Recent content by Fallon d'Floor

Newcastle press very effectively as a team though. That's a big difference between the two. They really go for the kill when they're at it. We rarely ever see that level of intensity from our players. Howe has plenty of midfield options when everyone is fit. Tonali, B.Guimarães, Longstaff...

Hopefully. Even the Glazers wouldn't tolerate this.

PL head to head record Pep: 4 games 1 win 3 losses -7 GD Klopp: 4 games 1 win 2 draws 1 loss -6 GD Arteta: 4 games 1 win 3 losses -2 GD Emery: 4 games 3 wins 1 loss +2 GD Ange: 2 games 1 draw 1 loss -2 GD Howe: 4 games 1 win 1 draw 2 losses -2 GD Moyes: 4 games 2 wins 2 losses +1 GD...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53790850 Basically, he was Woodward /Arnold. Edu acting as a sort of Murtough type who was expected to be a point of contact between Venkatesham and Arteta. Your link says that Arteta and Edu collaborated together. That means Arteta was at least half...

Venkatesham (now CEO) was the one who took over Sanllehi's duties initally until they eventually settled on promoting Edu. Fahmy was their main contract negotiator until leaving in 2021. Sanllehi and Fahmy must have been blamed for the lack of return on invetsment while Emery was boss. We...

They didn't play badly in the defeats against Arsenal, Liverpool or City though. You can see that they have the potential to be a good team. They're able to mix it with these teams for sustained spells in games, but aren't ruthless enough. A new DM and ST should be their priorities for next...

The Celtics should have no problem with The Pacers. A few months ago, Dallas would have been in trouble vs The Wolves due to their lack of size. But now they have Gafford and P.J. Washington. Lively also. It should be a great series. Minnestota have home court advantage.

Some of their fans seem to have turned on him because of results in 2024. Combined with his recent comments. At least on The Fighting Cock anyway. Spurs fans can be quite deranged due to always being the bridesmaid. They're sick of being Spursy.

ten Hag wasn't young though. He was 52. Pep is a year younger than him. A young hire would be McKenna (38), Amorim (39), Iraola (41) or Alonso (42). They've all been managing for less than 5 years.

Most of Arsenal's best players over the past 2 seasons were signed or developed before Edu took the role of Sporting Director. Saliba was signed in 2019 Martinelli was signed in 2019 Gabriel was signed in 2020 Partey was signed in 2020 Ødegaard was initially loaned in during the 20/21 season...

Some of them still don't rate him even now. The one thing that Arteta had in his favour was his age. He was 37 when arrived at Arsenal. ten Hag should be in his peak years as a manager. He's 54.

There aren't many owners who aren't dodgy though. Most wealthy individuals have a few skeletons in their closet. The football industry in general is pretty fecked up. A lot scandals. Some don't make the mainstream. I take your point though. Some are worse than others. Qatar and Saudi Arabia...

The recent clamp down has definitely made clubs sit up and take notice. After seeing how Everton and Forest were punished. Newcastle have been quite patient since the takeover in 2021. In the past, a rich club would have spent close to a billion by now to bridge the gap. They're trying to...

There will be question marks. It's a shame for the players, as they actually won those titles and produced some great football. These things are a lot worse when there's actual evidence of match fixing or PEDS use. It will be interesting to see how it unfolds.

I'm not arguing that though? I'm pointing out that the charges are from 2009-2018. It's unlikely that they'll impact anything that's happened after that period. City will likely have to pay some hefty fines and face a transfer ban for 3-4 windows. Who knows though.