Recent content by Clique

First and foremost, there’s no space for bigotry in the world. It should be shut down as soon as it raises its ugly head. But that said, should we really be giving these fringe elements the attention they do desperately want ? Was this Haridwar nonsense something that needed to be publicised -...

Err.. The link I shared has the background dataset from the Israeli government (Language is in Hebrew though) Also, 3 out of a million people who were vaccinated got hospitalized. 39 out of a million people who were not vaccinated got hospitalized. 13 times more likely to be hospitalized than...

That's selectively playing with Statistics now isn't it? Israel has 80+% of its population vaccinated, so chances are that the ones who need hospitalization would be vaccinated more often than not. The absolute numbers have drastically reduced from the previous year when the virus broke out...

Pretty decent thread, @Pexbo We should have a poll, if possible. That said, my choice for the person who'll exceed all expectations this year and have a stellar season is AWB. Especially if we sign Sancho. I know we've been critical of his ability to attack the space, but having someone like...

<Written assuming if we're interested in a player, the media has already come out with it> I honestly wouldn't mind waiting another year for Sancho, if we think we'll get a better price for him. Our playing XI should be good enough for us to progress further. I know Sancho would improve our XI...

Why not though.. I'm sure clubs like Bayern ha vetaken players on loan (a buy back is just a more complicated loan deal). If we can get a really good player for the interim, while we identify our long term target - everyone is in a win-win situation.

I think Ole has done a credible job. After Mourinho our football was dire, our players were not interested and we weren't given a chance on qualifying for the CL. The fact that we've gotten 3rd and when the dust settles down - reached 3 SFs - is a credible achievement. However I am going to...

Hmm. Fair enough. I've downloaded the Deloitte report. Will give it a read. Curious, and you seem to have read about it a bit, are you not concerned with the growing disparity in financial strength between the top clubs and others?

Its a hypothetical - but the way I see it. The big players, the high performers get a higher portion of their image rights and performance linked salaries. While maintaining a semblance of sanity with regards to the squad player salaries. Always open to understand your thoughts on how we can...

I have a lot of time for the way the German clubs conduct their operations. Yes Bayern scoops up a lot of players, but almost all the clubs are very efficient in the way they spend their money. In the latest report which had all the clubs listed - I think Bayern was the highest at #6, with...

Don't think this is possible today. Like OP says, even squad players in big teams would blow the salary structure of smaller teams out the window.

You're right. The market has changed. Remember not more than 10 years ago when players getting 100K per wk was considered elite. Ergo the squad players were automatically had a salary that was relative. With the elite players now earning 250-300K it allows a lot of gap for the squad players to...

If this continues, we'll truly stop having competitive leagues across the globe. We would all be poorer for it. To OP's point, having a set of 4-5 clubs sweep up the talent in the game for such massive wages that they can't be sold is going to disrupt the quality that's spread to the other...

Great OP @Zehner Not sure if squad caps is the right way to approach this. We (United) don't really have a large quality squad, with the drop off from the First XI to the second being palpable. But even with that situation, we find ourselves struggling to get rid of deadwood. While I...

Nothing against you, but as @GifLord just proved - that contract wasn't really backed by performances on the pitch. That's fine though, Club saw it fit to give him that contract - no one should have an issue with it. youth I do however want to understand your opinion on Lingard's best position...