PSG
Dortmund
Milan
Newcastle
What a group!
Weakest CL ever imo. No Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs, Ajax, Juventus... Every top league is giving underwhelming teams like Newcastle, Sociedad, Union Berlin, Lens...
So Cucurella loan fee and salary plus Chalobah fee... That's -50m we expected. And they gonna stay doing nothing here. With no European footy which is over 100m minus and still no main sponsor another 40-50m we really needed that money.
Auba was definitely his buy. Also Law reported back then TT was against Kounde so that's why club got Fofana. I know many were against Kounde but at least he would be available and cheaper. So it would prevented us to buy Fofana and Disasi. He definitely had his say and it was never good. In other clubs as well. If you add dull football we played under him no surprise he is nowhere near top managers we had under Roman. For me is:
1. Mourinho
2. Ancelotti
3. Conte
4. Sarri
We played great under Hiddink first spell and Grant but they were too short here and were unlucky not to win major trophies so Tuchel would probably be 5th on my list.
Between games against Villa at home and Fulham away. Good news is that Fulham game is on Monday so 5 days after Brighton. Enough time for rest and all 3 games in London.
Since Brighton is very good team and we have no European footy this is best chance for silverware so no rotation for that game.
lol their GKer was way over the line for Noni pen.
Enzo, Conor and Noni should have scored.
Cucu been a lot involved in attack. Ugo lost ball 2 times in dangerous area.
This is my two cents from highlights.
Barca wanted loan without option so that's what probably made deal impossible for us and Spurs.
Also Palmer deal clearly was not something planned long time literally day or two before we went for ESR.
First team? In our ideal 11 only Colwill and Sanchez are starters and there's a solid chance Badiashile and Petrovic take their place as well. Gallagher and Disasi started previous games but everyone knows they are not going to be starters long term.
Blame Sky. They have rights and they pick Everton game. Chelsea have tens of millions fans worldwide and non can watch the game because of them. Our sport cable TV operators have 10 plus channels and for sure they would have multiple games but obviously they are prevented and can do only Everton game because Sky says so. At least for this round seems to be that way.
Yes his wages are highest so doesn't fit our structure.
Also yes his numbers were unreal in Bundesliga but he failed to translate them in PL for 2 seasons now. Nothing suggests he will change that in the future. We had those examples before especially in Dortmund attack.
Raphinha on the other hand is proven PL player. Did great in both seasons.
Regarding age Raphinha is 26, Sancho and Torres 23 and Fati just 20. So I think Fati has highest selling. 22 goals in LaLiga in minutes equal to 35 games. His biggest problems are obviously injuries. If he puts them behind he can become world class player. I'm ok if we decide to bet on that.
Ten Hag is clown for insisting on Mount and Cucurella. And they play dull football. But thanks I guess. Some people actually rate him including majority United fans.