A striker who is not good enough for the elite level and worse, he hurts Liverpool’s other forwards rather than helping them like Firmino did. This is what some people think Haaland is like for City but he actually scores goals. Nunez has 36...
The world’s best women could beat 99% of men at most sports. But they have no chance against the top 1%. Athletics is a good example of this with their records. Try running 100m under 11 seconds, or a mile in 4 minutes 10 seconds or jumping...
It felt like such a big thing at the time because you had a decade or more of Serie A being the best league in Europe, nobody in England had ever done that to an Italian team at that stage. Played them off the pitch after going 2 goals down too...
Vidic > Stam imo, dunno why so many underrate probably the best centre back in our history. He did what Stam did but for longer. Fifa World XI x2, ESM Team of the Year x3, PFA Team of the Year x4, Premier League Player of the Season x2.
In his...
Grealish wasn’t really the issue I thought, the issue was playing 4 centre backs and then still progressing the ball so Akanji and Gvardiol ended up in attacking half spaces and didn’t know what to do. They are trying to do what Stones did last...
Saw some people actually blame Ancelotti for not doing well at Everton at the time, how badly that has aged. Ancelotti at Everton actually is a good example of what would an elite manager look like at a weaker club. They would help overall but...
Rudiger made a mistake for City's only goal of the game, and missed the best chance of the game to win it. His general play was good, but he messed up those two vital moments (but got redemption by scoring the penalty).
Real Madrid had Casillas, Ramos, Alonso of that same team, with Di Maria one of the best players in the 2014 WC. Ronaldo and Pepe won a Euros two years later, Modric won a WC Golden Ball.
As for United, Vidic-Ferdinand didn’t need to win...
Yeah like Arsenal ended up relying on Jorginho and Havertz who wouldn’t make the Bayern team. I find Arsenal a strange one, quite rigid and functional that score plenty of goals. Their pressing is excellent, credit to Arteta for that, and allows...
That era had a very strong top 4 but the level below was weaker. I think mid-table is much stronger these days, because of the even greater wealth it’s full of highly regarded international managers and some really good players.