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smells like a one and done
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smells like a one and done
Hey, watch what you say about the Community Shield-winning ArsenalMan Utd having a better season than Arsenal
Still cant get my head around this one. Mad. Still be fun to see what goes down. Guess shouldnt be surprised by anything after today.
Don't get me started. What annoys me even more is the majority of the fanbase trying to justify us having a better season than both Liverpool and United despite winning F all. 2nd place is just first place loser. In years to come United and Liverpool will be remembered for what they won this season. Nobody's going to remember us for having a 'good' season and running City to the wire, lol.Man Utd having a better season than Arsenal
No idea what's going on here. Especially with some other teams in the league finally putting up strong resistance. This could be a big gamble that finally allows those other teams to get a footing for the medium term. I just hope Bayern win something for Kane's sake! I wouldn't mind them winning a CL and another German team winning the league again.
This is the thing for me, I dont see the point unless it was Ancelotti, Zidane or Klopp coming in to replace him in which case fair enough I can see the point but those aint happening so to bring in a sideways or even downgrade with some of the names banded about just just seems a colossal waste of time and I cant see what more they would get out of this lot. Our squad is currently just not that good to compete at the highest level the best manager in the world is not changing that in one summer anyway.Actually played relatively well today, set up well, organised & were clinical when presented with our chances. Helped that City were either on an off day or at least in that first half were set up poorly, they'd a lot of the ball but I don't think they had a proper shot on goal until the 30+ minute & even that was something you'd expect any PL goalkeeper to save.
Second half rode our luck a little as City did come back in waves & had they taken one of the earlier chances it might have been different.
Through some good fortune we've managed to get a trophy & sneak into Europe albeit the Europa League.
Despite some, odd decisions, questionable signings, I'm of the opinion EtH shouldn't be sacked. I think given the sheer volume of injuries we've had this season it's impossible to look at how we've performed particularly in the league & judge EtH too harshly, despite all that, we've still come away with some silverware which is always nice. Not only that, but I am not impressed with any of the names currently available, the prospect of Graham Potter or Gareth Southgate, 2 names that refuse to go away, taking over worries me immensely. I'd rather give EtH further time & further backing under this new regime at the club & see what happens.
More managerial merry-go-round:
Barcelona sack Xavi with Hansi Flick set to replace him
Barcelona sack manager Xavi with former Bayern Munich boss Hansi Flick set to replace him.www.bbc.co.uk
It's definitely gonna be a fun game to watch! Always one of my favorite games of the season, seeing who will play the Prem next year.Richest game in English football today as Leeds take on Southampton at Wembley, that place is busy at the moment lol. Wonder who is coming back.....
You’re absolutely spot on with everything you’ve said. It’s all PR and agenda’s created by media companies and Arsenal fans (especially the ones with big social media platforms) to create traction and money. They are shameless and are happy to do anything to alienate us and make us look like chumps in the public eye just to make money. It annoys me to even call them Arsenal fans. The mere mention of Arsenal in anything will create a reaction and garner a traction, be it from Arsenal fans defending the club, or rival fans that have been triggered and proceed to banter it. Between the two of them, these are two of the biggest parties that have contributed to making us probably the most hated club and fanbase in the world. It also doesn’t help that the majority of the fanbase now is made up of cringey, arrogant and snobby fans who turn their noses up at (in their words) the ‘lesser’ trophies like the FA cup and the Carabao cup, because they feel they are beneath us and want only the big boy trophies and that we are worthy of. How has that worked out? At the end of the day what matters is winning games and winning trophies. It doesn’t matter how you do it, everything else is cosmetics and it won’t really matter in the long run, unlike the former.@PepS A bit of banter aside I think most people here will agree Arsenal are doing great and they will finish above us next season. But I get your frustration about the lack of silverware. I noticed among fans and pundits in general there's a lot of bias within the PL towards teams that are pleasing to watch and are perceived to be doing well compared to others that are rougher around the edges even if they also get results. Even if you go down the table a team like West Ham have gotten a lot of crap this season despite finishing 9th whereas a team like Brighton finishing 11th has gotten a lot more praise. One of them plays more counter attack and one on the front foot.
