🚨🚨Just in case you missed it. Here is Benjamin Netanyahu in his own words, thanking Congress for implementing “his plan” to take over the US military and intelligence services..🚨🚨
Netanyahu knows Americans are sick of funding Israel’s wars. So now he’s working with Congress to hide military aid inside Pentagon co-production deals.
That means MORE U.S. tax dollars for Israel, with even LESS oversight.
Not gonna happen!
We give Israel unprecedented access to facets of our government and electoral systems, enabling their overt influence over our foreign policy. Like any competent intel service, they take advantage of that access to further Israel’s agenda, at the expense of Americans.
Our entire relationship with Israel must be redefined—immediately. We need to be clear-eyed going forward and should treat them like a foreign country with different objectives than ours, because they are.
🗣️ "I don't even know myself."
Pep Guardiola reaffirms he's taking a break away from coaching at the Cruyff Foundation inauguration event in Manresa, Spain.
We're going to have to repeat a lot that many Jewish people don't support Israel's genocide.
Criticism of the Israeli Government and their war crimes has nothing to do with who is or isn't Jewish.
To conflate them like this is both harmful and antisemitic.
A point to be discussed and I would like to know your thoughts as well.
People keep framing our winger issues as a talent problem when it's far more of a structural one.
Our wide players are constantly receiving the ball in disadvantageous situations: 2v1s, sometimes even 3v1s, with little coordinated support around them. Then people wonder why they look ineffective or predictable.
But look at the moments when our wingers actually become dangerous, penetrative, and decisive. It almost always comes when there’s secondary movement around them:
- An overlapping full-back stretching the defensive line
- An inverted full-back occupying the half-space
- A box-to-box midfielder underlapping
- A late box-crasher forcing defenders to collapse centrally.
Those movements matter because they manipulate defensive structures. They drag markers away, create hesitation, and restore the winger’s biggest advantage: isolation.
Elite wingers thrive in clean 1v1s. Very few players in world football consistently beat compact 2v1 setups on their own. Doku had a successful 25/26 season as he has improved his abilities in 2v1 situations and can actually get past those scenarios.
If the system repeatedly asks them to do that without support, we are not maximizing the profile, we are handicapping it.
A winger's effectiveness is heavily tied to ecosystem and spacing. Wide threats become exponentially more dangerous when the structure around them creates dilemmas for defenders instead of comfort.
On numerous occasions, our wingers receive:
- No overlap
- No underlap
- No nearby passing lane
- No occupation of the half-space
- Multiple defenders already set
That's not a winger problem. That's an operational problem.