiculous notion. Jose has never had the same advantages handed to him, even under Abramovich, and despite his inability to adapt, he's done a remarkable job. I would say a good amount hinges on Pep's complicity in financial doping. If he was aware of and engaged with it at Barca...
  4. Bruno Fernandes | 2023/24 Performances

    I don't really know what's going on here, seems to be some Tifo style debate about numbers and data that don't really come to any decent conclusion. I still like Bruno. One of the few I still see give effort, and one of the few I like to watch playing. There isn't much to like these days. I'm...
  5. Marcus Rashford | 2023/24 Performances

    I don't really know how the cult following even began to be honest. His head has never been in the game, if he blew any cooler in his alternating cycles he'd be the bellows of the liquid failure that seems to power our furnaces. I tend to remain fairly quiet, because he'll probably score six...
  6. Your Most Hated/Disliked PL Manager.

    Klopp I don't doubt his credentials, and I don't really even want to dislike him, not really his fault picking that side, it's nice to take a challenge. Complaining about grass length, sun or whatever excuse comes to mind isn't passionate, it's childish. Do better. Pep is fine I guess, my...
  7. Manchester United vs Real Madrid (Thu 27th July, 01:30 UK time)

    Pros: • Our midfield looked fabulous on the counter, pace and chance creation were both there. • We looked to maintain a pacy game, something we've definitely struggled with previously. • Not every game is going to offer the atmosphere of a 3am friendly exhibition staged twelve or so hours after...
  8. Romelu Lukaku | Chelsea

    Neves, Jota, Milincovic-Savic, Mendy and (probably) the butthead from Fulham all hecking off for a massive payday in this decade's retirement League. Meanwhile, Lukaku continues to somehow move to clubs with something to prove and no money to spend. Truly we live in the dark timeline.
  9. Harry Kane | Bayern Munich player

    I'm very much aware this is a bit of an odd take, and I'm happy to be challenged and called out on it... I'd rather play for Spurs than Bayern. I know how storied and monumental Bayern are as a club, and I have nothing against them either, but I just feel they're a tad dry for me. Like a well...
  10. David De Gea Appreciation Thread

    He was fine. Not great not terrible. He sometimes stopped goals going in, other times he didn't, when he didn't it was frankly spectacularly badly. He was like a less charismatic Barthez. As Gattuso would have said, sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe not... I may be paraphrasing.
  11. DDG: Over 400 apps for our club. Legend status! Was he the best we've had? Shoot!

    He was okay, the negative outweighed the positive for me, I don't hold any poison for his time here, I think he's been here for a very weird period. He was an okay keeper, seemed nice enough until it came to the end and I feel like he was another wage elephant we had to shift. Don't feel like...
  12. FC Barcelona launches its first NFT collection in association with Plastiks

    That's fair enough then, sorry, I probably should have read a bit more before jumping in haha, appreciate the education. I think my original secondary assessment is going to stand for now though, I really feel like anything and everything they do is aimed at skewing the financial situation of...
  13. FC Barcelona launches its first NFT collection in association with Plastiks

    Isn't the existence of NFTs in their current form pretty anti environmental anyway? This might be my natural cynicism speaking here, but is there a way they can use this association to run money through books in any way that benefits them?
  14. Club Sale | It’s done!

    I don't really understand what the Glazers gain by not closing a deal. Why have they put more on the company credit card with Mount? They are actual billionaires, so they probably have that over me in business advice, but I just don't understand what they gain by hecking around.
  15. Club Sale | It’s done!

    I'm fascinated by the idea they're split like that, it'll make great TV when Netflix finally turn it into a miniseries. I'm still hopeful for the SJR bid, but I feel like it's dead in the water, I don't see SJ backing down after previously saying "This is our final final last bid 100% or bust"...