There's many sensible and reasonable Arsenal fans like yourself but there's also some loud and obnoxious ones. It rubbed me the wrong way to see a lot of Arsenal fans take shots at Klopp and Liverpool and mock them for "only" winning 1 PL, 1 CL during the Klopp reign, yet Arteta's Arsenal is hailed as the best team on the planet but have failed to pick up any silverware. I know most of us feel like Arsenal's PL trophy will come (maybe next year?) but what if it doesn't? Squads don't usually stick together for that many years unless the team is going through a golden era and winning every year like City. If Arsenal fail to win next season, maybe some players start looking at other destination like Madrid or another top club? It's always a danger.
No idea what happened with Xavi. If he’d already resigned it shouldn’t have been necessary to sack him. A shame anyway that a club legend parts ways like that.It was a whirlwind 24 hours with the news coming out that Ten Hag was seemingly doomed and McKenna looking the likely next manager, and that might still happen, but that was an excellent performance and built off the performances against Arsenal, Newcastle and Brighton, where we became a much more compact unit. The thing is Ten Hag is going full pelt into the injury excuse because we had Varane and Martinez yesterday but that was secondary to how we have set up, reducing the gaps between the players which has improved us on and off the ball and we executed that with Evans and Casemiro as CB's first, there's no reason we couldn't have set up this way since Christmas, I'm not trying to be negative but I think some perspective on injuries vs tactics is needed. The key thing though is the tactical change, we looked very compact off the ball and then opened like an umbrella when we get it, but always folded back into shape if it's turned over, this is actually something that can be built on and we can clearly see where yesterday, for instance AWB did well defensively against Doku (who was City's best player) but he killed every transition he was involved in as his touch and passing just isn't good enough, and the same with McTominay, he put the work in but his inability to beat the press and lack of technical and passing quality again hamper us when we have the ball, you could say similar about Amrabat, so where we can build and sign players to elevate the system we've seen in the last few weeks has become much clearer, before that it was harder to see who we could buy to make the system we were using work.
Now the positives, i have to give credit to Bruno, he's operated much smarter for the most part in the last few games and he was brilliant yesterday, then there's Amrabat, he's limited but a grafter on low wages that has potentially made a case to be kept as a squad player given his price? We saw the qualities of Dalot and Martinez and Garnacho again stepped up in a big game to cap off a really good season from him, then there's Kobbie Mainoo! what an absolute jewel we have with this kid, Ineos priority this summer has to be getting him the perfect partner (Neves).
This was weird as Xavi resigned and they begged him to stay, he decides to stay and the club do a U-turn and sack him.
This one came out of nowhere, it feels like a stop-gap appointment and they'll go for Alonso again next summer, unless Kompany knocks it out of the park.
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My favourite pic from yesterday. United has always been about bringing through young players and it was so pleasing Garnacho and Mainoo were the goal scorers and got a lot of the plaudits, all four though have been a big part of why we won it this season in various games they all contributed.
They are a good group to try and build a side around moving forward with more experienced players to guide them they all have a great potential and want to see more of them next season, they have been the best part of an otherwise very challenging season.
The relegation battle may be tougher next season without the likes of Sheff Utd giving up one place for free and Burnley and Luton (first half of the season) not quite being at the races. Southampton and Leicester are less likely to go straight back down without a big fight so it could be dramatic down there.Southampton back in the big time. Wont be easy for them next season but at least have players that have been there and done it and are well equipped off the pitch to make some moves to give themselves a shot, good youth set up and good scouts, also not totally dependent on staying up to survive financially. Need to find the next Van Dijk and Mane if they can in the summer.
I'd like to see Kane win something too but looks like it'll have to be an even longer wait. Bayern finishing third means they can't even play in the Supercup, the hits just keep on coming!No idea what's going on here. Especially with some other teams in the league finally putting up strong resistance. This could be a big gamble that finally allows those other teams to get a footing for the medium term. I just hope Bayern win something for Kane's sake! I wouldn't mind them winning a CL and another German team winning the league again.
Class player and class man. Always wanted him at Untied but it was never going to be a thing, life was too good at Madrid.