I said this to my mate as we were watching. Bournemouth looked like they were having fun. I never had fun playing against far better teams, but I always had fun when I was playing for the better team.
It's not every day you see an 18 year old miss a chunk of the season through injury, come back and play his way into the national team within 20 games, no less in a position that can be the difference between success and failure.
Within that...
Qualities of both.
Maybe in 15-20 years when he's hung up his boots, people will be saying a new gen is more of a "Mainoo type midfielder", having gone on to define a new midfield role himself.
Fully on this hype train, I don't care.
Can understand going there and setting up for the counter but teams with lower quality players do the same and do a better job of staying on the ball. That's what pisses me off.
Surely, the structure being put in place now is to avoid this exact scenario? Otherwise, why have one at all? I agree that's how it's been for the last how many years, but if this happens from now and the manager is allowed full autonomy over...
Hard disagree. He had them for 3 games straight and it was only luck we won those games. There's zero control. We haven't been convincing for a full 90 minutes for exactly a year now.
I was one of the biggest advocates for him after Ole, but after 18 months, there are still too many fundamental issues with the way he sets up the team and there hasn't been any indication he will or knows how to fix them.
Maybe this would have been the obvious approach before the INEOS era. It's a long-term project for someone who'd be willing to work with the board from the ground up. I personally don't see Tuchel having the temperament for that, on account of it...
We basically played with 10 men against Fulham, he was as none of an entity as I've ever seen.
There was a time when I was curious to know what's going on inside his head, but much like him, I don't give a f*** anymore, I just want him gone.
Out of all the club managers outside the so called top 6, I rate Gary O'Neil the most. Wolves were tipped for relegation this season and now there's a real chance they finish higher than us, playing better stuff than us to boot.
This summer is...