The moment you start seeing Ødegaard as a Vitinha or Bernardo Silva type of player—someone who keeps the team ticking, connects the attack, relieves pressure, links the wide and central triangles, and controls the tempo, instead of expecting him to be KDB, I’ll start taking your football takes seriously.
But if you expect him to be the guy who forces play and single-handedly creates goals out of nothing, then you simply don’t understand football.
🚨 Vini Jr: "Was our tactical plan to let Norway dominate possession and try to do counter-attacks? NO, that wasn't our plan AT ALL. Norway surprised us.
They moved very well, they controlled the game, as Ødegaard always does, and we couldn't figure out the timing to press them and win the ball back."
"The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.”
- George Washington, July 2, 1776
250 years, and your empire has been reduced to a single island the size of Michigan, with a GDP barely higher than Mississippi, the poorest of our fifty states.
Enjoy your warm beer in that unairconditioned old pub.
Don’t talk too much shit online though, you might get arrested.
Besiktas have agreed a €20million deal with Arsenal to sign Leandro Trossard.
Trossard only has one year left on his Arsenal contract, after agreeing new terms in August 2025 that granted the forward a significant pay rise but did not extend his stay at the Emirates beyond the already-set expiry of 2027.
Full story from @gunnerblog and Adam Leventhal ⬇️
https://t.co/qYkIGSbaqH