Oso planning to go pro
Wags and PandaYou guys are Liverpool fans, you're always going to stand up for your team, your coach, and take a dump on United whenever you get the chance. I get it, I respect it, but try to look at this through neutral eyes. Liverpool spent 123 mil on their front line. That front line in now worth 350 mil. Is part of that good scouting/development? Sure, but you can't deny that a 280% increase in the span of 4 years doesn't have some element of good luck to it. The closest increase I could find in the Prem was City, who have spent 170 on their front line that is now worth 265, for a 150% increase. That also includes pre-Neymar purchases of Aguero and Sterling. Now Liverpool's scouting/development may be better than City's, but do you really believe that it's almost twice as good? I sure don't.I think Klopp is a good manager, I think Liverpool is fun to watch. But I also believe that they have caught some very fortuitous breaks under his reign. That's not a knock on Klopp or Liverpool, Pep was lucky that he walked into a squad that had KDB, David Silva, Fernandinho, Kompany, and Aguero. Pep was lucky that Stones cleared the ball of the line against Liverpool last year. And for the record, I'm not an anti-Liverpool, pro United guy. The team I support isn't even in the Prem, so not to flex or anything, but I usually look at stuff like this with unbiased eyes. If you guys are gonna stay up and continue this discussion, I hope you won't be up at the break of dawn to watch Sheffield get pounded.
Pep is a great race car driver that jumped into a Ferrari. Klopp got into a car with a team of good mechanics and the resources to improve and they built a comparable car over the next few seasons without an engine exploding or tires blowing out.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
Moving down a few levels.....any of you following the Mingos so far this year?
I think this is a well reasoned take. I'd argue that their value was at it's highest right after their loss to Madrid. Salah put up his 32, Firmino put up 15, and Mane only put up 10, but they each got 10 in the Champions League. Despite winning the Champions League last year, their numbers dropped almost across the board (Mane scored twice as many in the Prem).My whole "luck" thing comes from all the Scousers I know that insisted that they knew Salah was going to blow up the way he did because he put up good numbers in Seria A. As you pointed out Firmino struggled his last year in Germany and only has the one 20 goal season, yet he continually seems to land in the discussion for best striker in the Prem. Mane's last year at hampton was solid, but he was behind players like Troy Deeney, and Odion Ighalo on that years scoring list. Now Klopps obviously made him better, but to pretend like you knew it was coming, IDK. And yea, Salah scored 15 his last year at Roma, but look at players like Dzeko, Higuin, and Lukaku (limited sample size). They all put up good number in Seria A, but couldn't replicate it in England (although Lukaku does have 3, 20 goal seasons his last year in Manchester, yuk). Also, and I know it's not everyone (and likely not you), and every fanbase has their crazies, but OMG Liverpool fans are arrogant,. It seems to be a much larger percentage than other fanbases too, and it attracts the crazy band-wagoners that just want to be arrogant and obnoxious.
I think that game is a perfect example of the point I'm trying to make. Was Liverpool the better team, yes, did they create the better chances, yes, did Sheffield deserve a point, absolutely. Last year Liverpool won more points in the final 10 minutes of games than anyone else. Whether the Sturridge equalizer against Chelsea, the Alderweireld own goal, Fabinho flopping to get the winning set piece against Newcastle, or Pickford literally handing them all three points after a VVD miskick. Do other teams get lucky breaks, sure. Sterling scored so many stoppage time winners two years ago that the City fans I know started calling it "sterling time" (mostly just to piss of the United fans that would still only talk about Fergie time). Yea more of these breaks are going to happen when you have 70% possession and launch 16 shots, but to a neutral, that game should have ended 0-0.
Racine native and RB Salzburg manager Jesse Marsch's pre-game speach yesterday before they faced Liverpool in the Champions League.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1wFH_2YnI&feature=youtu.beThe only words I understood were "f*cking" and "Champions League," but that even fired me up. This guy's probably too big to manage the USMNT now right?
Cuba is baaaaaad
Can’t see how Mexico/ US federations can be happy about this. If they wanted to do this, why not just add South America too?
https://twitter.com/PhilSchoen/status/1187355011019345921Dest deciding on USA/NET this week. Would be huge to get him, but not holding my breath.
Fighting for playing time for the Orange is probably better than missing call ups in favor of Nick Lima or Reggie Cannon cause they play in MLS and he's just some unfamiliar Champions League starter off in Europe.
TBF he was called up last international break, he just turned it down because he had yet to make this decision and didn't want to commit for life. That said, if I were him I'd take the Dutch all day.
https://twitter.com/AFCAjax/status/1188838647975596040Surprised but happy. Much clearer path to playing time must have been a huge influence.
HUGE! Between him and the Chosen One have a breakout performance on Saturday, its been a nice couple of days for the future of the USMNT
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11675/11865128/mauricio-pochettino-sacked-by-tottenhamSo who would have predicted Poch going before Ole or Unai?