EPL 2024/2025
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@dogmeat Are you having a laugh about Silva. I thought you were being sarcastic about him. I hope so. We did buy well and i certainly would not have paid that much for Solanke. What we need is to discover another Vardy.
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welcome back Ole Gunner Solskjaer, well that is the rumour as interim ha ha
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@bayimports said in EPL 2024/2025:
welcome back Ole Gunner Solskjaer, well that is the rumour as interim ha ha
Surely not .... love the ongoing circus at Old Trafford
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@KiwiPie said in EPL 2024/2025:
@bayimports said in EPL 2024/2025:
welcome back Ole Gunner Solskjaer, well that is the rumour as interim ha ha
Surely not .... love the ongoing circus at Old Trafford
im guessing its a joke doing the rounds but would be kind of funny
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Thomas Tuchel (ex-Dormund, PSG, Chelsea and Bayern Munich) will be the new England football manager.
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@dogmeat He's an excellent tactician and coach.
But I do worry a bit about him and man-management with the England job. He could be another Fabio Capello.
If the FA are sensible they will team him with a "good bloke" Englishman like Scott Parker as his assistant.
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@sparky said in EPL 2024/2025:
a "good bloke" Englishman like Scott Parker as his assistant.
Given Tuchel's history of pissing players off teaming him up with a loose cannon like Parker would be a disaster and quite FA-like.
I get Tuchel's strengths - just can't see him prospering in an environment where he gets the players for a week at a time a few times a year. As the Carsley interregnum has reminded us that a vital part of an England manager's role is managing the messaging. Another area I think will be a challenge for Tuchel.
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Honestly, I'm increasingly convinced that international managers are pretty irrelevant. Well, a bad manager can blow up a squad and kill a tournament but a great manager still has a limited influence. Tuchel seems like he could be o good bet; tactically astutely and short doses of his intensity when England goes into comp could be quite effective.
Is this the first time a German has managed England?
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@sparky said in EPL 2024/2025:
@dogmeat He's an excellent tactician and coach.
But I do worry a bit about him and man-management with the England job. He could be another Fabio Capello.
If the FA are sensible they will team him with a "good bloke" Englishman like Scott Parker as his assistant.
Good comparison with Capello.
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I wonder if he will have to sing the terrace anthem ‘2 world wars and one world cup’ as part of his initiation!? 😃
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I sense it is likely to end badly with Tuchel - he's a cantakerous sod and I'm not sure how his tactical style will work when he doesn't have the players day to day. Seems like the best thing England can do is fix on a formation and stick to it even when the personnel changes. If the wide left player is a right footer then pick the best available left-footed left back, don't try to shoe-horn in the players you deem most talented.
Relegation in the Nations League was pretty disastrous for England - qualifying for tournaments is only getting easier as the tournaments get bigger so the top division of nations league would at least have them playing against quality teams. And England's recent tournament record will be Tuchel's worst enemy - it would have been better for him if they had been knocked out by Slovakia in the round of 16 as that would have reflected how poor they were.
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Really good win from Aston Villa against Fulham on Saturday. Awesome to have no injuries and the full squad available for the first time in 18 months. Great to be in the top 4 again and putting pressure on Arsenal for 3rd place. I'm looking forward to Bologna on Wednesday in the UCL.
Fulham look a quality side this season and will easily finishing in the top 9 this season.
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@sparky said in EPL 2024/2025:
Really good win from Aston Villa against Fulham on Saturday. Awesome to have no injuries and the full squad available for the first time in 18 months. Great to be in the top 4 again and putting pressure on Arsenal for 3rd place. I'm looking forward to Bologna on Wednesday in the UCL.
Fulham look a quality side this season and will easily finishing in the top 9 this season.
The only let down right now is Bailey. I'd assume that Philogene will start against Bologna or McGinn depending on what formation Emery wants to play.
Cash also worries me at times but is our only experienced RB right now, so he gets in automatically.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5yp88dyqrmo
Story is crap but get a load of the photoshop pic! What a melon on Jose!
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@KiwiMurph said in EPL 2024/2025:
Chris Wood has as many goals this season as Man United. 7. He just keeps getting better with age.
Seems to suit middle of the table clubs, didn't get much of a run when he went to Newcastle
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How does he compare to Rufer now? On the one hand, Rufer won titles and was one of the best strikers in the Bundesliga when he played, but I current standard of the EPL is probably much higher than the 90s Bundesliga.
On balance I'd still go Rufer, but whereas a couple of years ago that was a no brainer, I think it's now a genuine decision.
