Recent content by Dr. Mowinckel

  1. Garnacho: What is his potential?

    Garnacho has better finishing than Ronaldo at 18, but thats about it. Ronaldo (and Rooney for that matter) were a different class to Garnacho - as good as he is.
  2. Lionel Messi \ Signs for PSG

    The 30% of revenue myth was not just a rough estimate, it was pure rubbish. Its practically impossible to find the full study, but from what i remember from the tidbits that the authors revealed, the methods involved an evaluation based on simply removing all of messi's goals and assists and...
  3. Premier League Gameweek 35/36

    I can't even be mad at that. Fair play.
  4. Leicester, United and the Euro Super League abomination

    Yeah, I'm sure the creation of the FA Cup in 1871 was a "cashgrab" to exploit the riches that were flowing throughout football in that time. What a ridiculous comment. Well you describe a league winner as a league champion, so even within this rather narrow view of title significance, it would...
  5. Cup Winners Cup final 30 years ago today.

    It doesn't really make much sense with the modern format of the Champions League though, since a lot of cup finals feature two teams that both qualify for the Champions League.
  6. United Away Record | We've not won anything yet, waaaaaaah

    It was just an estimate. I looked at this site that shows away and home win% and had a quick scan through the last 10 premier league seasons and most seemed to between 40-70%. The highest was 99% more in 10/11; the lowest 35% in 15/16
  7. United Away Record | We've not won anything yet, waaaaaaah

    Even if we should get the record there will always be an asterisk to it due to Covid - and rightly so. In regular seasons the there are upwards to 50% more home wins than away wins. This season has actually seen more away wins than home wins, so the effect of no fans is very clearly seen...
  8. Would you watch a European Super League?

    I'd probably watch such a league at first, simply from habit of watching United, but I have a feeling that I would quickly lose interest. I think a large part of the reason that i enjoy football so much more than others sports, is because the "special moments" feel a lot more significant than in...
  9. Manchester United has most sustainable squad in the big-5

    That's not really the point though. Sure, it excludes ridiculous cases like Phil Jones, but it still rewards keeping inadequate squad players rather than attempting to add new competion. In general the weights to each variable are just completely off the mark. Even just looking at first XI, the...
  10. Manchester United has most sustainable squad in the big-5

    Those metrics seem completely ridiculous do they not? As i understand it the calculation is basically (years spent at club)*(years on contract)*(% of games)/age Age will barely matter then. A 40 year old who has spent 8 years at the club is twice as sustainable as a 20 year old who has spent...
  11. Redcafe's favourite Manchester United Players - 2021

    1. Cantona 2. Keane 3. Ferdinand 4. Evra 5. Best 6. Schmeichel 7. Beckham 8. Saha 9. Scholes 10. Rashford
  12. Footballers gone bad

    That's almost an understatement if this quote from the Guardian is anything to go by: "Bruno’s view: set out in his first big interview since he had his girlfriend fed to dogs to avoid paying child support: “Dude, what happened, happened. I made a mistake, a serious one, but mistakes happens in...
  13. The curious case of Martial’s finishing

    Saha was clearly better than Martial at their respective bests, but he was just as clearly a worse finisher. Saha's finishing was probably his biggest weakness, aside from his bones.
  14. Jadon Sancho| Staying at Dortmund for now

    BVB has no actual obligation to stay true to their words and the only incentive they have to do so is to appease the fans. Put yourself in the shoes of a Dortmund fan - Would you really care, whether your club "technically" didn't lie? I'd wager most fans wouldn't - if anything I'd imagine a lot...