Honestly, my least favourite part about Rodri hype is it's emblematic of the worst of football discourse: overrating DMs as a means of exerting some idea of "intellectual superiority"
"You don't understand what he does on the pitch" yes I do, I just think you're overdoing it
Us spending 117m on Rogers is the clearest indication yet we're going with 2 CAMs. Alonso might experiment with him like Wirtz in a front two but think the double 10s is where it'll settle (Quenda, Palmer, Estevão, Palmer) in a 3-4-2-1
Since I am just a PnP enjoying retard , I need a superior ball knolly tiki taka enjoyer to explain to me why it didnt work before when they did even more passing and keeping the balls. (Spain had 1% more posession and 80 more passes this time). Could there be more to this?
🚨 Fabregas on Spain advancing to the World Cup final:
“I’ll keep saying it: one of the best ways to defend is to keep the ball. Your opponent can’t create many chances if they spend most of the game trying to get possession back. That’s exactly what Spain did.
Look at Porro’s goal. He passes to Olmo, keeps moving, gets the return and finishes before France can react. No unnecessary touches, no waiting for someone to dribble through three players. Just pass, move and pass again.
France brought the athletes. Spain brought the ball… and refused to share it.”
It’s fitting that 44 years ago to this day Brazilian football died when Italy beat them at the 1982 World Cup.
And today, it was an Italian that put the final nail in the coffin.
This is the reaction I expected from the staunchest Maresca defenders after his and clubs statements but I underestimated the level of cuckoldry possible from some "rationalists" on here
" You might call my ex a "snake" for cheating on me with that guy, but he is taller, better looking, has a six pack and earns more than me. Why should she stay loyal to a fuckass like me?"
You might call Maresca a “snake” for wanting to leave for City, but it’s probably worth asking why he wanted to leave in the first place, City’s one of the best teams but why would he want to stay in the structure we had in place for him?
Anyway we have Alonso now so it’s fine
Lionel Scaloni: “No recuerdo a la Holanda del 74, pero me parece increíble que todavía se hable de ese equipo, que no haya sido campeón del mundo y que marcó una época. Es una señal muy buena. ¿Si está todo inventado o no? Hay muchas cosas a las que se les han cambiado el nombre. Cualquier persona que tenga mi edad o arriba dirá: ‘Pero yo ésto lo hacía y se le llamaba otra cosa’. Muy difícil inventar algo que nadie ha hecho. Y encima ahora todo se ve. Uno te puede proponer algo, pero tenés la manera de hacer otra cosa para hacerle daño a eso que te hacen. Es un juego de ajedrez, el fútbol. Sí que a muchas cosas se les han cambiado el nombre. Si nosotros lo llamamos ‘interior’ o ‘mixto’, son las mismas cosas de hace años”.
🚨 BREAKING: Elliot Anderson to Manchester City agreed in principle today. Understand the fee could be up to £130m.
Formalities to be completed in the US.
Football's transfer market is insane, but this looks more like a £120m signing than someone like Caicedo (sorry Moises).
Technically sound, physically dominant, and just look at those deliveries into the half spaces. Not bad on the ball either, eh?