Why?*El Cunta.
Thiago Alc*ntara | Still exists
- Thread starter horsechoker
- Start date
Bravo
Manutd didn't have any break between the seasons. Liverpool had over a month break.
Seems a bit daft to start pretending he’s not brilliant.
Doesn’t fit in that system right now but he’s clearly a top footballer. I’d love him at United.
I’m convinced he’ll come good. Sadly.
Doesn’t fit in that system right now but he’s clearly a top footballer. I’d love him at United.
I’m convinced he’ll come good. Sadly.
Exactly. Would have had bigger lead with proper preseason like Liverpool had.
This is good.
Simple.
Liverpool front 3 enjoy direct and chaotic play. Thiago eliminates chaos and directness.
Result? Liverpool look astonishingly average. Toss in the fact without Joe/VVD they will concede 1 in 3 attacks
Liverpool front 3 enjoy direct and chaotic play. Thiago eliminates chaos and directness.
Result? Liverpool look astonishingly average. Toss in the fact without Joe/VVD they will concede 1 in 3 attacks
17/18 city had 55 points, closest was us with 42, then Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs with 39, 35, 34.
16/17 toChelsea with 49, and then closest teams 43,40,39
15/16 top 39pts and then 39, 36
14/15 top 46pts, and then 43, 36
doesn’t seem all that different after 19 games apart from those record breaking past few seasons
I buy it, I was worrying the standard of European teams was dropping a year or two back. You could see the declines of the two top Spanish teams, juve were just cruising along with an old team and it was happening while Liverpool was getting better. That was way before Covid showed it’s face
Real, Barca and Juve were all obviously at the end of their dominant periods and have been on a downward slide for a couple of seasons now. The fact the former two are only competing with each other and Atletico (who themselves have dropped off from where they were 4 or so years ago) and Juve's huge lead over the rest of Italy means they still won their leagues until now, but this has been coming for all three of them. Arguably City were showing similar signs as well but over the last month or two they look like they may have got their act together. Whether they can keep it up or not we'll see.
Covid likely has had some impact, but not as much as I think you're giving it. A lot of the teams that were still in Europe so didn't get much of a preseason obviously struggled a bit for the first month or two of this season, but since then things have settled into more where things were to be expected. Barca, PSG, City and ourselves are all in this category. Juve, Barca, Real and Chelsea all had one European game as well but they got knocked out so got a bit of a break so it wouldn't have had as much of an impact.
Liverpool are really the only top club that are unexpectedly struggling, but not sure how much they can blame Covid for that considering the two teams at the top of the table were more inconvenienced than they were.
Haven't really followed him closely so I'm a bit confused. I swear a couple of months ago people were saying he was doing great, but right now I've seen some articles saying he doesn't fit with Liverpool at all and he's been linked to a move away already
I've only watched him against us. In the league match the commentators were missing over him despite the fact that he didn't do much
I've only watched him against us. In the league match the commentators were missing over him despite the fact that he didn't do much
That was what I was going for, hopefully it finds its way onto RAWK and causes an implosion
Perfect parody of a RAWK poet.
Damning
I knew this was going to happen earlier - my post in October;
Yes, because covid has somehow only targeted specific teams and somehow improved others. Sorry, but you seem to want to "buy" the narrative you like. How on earth Barca being terrible can be put down to Covid is bewildering.
Agree. We should just keep hailing him as an all time great CM (which he is nowhere near) and disregard actual peformances even if they're below par. Because... Thiago
Top clubs outperforming expectations doesn't mean that they are not actually an improved side who deserve to be where they are. It's like Covid only impacted the title winners of last year while the likes of United got a free pass from Covid because even the virus wanted to level the playing field.
United and City virtually had no preseason and once they got their players fit and firing, it has resulted in them being where they are. Moreover, this form of United has been consistent since the turn of last year when we got Bruno. The only blip was the start of the season when players were basically doing their preseason in competitive matches.
Somehow people just ignore this. Since Bruno was signed we have made more points than any team(maybe after city, not sure). It's not even small sample size, it's around 38 games and a full year.
One point above City but they have a game in hand.
https://www.twtd.co.uk/league-table...Jan-29/todate:2120-Jan-25/type:home-and-away/
Thanks.
People wouldn’t ignore it if the league had commenced when Bruno first joined as that would make us champions but alas it is just another stat that pops up but in the grand scheme of things it means feck all!
He's a good player but somehow it seems he's not as good as his reputation and hype around him seem to suggest. And it's obvious he doesn't fit the was they play. He's good at fouling that's for sure.
For some reason England has traditionally treated silky skilled midfielders with suspicion, look at Gazza not going to France 98 when Rob Lee and David Batty were picked as midfield selections for the squad. Glenn Hoddle didn't get half the caps he should have, Paul Scholes was shunted out to the wings ridiculously while Le Tissier, who admittedly was a striker, was more or less ignored. It's not hard to see why the national team has struggled when hard work is placed above actual ability.
Last edited:
Shit man.. I'm just giggling non-stop, imagining Thiago as spanish Lee Cattermole. Cattermole at it again tonight...
Kane down.
Kane down.
The butcher strikes again.
Nasty fecker
Spot the odd one out: Neil 'Razor' Ruddock, John Fashnu, Thiago 'The Butcher of Merseyside' Alcuntara, Stuart 'Psycho' Pearce, Big Duncan Ferguson.
Trick Question, they are the same
Could it be a touch of the Berba's about him? Joined a perfectly functioning team, supposed to take it to the next level, undoubtedly a class player.
Will look good, have his moments, but never reach the same heights as before he joined the club.
Will look good, have his moments, but never reach the same heights as before he joined the club.
Tapas Cattermole
Si Cattermole
He is finally booked!!!!!
Finally Gets booked
I don't believe my eyes.
They actually booked him 
more a Veron but point taken.
he would have been a class signing in 2013 when we could have moulded him into whatever we wanted.
Where is the t-shirt printer?
The snide cnut is finally booked.
Any takers on when he’ll get his first red card?
Any takers on when he’ll get his first red card?
And he started telling the ref he was wrongThey actually booked him
I'm going with today.