Nick Sillett

Twentysomething PhD student. Loves pigs and hamsters. I have nothing substantive to say

[Nick Sillett @NickySillett]

@TheAthleticFC @Zonal_Marking Very surprised to see your pick of his 2014 goal v Iran with no mention of whether it was a #disappointingdeflection...

[Nick Sillett @NickySillett]

@405Automation @GianfrancoShoIa Well yes, but it's very hard to disentangle your performance drop (or lift) when you lose the player who basically dictates your whole team performance than one who is an awkward fit but talented. It's hard to know what lesson there is to learn of just "buy good players".

[Nick Sillett @NickySillett]

@405Automation @GianfrancoShoIa But the huge difference between those two examples was that Bale was entirely propelling Tottenham's form. Coutinho was actually being marginalised in the direction they were going under Klopp and becoming a more and more awkward fit in the team.

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@Zonal_Marking I think we need a third domestic cup that is purely as drama-focused as it can be. Goals get progressively bigger over 90 mins. Missing a chance over an xG of 0.4 results in a transfer to the opposition. Final goes straight to penalties. Mid-match guest appearances in goal!

[Nick Sillett @NickySillett]

@pkwestel I could charitably understand the reasoning about letting Welbeck too early when he put Man Utd out of the FA Cup QF the following season after leaving. But is the implication here that Man Utd should have held onto him for over a decade just to score in a 3rd round FA Cup tie?

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@pkwestel Have to say, the "INEOS know sport" thing has always been a bit overblown by I think a lot of friendly relations with sports journalists. They took over a successful Sky cycling team and got worse, fell out with UK's best sailor to tank that team and never improved Nice.

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[Nick Sillett @NickySillett]

@pkwestel Even if he was right, unless you have carte blanche to remove everything you don't like, you're criticising the people who will actually action the stuff you want to do. After that, Howe rallied the team, won a trophy+qualified for UCL and Mitchell was gone before the summer. 2/2

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@pkwestel There was an interesting parallel when Paul Mitchell came in as DoF at Newcastle and promptly started saying our recruitment was not fit for purpose. Alienated everyone underneath him because it had previously been a collective effort between manager and recruitment team. 1/2

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@umirf1 @DanR902 @sistoney67 Is the INEOS data team at the point Liverpool's was 15 years ago when they thought buying Downing for his highest numbers of crosses and Carroll for his heading ability would automatically = goals?

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@pkwestel Amorim giving very big "Kevin Keegan resigns from England job after locking himself in the toilet" vibes right now.

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@Ic3Evaa Worth remembering that he was pretty inconsistent he was in that first year. Was outscored by Callum Wilson, despite both having injury issues. As with many of his players, Howe gave him the best possible platform to perform.

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@pkwestel Villa even had a false start in there with significant investment under Gerrard that wasted a whole year. Newcastle and Villa have both gone quickly from relegation contenders to CL places on similar trajectories following wise, significant investment (and good coaching).

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@louorns @Zonal_Marking Arguably Torres was shoe-horned in to the first few XIs of Euro 2012 despite being dreadful for the preceding season and it broadly worked out fine.

[Nick Sillett @NickySillett]

@Edit_Kev It's from Jonathan Wilson's latest UnHerd article. It's more about the clubs losing faith in the league being unable to self-govern if City are either found not guilty or not punished severely enough.

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@MsiDouglas @Chris_p18 Probably only played well in 1990 in the game we got knocked out...

[Nick Sillett @NickySillett]

@Zonal_Marking This must be what it's like for people who went to Eton and see that yet another person they knew from school has been appointed the head of some critical part of British infrastructure.

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@GraceOnFootball But it's just a knockout game. It seems weird to describe a set of play-off knockout games as being materially different to the knockout stages.

[Nick Sillett @NickySillett]

@JamesWallenby @amonizfootball @ryderTHFC @AvyuktK Yeah, but that's the tiniest bit of consolation when it means you've wasted 3 years of someone being rubbish but made a £2m accounting profit.

[Nick Sillett @NickySillett]

@pkwestel I mean, from what I've seen (I'm an NUFC, not MUFC fan), Mendes has always had quite a hold on Man Utd recruitment, even going back to Ferguson's days.